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Back to the Bad Old Days of Verizon Phone Releases

gwlaw99

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When Verizon released the Droid a year and a half ago it looked like Verizon had changed its ways. No longer were Verizon customers the absolute last ones to get the latest phones. But just as I was starting to have some faith in Verizon management, they dissapoint again.

Today it appears that Verizon has reverted to being last when it comes to new phones. At&T has a dual core qHD Atrix, Sprint is getting a dual core 3D Evo, T-Mobile is getting the Galaxy S2 dual core phone.

Verizon gets the single core Thunderbolt, the single core LG Revolution and the single core Samsung Charge. We won't be seeing dual core until the Bionic and then it will be months longer before we see a Galaxy S2 variant.

Put that together with the elimination of one year plans and anyone who buys a new phone for the next several months is going to be stuck in a single core phone for two years.

Sure we get LTE, but we are back to being last in getting the newest phones.

I guess Verizon wants to take our money without having to subsidize new phones again.
 
When Verizon released the Droid a year and a half ago it looked like Verizon had changed its ways. No longer were Verizon customers the absolute last ones to get the latest phones. But just as I was starting to have some faith in Verizon management, they dissapoint again.

Today it appears that Verizon has reverted to being last when it comes to new phones. At&T has a dual core qHD Atrix, Sprint is getting a dual core 3D Evo, T-Mobile is getting the Galaxy S2 dual core phone.

Verizon gets the single core Thunderbolt, the single core LG Revolution and the single core Samsung Charge. We won't be seeing dual core until the Bionic and then it will be months longer before we see a Galaxy S2 variant.

Put that together with the elimination of one year plans and anyone who buys a new phone for the next several months is going to be stuck in a single core phone for two years.

Sure we get LTE, but we are back to being last in getting the newest phones.

I guess Verizon wants to take our money without having to subsidize new phones again.

Lol. The old days really isn't old if you think about it. :p I never thought that Verizon will ever be like ATT or even Tmo when it comes to phone releases. They will never be trend setters.
 
From what I've read, not much can actually utilize the duel core as of right now. So, they don't get the latest and greatest just for the sake of having the "best" phone on the market... and instead spend that money on better networks.

I'm far from a VZW fanboy, but some of the outrage I see at actions of cell phone carriers is so silly.
 
I'm in agreement with gwlaw99. I have been looking at the specs of all the new phones coming out and I'm so irritated that VZW has an onslaught of phones coming out but they're all single core and some don't even have 4g. So why would anyone upgrade better yet downgrade to one of those phones. I look at the other carriers and they're getting the best phones while VZW gets the suckiest phones of the bunch. And now there is a rumor with a good reliability that it's true that the Bionic has been scrubbed in favor of another Moto phone. But now will have to wait even longer for a dual core phone called the Targa.

Now I have a theory as to why this maybe and that has to do with the Iphone. They're pulling an AT&T with getting a bunch of mid-grade phones because they don't want the iphone 4 or 5 to be out sold or out done by an Android phone. If that's the case VZW can kiss my contract good bye. Not to mention the bionic was the Atrix ******ed cousin compared to the Atrix's specs. Sprint with the Evo 3d and T-mo with the Samsung Galaxy s2 and the G2x and Optimus 2x.

And Verizon doesn't have a single dual core phone for any of it's customers now to look forward to except the Droid 3 but I don't like the look of the Droid 3 so there that one goes. You're definitely right that Verizon is going back to the old days of being the absolute last to get good phones but when they do they still have the worst of the carriers.

I may just go ahead and jump ship because my contract is up in 4 months and I was going to possibly upgrade to the Bionic but after I started doing more in depth research and seen the specs were crap compared to the other carriers phones and since now it may no longer even be available and have to wait even longer before VZW gets with the times and realizes a lot of people want dual core 4g 1gig of ram 8mega pixel camera 2-3 megapixel front camera with a sleek light weight 4.3 super amoled or qhd screen 960x480 phone from either Samsung, HTC, Or Moto.

Not everyone wants to buy an Iphone so they can be told how your phone should look and act and if you want to put a custom ringtone on you don't have to pray to Satan just to be able to do it. I will never buy an Iphone but if Vzw is seriously purposefully getting lower end phones bcoz of the Iphone like att did peace and chicken vzw bitches I'm leaving.

Sorry for the long rant I've been increasingly getting agitated every time I see a new awesome dual core phone announced and it never coming to VZW.
 
Based on the end of one year contracts and the high price of new phones, Verizon is obviously trying to discourage its users from buying new smart phones. For every smart phone they sell, they lose money even with the subsidy. For every month people do not buy a new phone after their contract ends, Verizon collects a subsidized fee without having to subsidize anything.
 
My contract with Verizon is now up. I can upgrade if I want, but nothing on Verizon's horizon excites me. The Thunderbolt really isn't an upgrade from my DX, I don't care for Samsung devices, and I don't want to sign a 2 year contract.

It seems as though their loyalty lies with Motorola & Apple. I don't hate the iPhone, but I don't want one either. And I am NOT buying another locked down Moto device no matter how great the specs are. So the Bionic, Droid 3 & Tegra don't interest me. UNLESS the rumors surrounding the Tegra are true about it being the next Nexus device. But I find that very hard to believe since Googles philosophies clash with Motorola's so badly.

That's why I just ordered the LG G2x from T-Mo. Vanilla Android... unlocked bootloader... 4g... dual core... all on the friendliest Android carrier out there. I can see plenty of people leaving that sinking ship just like me. I've been with Verizon for 6 years now, but if they want to lock their devices down, get rid of 1 year contracts, and start a tiered data plan, then good luck with that.

Not interested, see ya.
 
but you also must think, sprint filed whatever it was to prevent this merger because it would be a big risk for them, i dont remember the article completely, but its basically one big gsm carrier, and 2 major cdma carriers, rumors have been said that its possible that if someone goes to t-mo and gets grandfathered in with t-mo's coverage plan, MAY, be moved to a different carrier because of the whole gsm will have way to much business or some crap liek that, its hard to remember old age is gettin to me, google it and do some research.

i want to jump to t-mo, because t-mo gets the nexus line phones. and verizon... doesnt. im just iffy about the whole merger, and i wonder if at&t will try to force t-mo customers do renegotiate their plans or lose contract service...
 
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