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LG VX-8000
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Seriously - delays are simple the norm in this industry, and especially with Verizon. Whatever the target date is, you can bet it won't be released until long after that. And with Verizon's notoriously strict testing and last-minute delays, no one will be able to give you a meaningful date until the week it actually goes on sale.
Experience with 2 things:
LG-usually a glitch, and always sent back for fixing, thats at least 2 months, and VZW, takes 1-2 years testing. They make sure its all good, even if it takes them 6-8 months longer than it should.
There is also a couple phones scheduled to come out way before this (ie--A670,A790, 7000, 9900). Thats just the main ones. Also, they just but out the a610. So figure all those phones are out by Jan. next year, which I can near guarantee they arent, then you can figure a date of Q2 2005. But then add in the delays- 4 months, and 3-6 months, and you get christmas 2005, roughly.
YES THIS IS PURE THEORY ON MY PART, BUT THINK ABOUT IT, IT IS LOGICAL!!!
Can anyone say Motorola T720?
I know they actually do test more stringently than the others, to their own schedule detriment sometimes, but after my 5 T720 handset exchanges a year and a half ago, I am as leery of their releases as they are in their testing.
I agree to your theory to an extent. This is true upon the fact that VZW is very, very far behind in the technological aspect, but here is where I disagree:
The phone is only part of the desicion when choosing VZW, sprint, at&t, t-mobile what ever. The main thing is the service. I would rather have an outdated phone with better service than an amazing phone, but not be able to use it because I never get service. If the phone is amazing, yes, all is well, but you have to remeber, what would someone rather have:
A good service, where you go nearly everywhere with service?
or
An more technologically advanced phone but no place is service to be found, and when it is, it is a weak signal.
This scenario is like say...
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At least they did make new software for it, and it continues to increase the battery life. Still, the fact they had to make new software 3 times is bad.