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I saw an image of the Driod Incredible offered on TMO for 199.99 at Costco in a few weeks. Was just wondering if there is any truth to this. Anyone know. i really want that phone.
What you guys think?
NO...nuff said
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/htc-incredible-shows-up-on-official-verizon-preview-page/
looks like is coming to tmobile as well.
this would make my day if true.
I read that one engad. too, had me smile ear to ear, then that turned to a frown, because i have a feeling its not true lol. Would be great if it was, cuz i would take my HD2 back (got it a week ago) and get this bad boy.
Yeah, I hope it's true, ill take back my HD2 for it.
I called the costco here in tacoma, wa and they said that it was a new item and it was for Verizon
it was a type o on engadgets part. no official word on incredible hitting tmous.
i dont believe it's going to come to t mobile sorry guys your left out tho step ya game up to verizon then you can get one
Tmo rep here. We got absolutely no word retail wise about Incredible coming our way. The only thing we got notice of was that they will be choosing a new myTouch Champion for each store soon so this just indicates the myTouch Slide coming. Highly doubt the Incredible will be landing our way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJW2hYdJx2E&feature=player_embedded
According to HTC, this is exclusive to Verizon. also no GSM model has cropped up on the FCC.
Not one andriod handset that is carrier branded has ever been available to more than one carrier.
What about the Droid? That was release in Europe and Canada, granted under a different name, but it was the same exact phone.
tbaker077 said:
What about the Droid? That was release in Europe and Canada, granted under a different name, but it was the same exact phone.
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i think they ment over in the states
Doesn't mean it won't happen. Sprint and Verizon often share phones such as the Moto Q.
Back to the OP. The reason people are confused about the INC coming to Tmobile is because the firm that handles cell phones for Costco is a Tmobile retailer. They are, however also a retailer for Verizon. Their name just has the word Tmobile in it. Drive by most independant shops and you'll see they sell everyone's service.
But to clarify, the INC is a CDMA phone.
Repost from the Rogers thread, but the Bell unit deserves its own thread too:
Just got back from my local Bell corporate store, proud new owner of a Bell Galaxy Tab that I can't take home until tomorrow morning (talk about a
sleepless night for a gadget freak).
Device is $649 CAD, as expected, and it's data only, as expected.
There are *no* contract subsidies for this device, retail price is the only price.
They're rolling out a new "Flex Plan" to go with the device, $20/500mb, and if you exceed the 500mb, it goes up to $35 for up to 5Gb. It's a pretty
damned good plan, and especially good considering it's a CANADIAN plan.
If you keep the plan, you get a $50 bill credit after the second month, to further sweeten the pot.
The catch is, you MUST sign up for the no-obligation month-to-month plan to even buy it, and there's the usual (for Canada) $35 "activation fee", same as
any other device sold by a carrier.
The device itself was a pleasant surprise, based on all the literature/leaks, I was expecting the traditional white backed Tab. But this one has the same
textured/patterned (and grippy, btw) black/gray back as found on the AT&T (and Rogers) units, but with absolutely no carrier branding. The sales rep
said they may carry the white-backed model in the future as well, but at least for this first shipment, they're all black.
Model number is GT-PT1000M, so one could expect it to be very similar to International models, sans voice.
Finally, corporate stores have received 2 (count 'em, TWO) units each, and independent dealers may not get any right away, so they will be in short
supply at launch.
im debating wether or not to go into a bell store tomorrow. Im debating between this and a dell streak...not really sure yet. 2 per store sounds like i wont be getting one tomorrow anyways
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im debating wether or not to go into a bell store tomorrow. Im debating between this and a dell streak...not really sure yet. 2 per store sounds like i wont be getting one tomorrow anyways
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I'd hold off on the Streak if you really want one, since Dell US will be selling unlocked Streaks with Froyo already installed very shortly, like in time for Black Friday from all reports.
DELL's support sucks ass. Come on, 6 months to get the streak some froyo? We are ad portas of getting gingerbread. I'll keep my tab with all its imperfections.
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DELL's support sucks ass. Come on, 6 months to get the streak some froyo? We are ad portas of getting gingerbread. I'll keep my tab with all its imperfections.
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Just remember that the Galaxy S launched BEFORE the Streak did, and it's just now getting official Froyo in some regions too (none of which are Canada).
yeah I might hold off, i wish i could find a tab and a streak to play with side by side lol
That's why I returned my captivate and kept my nexus one.
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I just couldn't give up the 4" SAMOLED. This is my fourth Galaxy S device, Tab I guess makes five.
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:O I am definitely visiting the bell store tomorrow and hope they are in stock.
I should also mention they have a $10 Bell Mobile TV plan that doesn't use your data bucket, and the store I was in actually already had accessories:
Two different Roots sleeves (one a nylon zipper job with external pockets for other crap, one a pleather book cover sleeve that you slid the Tab in from the side and secured with a magnetic flap) and a generic pleather folio that used elastic to hold the Tab in place and a leather slide flap to secure it closed.
Plus Futureshop here already has Zagg full body Invisibleshields for them ($39).
This is totally better than the Galaxy S launch up here, where there wasn't **** for accessories for weeks.
What they did NOT have were extra 30-pin cables or car chargers.
So the bell store at Fairview mall refused to sell me one without signing a plan. Even though I'm an exsisting customer.
Really? I just got mine half an hour ago with no plan and no activation fee. It was funny they had to check the release date then just sold me it and said i was the first to own one bought at that store. I find it strange that the stores only recieved two of them, store thought so too. Im sooo happy its finally mine
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Really? I just got mine half an hour ago with no plan and no activation fee. It was funny they had to check the release date then just sold me it and said i was the first to own one bought at that store. I find it strange that the stores only recieved two of them, store thought so too. Im sooo happy its finally mine
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Are you in toronto? If so what store did you go to?
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Are you in toronto? If so what store did you go to?
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No sorry I'm in Sudbury
Lol i've been to 4 stores across the gta. No one has them except the store at fairview.
yet the guy in Sudbury gets one? Lol?..
Just got mine at the Waterloo store (im from GTA). Loving this thing already. I bought it at full price and I am on the $20 TabFlex month-to-month.
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Lol i've been to 4 stores across the gta. No one has them except the store at fairview.
yet the guy in Sudbury gets one? Lol?..
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Lol I was so suprised that it actually had two in stock I thought for sure I'd have to wait a few days or weeks. We actually have three bell stores in our small city, the one I went to was the only one with them. Its the first time I actually like being here.
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Can you make phone calls with that thing? or is it like in the States?
anyone can tell me if it's locked and if there's the same bell system app that the Galaxy S?
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Can you make phone calls with that thing? or is it like in the States?
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from what i've read in the news only those in the US are locked for call
was there a line?
were they sold out?
please do tell your exwpeience dropping by your local at&t
I exchanged mine in store today. No line, no grand displays. Just 2 people there to get the Atrix. Only one phone on display and one dock without a phone to power it. This was in Northern CA. I was at the same store for iPhone PreOrders and it was a madhouse. I thought there would be a little more demand for the phone.
I bought 4 of them today at AT&T. They were the only ones that I could get 4 from. Radio Shack only had 1, Best Buy only had 1, and they said that they would only sell one per family... Weird. It's not like anyone was knocking down their doors for it.
I did because Im nbot up for an upgrade till March and I had to be a pig and get it today at ATT and not radio shack since they wont honor ATT's 30 day policy. I asked about there stock and they said they had plenty.
I picked one up today. Went in and swaped my 3 day old inspire. Prolly best desicion I've made un a few days.
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i thought there might have been a mad rush for it and getting sold out. i just sold my hd2 and itching to get the atrix or the pre 3 if that ever comes out
Dmappdev did the same thing. Had the inspire for 3 days. Inspire was awesome but I am loving the size and weight of tHe atrix. The rest is just icing on the cake
My local store said they had several but couldn't sell them because AT&T didn't send them any 4G SIM cards. The rep said I was the 6th or 7th person they turned away.
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4g sim? what is that nonsense?
Has there even been any advertising for this device? Apple drops 10s of millions months before a product drops, it's not shocking that a device with no major add campaign isn't flying off the shelves.
Maybe att doesnt want people to grab it just yet, until they actually turn on their 4g backhaul, cause ill say this right now. ATT does not have true hspa+, not like t-mobile.
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4g sim? what is that nonsense?
Has there even been any advertising for this device? Apple drops 10s of millions months before a product drops, it's not shocking that a device with no major add campaign isn't flying off the shelves.
Maybe att doesnt want people to grab it just yet, until they actually turn on their 4g backhaul, cause ill say this right now. ATT does not have true hspa+, not like t-mobile.
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I've seen a couple of commercials here and there.
I was the only idiot waiting for the store to open at 9am. The only other guy that even walked in was some old dude that lost his iPhone.
Had to call 3 different AT&T stores. The 3rd one had 2 more in stock, and asked if they would hold it for me.
got mine at the local att store, not a single person there. 10am
Walked into my local store at 7:30 tonight. No line. Walked out with my Atrix in about 30 minutes.
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I was told by my local AT&T store that they wouldn't even have any until March 3rd. The one i actually ordered my phone from said coming into the store might be pointless. I guess maybe not... but oh well.
As for the popularity.... just think about it for a second. If it doesn't have a shiny apple on the back of it, then the vast majority of the "smartphone" population doesn't care about it.
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got mine at the local att store, not a single person there. 10am
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I did the same thing, stopped by on my way to class this morning.
I dropped by yesterday to make sure that they'd have enough in stock, and the guy (at that time) told me they had plenty. When I was talking to the guy that was writing me up, he told me they only had two in stock haha. Lucky me.
My att said they sold a few today. They had both docks out for display and people were checking them out. Coming from an iphone4 I couldn't be happier to be honest.
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I picked mine up today in Rolla MO ( small town south east of St. Louis) I was the first on the list, some people after me came into buy as well. I got to keep my unlimited data plan, and the whole process took about 15 min. Unfortunately the store i went to didn't get any docks in, but i got a card for 15% off any accessories i pick up later.
Coming from a Iphone 3g I am very very happy with the atrix, I am having a few android growing pains ( like contacts not filtered by last name) But so far i really like this phone.
The best part is that my hick ass town which only got 3g last year, already has the back haul in place for 4g (att's sorry rendition of it) so im getting 4megs down and .5 up.. thats a hell of a lot better than the speeds i was getting on my crippled Iphone.
I called the two corporate stores near me. Only one got a shipment of 5 phones in yesterday, the other wasn't getting theirs until this afternoon.
I walked into the store that got them last night right after they opened and 20 miutes later me and my new phone hit the road.
They didn't even have any on display.
Arlington Texas
Bought mine across the street from the Cowboy's Stadium (not a fan just a location reference) and they only received three. I bought the last one. I have another that I pre-ordered for my Dad. The store I went to had the display out and they worked on it for a few days getting it all put together. It only had one working Atrix that was securely tethered with one of those flexy coil reels so that you can place the phone in any of the three docks to check it out. I was there just after 10:00 when the store opened.
Now, I am only relaying information I got from a few reps today.
So I went down to a local Fry's and there were some Samsung reps were displaying some tabs on a table. So I proceeded to ask about 3G/4G versions because that's what I am waiting for.
Well they dropped a doozy on me, Samsung apparently has a exclusivity deal with Verizon for 6 months, so starting the day the Verizon LTE one releases, you won't see any other carrier in the US carry the Tab with a data modem.
They were pretty sure and were using pretty definitive wording.
But thats not the end of this. I was then near a local Target, in a different city, and there was a Verizon store there, so I walked in, and started asking questions about the Tab.
Without me asking or even mentioning the exclusivity, they themselves said it was exclusive to Verizon.
So there you have it, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc are out of luck for 6 months.
I personally am going to go for it, but just letting others know of my findings. I wouldn't take these as 100% fact, but two different sources said the same thing.
Yeah I'm also planning on getting it. Which model are you getting and will it be the off contract or with contract?
As soon as TMO gets a 3G/4G version I'm selling my Wifi16gb and grabbin it! Sad to hear this.
Today offical samsung thailand apologize for the delay of GT 10.1 3G to Aug 25th.
So those who preorder it in thailand mobile expo will get free gift which is a licensed chelsea shirt + galaxy player 4" 8gb.
Is that just a delay for Thailand?
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Is that just a delay for Thailand?
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It looks like it
I received the $100 off email yesterday. But I'm on Sprint. And I can't select Sprint on the pre-order site, so I haven't ordered the phone yet.
Has anyone pre-ordered a Sprint phone yet?
It hasn't even been announced when pre-orders will take place.
Sprint M8
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Me too, contacted Sprint, no tentative date of release. They need to get the ball rolling.
I'm waiting as well.
I must admit, I've been very excited for the release of this device. I've been a big fan of HTC since the Hero days and am still quite happy with and impressed by my trusty M7. The release of the 10 has, in my opinion, been nothing short of dismal. As evidenced by Samsung and even LG, you need to have your product available when the hype is at its peak. I'm really optimistic that the 10 will be worth the wait (despite not being water resistant, which would have put the thing over-the-top) but in this day and age people don't like to wait and with so many other great options available a struggling company can't afford to miss out on even one potential sale...
Totally agree. Should have been available at announcement.
Verizon is the #1 Carrier and seems to sell the most phones for HTC so I have no doubt that they were the first because of that. Back on the M8 sprint got the only harman kardon edition and I am think they didn't sell as many as HTC would have liked. HTC is trying to fix their profit problems in the US and one way to do that is to make Verizon happy. The sprint version will come. We already know a t-mobile phone will come as they did an un-boxing yet no announcement and I would assume its because Verizon rigged the game to be first. ATT won't sell it probably because they don't care to, they know people that want the phone want an unlocked/unlocked bootloader and will pay for it and they are possibly fine with that. Plus I assume they have have a better deal with Samsung and Apple where they make more money per phone sold. I will say it is sad to see that the unlocked version wont work on sprint, I think you can blame Verizon for that. This is only my opinion but verizon is opposed to unlocked bootloaders we all know, but since its CDMA it would be eaiser for HTC to make one "CDMA version" of the phone for both Verizon and sprint. It is still unclear if the unlocked version will have CDMA bands my guess is it wont. If it has CDMA the unlocked version has band 13 and should work on Verizon. That would be a big disappointment for sprint users since it does not have the 25, 26, 41 LTE bands. I am just glad I will be on ATT now...
I should add Verizon always gets their way, I cant wait till they day that stops but until then bye bye.
Really surprised there's not even a sign of when pre-orders are going to start yet. All the hype will be gone by the time that date arrives....
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Yea, I mean I know it's first world problems, but I need a new phone and I want the new HTC.
saw a email (addressed to someone else) from a marketing VP @ HTC which said the sprint option would be available on htc.com on 5/11...take that with a grain of salt...it didn't mention if the option was to buy or pre-order, though you'd think by then it should be the option to buy!
Let's hope so
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saw a email (addressed to someone else) from a marketing VP @ HTC which said the sprint option would be available on htc.com on 5/11...take that with a grain of salt...it didn't mention if the option was to buy or pre-order, though you'd think by then it should be the option to buy!
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5/11....wow. I surely miss the days of the M8 launch. I guess funding is the biggest issue with availability. I hope that the 10 can really help out HTC with their finances.
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I'm waiting, hoping I can get it =P
Waiting (im)patiently as well. Neither HTC nor Sprint will cough up an actual date. Hopefully the 11th is true. Or sooner.
Looks like it's officially released on the 13th for sprint. http://www.droid-life.com/2016/04/29/sprint-gets-htc
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Looks like it's officially released on the 13th for sprint. http://www.droid-life.com/2016/04/29/sprint-gets-htc
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Still too far away, lol. Hopefully pre-orders start soon. Thanks for the info though.
So, no contract renewals for 199$ ?
We are expected to pay for the phone AND stay with Sprint using a phone that cannot be transferred to any other GSM network?
Somehow, GSM carriers are now looking good.
I have been with sprint since they kitted out as Sprint. Hope the above is not the only option.
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Somehow, GSM carriers are now looking good.
I have been with sprint since they kitted out as Sprint. Hope the above is not the only option.
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Consider T-Mobile if the coverage works in your area. It's super fast in most big cities, the plans are reasonable and they are modding friendly.
But T Mobile will not have OMJ