LG VX9700 Dare for Verizon Caught in the Wild
Back in March when we first told you about the LG VX9700 that would be making its way to Verizon Wireless, a brief but interesting conversation took place in the comments section. It went something like this:
my brother said there is no VX9700 coming out for verizon, he hasnt even heard of it, and hes the store manager there, he did say the EnV 2 is supposed to come out this month.
your brother is an idiot
Now we’re not necessarily agreeing that the guy’s brother is an idiot, but the image above speaks volumes. In the midst of 3G iPhone-mania, there will still be no iPhone coming to CDMA carriers anytime soon. Maybe you don’t care, maybe you do or maybe you pretend not to care. Whatever the case may be, Verizon does care and it continues to snatch up, shall we say, iPhone-inspired devices like the LG VX9700 Dare. That’s said, the Dare does indeed look pretty darn smooth. Word is the touchy-feely EVDO-packing Dare will be making its way to a Verizon store near you sometime in July. What do you think, drool or drop?
[Via engadget]
Tags: Dare, Handsets, Image, LG, Live, Verizon, VX9700, Wild
“your brother is an idiot”
Greatness. Greatness, indeed.
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So when do Retail Store Managers know diddley about product planning?
They can’t even manage their existing inventory.
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It is common knowledge that Retail Store Managers need 2 qualities: 1) they must be idiots/clueless; and 2) they must be jerks. There are rare exceptions to the rule, as some who are not qualified as they do not meet the two aforementioned qualities may slip through the cracks and deceive the recruiters during the interview process. I have met some bright ones, but they usually don’t last long because they begin to question “upper management” - the people who actually run the show from corporate headquarters.
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That’s the best line ever. Your brother is an idiot. Its even sweeter with this post proving tat he is an idiot.
Lov it
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It’s going to Verizon?
The same Verizon that locks down a phone tighter than AT&T/Apple?
The same Verizon whores, whoops, Freudian typo, whose desire to squeeze a penny out of a customer is directly proportional to the phones features?
The thrill of paying to partially enable native hardware functionality present on today’s phones has worn off.
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Is this picture real?
I wonder because it says “programing required”, instead of ‘configuration’ or something, which aren’t the same thing…just a thought.
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Lucky Goldstar.
My, they’ve come a long way.
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Okay, so just to clear the air, I have held this little dandy in my hand as well as played with it. It will be comming out at the end of this month. This phone is AMAZING! It’s the LG9700 Dare.
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it’s not going to matter how many iphone like devices they carry if they all fall short of the iphone this long after its release.
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It’s real. Most of the phones I’ve gotten in the past few months have said that.
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Actually the Dare will have a lot of features outside of what’s typical for a VZW dumbphone, to include a 3.2 megapixel camera with an amazing lens, a UI that is quite a bit different from the usual VZW UI, 3.5mm headphone jack, and an accelerometer. Not that I’m necessarily a fan of VZW (not at all actually, even though they are my carrier), but it is possible for them to change, and the Dare is their first shot at change.
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@Chris
This is the message displayed on a Verizon phone that hasn’t been activated. Nothing unusual here.
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Is the dare a flip phone?
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@ suz,
Nope, its a bar phone like the iPhone. No flip, no slide, no swivel.
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There is no competing with iPhone when the 3G iPhone 2 comes out. The thing this DOESNT have is a capacitive touch screen with multi-touch, or the ability to have 3rd party apps. If you have seen the demos during the iPhone SDK conference, you know that iPhone apps will look high quality and seem more like desktop apps than generic stripped down mobile apps. Games are full 3D with graphics comparable to portable consoles like the PSP. SEGA is bringing out Super Monkey Ball which they said was the console version and not the mobile one because the platform is that good.
So here we have a phone that COULD compete with the original iPhone even though it has a substandard touch screen. But now that iPhone 2 is coming out, this thing will seem like a souped up dumbphone where the iPhone will have tons of high quality 3rd party apps and high quality 3D games.
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@Brian & Christopher
Agreed, for some reason, there’s just nothing interesting about verizon phones, because its just gonna be the same old walled garden..nothing exists outside of it!!!!
I love my 1yr old uncrippled V3xx, with its builtin opera 8 browser (awesome), and java apps i’ve loaded on it for free…heh
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I cannot wait for this phone to come out.
When you say accelerometer, how do you know this phone has it, and what is it??
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Yup. All Verizon phones are the same, except for some differences. I was with VZW for 3 years. The only reason I switched is because I am a device guy who buys up phones like crazy, and Verizon phones are crap. Its because the big manufacturers develop all phones for GSM because they can sell it to most of the world. The CDMA phones are made because CDMA carriers pay for them or they get a wild hair causing them to make a CDMA variant. The few CDMA only phones are all crap.
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@ Chris: Umm… the Dare IS a souped up dumbphone and it was never intended to be anything else. It was never supposed to be a smartphones so I’m not sure why people assume it was. And I really don’t understand people saying how awful the Dare will be when they have never used it. Just let it be released, then make judgments.
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I kinda like it, the chrome buttons remind me of something. (my Tilt)
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Sweet.
http://www.VX9700Dare.com
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I got an interview w/ Flextronics on Monday, hopefully when i start i get to play w/ it.
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Umm…how about Blackberry Thunder?!
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Man, everybody who can post a response to a webblog thinks they are some kind of expert. Sheesh!
Look, store managers and any other employee of any of the major players in the U.S. cellular industry cannot by company policy reveal any product launch that has not been officially “announced” by the company. In theory, the store manager “idiot” in question shouldn’t have even been able to speak about the enV2 until the press release went out.
It’s funny how people whine about how the companies run their business, but at a time when many firms are responding to the economic downturn(hello Sprint!) by trimming back expenses and laying off people, Verizon Wireless is hiring people and found enough pocket change to buy Alltel at the bargain price of $28.1 billion. You can complain all you want about their practices regarding handsets (and I for one do believe they are opening up), but after years of maintaining the highest profitibility and the lowest churn (percentage of customers leaving them), not one noteworthy industry analyst says anything other than they are a very smartly run company. In the long run, I want a cellular company that will be around tomorrow, and after waving goodbye to Primeco, Voicestream, Cingular, Nextel and countless others, I think Verizon is doing exactly what they need to do to be around for the long haul. Yeah, I shoulda bought stock.
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Well Benji the cellular tech support guy, some posters to blogs other than you are in fact experts but that aside, you have very good points.
However, that being said, with regard to Verizon, yes, they are opening up however the fact remains that wireless service in the states is crippled in comparison to the rest of the world.
It is true that the customer is largely to blame for this and instead of whining, the customer pool should vote with their money for desirable alternatives. There is a definite place for the Verizon model and many people require exactly what they have to offer.
However, as networks, handsets and the communication/computing potential they represent evolve, the one size fits all shoe Verizon offers their customers simply does not fit.
This is even truer for people who travel.
Having to carry two cell phones is a bite.
For the power user and/or traveler, it is less costly over all to invest in an unlocked, highly capable phone that may be used to it’s fullest potential for years anywhere in the world - granted with some compromises but fewer as time goes on.
Verizon will have to transition to a more common world-wide network model or face continually squeezing a limited US centric market where it will become a bit player to the corporate owner du jour.
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