iPhone/Smartphone stuff

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 13:35:53 EDT 2008


On 8/5/08, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The BlackBerry 8830 has honest-to-goodness Global Positioning System
> satellite locator hardware in it.  VZW just blocks access to the API.
>  Even better was the fact that for the first several months, VZW
> couldn't get their own VZ Navigator software working on the
> BlackBerry, so despite the fact that the phone had a working GPS
> receiver in it, and came with the native BlackBerry Maps software, you
> couldn't *use it*.
>  Did I mention that I don't like VZW?

  Didn't VZW get the pants sued off of them in a class action lawsuit
over the 800 debockle?

-- 
-- Thomas


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