Verizon Getting iPhone 'Soon' > VZW = Crippled phones

reply to ninjatutle

Re: VZW = Crippled phones

No, but people like to claim that they do, apparently ignoring the many WinMo phones that have had Wi-Fi, past and present. I don't know why RIMM cripples their BlackBerry devices on CDMA, or why the Vodafone-designed BlackBerry Storm doesn't have it, but if VZW really had something against Wi-Fi, you'd think the Verizon-designed Samsung Saga would have excluded it. (Especially since they could have used the same "world phone" excuse that is occasionally used in relation to the Storm)

What Verizon's real trend in crippling is GPS, but they've said they plan on scaling that back...

Is it ... RIM crippling WiFi on Blackberry devices, or RIM offering customized versions of Blackberry devices (which include crippled WiFi)
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Canada = Hollywood North

Well, I don't know- RIMM does offer both GPS and WiFi specific variants of the GSM BlackBerry 8300-series Curve, so I suppose it's possible they offered the same to Verizon and Sprint and both went with the GPS over WiFi. But if such a mythical device ever existed, with all the leaks out of RIMM you'd think someone would have heard of it.

Very few RIM devices offer WiFi on AT&T as well.

»www.phonescoop.com/phones/finder···y&f60r=r
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Canada = Hollywood North

Ah, but "very few" is more than "none at all"... and at&t's flagship BlackBerry, the Bold 9000, does indeed have it, while Verizon's flagship, the Storm 9530, doesn't.