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03/09/2011, 04:22 PM
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I found out something interesting today that has me PO'ed to the max. I suspended my service with Verizon for the allowable 3 months per year on Jan. 1. I did this because I decided I would rather not pay for their service while they and HP/Palm figured out what they were going to do to correct things like the GPS problems EVERYONE knows about (and the pdf reader problems, voice apis for Skype client, etc., etc.) and lived up to their promise to deliver WebOS 2.0. Up until this time, the phone was connected to the internet via home wi-fi and I could still use the apps (that I'd paid for). I was still loading Preware every few days to keep things current too, with no problems.
Today, after rebooting the phone (something I have also done many times during the suspension w/o a problem), it went into a sky and clouds loop for an hour until I finally called tech support at Verizon and they then got an HP tech on the line who explained that I'd somehow gotten locked out of my Palm profile (probably because of the suspension) and the ONLY way to sign back in is to do it through Verizon's data connection; which is also the only way to turn wi-fi back on.
So it looks like I have been shut out of using apps that I paid for until I start paying Verizon this blackmail rental fee to use what I already bought and paid for.
There's just no end to the deviousness of these <mod edit>!
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