WM6.1 Now Avail.

[brandon.roeder]

Originally Posted by i4get75

That's the whole point....The phone is GPS enabled, USCC disabled it. I can understand that if they offered a map program that they wanted to sell but they don't. They don't offer anything in the way of GPS, so why did they disable it? It makes no sense. It's like buying a car that the dealer decided to take the engine out of and they tell you that you have to go buy it somewhere else.

I don't want to buy a bluetooth GPS receiver, I shouldn't have to because Motorola built the phone with one in it.

I dont think gps is as important as an engine

[geopoliticus]

Originally Posted by brandon.roeder

I dont think gps is as important as an engine

True. It's like they give you a car with a moon roof, but they rip out the wiring to make the switch actually allow you to open it. Better?

[rfarrah]

I didn't like it, but ended up buying a Bt receiver to use with my Q9c. Works great, but I was hoping the GPS would be "opened up" with the WM 6.1 upgrade.

Wishfull thinking on my part.

[geopoliticus]

Originally Posted by rfarrah

I didn't like it, but ended up buying a Bt receiver to use with my Q9c. Works great, but I was hoping the GPS would be "opened up" with the WM 6.1 upgrade.

Wishfull thinking on my part.

The latest from my source, and he's been very good thus far, is sometime between November and early January GPS will be re-enabled on the phones.

The story goes like this. The USC reps that my guy talks to are telling him that it was disabled on the Q9c because they (USC) did not want customers to have the same bad experience that users of the blackberry had. Apparently the built in GPS on these phones (blackberry) is not of a high enough quality or the antenna is not big enough to allow the internal GPS get it's location fast enough. So the carriers can enable some sort of location based assist that the phone gets from the towers to help the app get it's position faster. This has something to do with E911 service as well because USC was saying that their system could not handle the request load for these GPS phones and ensure the quality of their E911 service. So they shut off the GPS.

Time will tell.

[rfarrah]

Originally Posted by geopoliticus

The latest from my source, and he's been very good thus far, is sometime between November and early January GPS will be re-enabled on the phones.

The story goes like this. The USC reps that my guy talks to are telling him that it was disabled on the Q9c because they (USC) did not want customers to have the same bad experience that users of the blackberry had. Apparently the built in GPS on these phones (blackberry) is not of a high enough quality or the antenna is not big enough to allow the internal GPS get it's location fast enough. So the carriers can enable some sort of location based assist that the phone gets from the towers to help the app get it's position faster. This has something to do with E911 service as well because USC was saying that their system could not handle the request load for these GPS phones and ensure the quality of their E911 service. So they shut off the GPS.

Time will tell.

Very interesting. Thanks!