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[y0himba]

Ok, I am an old man and a noob at all this. I love WinMo phones. I currently have an HTC Fuze, massively tweaked but still the stock rom. We are moving to Verizon from AT&T, since we have had horrible service from AT&T since May, but Verizon has EV-DO A here.

Question 1: The only phone they offer that is even close to the Fuze is the Samsung Omnia. I would like opinions on it. Also, performance and customization tweaks are most welcome.

Question 2: Can someone please list good tweak sites for the Omnia on Verizon? I am looking to unlock the GPS for use in Google maps and GPS Weather, and to unlock tethering so I don't have to pay an additional $15 a month on top of my $45 data plan that is supposed to be unlimited but is actually capped at 5GB.

Last question: I see talk about the different methods the companies use for service. What is what? Sprint uses CDMA? AT&T is GSM? What is Verizon?

Again, I blame old age and apologize for the noob questions. Thanks for the help!

[ronaldsdv]

Man ... Is OK we all learn at one point in our lives ... I have no idea about the first two questions of yours but I got the answer for the 3rd ( the easier one ) Verizon is CDMA as well ...

[MikeyD]

Originally Posted by y0himba

Ok, I am an old man and a noob at all this. I love WinMo phones. I currently have an HTC Fuze, massively tweaked but still the stock rom. We are moving to Verizon from AT&T, since we have had horrible service from AT&T since May, but Verizon has EV-DO A here.

Question 1: The only phone they offer that is even close to the Fuze is the Samsung Omnia. I would like opinions on it. Also, performance and customization tweaks are most welcome.

Question 2: Can someone please list good tweak sites for the Omnia on Verizon? I am looking to unlock the GPS for use in Google maps and GPS Weather, and to unlock tethering so I don't have to pay an additional $15 a month on top of my $45 data plan that is supposed to be unlimited but is actually capped at 5GB.

Last question: I see talk about the different methods the companies use for service. What is what? Sprint uses CDMA? AT&T is GSM? What is Verizon?

Again, I blame old age and apologize for the noob questions. Thanks for the help!

Ok vzw just relased the tp2 but the omnia is a great phone...perfomance is good but not great...i love my omnia
as far as a good site THIS ONE ha ha we have a few omnia apps and roms as they come availible.....i use google maps and windows live map on mine gps is unlocked......as for teathering i have not tried it but in many of the custom roms i run there is an app for it......gsm uses sim cards and cdma programming is internal....vzw is cdma hope this helps some

[D/\SH]

Originally Posted by y0himba

Ok, I am an old man and a noob at all this. I love WinMo phones. I currently have an HTC Fuze, massively tweaked but still the stock rom. We are moving to Verizon from AT&T, since we have had horrible service from AT&T since May, but Verizon has EV-DO A here.

Question 1: The only phone they offer that is even close to the Fuze is the Samsung Omnia. I would like opinions on it. Also, performance and customization tweaks are most welcome.

Question 2: Can someone please list good tweak sites for the Omnia on Verizon? I am looking to unlock the GPS for use in Google maps and GPS Weather, and to unlock tethering so I don't have to pay an additional $15 a month on top of my $45 data plan that is supposed to be unlimited but is actually capped at 5GB.

Last question: I see talk about the different methods the companies use for service. What is what? Sprint uses CDMA? AT&T is GSM? What is Verizon?

Again, I blame old age and apologize for the noob questions. Thanks for the help!

Originally Posted by MikeyD

Ok vzw just relased the tp2 but the omnia is a great phone...perfomance is good but not great...i love my omnia
as far as a good site THIS ONE ha ha we have a few omnia apps and roms as they come availible.....i use google maps and windows live map on mine gps is unlocked......as for teathering i have not tried it but in many of the custom roms i run there is an app for it......gsm uses sim cards and cdma programming is internal....vzw is cdma hope this helps some

cdma liek they said is what verizon wireless runs off of...... and i would go with the tp2. i made the change to verizon and got the tp2 and love the device...... it is what the fuze aka touch pro got replaced with and is just a sexy phone that works great even on stock rom.... i am very happy with the verizon service and love it way more than sprint... the better signal gives me way better battery life as well.