JRSCCivic98, your response is really humorous to me. With the majority of this thread's responses coming from dissatisfied AT&T and VZW customers, I knew one person would be immature enough to whine in some manner about my post.
You win the prize. To show even more immaturity, either you or somebody else will defend your response.
To continue to pass along knowledge to others, which is the primary purpose of BB Forums, I have found Sprint's support of the BB 8830 to be exceptional. I was also extremely impressed by Sprint Navigation this week. I was on a remote road in the forest of a US Army base. The soldier with me was about to break out his compass and map, when I took out my BB. Sprint Navigation "talked" us all the way back to the main gate, without a single misrouting. I also added certain locations to My Favorites, such as the location of his barracks, the PX, and the chow hall. We effortlessly moved about the base, using shortcut routes about which he was previously unaware.
The original question of the thread is, "Why isn't the native GPS mapping tool available on the BlackBerry 8830?" To summarize this entire thread, the answer is, "The native GPS mapping tool IS available on the BlackBerry 8830. It's just not available with some wireless service providers. It's not a product flaw; it's a provider flaw."
If real, on-board GPS is valuable to you and your service has disabled it, jump ship and go to a different service provider. If other features are more valuable to you, then stay with whom is your current provider. When you make your decision, make it based on good facts, then don't whine about it. And especially don't show any immaturity by ridiculing other forum users.
If somebody in a more rural area, with known locations where there is no Sprint reception, can also perform this test, we can verify my findings.
Keith
