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I just bought a couple of Fascinates and the first thing I want to install is Google Earth - my favorite program. The page is http://m.google.com/earth and it is blocked by Verizon. They also have blocked the Android Market and only provide a version on the phone that effectively censors your ability to get many useful, if not necessary, free apps. Good luck with that. I'm returning these phones tomorrow.

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Rashid

Would that be the same on all Verizons phones or just some like the Fasinate? That is crap because I love Google Earth too and would have downloaded it.

RickBNA

Thats ABSOLUTE **bleep**!!!!

I have G-Earth on my Fascinate and it works fine. Quit trying to download it from the web and locate it in A-Market and install it.

And then APOLOGIZE for saying something as ridiculous as "Verizon censors the internet"

PJNC284

yeah Verizon isn't controlling the apps in the market. There's apparently a random glitch that causes google earth to not appear sometimes though. And you can always side load the app by looking for it online. Google is your friend.

Rashid

Good come back RickBNA and thanks for letting me know what to do.

RickBNA

No prob man

SFObrien

No problems here with Google Earth from this rookie and the Fascinate. Just upgraded from Blackberry, hello everybody.

crimedoggies

MezcalMike wrote:
I just bought a couple of Fascinates and the first thing I want to install is Google Earth - my favorite program. The page is http://m.google.com/earth and it is blocked by Verizon. They also have blocked the Android Market and only provide a version on the phone that effectively censors your ability to get many useful, if not necessary, free apps. Good luck with that. I'm returning these phones tomorrow.

Google blocks download of third party apps outside the marketplace by default (including their own) You can change this block by going to settings and changing your download security. For what it is worth, google earth is available in the marketplace and works just fine on the Fascinate. Your post is way off base. {please keep your posts courteous}

ARossetter

Crimedoggies, the link the OP posted tracks back to the marketplace link for Google Earth. While I believe he was indeed spouting off without all of the necessary information, it's odd that he couldn't access Google Earth from the market.

Possibly related, I cannot download Google Earth either. However, I am running DJ05 software build, not DI01, so I just assumed that was the culprit.

- Andy

ARossetter

And as an addendum, OP's not the only one...

http://www.samsungfascinateforum.com/samsung-fascinate-apps/google-earth/

http://androidforums.com/samsung-fascinate/234317-where-o-where-google-earth.html

Very strange.

RickBNA

That being said... to say Big Red censors the internet is just so crazy. Plus he made a previous rambling post essentially spouting some conspiracy theory in a previous posting.

Here's my take on a LOT of the issues I read in this forum when it comes to Verizon:

PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR SALES REP AS THEY ARE CLOSING THE DEAL... you have 30 days to bring the phone back if NOT COPLETELY SATISFIED!!! Exercise your right to do so.

DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU BUY your handset!!! If handset "A" has features that handset "B" does not have then decide what features you absolutely have to have and choose accordingly.

And finally get over your sense of entitlement. YOU KNEW (if you did #2 above) what the phone was and was not capable of and WHAT SOFTWARE VERSION it had when you bought it, and YOU BOUGHT IT ANYWAY and KEPT IT PAST THE 30 DAYS. Now is not the time to complain that the process to get a software upgrade is (IYHO) taking to long.

Just my .02

I have been a customer of big red for 15 years and I have bought out of my contract to go to ATT because of being a MAC guy and wantin an iPhone... ATT SUX!! trust me because I bought out of that contract and came back.

gfjan

I don't know about being crap but I cannot download GOOGLEARTH on my fascinate. I was able to download google earth on my first fascinate, however that phone was determined defective (per VW) and they sent me another one (re-cert). This phone will not download google earth, not to mention the fact that google earth is not even listed in the app market on this phone. After contacting VW tech about this, they determined that this phone cannot and does not have the ability to download google earth. NOW THIS IS CRAPPPPP!!!!! Also, when I try to download anything in the App Brain there is no "install" to actually install the app. Now go figure that one!!!!!

gfjan

Ann154

I can't download Google Earth, but I don't know if it processor speed, Android 2.1, available memory, or something else. However it is not a big thing for me because I am not really sure that I want it on my phone.

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