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I'm still trying to find a 8525 to buy. I want to have the phone charged to my bill rather than my credit card - so I need to use business services or my local store. Since the store has the phone at $449 and gives a $50 rebate I'd rather order through the business channel - I've got it down to $359 there. Plus I was able to get a $126 (random odd number, I know) credit applied to my bill for hardware upgrades. That's basically the equivilent of one month's bill for me. Once I sell my Treo 650 on eBay - I'm very close to covering my costs. After cancelling my T-Mobile HotSpot account and using DUN on the 8525, I'll be ahead of the game.
BUT... they're all sold out. As of 11/27 they were over sold by 15000+ units. A couple of different reps mentioned that they reset the orders if not sent out in 10 days - so keep trying back to see if I can get on the list in a better spot - or catch them on delivery day and get one.
Thanks for the reply PP... i'll wait to get some feedback in regards to GPS apps to see what everyones experience is before I start installing apps that don't work well...
Also, the $149 is only for the DVD if you want the GPS receiver it's $299... I take it, I need the receiver as well?
I think the GPS capability is already built into the 8525, we just need an application to utilize this feature. cingular offers the GPS functionality but you have to pay and extra monthly charge.
I see... thanks for the 411... so I guess if you want to be cheap and not pay the monthly fee, you can get the one with the GPS recieved from TOMTOM and you'll be set...
Thanks for the reply PP... i'll wait to get some feedback in regards to GPS apps to see what everyones experience is before I start installing apps that don't work well...
I'm a geocacher (www.geocaching.com) and so have played with a lot of GPS devices over the years for both on and offroad use . I have a 'test' copy of TomTom that I have so far managed to install onto a C600 smartphone, Hx2490 iPaq, Qtek 9100 and with a little tweaking even a Palm device. I gave up trying to get it to run on a Hw6915 though as the installed version of TomTom is different than the norm and so will cost you 'full price' for all the maps.
For offroad, I use BeelineGPS, MemoryMap and Vito Navigator.
IMHO i would highly recommend the sysonchip bluetooth GPS receiver which is very accurate and trust me when the sales blurb says it will get a signal inside a building, as long as your not in a concrete bunker, it will. I have had no trouble with the bluetooth link with this device and the battery time is very impressive.
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