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Originally Posted by jethro_static
I think U misread my posts. I said that data plan is need to navigate. Locking ur position does not need a data plan. That process of locking ur position is what E911 use so basically, It's free.
Again, the need of data is for navigation. A-GPS server will transmit the data to ur phone so ur phone does not need to do it and saves U battery life.
On my last post, I searched myself if the mogul and touch have stanalone and yes. it does have standalone so It does not need data transmission from A-GPS server to navigate but for the other phones, They will be required to have data plan or be charged per KB to use the GPS functions. Thanks
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No charge will be incurred if you have stored maps on a storage card or on your phone's internal storage. The navigation application accesses the same information about your location that any other "Location Based Service (LBS)" does, hence the name "Location." E911 just happens to be an LBS. So is any navigation program designed for phones. The ONLY time a data plan is necessary is in the case where your phone has to connect to download map tiles and/or traffic data. E911 was implemented for a reason, and that reason was safety. They can not disable this service unless they physically shut off the A-GPS device, which is what they have done in the Vogue. Again, navigation programs use the same information that E911 services do, which does not require data.