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Originally Posted by crowssong
As for the reason not every phone works with this service, that would be because the function in question is still in BETA status. Doesn't it strike you as odd that some Sprint phone work and some don't? If it was up to the carrier to allow the service, wouldn't it be all or none?
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mGMAPS is not in beta and has been around for a while now. The author of this program was the first one to tap into the aGPS functionality on many phones and use it with Google, which subsequently made him cease from referencing them. Sprint also threatened a lawsuit against him too because he was enabling LBS services on their phones that they wanted to charge for. He has never been able to get the program to work with Sprint WM phones because the API is simply not there or locked down in such a manner that can not be accessed. The Q1 2008 ROM will finally provide that API.
Read this news article and subsequent forum messages below it, hopegully it'll shed some light on what I'm talking about
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http://www.phonenews.com/content/view/2086/9/
We can go around and around on this, you're going to believe what you want and I guess I'm going to believe what I want.