I think the phone companies are fully aware of the things they could provide. They would rather charge you for the privilege. I take special exception with Veri

I think the phone companies are fully aware of the things they could provide. They would rather charge you for the privilege. I take special exception with Verizon who are notorious for nickel and diming for features that would be free anywhere else. Like bluetooth file syncing. In one instance I managed to find a backdoor for my ringtones using the V-(web,cast,mail, I honestly can't remember) website. It was supposed to be used to upload and download photos. And I was able to upload mp3 ringtones to my phone. Then one day the system would only sync jpegs. You could upload all the files you wanted but they would never be sent to the phone. When I moved abroad I bought a cheap sony-ericcson that could do 10x more than that POS Samsung from Verizon and it was half the price. It didn't surprise me the iPhone never made it to verizon. I'm pretty sure the breakdown was over the fact that Apple wanted to include a bunch of stuff that Verizon would rather you pay them for.