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***Official HTC Incredible Thread***

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How about we Twitblitz Verizon (@VZWOffers, @VZWSupport. @Verizon, @VerizonWIreless) and HTC about how we have 10k+ posts, 500k+ posts, and 200+pages all on a phone no on e will even hint at. If this thing isn't a hit...
 
I texted my VZW friend a few minutes ago:

ME: I forgot to take a picture of the box.

HIM: Why would you want a picture of the box?

ME: No reason, just curious.

HIM: The HTC rep is supposed to stop by next week anyway.

ME: Really? What day?

HIM: Tues or Wed.

ME: Where's he out of?

HIM: Bellevue, WA

ME: How often does he stop by?

HIM: I haven't seen him since last fall.

ME: Will you call me when he shows up so I can be there if he opens the box?

HIM: No problem.
 
tbeas said:
Of course Verizon is red and black, but I don't think this is any reason to lose hope that this box has something to do with the Incredible. We know the phone has red and black; we know it is being kept locked-up in a vault patrolled by [incredible] sharks with [incredible] lasers; we know that an [incredible] announcement has to come out sometime, and that the evidence is pointing it will come soon.

It isn't a sure thing that the box is about the Incredible, though. So I wouldn't use this as any hard evidence.
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Or here's a crazy idea. Maybe the stickers were red and black because those are fairly standard colors to make you notice an urgent message. Police crime scene tape is yellow and black does that mean crimes are sponsored by Sprint.

I'm all for reading into stuff but lets keep it realistic. Oh and remember this box came from HTC not Verizon. Do we really think HTC had special stickers made just for the Incredible?
 
Wouldn't marketing material come from VZW's corporate offices not from HTC?

My guess is the box has product HTC has made phones/accessories. I don't see why HTC would be sending VZW their marketing material.
 
There is a pretty good working relationship with Verizon and Disney. That goes back a couple of years. So, that leads me to believe that the characters from the movie will be involved in the promotion. I Google Verizon Disney and a lot of sites came up that seems to go back years.
 
Does anybody know if the Incredible will have a sort of lip at the bottom like the Desire does? I never thought about this until now.
 
Say the box weighed 20 lbs, and an Incred weighs 4.5 OZ. There could be roughly 71 phones in there.... haha I had to say it =D You are prob. right, promo materials. Thanks MM!!!!
 
BLD said:
I'm all for reading into stuff but lets keep it realistic. Oh and remember this box came from HTC not Verizon. Do we really think HTC had special stickers made just for the Incredible?
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Yes! I mean c'mon, this is the Incredible we're talking about here. I'm surprised the outer box wasn't totally customized, too ;)
 
Kappy said:
Say the box weighed 20 lbs, and an Incred weighs 4.5 OZ. There could be roughly 71 phones in there.... haha I had to say it =D You are prob. right, promo materials. Thanks MM!!!!
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Actually I'd figure with charger, manual, box, packing materials, whatever other gadgets are included I'd say probably over a pound a phone.
 
MrSmoofy said:
Wouldn't marketing material come from VZW's corporate offices not from HTC?

My guess is the box has product HTC has made phones/accessories. I don't see why HTC would be sending VZW their marketing material.
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This is a little off topic but also on-topic, but I work at Champs Sports, and our advertising materials ship from Adidas, Nike, etc. Not the Champs corporate offices. It could be the same way for Verizon.
 
I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that Incredible materials are in that box.
*chuckle*

I just hope that it is what we are all hoping that it is!
 
Wonder if since Motorola got the highend handset out in Nov and HTC released the Eris same day, if this is HTC 's highend handset and Devour gets the low end same day release. Makes sense...
 
Thread is moving super fast now! Sorry if this has already been asked, but just say your friend doesn't open it for a couple days. Do you think he would be up to taking the box to a doctor friend if you have one and getting it x-rayed?

Might be a little too much, but if the store happens to be near some x-ray machine, you could give it a shot!

Love the forums btw, and many thanks to everyone that has been posting information and thoughts. A lot of good info on here, and everyone is pretty respectable of each other.

Simon
 
I really see no reason it WOULDN'T be stuff for the Incredible. Red and Black SCREAM incredible. So much that they have branded the phone (to the best of our knowledge) in red and black. HTC + Red and Black = Incredible. I don't see a phone branding obvious special material (like special tape) to sell a company (Verizon) to its own employees, since employees would be the only one's who would really see it aside from us forum/tech freaks.
 
simong79 said:
Thread is moving super fast now! Sorry if this has already been asked, but just say your friend doesn't open it for a couple days. Do you think he would be up to taking the box to a doctor friend if you have one and getting it x-rayed?

Might be a little too much, but if the store happens to be near some x-ray machine, you could give it a shot!

Love the forums btw, and many thanks to everyone that has been posting information and thoughts. A lot of good info on here, and everyone is pretty respectable of each other.

Simon
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LoL... it's northwest Montana.... the VZW store is near..... trees...... and a creek. Literally!
 
Montana Man said:
Wow... what an afternoon! My good friend / VZW manager calls me up around 1 pm to tell me to come down to the store to see something. He didn't say much else. Needless to say, I bolt down there - it's a slow Sunday afternoon and he's the only one on staff in the store. He says, "You may want to see this." In the small backroom/warehouse was a 4' cube plain cardboard box that he had just received from Fed-Ex.. on a Sunday, mind you. The return label address read as follows:

HTC America
13920 SE Eastgate Way, Suite 400
Bellevue, Washington 98005
Tel: 425-679-5318

Also on the box in red and black tape (think crime-scene type of tape, only in red and black instead of yellow and black) with the words "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL FURTHER INSTRUCTION). Just like that, in all caps. The tape was ALL over the box!! The invoice that came with the box said only, "New - Promotional materials." The box weighed next to nothing, but there was at least one thing that "thumped" in the lower corner of the box when we shook it a bit. We cracked the tape JUST enough to see some red and black paperwork / literature / posters but that was it. Our best conclusion is that the box is full of Incredible promotional materials (i.e. Launch Kit) along with a possible "dummy" Incredible phone (as his store does not have live phones on display, only "dummy" phones). He told me this was exactly how the Droid launched - the mystery box showed up on a Sunday, with no warning, with the weird tape all over the box. In the box was a "dummy" Droid for display purposes and some posters. The Droid released about 1-2 weeks later, if I remember correctly. Keep in mind, in today's case and in the Droid's case, the word "Verizon" was nowhere to be seen on either box or on the accompanying paperwork.

Pretty exciting stuff for a slow Sunday afternoon in Montana! This is driving me crazy!
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Did I tell you how handsome you look, today? :p
 
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