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There's a lot of FUD going on here, largely propagated by UTStarcom.
To date, no CDMA PDA/Phone has gpsOne enabled as an "open tap" for GPS solutions. Sprint didn't request something be disabled... that's wrong. To-date, no carrier has permitted gpsOne for consumer applications, so HTC has never fully implemented the serial link necessary.
There will be no "market drive" to implement a traditional GPS in CDMA phones. Verizon and Sprint are working on getting gpsOne to work for consumer GPS navigation in Windows Mobile, and that is where the applications will be used. HTC is not interested in adding GPS (on top of gpsOne) to CDMA units. Don't believe me? Spend 12 hours getting one of their product managers on the phone to ask them yourself.
Finally, don't trust a word that comes out of UTStarcom customer service emails. Nine times out of ten, they don't know what they're talking about when answering questions of this technical a nature.
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