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- Im not sure if this had been posted before bc i only read 3 of the 11 pages but, The storm uses the qualcomm msm7600 chipset. This chipset is capable of Wi-fi. I looked at the spec sheet on their site. So RIM, maybe verizon forced them to, decided to leave it out of the OS.
Im not computer scientist but it seems to me that the OS would have to be changed to allow the Wi Fi to work.
Correct?
And the way these are flying off verizons shelves, i see no need for RIM to do such a big revision.12-09-08 02:16 AMLike 0 - Im not sure if this had been posted before bc i only read 3 of the 11 pages but, The storm uses the qualcomm msm7600 chipset. This chipset is capable of Wi-fi. I looked at the spec sheet on their site. So RIM, maybe verizon forced them to, decided to leave it out of the OS.
Im not computer scientist but it seems to me that the OS would have to be changed to allow the Wi Fi to work.
Correct?
And the way these are flying off verizons shelves, i see no need for RIM to do such a big revision.12-09-08 02:19 AMLike 0 - Ok so im going to make a statement here that I hope people will listen to.
I don't know why any of you would argue against having wi-fi on a phone.
From my knowledge the chip isn't even that expensive to put on a phone.
Number 2 people who are concerned about battery. all you have to do is include a ON/OFF in the OS
so to end my conclusion.
The people who don't want wi-fi or who argue the fact that you will never need wi-fi FINE TURN IT OFF but why not have the option? does it make sense to REFUSE features cause thats what your doing with arguing against it.
That way if it is available for the people who want it they can have it and noone gets screwed.
with a iPhone the wifi actually lasted quite long before the battery died. It did drain it faster then normal. However if you turn the radio off when your not using it there is no adverse effect on the battery.
Its like having people say they HATE GPS YOU DONT NEED IT DONT PUT IT ON so now noone can have it cause its not there to have..
It just doesn't make sense to refuse a extra feature.
EDIT: one more thing to prove this. I hardly ever travel out of the country I am sticking with verizon. I purchased the storm it has enough radios to get on almost every cell network out there it has a sim slot. I am not going to USE ANY OF IT. Would I argue that these shouldn't ever be in this phone because I DONT NEED IT. heck no I am happy they are there for others who will use it.Last edited by noaim; 12-09-08 at 04:37 AM.
12-09-08 04:31 AMLike 0 - 12-09-08 04:40 AMLike 0
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it kind of does make sense.. verizon and vodafone are one in the same.. if the 9530 had wifi there would be a crap ton of people over there ordering it from here..
you see over there the data is on a monopoly kind of they only get like 500 mb of data a month..
they would love wifi more then us any day of the week..
so I am guessing that it could be very true that vodafone fussed.12-09-08 09:02 AMLike 0 - EDIT: one more thing to prove this. I hardly ever travel out of the country I am sticking with verizon. I purchased the storm it has enough radios to get on almost every cell network out there it has a sim slot. I am not going to USE ANY OF IT. Would I argue that these shouldn't ever be in this phone because I DONT NEED IT. heck no I am happy they are there for others who will use it.
money in the bank for carriers12-09-08 09:05 AMLike 0 -
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.comLast edited by niubeav; 12-27-08 at 08:05 AM.
12-27-08 08:00 AMLike 0 - Okay, look...
If someone wants to take apart their 9530 and take closeup pics (sharp ones!) of the chipset / mainboard so we can read the numbers, then we can put this to bed once and for all.
If there are unpopulated places on the mainboard (where a chip should go but wasn't installed), then we can assume that there were hardware features left out at Verizons request.
If the board is full and there are no WiFi radios, then RIM's statement of no space is true.
If there is a WiFi radio on board, then obviously it's disabled in the OS, but being the Blackberry OS has never been hacked, we'll never see it activated anyway unless another carrier with CDMA does so and we get ahold of their OS.
I'll add this for those he11 bent on WiFi - if you got it, you'd be on this board within 2 days complaining that the "Storms battery life sucks". WiFi is a VERY power hungry technology.Last edited by TBacker; 12-27-08 at 08:12 AM.
12-27-08 08:06 AMLike 0 - WiFi is great if you have no coverage. But, I don't see the need my storm is plenty fast loading pages and their is no extra charge since we all have unlimited data plans. And it works wherever I go.12-27-08 08:17 AMLike 0
- Honestly I don't think that wifi is nessesary......why is wife such a big deal for most peole???
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com12-27-08 08:22 AMLike 0 -
- guys have any of you taken the time to read what verzion has on the phone.. maybe that would be a good idea.. they state that it comes with wifi but only through your pc.. so yes it has wifi but its setup to only work through your pc.. they took out the wifi mangment software on the os.. now we need just a super hacker to come up with a way to use it on the phone.. so stop fighting over this and start figureing out how we can use it.07-26-09 03:39 PMLike 0
- guys have any of you taken the time to read what verzion has on the phone.. maybe that would be a good idea.. they state that it comes with wifi but only through your pc.. so yes it has wifi but its setup to only work through your pc.. they took out the wifi mangment software on the os.. now we need just a super hacker to come up with a way to use it on the phone.. so stop fighting over this and start figureing out how we can use it.07-26-09 03:57 PMLike 0
- dude check vzw site read where it states that it has broadband through pc.. so if it does not have wifi i quess every one can start another law suite.. broadband is wifi .. but no i dont spend all my time searching all forums.. i know what vzw states and i would like to make use of broadband on phone not just on the pc.07-26-09 03:58 PMLike 0
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