In the past 24 hours, my phone has taken a major jump in value as I have found out that Telus does intentionally block your access to the GPS settings in your phone.
The Telus Blackberry Curve 8330 page emphasis that the phone does have Built-in GPS and Blackberry Maps however the only way you can get GPS working consistently is to buy the Telus Navigator software for $10 a month. When I downgraded the software on my phone, I noticed I did have access to GPS but it was still slow and not nearly as fast or accurate as the demo phone, HTC Dream.
Thanks to a guide put out on the Crackberry.com website, you can actually get around this and enable GPS on your phone. It requires some basic work but it enables you to have GPS settings like Autonomous on your phone which helps make your GPS more accurate and fast.
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