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It requires bridging with a Blackberry phone on the field to have the data plan, which is ofcourse moot if you don't have a BB phone.

Come on. This isn't moot. Its just stupid. SMH I have a BB I don't need a PB tethered to my blackberry for gps. App world has a few free/cheap gps apps.
Aight then even if we consider tethering for the most part you don't have to have seperate data plans. Sure att is one that you do "legally".
I'm really enjoying this reaching effort. A PB is a poor boy's ipad? Seriously? I bought my daughter an ipad2 which she gave to my wife when I bought her a PB. That is my daughter's 3 tab in a year. I have a 64gb PB and my son has a kindle fire. I buy my daughter the new galaxys, my wife the iphones and I buy the new blackberrys. So no my PB isn't a poor boys ipad. Its this poor boys choice.