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Consumers want GPS in their PDA, everyone knows that. HTC however will not waste $20-$50 per unit in R&D and adding the components to have not one, but two independent GPS systems into a single PDA.
You are much better off pushing Verizon and Sprint to accelerate their plans for gpsOne on Windows Mobile than demanding HTC add autonomous GPS to their CDMA devices, which they are not inclined to do.
By pushing Sprint/Verizon to add gpsOne support to Windows Mobile devices, they will in turn be more motivated to work with HTC and Motorola to develop gpsOne passthroughs... that actually pass through the data in a way an application can use (reading the FieldTest menu is great... but would take a lot of code to turn into a serial port wrapper).
Only one Sprint phone has autonomous GPS, that's the Sanyo 7050. And it's so buggy right now that both Sanyo and Sprint are wishing they had just left it with gpsOne to begin with.
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