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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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But I
can have GPS, if I want to pay for it. So I get the convenience for an extra $10/month, which because of Verizon's recent change to unlimited calling plans, I can now afford (not that I couldn't afford it before, but I can add it and still pay less than I paid for my 4000min, 500 TXT message, unlimited data plan I had previously). And if I don't want to pay for it, my GPS programs will still work with only the minor inconvenience of an external GPS. You claimed that the only software that worked with the Curve is Verizon's.
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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.
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Why would I want to worry about turning any feature on and off to preserve battery life? Forget to turn it off, and your battery is dead inside a day. My CDMA phone will still give me at the minimum a few days of standby, without having to disable anything. I thought this was all about convenience for you?
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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.
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You're getting 3G networking, with speeds that don't differ that dramatically from what Verizon's had for what, 4-5 years now? I'm so happy for you :D
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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?
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I've been enjoying high-speed data connections for quite some time now, and don't forget that EVDO is a moving target . . . Rev A (which will also be available on CDMA BBs in the future) offers a significant performance boost over Rev 0, and Verizon's moving beyond EVDO in the longer term with its acquisition of the 700Mhz spectrum for LTE. Even so, 1Mbit downstream and 250Kbit up, available
all the time, beats the pants off EDGE and holds its own against the HSDPA service you'll likely see in handheld devices. And I don't need to disable it to keep my BB from dying before the end of the day.
HSDPA devices without an external antenna (such as the 9000) will unlikely see downlink performance significantly different from EVDO. And I think the coverage area for this capability will be only a small fraction of EVDO's for quite some time. FWIW, AT&T doesn't even bother to show the 3G coverage areas on its maps :O