Verizon Representative - Misinformed or Just Lying?
A Verizon rep, Randy #4371, who made sure I knew he had 30+ years in the cell phone industry, wanted to know why I had turned off 2 of my 3 lines earlier this week. I was calling today to find out why my phone lines were still active. Turned out the rep earlier in the week told me the wrong day for them to go off. Anyway, I explained that I was tired of Verizon turning off features in their phones like GPS and some Bluetooth modes.
Randy proceeded to tell me that Verizon doesn't disable the GPS functionality in their phones (and by implication, the Bluetooth features - guess he didn't hear about the lawsuit(s)?).
He mentioned federal law requiring GPS in the phones and I proceeded to explain the difference between A-GPS and stand-...
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Randy proceeded to tell me that Verizon doesn't disable the GPS functionality in their phones (and by implication, the Bluetooth features - guess he didn't hear about the lawsuit(s)?).
He mentioned federal law requiring GPS in the phones and I proceeded to explain the difference between A-GPS and stand-...
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All PDA's/Smartphones have their GPS unlocked as of a few months ago.
The gps in something like a voyager or an EnV is different than the one in a smartphone (especially being that there is not Google Maps for BREW)
The gps in something like a voyager or an EnV is different than the one in a smartphone (especially being that there is not Google Maps for BREW)
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That is only true of Blackberries. Windows mobile PDA's have not been unlocked yet. Take a look over at XDA Developers and sites like that. People are still cooking up roms to hack the GPS in to working.
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What's this about then?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/04/09/new-unoffi ... »
From everything I've read in the forums the Windows mobile phones are not unlocked yet. I was reading about both the Touch Pro and the Omnia and people are trying to hack them both to be able to use other programs besides VZ Navigator.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/04/09/new-unoffi ... »
From everything I've read in the forums the Windows mobile phones are not unlocked yet. I was reading about both the Touch Pro and the Omnia and people are trying to hack them both to be able to use other programs besides VZ Navigator.
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I loaded google maps to my OMNIA but it will not sync to GPS and will not find my location. I finally turned 'use GPS' off. If someone knows how to make this work it would be much appreciated.
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As far as I know, it won't until Verizon unlocks it. I believe that is coming, but not yet. You can also search for ROMS on the internet that have been hacked to do this but you run a big risk when doing that.
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I'll wait, thanks for the response you get a lot of conflicting info on this site
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I was tired of Verizon turning off features in their phones like GPS and some Bluetooth modes
I'm confused, what exactly are you referring to as GPS?
The Federal Government requires all phones be GPS or 911 compliant. so when you wrap your car around a telephone pole in the rain emergency services can find you and rescue you.
If you are wanting a tom tom, or Garmin the option available is VZ Navigator. No there is no free solution.
I'm curious as to why you would mention a lawsuit regarding blue tooth that has nothing to do with whether or not your equipment is GPS compliant.
I dislike Verizon ALOT, but if you cannot explain what you are wanting from your equipment then how can anyone sell you what you want?
I believe in...
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I'm confused, what exactly are you referring to as GPS?
The Federal Government requires all phones be GPS or 911 compliant. so when you wrap your car around a telephone pole in the rain emergency services can find you and rescue you.
If you are wanting a tom tom, or Garmin the option available is VZ Navigator. No there is no free solution.
I'm curious as to why you would mention a lawsuit regarding blue tooth that has nothing to do with whether or not your equipment is GPS compliant.
I dislike Verizon ALOT, but if you cannot explain what you are wanting from your equipment then how can anyone sell you what you want?
I believe in...
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Really? Are people that misinformed as to what the current situation is?
Current standings
1) GPS is fully available for PDA/Smartphones.
2) Bluetooth is not "restricted". Certain devices have different profiles available for them. A good example is that the flipshot is one of the few phones that has the Printing Profile available for it, while almost every other handset out there does not. Are those phones being "locked down" by the carriers? No. What the original poster did was regurgitate what a few people complained about years ago. The Motorola V710 was accidently advertised to support the OBEX profile, but when the phone was released it was not present. That is the reason for the lawsuit. They advertised one thing and delivered an...
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Current standings
1) GPS is fully available for PDA/Smartphones.
2) Bluetooth is not "restricted". Certain devices have different profiles available for them. A good example is that the flipshot is one of the few phones that has the Printing Profile available for it, while almost every other handset out there does not. Are those phones being "locked down" by the carriers? No. What the original poster did was regurgitate what a few people complained about years ago. The Motorola V710 was accidently advertised to support the OBEX profile, but when the phone was released it was not present. That is the reason for the lawsuit. They advertised one thing and delivered an...
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spend 2 seconds in the AT&T forum and you can see why people are misinformed... 🤣
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Well put.
But if people stopped bringing up the same top twenty talking points (disabled features, Alltel transition, why required data plans, why no Palm phone, etc and etc), what on earth would we talk about every day?
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But if people stopped bringing up the same top twenty talking points (disabled features, Alltel transition, why required data plans, why no Palm phone, etc and etc), what on earth would we talk about every day?
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epik said:
Well put.
But if people stopped bringing up the same top twenty talking points (disabled features, Alltel transition, why required data plans, why no Palm phone, etc and etc), what on earth would we talk about every day?
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I always enjoyed the funny stories of crazy customers or crazy salespeople (not in a bashing way, just funny).
And, I don't mind talking about upcoming phones as long as it isn't a "When's it coming out?" for the millionth time post.
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