griff1013
join:2002-01-10
Virginia Beach, VA | reply to EveryName
Re: Oh great!
Verizon and T-Mobile charge $10 a month. I just checked T-Mobile today as I looked over their 8820. Lady said to get GPS to work, it would be $10 a month. I am not sure if you get an unlocked phone you can bypass this "feature." |
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broccoli
join:2007-11-29
Portland, OR
| said by griff1013  :I just checked T-Mobile today as I looked over their 8820. Lady said to get GPS to work, it would be $10 a month. I have T-Mobile, and GPS (actually aGPS as implemented on mobile phones) works just fine on my (currently carrier-locked) TM506 without any $10/mo charge, which is probably for subscription to TeleNav, whose GPS mapping application T-Mobile preloads on many of its phones.
If you are content with just getting your coordinates using GPS, there's absolutely no charge for that. OTOH, if you need maps to go with it, you'll need to do one of the following: (1) subscribe to a data plan to download maps on the fly (there are free GPS apps that use maps from Google, Yahoo, etc), or (2) pay TeleNav, or (3) write your own app that can read stored maps on flash media etc. |
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join:2001-03-11
Washington, DC
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| I've got VerizonWireless and aGPS on the Samsung i760. No aGPS for me without dialing 9-1-1.
Since its aGPS, I'm not really too miffed about VerizonWireless limiting its use, since aGPS uses their database and SMS system and coordination (my device doesn't have native GPS).
But VerizonWireless seems to have gone out of its way to disable native GPS on some of its Blackberry devices -- and that's despicable.
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