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I really, really hate carriers making handset decisions! ! !

Jayshmay

Jul 9, 2009, 8:22 PM
One of the many reasons I like UNlocked/UNbranded handsets.

Hardware is Nokia's job,
Service is AT&T's job.

Precisely the way it should be!
Carriers really, really need to bud out of the hardware side of things! ! !
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Omagus

Jul 9, 2009, 9:16 PM
I'm really, really trying to figure out how requiring wifi on smartphones is a bad thing.
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Jayshmay

Jul 9, 2009, 9:21 PM
Cause it shouldn't be up to the carrier it should be up to the company that actually MAKES the phone.
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Menno

Jul 9, 2009, 9:31 PM
Verizon is saying "in order for us to carry this type of phone in the future, we want this phone to have wifi." In the past this is something they haven't asked for because they have no services that take advantage of it like att and tmobile do. Obviously their thinking has changes and so they are starting to request it.

Or do you think that GSM versions of phones (the companies that offer wifi hotspots) just "happened" to include wifi more often than CDMA phones have?

Blackberry can still make a CDMA device without Wifi, but Sprint and Verizon won't officially offer, market, or distribute it.


People have been complaining for years that Verizon's been blocking smart phone manufacturers from including wifi in their devices. now ...
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Omagus

Jul 9, 2009, 9:40 PM
Menno said:Blackberry can still make a CDMA device without Wifi, but Sprint and Verizon won't officially offer, market, or distribute it.


Exactly.
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VZW611LA

Jul 9, 2009, 9:47 PM
Verizon has said in the past month that they WILL have BlackBerrys with WiFi on them. They already said they will work with RIM on it.
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texaswireless

Jul 13, 2009, 12:50 AM
Dude, go watch the ZR1 to make sure no one breathes on it the wrong way.

Your opinions, which are mostly based on B.S. facts anyways, are really getting to be a waste of posting space.

You really don't understand the business and you won't listen to others try to explain it to you either.

Go find a non-desert state and just chill.
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algorithmplus

Jul 10, 2009, 6:13 AM
Jayshmay said:
One of the many reasons I like UNlocked/UNbranded handsets.

Hardware is Nokia's job,
Service is AT&T's job.

Precisely the way it should be!
Carriers really, really need to bud out of the hardware side of things! ! !


Then you have the right to like buying unbranded/unlocked handsets and full retail price.

It's one thing to say carriers can't have any say in any phone on their networks, but it's another thing to say that carriers should have no say on features of phones they subsidize for consumers.

I think all carriers should be required to let consumers bring compatible devices up to certain standards onto their network. As LTE rolls out on both sides of carriers, the SIM co...
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mackygirl

Jul 10, 2009, 1:30 PM
Its not that I disagree with you. But when it comes to carriers and manufacturers one is always going to influence the other. If all the carriers had insisted on wifi for smartphones/pda since the technology first came about for mobile phones. Then the majority of the devices available to us now would have wifi.
There are many benefits to wifi, its faster, it doesn't drain your battery the way evdo, 3g, or umts data transfer does, and as previously mentioned depending on your carrier its FREE.
(technically always free, but with some devices like the Iphone or apparently any verizon smartphone, you have to pay for a data package to be able to use any Internet feature on the device)
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Menno

Jul 10, 2009, 2:12 PM
With Verizon you have to pay for a data package for any new data phone to activate it on your plan. It's the same way with the iphone.
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mackygirl

Jul 10, 2009, 4:57 PM
Yes and if only the wireless customer could understand that this is a good thing. 30 dollars for a data plan, instead of thousands of dollars, for IPHONE internet use, which for the average customers is over 100,000 kbs a month. At a penny a kb that is $1000.00, it seems expensive to pay 30 dollars as a requirement, but jeez people there's a method to the madness.
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