[Geowanking] Verizon Location Services Walled Garden

[Mike Liebhold]

dear mr. bolton,

just to put things in perspective

thanks for your endorsement of verizon's wonderful although crippled 
service. some of us here are trying to figure out how to bring the 
richness of a pervasive user-created web to a space near you, over the 
public wireless spectrum.

thanks again.



Charles Bolton wrote:

>All,
>
>I use Verizon's Navigator product on the Razor phone     ...  Check it out.  It is also good for
>finding locations of points of interest (restaurants, gas stations, etc)
>within proximity of your current location.
>
>Cordially,
> 
>Charles Bolton
>Cell:  415.531.6484
>E-mail:         Charles at Bolton.com
> 
> 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to
>[mailto:geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to] On Behalf Of Derrick J Brashear
>Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:31 AM
>To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
>Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Verizon Location Services Walled Garden
>
>On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Kevin Elliott wrote:
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>>>I think I mentioned this before, but, Sprint's people have said their 
>>>piece, also
>>>
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>http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177110&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mod
>e=thread&cid=14770759 
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>>>Sadly if I want EVDO these are my choices.
>>>      
>>>
>>Doesn't Sprint/Nextel have an EVDO or HSDPA equivalent?
>>    
>>
>
>I find no evidence that the Nextel network does. However, even if it did, 
>they don't seem to have a PDA that uses it anyway; I carry a Treo 700p 
>(and before that a 650, a 600, and a 300 as the last 3 devices) and 
>effective with the PRL update I took an hour ago, data roaming to Verizon 
>(1xRTT only, not EVDO, but still...) is enabled, there's no way a Nextel 
>data service would be as useful as that. I have to keep carrying a 
>bluetooth GPS... for now.
>
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