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New Verizon android phone

36,606 1,385 October 22, 2009 at 05:56 AM in Tech & Electronics (2)
www.droiddoes.com

Anyone have any info on it? I'm with Verizon and am excited to see what this phone has to offer.
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sdots
10-30-2009 at 12:44 PM.
10-30-2009 at 12:44 PM.
Just got a major buzzkill. Called verizon and apparently if you arent in the NE2 or regular upgrade window, you have to pay full retail for the phone. My window isnt until February so apparently I just got the gift card for naught. Oh well, time to spend it on COD MW2.

Just a heads up to those who were wondering.
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Pig
10-30-2009 at 12:44 PM.
10-30-2009 at 12:44 PM.
I think there are some folks who know their stuff here.

Doesn't AT&T have a $15 unlimited data plan?
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BostonGirl
10-30-2009 at 12:48 PM.
10-30-2009 at 12:48 PM.
Quote from surreal :
Just got a major buzzkill. Called verizon and apparently if you arent in the NE2 or regular upgrade window, you have to pay full retail for the phone. My window isnt until February so apparently I just got the gift card for naught. Oh well, time to spend it on COD MW2.

Just a heads up to those who were wondering.
Why would they give it to you unless you were do for an upgrade or NE2? People would be getting free and cheap phones all the time if they did that. No cell phone company does that.
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sdots
10-30-2009 at 12:51 PM.
10-30-2009 at 12:51 PM.
Because they dont make money on the phones like they do on the plans and for a basic plan that i have they would make way more when i upgraded to a all everything plan with the droid. It seems the phone made me naive.
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BostonGirl
10-30-2009 at 01:10 PM.
10-30-2009 at 01:10 PM.
Quote from surreal :
Because they dont make money on the phones like they do on the plans and for a basic plan that i have they would make way more when i upgraded to a all everything plan with the droid. It seems the phone made me naive.
Yea, no cell company allows that. Sucks because like I said before 3 months after you buy a phone, it's out of date...Frown

And why do you have the UPS saying under your name?...lmao
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sdots
10-30-2009 at 03:03 PM.
10-30-2009 at 03:03 PM.
Quote from BostonGirl :
Yea, no cell company allows that. Sucks because like I said before 3 months after you buy a phone, it's out of date...Frown

And why do you have the UPS saying under your name?...lmao
Capitalism at its best. Im from india and thats what i say when my family/friends call me for computer related issues.
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Kolto
10-30-2009 at 11:35 PM.
10-30-2009 at 11:35 PM.
Quote from BostonGirl :
Yea, no cell company allows that. Sucks because like I said before 3 months after you buy a phone, it's out of date...Frown

And why do you have the UPS saying under your name?...lmao
actually verizon replaced my voyager i got last december (2008) back in march with an LG Versa for free
I only had to push my upgrade date 2 months later.
Course this is after I got 7 Voyagers that would glitch in the web browser (would reboot the phone randomly). Since i went through 3 of them being right next to the tech in Verizon Store, he was like "well my manager says we can do a 1 time exchange for any phone we got in stock with the same features"
so basically i had the option of anything besides a smartphone/blackberry.
Versa just released at the time, and in terms of "value" of the phone, it was a no brainer.
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11-03-2009 at 11:50 AM.
11-03-2009 at 11:50 AM.
This commercial is freaky.
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11-03-2009 at 02:21 PM.
11-03-2009 at 02:21 PM.
TS, you might find your answers here: https://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1640796
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11-03-2009 at 09:07 PM.
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Quote from Vino24 :
This commercial is freaky.

newly released commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9fXYQjwR0w

pretty outrageous commercial for a phone, but great marketing nonetheless for a slick phone

picking this up soon nod
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Jason_of_Texas
11-04-2009 at 09:39 AM.
11-04-2009 at 09:39 AM.
The wait is KILLING ME! I want one already! I think it should be pretty sick. I played with my friends Hero she just got and the OS is alot more responsive and has some extra windows. Really like it,hopefully this will be better.
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desrtrnnr
11-04-2009 at 09:44 AM.
11-04-2009 at 09:44 AM.
Quote from Jason_of_Texas :
The wait is KILLING ME! I want one already! I think it should be pretty sick. I played with my friends Hero she just got and the OS is alot more responsive and has some extra windows. Really like it,hopefully this will be better.
maybe a touch faster but i doubt you'll really notice it.. the hero has a 528 mhz processor and the droid has a 600 mhz so you wont notice too much speed difference..
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Jason_of_Texas
11-04-2009 at 09:47 AM.
11-04-2009 at 09:47 AM.
Yea,sorry didnt mean faster,just meant in general. I could really tell the difference from my g1 and touch compared to the Hero. Still force closed once you stated pressing multiple things,but wasn't as bad as the g1. I cant wait to get it.sooooo tired of no real keyboard,Im leaving tmobile for it.
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desrtrnnr
11-04-2009 at 09:50 AM.
11-04-2009 at 09:50 AM.
Quote from Jason_of_Texas :
Yea,sorry didnt mean faster,just meant in general. I could really tell the difference from my g1 and touch compared to the Hero. Still force closed once you stated pressing multiple things,but wasn't as bad as the g1. I cant wait to get it.sooooo tired of no real keyboard,Im leaving tmobile for it.
the g1 mytouch and the hero all run on the same processor, the mytouch and hero have a little more memory but thats about the only internal difference
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Jason_of_Texas
11-04-2009 at 09:54 AM.
11-04-2009 at 09:54 AM.
Mytouch is slower then my G1,I don't have many apps on it now b/c I thought it would make it faster. The Sideview transition always lags up and is never as smooth as the hero one was. Hero felt alot faster IMO,maybe bc it was brand new and bare. I dont even run widgets anymore b/c it lags up on me,especially when trying to text and what not./
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