Anyone have an update when Verizon might be carrying this phone? I spoke with a sales rep. 🙂 and he said that maybe by 3rd quarter...when might that be?
Also, anyone know of what price it might be offered? I would think that it would be right there along the price of the LG phones.....about $100-$150, anyone else's thoughts?
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Ok I have seen to websites that are saying that the phone will have a retail list price of $299 in US.
I just hope some sort of rebates will happen, but I guess that wont occur until sometime during Christmas 2004. 😢
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That price is more or less correct, but on a 2 year agreement it may be $200, and a 1 year, $250. Your date is off, by a lot. The phone is not even in the main part of testing. It is still being tested in Japan and the Phillepines. The phone will be available in the Phillepines this summer, so I'd say its a Christmas phone. My view will be that they will hype this and the VX8000 for Christmas, like they did the VX6000.
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Thats good to hear....then I shall get teh slider for now and wait for the KOI to come out and see how that goes.
TKS 😉
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😁 I dont know about you guy but, I got the hook up (secret) 🤣 🤣
I have this phone with me now and I will activate with Verizon this weekend.
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how did you get it already?
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😁 😁 been using it for week now nice slick looking phone, lot of feature, camera 1.2 mgpixal 960x1280 with flash. come with usb 2.0 connection.
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just as a note regarding the overseas testing....it is -not- in testing in Japan and has been available since late 2002 and 2003. there were numerous commercials and many ads at the train stations regarding this phone. (the most popular model for advertisement being the black/red model). There it's known as the a5305k and sells for, if i recall correctly 22000yen. I'm assuming that price that i saw was with a contract of some sort. anyway....just to aside any of that "still in testing in Japan" crap. it's very available there. it's very cool. and well well well worth the wait and money. far superior to the other kyocera phones that have been....less that adequate.
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August is the latest release timeframe I have received from our Kyocera rep...
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Mark my word...SEPTEMBER (I promise 😉 )
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Who is your source, and how does he/she know?
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OK PEOPLE 3 RD QUARTER IS OCTOBER THE PHONE BEING THAT IS HAS A CAMERA MAY BE BETWEEN 79.99 TO 129.00 I SAW 150.00 IN ANOTHER MESSAGE I DONT THINK ITS THAT S HIGH AND I WORK FOR VERIZON WIRELESS 😁
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If you work for VZW, then you would know that NEVER has a camera phone been launched at anything below $149.99. And 3rd quarter starts July and runs until September, not just one month
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SO I TAKE IT THAT U WORK FOR VZW AS WELL AND FOR THE INFO WE HAVE LAUCHED A CAMERA PHONE AT THAT PRICE AND THE PHONE N QUESTION IS NOT A HIGH END PHONE SO IT WILL NOT BE PRICED HIGH ALSO I WAS GIVING THE TIME FRAME FOR THE PHONE TO COME OUT I KNOW A QUARTER IS NOT JUST ONE MONTH
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What phone launched at $80????
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For one, it is a 1.2 mega-pixel camera phone, which is the same as the v710. So there for you can pretty much guarantee that the phone won't be below $199.99. Since the v710 is $419.99 full retail, and the 7000 is $349.99 full retail, it would be more reasonable to assume that this phone will be somewhere in that range, so with a two year contract with VZW the phone will cost somewhere between $319.99-249.99. j2nice I also work for VZW, but I just started. No camera phone has been launched at that low of a price. As for it's release, I am not sure, but I am going to agree with everyone else that it is going to be sometime during fourth quarter of this year since third quarter is almost done.
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