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Why can't ATT give us the one with wifi? I need to save money on data plans!
How does that make AT&T money?
Yeah, why can't RIM add wifi and 3G to this, so I can leave my Treo650 forever
The answer is simple... CORPORATE GREED.
No wifi for you because they know that the majority of time you'd be sitting in a place with Wifi and therefore would have no use for their shltty signal.
I have a Blackberry and most of the time Im at work sitting right under our wifi router or at home sitting under my wifi router. If I had to actually pay AT&T to connect to their cell networks each time I sent data I'd be making them lots of money.
Att and other providers seem to think that we would not want a data plan if we had wifi, but that's just not the case. I have an E61 (wifi and GPS) and only rarely use wifi. They need to understand the target user here. the most obvious point I can think of is 99.99% of people who get blackberries have the data plan or are required to get it when bundled with the phone. Taking away wifi is just stupid because the phone was designed to support both GPS and wifi.
I hate AT&T as much as I hate Michael Bolton
I was just at AT&T today in Dallas and happen to see this Curve and I also saw the nicer one with wifi and GPS.