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Verizon's Recent History of Launch Dates...

speede541

speede541

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With the discussions in a handful of threads insisting Verizon is dragging their feet on this Galaxy Nexus launch (and frankly, I don't share this viewpoint), I did a little archive digging through the past year of VZW's LTE & iPhone launches, to establish how Verizon *really* launches products.

This is nothing new, and these various dates have been brought up by others in the mega-thread and elsewhere on the forums, but I wanted to put it all in one place. And I didn't include all the pre-order info.


__ PHONE ____________ ANNOUNCED_RELEASED_DAYS
iPhone 4 ______________ 1/11 ___ 2/10 ___ 30 Feb 3rd pre-orders announced on 2/2
HTC Thunderbolt _______ 3/15 ___ 3/17 ___ 2
Samsung Droid Charge __ 4/20 ___ 4/28 ___ 8
LG Revolution _________ 5/25 ___ 5/26 ___ 1
Motorola Droid Bionic _ 9/07 ___ 9/08 ___ 1
iPhone 4S ____________ 10/06 __ 10/14 ___ 8
Motorola Droid Razr __ 10/18* _ 11/11 ___ 24 *availability date announced 11/9; pre-orders on 10/26
HTC Rezound __________ 11/03 __ 11/14 ___ 11
Samsung Galaxy Nexus _ 10/21* _ 11/?? ___ ?? *availability date not announced

Apple iPhone Event ___ 10/4 ___ 10/14 __ 10 VZW announcement 2 days after Apple event
Google Event San Diego 10/7 _______________ postponed
Google Event Hong Kong 10/18 __ 11/17*__ 30 *availability date not announced by Google
Google Event London __ 10/28 __ 11/17 __ 20 VZW announcement 3 days after HK event


I see now that Verizon hasn't been as consistent as I thought, but I believe this further confirms that they like to play their product launches close to the vest when they feel it's in their interest.

In the case of Razr vs. Galaxy Nexus, there's clearly an interest in heavily promoting the Razr so I continue to have no reason to think the Nexus is going to get anything but one or two day notice
 
Props for all the time and effort you put in researching this. With the info you gathered would you be able to do a table that showed, reading across: 1. announcement date, 2. date availability announced, 3. date phone available for purchase. Maybe we could make it a group project and have people contribute (fill in the blank on the chart) the info they have for various phones over the past year.
 
Good to see this all laid out nice and simple. Also makes me very excited about the chance of this 17th. Good work, we appreciate the effort. It is definitely more varied than I believed as well. VZW sure does like to keep us guessing... or are they just the most unorganized company ever?
 
darkestred said:
11/21 looks more likely. iphone 30 days. nexus 30 days.
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But following that logic, we could also conclude iPhone launched on Apple's launch date; Nexus launched on Google's date?

But VZW isn't competing domestically so my scenario doesn't necessarily fit. BUT I'd think VZW would want to latch on to the worldwide November 17th hype, on Google's dime. Can't buy hype like that!

Fingers crossed, though it wouldn't kill me to keep tapping on my BlackBerry for a few more days.
 
can't remember where i read it but google is having a contest for a free nexus, aparently they have done this in the past and every time the contest ended the phone when on sale... contest for the galaxy nexus ends 11/21
 
so its a good assumption to believe it will be on the 21st you think?

your diagram you put together is real nice, im not sure how accurate, but i will take your word on it.

good job
 
VoidedSaint said:
so its a good assumption to believe it will be on the 21st you think?

your diagram you put together is real nice, im not sure how accurate, but i will take your word on it.

good job
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The "announced" dates hyperlink to the applicable Verizon press release, so unless the "available" dates changed in those, everything ought to be verifiable.

As for missing devices, I just included LTE phones to make it easier. What others should I include?
 
The problem with this is that it doesn't include major releases in 2010/2011 and it includes phones from the bottom of the food chain which throws off the model.

Would be better if you took out phones like the LG revolution and included successful phones like the Droid X, Incredible, Etc.. which all had over 2 week pre-order times and were more flagship status like the Razr/Nexus.
 
Wasnt the Bionic like a year late? or 6 months or something? Demo'd at CES or some show they they realized it had some serious issue and they scrapped it and made a new one?
 
Also thanks for this :)

You know what also might be interesting too is their ability to launch 4G LTE devices on time.

1st LTE USB thumb WiFi thingy <- delayed
HTC Thunderbolt <- on time?
Bionic <- delayed
Xoom <- delayed (4G part)

Droid Charge ?
LG Rev?
 
alostpacket said:
Also thanks for this :)

You know what also might be interesting too is their ability to launch 4G LTE devices on time.

1st LTE USB thumb WiFi thingy <- delayed
HTC Thunderbolt <- on time?
Bionic <- delayed
Xoom <- delayed (4G part)

Droid Charge ?
LG Rev?
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First 2 I'm not sure on, but the Bionic and Xoom where def. delayed. Bionic I played with at CES (as well as the Xoom). Everyone knows about the Bionic and I had a presentation done by the lead developer of the Xoom (interestingly enough the same lead developer for the D1). He definitely said Spring/Early Summer for the 4G upgrade for the Xoom.
 
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