Verizon XV6900 finally available for order
By Darren Murph 
posted April 16th 2008 8:57AM
posted April 16th 2008 8:57AM
posted April 16th 2008 8:57AM
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would this have evdo?
my friend showed me his from Sprint. he was able to watch and control stuffs from his Slingbox. i was amazed!!! too bad his was dependent on evdo. it doesnt have wifi support.
yes it will have EVDO but streaming slingbox will blow your limit out of the water on the data plan...unfortunately VZW puts a cap of 5 gigs per month on your usage and sprint has no cap because no one uses their network
Dependent on EVDO?? Would you rather be "dependent" on Wifi?... Which is NOT nationwide. EVDO can be accessed on a subway, wifi CANNOT, also Sprint has EVDO REV-A which is pretty damn fast. Wifi is just to supplement slow connections, i.e. ATT, with Sprints EVDO you don't need wifi.
evdo is "iffy" indoors.
i agree evdo coverage is awesome where i live in philly. its almost faster than dsl! n surprisingly, its faster than drexel's wifi... maybe every kid is dl mp3 or something.
I live in the Los Angeles area, when ever I am downtown I get the same speed in an under ground garage of a 40 story building (and a-top the 40th flloor) that I get at home.
Verizon now has these on their site. I have this same phone with Sprint and LOVE it! Let me know if you have any questions about it I might be able to help with.
http://www.VerizonXV6900.com
Got my delivery confirmation already, should be here on Thursday the 17th.
Keep that receipt.
Nothing on the Verizon site about GPS. Doesn't the Touch have it?
None of Verizon's phone have a built-in GPS but they will be happy to charge you a monthly fee for the VZ Navigator service.
Oh, there are Verizon phones with GPS. Verizon just makes sure to disable it.
The XV6800 (aka Mogul, PPC6800) has built-in GPS and REV A. You just need to flash it to a ROM based on Sprint's Mogul which can be found over at xdadevelopers. I would suggest something like DCD's 3.01 or higher. I have VZW's 6800 and GPS works fine with google maps.
I'd hit that... only near-deal-breaking negative is that you'd have to use two hands to dial (as well as two eyes)
Two eyes maybe, but two hands?
It's not hard to initiate a call on a XV6700 pocket pc one-handed, so I'd imagine it wouldn't be too difficult on a device that has a screen which isn't recessed half an inch into the device (makes corner and edge taps nearly impossible without the stylus.)
you have one, because I do, and I dial one handed all the time. The only real issue to me is looking at the screen in direct sunlight
Holy good God...stop the presses! Look at how fugly that phone is.
It looks like something you take rectally.
With an icon like that, your thoughts on style are moot.
"It looks like something you take rectally"
Based on your Avatar, I guess you are an expert on "rectal matters"
Alexander, 1; Nabil, 0.
Yawn. Sprint had this thing months ago and I wasn't that impressed. Hopefully the Samsung Insight will be more interesting. I would spring for an iphone but GSM reception around me sucks.
Instinct?
Oops yeah, I meant Instinct.
Ya the WinMo 6.0 was sluggish, but have you tried the 6.1 upgrade?
I wouldn't give it up for an iPhone, till you tried WinMo 6.1 on it.
No doubt, it's a great looking phone. I'm just not sold on touch only devices. If this thing had a slim slide-out QWERTY keypad, I'd be all over it.
the lack of a slide out keyboard or an on screen keyboard big enough for my fingers is a deal breaker.
meh!
Man whats the deal with the US carriers? This phone is already quite dated and Sprint has had it for a while now. How about the damn HTC Touch Cruise here in the states? C'mon!
I have the sprint version and love it except for two things.
1. When I place a call after a few seconds the display switches from keypad to another screen entirely. Usually about this time I am prompted by the voice mail system to press another key - the problem is I am no longer on the keypad screen and must locate and press another key to get back there - ridiculous! Especially when I am driving...
2. During extended calls I always manage activate the TV somehow and this switches the screen orientation to landscape. Then I need to go into the control panel and switch it back.
Please fix these 2 issues and I will love the phone. It is the perfect size IMO. almost identical to Razr.
$249.99 for one of the most basic smartphones around? Crazy.
Even crazier...people will buy it! Sigh, VZW with the late arrival of a dated handset, la-di-frickin-da. Where is the Glyde and the new LG handsets? Your current lineup of phones is horrible. Something new please. I'm about to fall off the Big Red landscape and slide to AT&T.
is the Touch Dual coming out for Verizon?
Yeah, the possibility of the Dual coming out soon is probably the biggest thing keeping me away from this. I've looked around, but I couldn't find any indication. Knowing Verizon it'll come out about 3 years after it first hits the states, and about 2 years after it's so outdated that no one will want it.
Glyde????? Come on Verizon, it's time to bust out a good phone for a change!!
lol isnt this a white htc touch??? or is it supposed to be an htc touch?
it IS a white touch.
I think the codename is an "elfin" instead of an "elf" because it's CDMA with I think a faster processor...
Faster processor indeed: 400MHz vs. 225, I think.
More RAM too, 128MB if I recall.
The horsepower makes this thing attractive, as does Verizon's EVDO coverage when compared to AT&T's HSDPA coverage.
But that's about all, at least out of the box. Not sure I'm adventurous enough to play with hacked ROMs, but any who are might have a really good device on their hands, if they're into the touchscreen-only thing.
does anyone know what the qwerty keyboard would look like? if its the same as the others small black and white microsoft really needs to change it.
It has that, but some of the later ones in Europe have another keyboard, designed for the finger.
there is no physical keyboard on this unit--only touchscreen keyboards.
After using my eNV... I cannot go back to a touchscreen only device.
Still not sure why Engadget keeps repeating how blindingly strikingly shockingly white this thing is. It's not pure white; it's a cream shade.
Why would they disable the wi-fi? Am I the only one that noticed? The xv6800 has it, so does the samsung. I was so excited to get this, but now what? iphone?
They what!?
My two year contract is near and time to get a new phone, so looking forward to this phone, why oh why, it does NOT have wifi ?!
Maybe it's time to switch...
Good Lord, what is this? A Valentines Day version of the Touch? Maybe it looks better in person...
This phone looks good, as long as it is not to heavy or wide. So what does Verizon not let you do? They disable any phones gps? There are a couple apps I don't think I could go without...SecondLife, Bigstring Self Destructing IM, WinAmp, etc.
WTF? That's expensive....I paid $150 for the Vogue here in Canada on a 2 year contract with unlimited data (albeit non-tethered) for $7/month..and it would have been free on a 3-year....
I thought the states were usually cheaper with this sort of thing.
google maps works fine on the device out of the box, windows mobile refuses to make VZ navigator work on their phones, so sorry, talk to them about it.
with the new VZnav roll ot coming in 2 weeks, I would expect the big red to be working on rolling it to all devices.
Well, I would say Verizon is the least evil of the major cell companies to sign your life away to for a cool phone, but that's not true. I'd still rather get a new Sidekick with a Data Plan from T-Mobile.
QVGA. Lame.
No Sale.
I've had this device for a couple of months on Sprint and love it. HTC has done a pretty good job of adapting windows mobile into a touch centric phone. They are a few annoyances but those can be solved with software. Here are my suggestions.
1. Keyboards aren't great. - PCM Keyboard is a great substitute.
2. Windows Media Player Mobile isn't touch friendly - Some one had the foresight to make a touch friendly HTC skin that works great. Search for Install_HTC_Skin_QVGA.cab on google. You can also try S2P, it's a pretty good touch oriented music player. Lacks play lists and a few other things.
3. The calculator isn't very touch friendly. SPB's website has a great black calculator skin that goes with the HTC themed phone.
4. HTC Home screen is sluggish at times. I personal run Pointui on top of it. Point ui is very customizable and touch friendly. I don't use my stylus too much any more.
5. The last thing that annoys me is the browser, IE Mobile sucks. Some better browsers will be coming out later this year. Opera isn't bad but cost 30 bucks. If you can stomach IE for a few more months you may want to wait.
Here are a few websites where I found some great apps.
http://www.wm6software.net/
http://www.pointui.com
yeah i've been waiting for ages for a device that could show me the time 80s style! :)