Verizon and Sprint to Add Wi-Fi to BlackBerries
I really, really hate carriers making handset decisions! ! !
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! ! !
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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Menno said:Blackberry can still make a CDMA device without Wifi, but Sprint and Verizon won't officially offer, market, or distribute it.
Exactly.
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.
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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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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