Verizon announces the HTC Imagio, available October 6th for $199.99
Although not a soul alive is shocked by the news, today Verizon Wireless announced it will be releasing the HTC Imagio — its first Windows Mobile 6.5 device — online starting October 6th. The Imagio, known to most by its codename Whitestone, will feature the following key specs: 3.6″ WVGA touchscreen display (resistive, of course), 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, Wi-Fi, EV-DO Rev. A, quad-band EDGE and 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA for international roaming. Being a WinMo device from HTC, TouchFLO 3D is naturally included while Verizon will be chipping in MediaFLO support for those who are willing to part with an extra $15 per month. So what will the Imagio cost come its big day? $199.99 on a 2-year deal after a $100 MIR which isn’t all that shabby, all things considered.
Verizon has had good products in the past with numerous features. The problem is that Verizon always disables/locks out all the good included features which come with the cell phone and they force you to purchase similar inferior Verizon proprietary products. I have been with Verizon for years but this is getting old. They can have the best product on the planet but they will lock you out of all the included features forcing you to purchase their inferior like features.
Verizon has had good products in the past with numerous features. The problem is that Verizon always disables/locks out all the good included features which come with the cell phone and they force you to purchase similar inferior Verizon proprietary products. I have been with Verizon for years but this is getting old. They can have the best product on the planet but they will lock you out of all the included features forcing you to purchase their inferior like features. So what is the point of buying a locked out phone from Verizon?
A smaller base along with bad decisions in the past but a lesser network, get real this isn’t T Mobile were talking about, keep using that false logic to justify paying more for less. Verizon and AT&T are bending thier subs over and giving it to them with no lube but they take it willingly to say they’re on the “network”.
Myopic at best Don, in case you didn’t know any better ATT and Verizon are in business to make money, and they both do it better than any domestic cellular carrier. don’t like them? go to sprint, or youe regional carrier. good for you FIGHT THE MAN!
but in the end, the best network, the best devices, and the best service isn’t cheap, staff and devices aren’t free genius, ATT and verizon both have some of the largest and most diverse lineup of devices, and they have to staff stores because idiots come in after reading this blog thinking the staff that DOES know what you are asking is going to risk their job to tell YOU about some crap you read on BGR. because the customer that is an idiot costs money, the call center cost money, the ad campaigns cost money.
all of that translates to not being the cheapest carriers, just the BEST carriers.
want a lexus for the cost of a cavalier….gotta wait til the lexus gets old to get that deal, same with devices and technology.
capitalism, it’s what our country was founded on, and what the idiots and myopic people of this country are fast trying to lose because nobody wants to have personal responsibility, and they feel we should all be on level ground.
Stalin called, he wants his beliefs back.
So T Mobile shouldn’t be 1st in C.S. according to your logic or adding subs, you vzw subs and employees are the main touting the nonsense of getting what’s paid for while lying of an inferior network. As far as Sprint is concerned, vzw may have more coverage but quit acting like they are so far behind because that’s not the case because independent studies as well as this site say otherwise. Where devices are concerned, AT&T does have a fine stable but no network to support it but vzw has a great dumbphone line while playing catch up in the smartphone dept. Continue using the size of the company to justify prices but 5 years ago there was 8M to 12M separating the 3 the big 2 had the same policy as now with the same being said for Sprint. The big 2 bought up comp to pad thier #’s and will continue to pass those cost on to the subs
October 6th has been known for a while to be the launch date for WinMo6.5, so this phone’s launch obviously will coincide with that.
The Tao probably won’t be released the same day, but if it does, it’d be interesting to see the Android vs. WinMo sales play out on Verizon.
Either way, this seems like a good month for me to buy a new phone.
great defence of capitalism-