Andrew Parker from The Gong Show works in a build with with many Verizon Wireless corporate offices. He overheard the following conversation in a elevator full of Verizon employees after one of them started tinkering with their BlackBerry.
Verizon employee #1: Y’know Verizon’s getting a camera blackberry for consumers.
Verizon employee #2: Really?
Verizon employee #1: Yea, it’s not going to be world-capable, but it will have a camera and it will be smaller than this one [referring to the 8830].
Verizon employee #2: Oh, so like the Curve.
Verizon employee #1: Yea, like the Curve. For consumers.
Verizon employee #2: Where’d you find that out?
Verizon employee #1: Asked around.
Verizon employee #2: Oh, yea, I never hear about these things… When’s it coming out?
Verizon employee #1: Couple of months.
Our not so highly trained staff of graphic artists have come up with visual representation of what this revolutionary Verizon BlackBerry with a camera could look like.
If that’s a verizon BB curve, why do I see the letters in the upper right hand corner displaying GPRS????
pay attention to this part of the article… the first 5 words…
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Our not so highly trained staff of graphic artists have come up with visual representation of what this revolutionary Verizon BlackBerry with a camera could look like.
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Yes, Robb was being cheeky. This “revolutionary” device is what’s already been kicking around on AT&T the past few months.
That picture is sooooooo fake. My 9 year old little sister could do better than that.
I guess reading is fundamental after all. You can delete that last comment.
Sorry.
Hopes and dreams of verizon customers. Sorry cdma again will be taking the backseat. http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/08/03/blackberry-8310-is-the-papa-bear-and-the-blackberry-pearl-2-comet-goes-to-att/
NO Google for you! No iPhone for you! Another nail in the verizon and cdma coffin. Another choice of freedom taken from verizon customers.
verizon has spoken!
GOOGLE DIALS INTO CELL MARKET
Reuters
August 3, 2007 — Google Inc. has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a cellphone project and is courting U.S. and European mobile operators.
Google has also approached the two biggest U.S. wireless services, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, in recent months to ask them to sell phones with Google service.
A Verizon Wireless executive said the company had decided not to integrate Google’s Web search tightly into its phones because of Google’s ad-revenue-sharing demands, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A person familiar with the situation said yesterday that talks between Verizon Wireless and Google ended without an agreement.
Anian, a company that tracks industry trends, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp. to design a Linux-software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.
Google said it is “partnering with carriers, manufacturers and content providers around the world,” without giving further details.
Google reportedly has also developed prototype phones with manufacturers, including LG Electronics.
I have to agree with “hellno” in that Verizon is really shrinking its circle of available devices, when it can least afford to do so.
CDMA already faces an uphill battle for survival in a GSM dominated world, and one way to fight back would be to do the opposite of what Verizon is doing: namely to strike deals with premium companies like Apple, Google, etc to bring exciting new equipment to the market on its network.
Verizon is being way too conservative in its mgmt approach, and in the end will get stung by that. Imagine if VZW had brought out the iPhone, and then the Google phone. That would be a sign of staying power. But as it is, VZW seems intent on being as arrogant as possible. They can only get by on strength of network for so long. It’s only a matter of time until AT&T catches up in that regard, and then it’s game over.
Something else that hellno gets right: with VZW, there policies go deeper than just being pricey or fussy in their deals: they really do restrict freedom of choice for their consumers. Eventually it will get so bad that consumers will choose freedom over their network any day.
I honestly think that I am about to choose freedom. I will keep my Verizon broadband access card, but will switch to whomever offers the BlackBerry Pearl II first.
Meet Sir Charge
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The return of Sir Charge
Fortunately, I don’t have any ETFs to worry about.
Of course, that Sir Charge stuff is talking about land lines, not mobile lines. Maybe the home line rate increases help those with a home/mobile bundle?
The “Sir Charge stuff” points out a global problem with verizon, including verizon wireless.
The “Sir Charge stuff†points out a global problem with verizon, including verizon wireless.
I just meant that the “Sir Charge” commercials were talking specifically about Vzw residential phone service, not cellular.
Plus, jacking up fees on the sly really isn’t endemic to just Verizon, is it?