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Precisely.

Apple -- please just give us a way to switch the damn iPhone to iPod Touch mode (with GPS)!

While I understand where you're coming from, Apple would need to change an equivalent amount as TomTom or other GPS units to have the maps pre-loaded onto the device, and even more if you went to another country and wanted to buy the maps for that region.
 
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