roamer1
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| reply to B
Re: This can be a very good thing,
said by B  :However, to use Verizon's Get It Now service, Verizon Wireless users must pay a fee to download applications, while users could, for example, transfer photos for free using Bluetooth. Transferring pictures is done not via GIN apps but via PIX messaging, which is a separate product. Pix can be pulled out of the phone via the TF card, but IMO the V710's camera is one of the worst there is, almost to the point of being useless. 
As far as worry over theft of GIN apps goes, BREW "locks" the apps to the phone's ESN anyway, and even the data-cable hacks I'm aware of don't permit access to the part of the phone where BREW/GIN apps are stored.. As far as ringtones, it should be easy enough to permit transfers of ringtones TO the phone via BT but not FROM it. (Of course, allowing people to import their own MP3s/MIDIs would cut into GIN revenues...)
I dumped VZW and the whole V710/GIN mess is one of the reasons why (money and "having too many phones" being the others...)
-SC
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