http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Sprint unhappy about Mobile GMaps usage on its phones http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/May 12th 2007 8:32AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/
Sprint used to be a haven for folks using data - not to mention the best value of the big four in terms of overall packages...alas, those days are long gone...]]>May 12th 2007 1:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/May 12th 2007 3:54PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/
Now, the one thing on there that does work this way is the built in Blackberry Maps program. It doesn't announce directions to you and has a hard time finding certain addresses, but it's free. I wonder if it will make it onto the final version?
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I hope Apple cleans everyone's clocks with the iPhone and can break the quadropoly that the 4 big carriers have and instead let consumers buy the handset they want and run it on any network with the services they want a la carte and without ridiculous contracts.]]>May 12th 2007 10:08PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/
MgMaps has support for MS Live Maps, Google Maps, and several others. It also supports GPS units, including Bluetooth ones in some cases.

John - Your concept of T-mobile is not the same as mine, which I share with a majority of their 25 million customers. Not a utopia, but T-mobile provides a service that allows you to choose whatever phone you want, instead of paying millions into exclusives like their direct competitor. They've consistently won awards for Customer Service as well.

OH, speaking of Expensive Exclusives, the iPhone is a good example of that. Not available unlocked, have to buy it from Cingular, will only work on Cingular's network, and must take a 2 year contract. Doesn't even have 3G, won't run on 'any network', will only at best run on a GSM network (sorry Sprint/Nextel, Verizon, Alltel, US Cellular, and other CDMA customers.).]]>May 13th 2007 12:15AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/May 13th 2007 6:45AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/May 15th 2007 8:42PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/
if you have an unlocked phone, you can use it on cingular. you are not stuck with their phones.

of course a gsm phone will only work on gsm networks. duh. its a gsm phone. there are very very few gsm+cdma phones that you would be able to use in the US

even if a cingular phone is 3g, the 3g wont work on any other carrier. not because of any subsidy lock, but because they are the only US carrier to use 850/1900mhz wcdma. tmobile will be using 1700/2100b. most other parts of the world use 2100. ]]>May 22nd 2007 1:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/05/12/sprint-unhappy-about-mobile-gmaps-usage-on-its-phones/Dec 11th 2007 3:13PM