HTC Touch coming to Verizon Wireless in White - the Verizon XV6900
Posted by Will on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm under Devices, HTC, Rumors, Verizon, Windows Mobile
Way to go, Verizon! We love the way you add handsets to your lineup months (more than we can count with the fingers on one hand) after they’ve hit the market in GSM-guise. Just how are you the No. 2 carrier in the US? Oh yea, because the other alternative is the other CDMA carrier, Sprint.
Enough Verizon-hating, if people want to stay with the “beta-max” of a network that Verizon calls CDMA, we’ll let it be.
It looks like Verizon Wireless will be picking up the incredibly successful HTC Touch in CDMA form. No, it hasn’t been announced yet, but then again, that’s why you love us, right? This one’s a lock for release, it’s just a matter of time.
What you see above is an HTC Touch clad in White, complete with Verizon branding. We’re expecting Verizon to brand the HTC Touch as the Verizon XV6900, and it should be rocking the same 2 megapixel camera, EVDO, and GPS internals as its CDMA-siblings already on Sprint and Alltel. Of course, Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional will be running the show with a Verizon-branded version of TouchFLO giving it a good dose of “pretty.”
Hey, Verizon customers, just don’t go renewing your contract for the sake of a pretty, new HTC Touch. Wait a bit and come over to the GSM side of things - life’s just soo much better over here.
[Via: WMExperts]
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
[...] Original post by willpark [...]
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Can you hear me now? Probably not, AT&T just dropped your call. You couldn’t pay me to switch to AT&T in my market, they are so worthless. So what if Verizon is a half generation behind in terms of device releases, at least my XV6800 works when I need it to.
PS - The likelyhood of Verizon calling the Touch the XV6900 is extremely slim. Consumers would confuse it with the recently released XV6800. It may be ??6900, but probably not XV.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
[...] It looks like Verizon Wireless will be picking up the incredibly successful HTC Touch in CDMA form. No, it hasn’t been announced yet, but then again, that’s why you love us, right? This one’s a lock for release, it’s just a matter of … Read More [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
[...] Original post by willpark [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
[...] been on the lookout for the White HTC Touch for some time now, and it seems that the first CDMA carrier to get dibs on this fresh HTC Touch-variant is Bell [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
[...] been on the lookout for the White HTC Touch for some time now, and it seems that the first CDMA carrier to get dibs on this fresh HTC Touch-variant is Bell [...]
March 20th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
REAL RELEASE INFO. ABOUT THE HTC TOUCH FROM VERIZON:
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008, AT 5:00 P.M., A VERIZON CUSTOMER SERVICE REP. TOLD ME THAT HE HAS AN HTC VERZON USER MANUAL AND THAT THE REPS WILL BE TRAINED ON MARCH 31. THIS MEANS THAT THE PHONE WILL BE AVAILABLE PROBABLY SOMETIME IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF APRIL… I FIGURED IT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO ASK, SINCE THE ‘BIG-WIGS’ AT VERIZON HAD A TECH. CONFERENCE IN NYC ON THE 19TH AND 20…. STILL, IT’S FRUSTRATING THAT VERIZON HAS BEEN SO CAGEY ABOUT RELEASING THIS INFO. STILL, GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE OF US LOOKING FOR A CDMA IPHONE WANNA-BE.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:46 am
[...] XV6900 aka Touch is the device you probably know everything about. However, unlike the original Touch this one has more memory — 256 MB ROM [...]
April 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
[...] from Verizon's CDMA network? Well, you're in luck. The white-colored HTC Touch should (finally) be making its way to Verizon Wireless's network on April 16 as the Verizon [...]
May 25th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
You could not pay me to go back to AT&T. I have used every carrier out there during the last 16 years and I will not switch from Verizon. CDMA, whatever, the fact is that Verizon is soooo reliabile. It is not the phone selection it is the excellent reliability and almost ZERO drops no matter where I travel.
I did get to see this new 6900 phone today and I think it is time to trade in my 3 year old Treo.