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Originally Posted by DragonHawk
I got the exact same form letter from our Verizon sales rep today. If anyone really doubts the authenticity of this, contact me via private message, and I will forward you his email message, along with his contact information, so you can verify. (I'm not going to post his contact info in a public forum like this.)
My own take on the VZW response:
I find the security claims... dubious, to say the least. The BlackBerry OS already has security features for prompting the user to confirm sensitive actions, such as Bluetooth links, firewall penetration, and, yes, GPS. These features have existed for years, even if GPS wasn't one of the things that got prompted for. Given all the extensive testing VZW supposedly does, you would think they would have encountered the security features before now.
As far as "performance" goes, I'm pretty sure the 8830 GPS features that other carriers offer now perform better than the GPS features that Verizon doesn't offer now.
Unfortunately, at work, we made a "management decision" to go with VZW, and we're contract-committed for now.
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Well I can see where your lack of management and research will suffer in the end by going with VZW, and this statement is based on the fact if you really need GPS.
I liked it when I called and spoke to a tech last week before porting over to AT&T, the guy was cool and said man I just got back from Vaca, and 95% of our calls are on this GPS situation, the only thing I can & I QUOTE, is what they tell us to say and nothing more nothing less. On his own note he didnt agree in full but did say I was on the right track, that when the 8830 boots up it finds the GPS and than there modified software goes and turns it off , so they can make money. Security of peoples location give me an break, turn the GPS off if you don't want big brother watching or looking over your shoulder.