I think the phone is actually yours. You pay for it, they sell it to you at a discount. You put their service on your phone. My question is, can they pull the GPS gimick they are trying: disabling GPS on your Verizon phone until you pay them $10/month to use the useless VZ Navigator. The GPS chip on your phone could be used with Google Maps for free or a third party such as Garmin (mobile for blackberry). It seems shady that in order to use either of those two services, you have to pay Verizon $10/month. It seems to me, as a non-lawyer, to be totally illegal. You are being charged to a service that they don't provide or at the very least, being billed twice (you pay for the data plan (no problem with that) and the VZ Navigator).
“We're grateful that RIM has finally decided to pay some attention to the sizable number of non-PC users that have been stuck with poor alternatives for way too long.”
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I think the phone is actually yours. You pay for it, they sell it to you at a discount. You put their service on your phone. My question is, can they pull the GPS gimick they are trying: disabling GPS on your Verizon phone until you pay them $10/month to use the useless VZ Navigator. The GPS chip on your phone could be used with Google Maps for free or a third party such as Garmin (mobile for blackberry). It seems shady that in order to use either of those two services, you have to pay Verizon $10/month. It seems to me, as a non-lawyer, to be totally illegal. You are being charged to a service that they don't provide or at the very least, being billed twice (you pay for the data plan (no problem with that) and the VZ Navigator).