Great Job Sprint! notice how you dont see any sprint logos, icons, no yellow nor black in the background. Verizon would cripple this phone like no other. We havent even heard anything about Verizon and the 800w, the Treo pro nor this phone so dont get your hopes up.
VZW is moving further and further away from "crippling" their devices. BBerry's now have unlocked GPS (Storm came unlocked, software update unlocked it for curve and pearl) and nearly all their newer phones support the same BT OBEX file transers you see on comparable phones from AT&T and Sprint. I admit, they aren't there yet as far as not gimping their phones go, but they have made some serious strides. Check out the Samsung Omnia, not a damn thing crippled on that bad boy.
@elgee02 - about VZW moving further away from crippling, not so fast. I've been emailing with a Palm engineer over the past few months - VZW wanted to cripple the Pre, would not agree to the feature set on the phone. And, um, about unlocking BB GPS as a olive branch? I don't think so - http://www.cyberlaw.pro/docs/verizonbbcomplaint.pdf. And the GPS isn't unlocked - they're just allowing Blackberry Maps access, GMaps doesn't work (yet). Even that Omnia has a bunch less RAM than its GSM counterparts. Don't call me a hater - I own a company and VZW is my carrier, but they keep removing one of the nads from every device they resell.
They've had units without WiFi fetters in the past, just depends on the deal the carriers make with the manufacturers.
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Great Job Sprint! notice how you dont see any sprint logos, icons, no yellow nor black in the background. Verizon would cripple this phone like no other. We havent even heard anything about Verizon and the 800w, the Treo pro nor this phone so dont get your hopes up.
VZW is moving further and further away from "crippling" their devices. BBerry's now have unlocked GPS (Storm came unlocked, software update unlocked it for curve and pearl) and nearly all their newer phones support the same BT OBEX file transers you see on comparable phones from AT&T and Sprint. I admit, they aren't there yet as far as not gimping their phones go, but they have made some serious strides. Check out the Samsung Omnia, not a damn thing crippled on that bad boy.
@elgee02 - about VZW moving further away from crippling, not so fast. I've been emailing with a Palm engineer over the past few months - VZW wanted to cripple the Pre, would not agree to the feature set on the phone. And, um, about unlocking BB GPS as a olive branch? I don't think so - http://www.cyberlaw.pro/docs/verizonbbcomplaint.pdf. And the GPS isn't unlocked - they're just allowing Blackberry Maps access, GMaps doesn't work (yet). Even that Omnia has a bunch less RAM than its GSM counterparts. Don't call me a hater - I own a company and VZW is my carrier, but they keep removing one of the nads from every device they resell.
They've had units without WiFi fetters in the past, just depends on the deal the carriers make with the manufacturers.