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Originally Posted by Vacs
Yeah, before I got the Motorola razr for me & my wife I researched the phones features. Based on what I found I signed up for 2 years & bought 2 of them. By the time I discovered that Verizon purposely disabled many features on the phone the trial period was over. And to my shame I spent $30.00 for their software which was nothing but a usb driver! Its almost like buying a car only to find out that the "left turn" feature is disabled (but of course you can buy that feature for $10 bucks a month).
Because of this it wouldn't surprise me at all if Verizon disabled the GPS so they could sell the VZ Navigator service. I guess I'll wait to see what happens. If I can get GPS on a Sprint 6800 then goodbye Verizon.
PS: I wonder about the legality of all this disabling of functions on these phones. Once purchased these things are totally the customers property. If a phone company takes any measures to interfere with the owners operation of their property, where this operation has no effect on the phone companies network, then this cannot be legal. (See some of the postings concerning GPS on the 6700.)
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Why would it not be legal. Many companies do this. Video card companies sell cards with features locked out. If intel needs more of the slower core duos,but actually gets lucky and makes lots of fast ones,they just set the speeds down and sell them. If they were to disable a feature they sold it to you with for no good reason perhaps we could complain,but we were not promised phones with gps. (some people debate this,but thats another story,for another thread)