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Rang my carphone warehouse earlier today (was expected 20th release date) , they have no stock, not sure when they just have the dummy. He checked direct stock to get an idea of how long it would be but he said CW had no stock what so ever.....at an estimate he said two weeks.
He said lots of people asking about the phone, and all SE keep doing is putting the release back...
I think SE must be having serious issues with this phone if they keep putting it back unannounced to the general public, worries me what the final version will be like.
I mean really SE get your act together, you gave the official release date as the 30th Septemeber, coming up to a month later and we're still waiting for when we can get our hands on this with no guarentee it will be the next two weeks. Really poor service if you ask me.
My contract is up on the 25th and I can't afford to wait any longer, so I'm now going to go order a touch diamond now on a 12 month contract (which i really like anyway)....So I hate to be a forum moaner, and just keep moaning and b***ng but SE you have lost your business from me unfortunately. I am aware I am just a number to you, and one in a million wanting this phone is nothing. But you see there is your problem, stop being so corporate and get more public and have better communication with your dealers and the general public.
Anyway 12 months is a short contract length, maybe by this time next year the Xperia will be released (I will more than likely still have to wait even then).....
I really am gutted I can't get one, but oh well the Diamond will do me mighty fine...
I know how you feel and sorry to see you be forced to another device but considering your circumstances, it's completely understandable.
The Touch Diamond is no slouch so enjoy it for what it's worth. As you said, I just wish SE would communicate the situation better with the die-hard customers. Business and marketing certainly can burst a products bubble as it's a fine line between hype and disappointment but it this case I think a formal press release coming clean on the situation might save some people from jumping ship.
Again, sorry to see another person forced away. Regardless, enjoy your new toy!
It's a shame really, as I was almost forced to do the same thing. My contract ran out a few days since.
Luckily enough i managed to get hold of a working xperia and im quite happy now until the retail version is out, when ill sell my modded proto and buy the retail version.
I agree totally with this thread. I was in the same situation, I simply loved this phone and SE would have now a totally new person, because I never owned a SE phone in my life and this would have been the first I liked, no, I loved! But I have to wait way to long... Now, ok I'm still waiting, but I'm waiting for the Touch HD, I think this phone will be available at the beginning of November here in Germany and although if the X1 would be available, too, sorry, I'm just very, very upset because of SEs delay, so I wont buy it. I know, I'm very emotional, but thats my way and if they dissapoint me soooo much, then I will choose the competitor, who is really great by the way Sony, you lost one person more, so in this thread already two! Shame on you!
Hang on guys, the SE X1 is definitely coming, so it's a only a matter of roundabout a view days... or whatever...
Of course you can buy some alternative crappy plastic thingies by now or you wait for the real thing of awesomeness - for me the choice is easy.
If it takes 2 more weeks then okay, if it takes a view weeks more, than it's still okay. The thing is: I have no alternative, all the rest on the market is not really worth a comparison, at least if it comes to my requirements.
So I really want this phone.
What I want hasn't been made I'd like a phone with a PXA930 800mhz processor with a Imageon Z460 3D graphics core (or equavalent), 256+ ram, and a hardware keyboard with windows 6.1 mobile.
Kloc said:
What I want hasn't been made I'd like a phone with a Xscale 800mhz processor with a Imageon Z460 3D graphics core (or equavalent), 256+ ram, and a hardware keyboard with windows 6.1 mobile.
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Yeah, but imaginary devices take even longer for release - better focus on one that has been at least announced
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Yeah, but imaginary devices take even longer for release - better focus on one that has been at least announced
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Very true. Just can't wait till they start offering High Performance phones like they do with Laptops/Desktops now a days. So you can go to a website and add what processor,case, ram, etc you want in your device and what OS you want and what bands you want and they ship it to you.
i must admit i was gung ho for the xperia and thru being starved of information i started reading about the HD. Now i've decided to wait until i can see them both but i'm pretty much in the Touch HD camp at the moment. Shame because this would have been my first keyboard phone. I'll either use my mobile or a BT keyboard when at work/desk/sat around!
So I have two heros, two moments, gonna sell the heros and moments, gonna get a nexus, supersonic and a winmo 7 phone...i had our sprint rep put us on the list. so well see what develops. how about you.
I'm planning on getting it. Hopefully the day it comes out!
If they come out on ATT it will be mine
Oh I wwill be getting it soon as possible! Just waiting for the date to start saving, and upgarde isnt till oct
got this on my list... TP2 will be secondary now
can not waittttt
Me too
Obvious choice...
Windows Mobile has no future, all my current programs will not run on any 2011 phone.
iPhone sucks, I'm no 3 year old kid to have Apple watching over what I install, what I read and what sites I visit
Windows Phone 7 = iPhone
So that leaves Android.
And now we have this beast with even better hardware than HD2 and Android 2.1...
Waiting for it to be available on Europe.
I will definitely have one. Hopefully I can flash WinM6.5 on this beast as well. Somebody will definitely have the HSPL ready for sure.
I am so leaving tmobile for this phone!
Definitely getting this. Upgrade comes up in October. I can't wait to get my hands on such a powerful phone.
I cant wait til they give us a release date and price. i will be getting it first day. Maybe earlier if best buy does the rewards zone thing again..... June 5 is my upgrade date. tick tock
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iPhone sucks, I'm no 3 year old kid to have Apple watching over what I install, what I read and what sites I visit
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I'm pretty sure google is MUCH more interested in what you search, sites you visit, apps you install, calls you make, texts you receive and locations you visit.
Apple doesn't make their money from a huge advertising network and doesn't make apps that track all that stuff for you already. Don't kid your self google is watching!
I just happen to be an exhibitionist so I don't mind Can't wait to get my EVO!
I talked today with sprint supervisor and confirm the Froyo 2.2 will be available for July for sure but dont have a specific day. Also they working for a another patch to fix the last update 1.47.651.1
Good News
PS : I wil continue eating donut and coffe for the waiting
Cool!
But doubtful, those Sprint customer service reps really just tell you what you want to hear, it is almost never factual.
I got confirmation from supervisor not from a representative. I think supervisor got more accurate info than representative that just talk rumors
Most of the time most people that work at Sprint (Including supervisors) have no idea what they are talking about. Anyways, its more up to HTC then Sprint as to when it will be available since they are the ones that have to do most of the work.
Man, LBJ / Bosh coming to the Bulls sometime in July ... 2.2 as well?
hah I love speculating.
Yea they really have no idea. Some said August, July, September, October. They just say whatever they feel like. I used to work for Spring and generally we know more then they do.
is it best to actually talk to the HTC representative over Sprint???
I think the concensus is that 2.2 should drop sometime this summer, which offically ends 9/21/2010. However, from a business prospective, I think it would be prudent to release 2.2 to as many handsets as possible as close to the same date as possible. Reason?....sales of any handset running 2.1 for any length of time after the majority get 2.2 will die quickly, resulting in a lot of unsold inventory.
I won't believe it until it is released and running on my phone. Funny thing is, we know as much, if not more then they do
Or we might get Gingerbread on our Evo's come October.
http://gizmodo.com/5576478/rumor-android-30-gingerbread-out-october-for-higher+specced-phones
oh man can we please not play this game? over in the hero forums we played this game with 2.1 and god it doesnt get anywhere and all the waiting is usually for nothing as we end up with a leaked ruu that gets hacked and people are sad that its not everything they want it to be.
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Most of the time most people that work at Sprint (Including supervisors) have no idea what they are talking about. Anyways, its more up to HTC then Sprint as to when it will be available since they are the ones that have to do most of the work.
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I agree. The salesman at the Best Buy in New Orleans (metairie if your from here) tried to tell me that wimax was ready here that they just had to flip the switch. Although every ounce of me wants to believe that, I know he's full of **** so I just nodded my head. I'm thinking to myself this idiot doesn't need to lie to me to sell this phone.
An excerpt from http://gizmodo.com/5576478/rumor-and...specced-phones
"Cheap, low-end mass market handsets will keep Android 2.1/2.2"
Gee, does this mean that, if the EVO does not get 3.0, it will be considered a cheap, low-end handset by October? :-(
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An excerpt from http://gizmodo.com/5576478/rumor-and...specced-phones
"Cheap, low-end mass market handsets will keep Android 2.1/2.2"
Gee, does this mean that, if the EVO does not get 3.0, it will be considered a cheap, low-end handset by October? :-(
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The EVO meets the hardware requirements for 3.0. Do not worry, young one.
"Like Windows Phone 7, Murtazin claims that Google will be laying down the law with some hardcore hardware specs to run 3.0, demanding a minimum of a 3.5-inch display, a 1GHz processor, and 512MB of RAM"
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/30/android-3-0-gingerbread-getting-revamped-ui-froyo-living-on-for/
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I agree. The salesman at the Best Buy in New Orleans (metairie if your from here) tried to tell me that wimax was ready here that they just had to flip the switch. Although every ounce of me wants to believe that, I know he's full of **** so I just nodded my head. I'm thinking to myself this idiot doesn't need to lie to me to sell this phone.
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What is funny is when you talk about a phone or plan to them and they give you the "just poured water on a robot" reaction
While they are still freaking out, throw out the -"Yea...I read that on XDA and/or Hofo. Guess you don't know about the internet forums do you?"
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An excerpt from http://gizmodo.com/5576478/rumor-and...specced-phones
"Cheap, low-end mass market handsets will keep Android 2.1/2.2"
Gee, does this mean that, if the EVO does not get 3.0, it will be considered a cheap, low-end handset by October? :-(
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The requirements say 3.5", 512MB RAM and 1GHZ...The Evo has all of these. There is no reason for it not to get Gingerbread (3.0).
ive got a few facts:
1) there are no dates
2) it is coming "soon" (per sprints press release)
3) it will not be released until everything is worked out. thats what pushed back the 2.1 updates, htc/samsung kept sending buggy builds (some of which leaked) and the general population wont deal with the flaws like we will b/c we want the latest and greatest. therefore, it wont be released until its completely ready
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The requirements say 3.5", 512MB RAM and 1GHZ...The Evo has all of these. There is no reason for it not to get Gingerbread (3.0).
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Yes, there is a reason, and that reason is HTC
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Yes, there is a reason, and that reason is HTC
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We better get Gingerbread!
Does it seem like they might just jump straight to 3.0 for high-end devices, and keep 2.2 for low-end devices as the article mentions?
This would be sweet, as it would save time for them trying to push out 2.2 and then have to wait again for 3.0.
I just wanted your guys opinion..
This phone is amazing but android puts out phones like every other day. This phone is probably the best android phone out now but do you think by the time our contracts are over ( 2 years for most of us) the phones will have become to much better they make our vibrant look like horse ****
i mean it happened with the g1
I believe this phone is good for one year or year and half cause 3.0 will last till 2012 since that will be the start of yearly major updates
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This happens with every phone, computer, car, toaster, and toilet paper. It's called innovation. So yeah, there will be better phones, probably the day after you buy the one you want.
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Of course that's going to happen. Technology is always evolving. Sure there will be a better phone a few months down the road, but there ALWAYS will be.
Like this phone, for example. Sure, T-Mo will probably have another (possibly better) phone out this fall. If I waited for that one, they'll announce the next big phone coming out this winter (example). Well why not just wait for the 'winter' phone? But before the 'winter' phone is released, they announce a 'spring' phone. Might as well wait a few more months for the 'spring' phone.
So some people will just keep waiting and waiting and waiting (for that NEXT superphone). That's why I went ahead and got the Vibrant. It's an amazing phone with (most of) the features i wanted.
Phones are like all other tech... There is always something better just around the corner. If you wait for it, you wind up never having anything.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow...
I do also understand the OPs point and this phone has a good life span.
I honestly think the Vibrant will have long staying power. At this point I don't think (at least I hope so) screens will get any bigger. I think what you will start seeing is the CPUs getting faster and more storage. And obviously better cameras. As long as Samsung and xda support this phone you will be using it for a long time. Seeing as every USA carrier is getting a version of the Galaxy S it will be supported for a while. I mean look at the G1, its still going strong.
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Of course that's going to happen. Technology is always evolving. Sure there will be a better phone a few months down the road, but there ALWAYS will be.
Like this phone, for example. Sure, T-Mo will probably have another (possibly better) phone out this fall. If I waited for that one, they'll announce the next big phone coming out this winter (example). Well why not just wait for the 'winter' phone? But before the 'winter' phone is released, they announce a 'spring' phone. Might as well wait a few more months for the 'spring' phone.
So some people will just keep waiting and waiting and waiting (for that NEXT superphone). That's why I went ahead and got the Vibrant. It's an amazing phone with (most of) the features i wanted.
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You hit it right on the head. My contract has been up since December and I passed on the Nexus one hoping to get the best phone on the market. If you are not happy with your phone currently then you should buy the Vibrant! I feel bad for the people who keep waiting just like I did before!
There will always be a big feature upgrade in the 'next' phone. Bluetooth 3.0 is coming out in the future, there will probably be some new HDTV out technology, and who knows what else.
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You hit it right on the head. My contract has been up since December and I passed on the Nexus one hoping to get the best phone on the market. If you are not happy with your phone currently then you should buy the Vibrant! I feel bad for the people who keep waiting just like I did before!
There will always be a big feature upgrade in the 'next' phone. Bluetooth 3.0 is coming out in the future, there will probably be some new HDTV out technology, and who knows what else.
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don't we already have bluetooth 3.0?
zerostate said:
I just wanted your guys opinion..
This phone is amazing but android puts out phones like every other day. This phone is probably the best android phone out now but do you think by the time our contracts are over ( 2 years for most of us) the phones will have become to much better they make our vibrant look like horse ****
i mean it happened with the g1
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Actually I checked with Samsung. They told me no one is going to top this phone for about 10 years. You're fine.
All jokes aside, you must be a very young fellow not to see the repeated patterns of progression made in technology over the last few decades. Human beings in general always strive to progress. unless you're high.... And on top of that, or shall I say before all that, we are all greedy by nature, so we will always strive to create the next big item to make that moola!
For the people waiting to see what else is coming in Q4 for Android....crap. Go ahead and get the EVO of epic, or wait till next year.
http://newsroom.sprint.com/press_kits.cfm?presskit_id=17
Samsung...yuck.
those are pretty ****ty. Although if I had to i would get the sanyo
The transform fixes what the intercept should have been.
The Lg...a $50 android? I think it's good news personally. not for me, but think how many hands will grab that. I just hope it functions ok for a regular user who only wants a cool phone and an app or three. If it sucks too bad, it could be bad for android.
just read the page rather than looked at the phone only. The phones aren't the only ones coming out q4. They are just the phones that will feature sprint id. There might be other phones as well that don't have sprint id.