I have been waiting for this phone with much more anticipation than the iPhone (and I consider myself an Apple fanboy). I do regret the fact that there is no camera but a non-crippled GPS will more than make up for it. I was livid when I first heard AT&T might be crippling the GPS on this unit, but the online backlash may have been effective enough to make them listen for once. Power to the people!

Changing the market to favor the product is not a good thing. Now Apple will have some pressure to incorporate GPS. If they are concerned with battery life, then allow the user to disable it (the same way they can disable wifi to save battery life).

Total BS. This story has nothing to do with the iPhone - AT&T is simply trying to get more money out of Blackberry subscribers by forcing them into a monthly subscription to use GPS. It's as simple as that, and all the cell providers try this in different ways. Verizon does the same tactic by disabling desktop syncing by default on Treos, making most users do over-the-air syncing and use up additional wireless minutes. Sprint disables the ability to download photos from many of their phones onto your computer, forcing people to buy "Vision" to use airtime to send photos from place to place.

The only reason this story mentions "iPhone" at all is because certain people are creating wild conspiracy theories and trying to create artificial interest in this story, when simple greed explains everything. I'm glad AT&T is backtracking, but making this iPhone-related is a waste of time.