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2007-10-22
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Originally Posted by TA-t3
That's incorrect. Before the iPhone, the AT&T 8125 and 8525 both had WiFi built in, as did T-Mobile's Dash. I'm not familiar enough with Sprint and Verizon's lineup to say, but I'm sure they each had their own WiFi-enabled phones.
Anyway, when Apple entered the phone market they had enough muscle to force the carrier to accept wi-fi, this was a first. They had enough trouble doing that as I understand, in the end there was only one carrier that would accept it. For a costly contract for the buyer, afaict.
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2007-10-22
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Thanks for the correction. But for some reason the carriers for sure forced Palm there. I'm not overly familiar with the devices you mention, were they limited in any way? E.g. could you do VoIP on them?
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2007-10-22
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Originally Posted by rcadden
I recall the previous AT&T models but don't recall anything offered from Verizon with WIFI. The carriers have wayyyy to much power over the manufacturers in this country. They disable WIFI, GPS, DUN and anything else they figure they can charge extra for.
That's incorrect. Before the iPhone, the AT&T 8125 and 8525 both had WiFi built in, as did T-Mobile's Dash. I'm not familiar enough with Sprint and Verizon's lineup to say, but I'm sure they each had their own WiFi-enabled phones.
This is one of the arguments I read for Nokia not building a phone into the n770/n8xx. If they did they would be limited to what the carriers would allow.
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Originally Posted by basco
That is correct. I paid just over $1000 dollars for my first GPS about 5 years ago. It was a Roadmate 700, if I recall and it took a while for the price to drop from the original $1500 to the $1100 I bought it for. At the time, it was still considerably less expensive than buying a built in model...and could be used in multiple cars. It wasn't bad but very spartan by todays standards.
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Where were you five years ago? Routing GPS's with voice guidance where more like $1000 retail and $600 ebay. Still a middle of the range gps will run you $500+
Today, if you shop around, you can buy a basic GPS for about $250. This is a "good" model...like a Garmin c530....not one of those offbrands. If you want one full of features like real time traffic data and street announcement (as opposed to just the basic turn left) it will cost you a bit more. You can still pay upwards of $600 to $700 for the higher end models but I think it gets a bit silly. Do you really want to play MP3's through your GPS? Are you going to be viewing pictures on it?
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2007-10-22
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Originally Posted by rcadden
To a certain extent, you can use fring
That's incorrect. Before the iPhone, the AT&T 8125 and 8525 both had WiFi built in, as did T-Mobile's Dash. I'm not familiar enough with Sprint and Verizon's lineup to say, but I'm sure they each had their own WiFi-enabled phones.
Where were you five years ago? Routing GPS's with voice guidance where more like $1000 retail and $600 ebay. Still a middle of the range gps will run you $500+