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Originally Posted by Dodge DeBoulet
*Yawn.* But ONLY if you're connected by wifi. EVDO pretty much makes the wifi issue irrelevant.
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I was mostly pointing out that it does not have FLASH, like the other person stated. At any rate, it is my personal preference to have better battery life than the ability to stream youtube videos.
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Originally Posted by Dodge DeBoulet
Yes, yes. Verizon evil, lock down GPS. But GPS apps still work if they support an external BT GPS puck, like the Globalsat BT338 I have.
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Why carry around a BT puck as a separate unit just because VZW locks out your device? It kind of defeats the whole purpose of an integrated unit.
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Originally Posted by Dodge DeBoulet
Oh, and regarding the "worse battery life," see what happens on your beloved AT&T Curve when you leave the wifi on 24 hours a day. With Verizon and EVDO, you're getting very close to broadband speeds wherever you are, all the time, and I guarantee the battery will last one helluva lot longer on the CDMA Curve than the AT&T GSM Curve with wifi enabled.
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Who is going to leave it on 24 hours a day? It is just as easy to toggle it on/off when you are at a wifi hotspot. With EVDO you don't have the option to turn it off and recover battery. And even if you could, CDMA is more power hungry. The BB 9000 is coming out soon, and we are getting 3G networking, which can be turned off. So when we don't need 3G we can still get EDGE data and good battery life. When it EVENTUALLY comes out for VZW you won't even have that option, because .... well, there is nothing to fall back to. I suppose there is 1xRT. But who wants that?