Everything you need to know about the Verizon Wireless Touch Pro
Tired of hearing about the Touch Pro? Hold on a little bit longer as the Verizon Touch Pro rumor mill is just starting to heat up. Earlier today, Engadget leaked a tentative launch date of November 24th for online/B2B/telesales and December 1st for retail stores. Soon thereafter, we got our hands on a Need to Know Guide that covers the ins and outs of using the Verizon Wireless Touch Pro. We picked out the highlights for you and we can finally put that whole “Verizon completely neutered the Touch Pro” rumor to rest. The document confirms that XV6850 will ship with a Qualcomm 7500A processor clocked at 528MHz, not the rumored 400MHz CPU. It also lists the 512MB of ROM and 192MB of RAM, which we realize is less than the 512MB/288MB on Sprint and AT&T. Why the difference? We are not too sure, maybe Verizon is reporting the available RAM and not the installed RAM. Regardless, it is nice to see the faster processor and 192MB of RAM which is way better than the rumored 400MHz and 128MB RAM device we were afraid Verizon was going to foist on its customers. The rest of the document has some nice eye candy of Verizon’s very red interface and a quick shot of the XV6850’s very different keyboard layout. Hit the jump for some more pages from the guide.
[Thanks to anonymous over at Howard Forums]
@Evan
The Verizon Touch Pro does have a G-sensor. The accelerometer is mentioned in the training docs.
@ Vern
I believe that AT&T is now fully converted to GSM. Through sales & purchases of their “wireless brand”, I believe they have not sold TDMA since Cingular days. (There were two seperate Cingular networks under the same corporate umbrella TDMA & GSM)
What you said was true a few years ago, but I am no longer aware of any TDMA providers, let alone current devices.
Wonder for 350 bucks is they will include a decent SD card
TDMA? lol…..wow, you should’nt be making comments on subject matters you know nothing about obviously. ATT hasn’t used TDMA in a long while. They have been on the GSM system for at least 5+ years now.
Mine will be arriving Wednesday. I’ll be happy to confirm it’s creamy nougat center and overall deliciousness.
If you want to run around and find a means to charge this phone every 6hrs after light usage – by all means, buy it.
If battery life is important to you however, stay away. I’ve already returned mine (for this and many other annoyances and faults with this phone).