[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] erickbryce:
First, let me say I do think it's odd that there is no software route to d/c data session, however I do find it very strange that people are posting in kind of an opposite way of the solution? A little history, in the defense of the GPRS Standards Community (just do a google search for EDGE or GPRS standards and you will find their website with detailed explanations of what their technology is and their vision for data on Mobile Terminals as they hope it will be implemented) the XDA "Bug" was that it could not do what every other GPRS enabled device on the market could do at the time and that is, keep a deticated data connection and meet the definition of what GPRS as a service was. Meaning the super XDA was inferior to the simplest cell phone with GPRS (ok that's a stretch we're simply talking phone & browser functions, and yes PIE is way advanced even in it's first inception to any phone browser out there but what people were ashamed about is that the phone never did effectively what its main draw was as a combo device) basically the "Bug was it was advertised as a class B device and never was (for class B device standards do a google search for GSM Mobile Terminal class standards, class A is what we are shooting for).

I think since GPRS is expensive (for now) people who bought this device never really saw or actualized what the real gem of GPRS was other than just a faster "Dial-Up" connection which it was never intended to be viewed or treated as a Dial-Up type connection. This behavior was by Microsoft’s/HTC or both(s) design and failure on their part(s) to have this device meet the standards that every other GPRS device at market did.

Keep in mind I am not saying what should or should not make us happy as an end user, it is simply an issue of end user preference and not a Bug (the software GPRS off option missing is a big inconvenience for people who want to keep a tight grip on their data usage).

To say "GPRS-Always-On" is a bug is like telling the inventor he invented it wrong because he did not invent it the way I like it.

Keep in mind I am not arguing the missing software/hardware "option" to disconnect if you wish, but to help everyone understand what GPRS is, has been, and hopes to continue to be, and that what some are complaining about is merely a personal preference, or missing option and not a bug.

What ever an implementer of a technology charges for something should not dictate whether or not the technology behaves in the way it was intended too.

That would be like saying if gas prices were too high that manufactures of gas burning engines have a major bug on their hands until gas stations start charging less for gas.

Then it will then be a welcome solution/prior bug?

As a consumer, you have choices. Buy an electric car if you don’t want to pay the gas prices and hope enough people hold your same view and inspire the gas stations to lower their prices to get more customers, boycott the gas burning car industry and ride a bicycle around (don’t subscribe to GPRS service on your account).

But don’t say just because you want to drive around in a fast sports car (GPRS-12 cylinder verses CSD-4 cylinder) and cant afford it (or feel it's over priced), that the makers of cars that burn more gas to go fast (as intended), are in-fact not performing as they were intended to because gas prices are to high.

We all like to go fast, and get the "nice car :wink: " nod's, but

Until it becomes more cost effective to drive a high-end sports car :shock: 8) most of us will have to be patient and opt for the 4 cylinder rather than 6.

A chassis with four wheels and an engine is a car; one that goes 0-60 in under 5 is a "luxury" not a necessity. Personal Necessity always dictates how much someone is willing to spend. So the question (addressed to everyone waning over this issue),....is it truly a necessity to you right now (in which case law of supply and demand, you pay to have it now) or can you wait until the prices come down (in which case too expensive right now maybe I would just like to have a fast service that keeps me connected to the digital world 24/7. I'll use the slower for now), but laying in wait for the best of both worlds will always leave you wanting :(

Oh I forgot one last option :D if you are independently wealthy, particularly ambitious, and feel PDA makers have their head up their :shock:

You can design, manufacture, and market your own device doing what you feel people want it to do and put it into competition against the current devices 8) or the poor mans/safe business approach "reference design" :idea: give the industry what not! Tell them how to do it, let them know this IS NOT what the consumers want their device to do :!: and make a stand baby 8)