Bingo you nailed it. I actually have an 8820 (Our shop is considering them for a good sized deployment) and I can say that if AT&T does anything to the GPS in this device it's because they think they can get money for location services. My device came with RIM's map service - which is pretty good as long as you know where you are going (I imagine it's well understood for 8800 users - and by the way if they were going to disable it why did they miss the boat on the 8800?? which will ship in far greater quantities) BTW - I've also loaded Google Maps on it and so far it works great, to limit the GPS to a single app is possible, but dumb especially since there are business apps other than telenav that could use the GPS functionality.
If fact the only difference between the 8800 and the 8820 is the wi-fi. And you shouldn't think of wi-fi on the 8820 the same way as wi-fi on the iPhone with it's spiffy browser. It's more for UMA enabled services like t-mobile's new wifi voice service or for accessing the blackberry service from any internet connection so you can deal with poor reception areas or *avoid paying roaming fees when traveling internationally* Speedy Gonzales web surfing it's not.
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Bingo you nailed it. I actually have an 8820 (Our shop is considering them for a good sized deployment) and I can say that if AT&T does anything to the GPS in this device it's because they think they can get money for location services. My device came with RIM's map service - which is pretty good as long as you know where you are going (I imagine it's well understood for 8800 users - and by the way if they were going to disable it why did they miss the boat on the 8800?? which will ship in far greater quantities) BTW - I've also loaded Google Maps on it and so far it works great, to limit the GPS to a single app is possible, but dumb especially since there are business apps other than telenav that could use the GPS functionality.
If fact the only difference between the 8800 and the 8820 is the wi-fi. And you shouldn't think of wi-fi on the 8820 the same way as wi-fi on the iPhone with it's spiffy browser. It's more for UMA enabled services like t-mobile's new wifi voice service or for accessing the blackberry service from any internet connection so you can deal with poor reception areas or *avoid paying roaming fees when traveling internationally* Speedy Gonzales web surfing it's not.