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 Activate Wifi and Unlock GPS, Verizon
Posted Mon April 13, 2009 12:00 pm, by Scott E. written to Verizon Wireless (Cell Phones)
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I have long been a fan of the iPhone, but I have decided to stay with you(Verizon) because of the network, and the fact that my family and friends were with you. Well, now that smart phones are becoming more and more popular, and I need more and more constant access to the internet, I have begun to see the limitations Verizon has given its phones.
The first thing that began to annoy me was lack of phones. It seems that every good phone came out on AT&T, seemingly to compete with the iPhone. Verizon appears to be stuck with old models, or late releases, or just generally less advanced hardware. I was willing to deal with this, however, because I am a loyal customer to VZW. Though, when researching smart phones with you, I came across a few Blackberry's that I liked, and I almost went out the door to buy them. Then I realized, Wifi was disabled. I thought that was weird, since I know many Wifi phones, including the iPhone, have been out for a long time on AT&T. Well, I decided to hold off and check that out a little bit further. My sister in-law has the Blackberry Curve with Verizon, so I while visiting her I played around with it. It seemed great, everything I could want! Only, when I downloaded Google Maps I could only get directions starting from my location within a mile. Oh that's right, GPS is also locked. So for all the cool applications that use your location, all the wave of the future apps that make mobile commuting and data access infinitely easier, would not work on my sister-in laws phone. Bummer. So upon looking over Crackberrys site, I've seen thousands of threads with people that feel the same.
I think it's about time that Verizon realized how much business they're losing just for a stupid limitation that you guys impose. I'm months away from taking my line, and the three other lines on my family plan with me to AT&T. The sad part? They're actually excited about it, because there are cooler phones to choose from, and we get things like rollover minutes. Oh, and I'll finally be able to get Wifi and unlocked GPS for cool applications, either on the iPhone or the nicer Blackberry Curve.
I would love if they were to un-cripple their phones and give them the abilities they were meant to have. I've been a Verizon customer for a long long time, and I consider myself very loyal. However, being left behind in the technology race just because my company chooses to disable certain functions? Not for me. It's greedy and it shows that the company has no regard for the interests of the customers. AT&T looks better and better everyday. I don't think I can take much more of having a friend whip out his Blackberry 8900, and using cool applications, find us lunch. I love Verizon's network, but this isn't like years ago. AT&T has grown, and fast. There network isn't as good, but its getting there. I think if Verizon doesn't do something fast, a lot of people are going to be running over to AT&T. I know my family will be, and most likely my fiance's family as well. We have to stay on the same network to keep the costs down, and would you look at that, we even have minutes that roll over into the next month. Beautiful!
Thank you for your time, and I sincerely hope that Verizon makes some kind of severe change over the coming months, or my loyalty, and from friends I've been talking to, THEIR loyalty, ends here.
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by ProfessorTerguson Posted Tue April 14, 2009 @ 11:41 AM
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I have a Samsung Omnia with Verizon, and it has WiFi, GPS, YouTube,
Facebook and basically anything else I would want. And I got it for
$99.
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Just wanted to say that the iPhone has some strange quirks too.
BlueTooth only works with other iPhones, you can't forward texts,
group text/reply or send/receive picture messages outside of e-mail.
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by Donno Posted Mon April 13, 2009 @ 8:32 PM
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I am pleased that they charge for these extra services. Keeps the
dividends financed and stock price healthy!
Why give the milk away for free? They probably figure anyone willing
to pay all the money for cell phone service will be willing to pay
more for bells and whistles. Makes sense to me.
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Scott
by petalmom Mon April 13, 2009 @ 9:15 PM
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by Wolf Posted Mon April 13, 2009 @ 5:55 PM
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Maybe it is just me, shouldn't a PHONE be for just making and
receiving calls? Why all the other junk? I have the most striped
down phone I was able to get at the time I was forced to get a new
phone. I can get on to the net, it is very limited and I don't even
bother. There is NO text messaging. In OR out. There is NO GPS or
anything like that. I use my phone for TWO things: Getting and making
calls. THAT'S IT. I see No reason to have all the other junk.
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Verizon is planning to unlock the GPS. I'm suprised you didn't turn
that up in your research.
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by Scott E. Posted Mon April 13, 2009 @ 4:29 PM
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Planning being the keyword. They haven't fully unlocked any phone that
I know of, merely allowed something like BB maps to work. They are
planning to fully unlock the GPS, but like my letter said, if they
don't do something within the next few months, I'm walking. But thanks
for the sarcastic comment.
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"I would love if they were to un-cripple their phones and give them
the abilities they were meant to have."
I don't understand why they don't do this and just charge whatever fee
they deem necessary.
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