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TBOLTRAM · 07-24-2007, 10:05 PM

After reading brittonx comments above and getting a flyer in this months VZ bill to try VZ Navigator I called them to inquire about if and when the sGPS and/or aGPS would be activated on my 8830. The guy first told me about how GPS worked with the 911 locator and I told him that that had nothing to do with my question. He then said some incorrect things about the 8830 and I said that I was an electrical engineer and had researched what was actually in the 8830 and that the question was not a RIM issue but rather one with VZ. I then said that the Sprint version and Bell Canada version had working sGPS with CDMA and there was no physical/hardware reason that the VZ version should not work. He then said he needed to talk to a supervisor and asked if he could call me back. I said ok and we hung up. About 20 minutes later he called, said that VZ was no longer giving out any details about activation of the GPS on the 8830. I thanked him and hung up.

First time I did not hear "in about two weeks". Interesting.

07-24-2007, 10:05 PM	#168
TBOLTRAM BlackBerry Genius Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Model: 5S OS: 10.0.2 PIN: & Teller Carrier: Verizon Posts: 5,627	New Policy for VZ? After reading brittonx comments above and getting a flyer in this months VZ bill to try VZ Navigator I called them to inquire about if and when the sGPS and/or aGPS would be activated on my 8830. The guy first told me about how GPS worked with the 911 locator and I told him that that had nothing to do with my question. He then said some incorrect things about the 8830 and I said that I was an electrical engineer and had researched what was actually in the 8830 and that the question was not a RIM issue but rather one with VZ. I then said that the Sprint version and Bell Canada version had working sGPS with CDMA and there was no physical/hardware reason that the VZ version should not work. He then said he needed to talk to a supervisor and asked if he could call me back. I said ok and we hung up. About 20 minutes later he called, said that VZ was no longer giving out any details about activation of the GPS on the 8830. I thanked him and hung up. First time I did not hear "in about two weeks". Interesting.
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