I too got excited seeing this article but also saw how old it is. I just got my Curve 8330 and it’s still not enabled. Looks like this firmware update didn’t come after all or at least not for all equipment.

Where the hell is my firmware update! How can Verizon keep up this anti-competitive behavior?!

Who’s Patrick Kimball? Grant it with the high turnover rate within the telecom industry he could very well have moved on to another provider, but I was curious when I saw the name and could not find him in our corporate directory.

It would appear that even with the latest firmware, the GPS in the 8830 is still not available to 3rd party software like Google maps. They need to fix this!

So, now that the firmware is out that lets VZ Navigator to work, how come GPS in Live Search or GMaps still doesn’t work?

In 5 days it will be 3 monts. Where is the firmware?

well it’s been a few months and no release of any new firmware, looks like Kimball may have been giving you a spin story.

I’ll believe it when they actually release the firmware. Hopefully before End Of Year.

I am still waiting for the XV6800 to be released. And have been since December 2006. By the time VZW releases the 6800 I’ll be waiting the Kaiser, which AT&T just might release BEFORE VZW released the 6800!!

But I am stuck in a contract and the extended fam ily is all VZW (free calls!).

That’s fantastic news about the GPS feature.