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Old 12-27-2003, 04:01 PM
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Maybe someone can explain this to me, how the hell does a multi-million dollar corportation PROCRASTINATE? I can see individuals do it, but a corporation like this, what the hell? They spend almost everyday working on this phone and they still have excuses? Why did they not want to make a KILLING on this phone for CHRISTMAS? If I was the Pres/CEO of Moto, a lot of project managers would have been fired by now...
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I got the phone call earlier from Cingular. They will be here this week in the stores. WOOT!
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Motorola had a problem with a shortage of parts for the phone.

gdubb, cingular won't be getting the v600 right now. AT&T is going to be the first carrier I believe...Cingular is going to have the v400. That is basically the v500 or something like that without bluetooth. Plus i think it's missing a few other things.
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Originally posted by KCPreki11
Maybe someone can explain this to me, how the hell does a multi-million dollar corportation PROCRASTINATE? I can see individuals do it, but a corporation like this, what the hell? They spend almost everyday working on this phone and they still have excuses? Why did they not want to make a KILLING on this phone for CHRISTMAS? If I was the Pres/CEO of Moto, a lot of project managers would have been fired by now...
It's not Motorola's fault. It's your carrier. Consumers don't buy phones from the manufacturer. I could go into more detail since it's my job at Sprint to bring PCS phones to the market but unless there something major like a parts problem or a factory problem, chances are it's your carrier.
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Originally posted by tw1112
Motorola had a problem with a shortage of parts for the phone.

gdubb, cingular won't be getting the v600 right now. AT&T is going to be the first carrier I believe...Cingular is going to have the v400. That is basically the v500 or something like that without bluetooth. Plus i think it's missing a few other things.

Yeah I know its the V-400, that was mentioned earlier in the thread. Thanks for the info!

I could care less about Blue-Tooth right now
Old 12-28-2003, 07:13 PM
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Heh yeah me neither. I kinda like the v600 looks more though that's why I'm personally going to wait. Let us know if you get the v400 though...really interested to hear what you're thoughts are of it.
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Originally posted by gdubb
I got the phone call earlier from Cingular. They will be here this week in the stores. WOOT!
no shit they didnt tell me yet
Old 12-29-2003, 12:21 AM
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fucking verizon jesus
Old 12-29-2003, 07:45 AM
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I wanted this phone to. But I couldn't wait any longer and just settled for the V300.
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Originally posted by kensteele
It's not Motorola's fault. It's your carrier. Consumers don't buy phones from the manufacturer. I could go into more detail since it's my job at Sprint to bring PCS phones to the market but unless there something major like a parts problem or a factory problem, chances are it's your carrier.
Can't say I believe that, the whole time it's been made out that MOTO has been at fault. What benefit does AT&TW, Cingular, and T-Mobile have by delaying the release of the phone?
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Originally posted by Black CL-S 4-Life
I wanted this phone to. But I couldn't wait any longer and just settled for the V300.


T-Mobile? Is that who you have K
Old 12-29-2003, 01:32 PM
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Originally posted by gdubb
T-Mobile? Is that who you have K
Yeah I have Tmobile.
The V300 is a very good new camera phone tons of features and reasonably priced.
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Originally posted by KCPreki11
Can't say I believe that, the whole time it's been made out that MOTO has been at fault. What benefit does AT&TW, Cingular, and T-Mobile have by delaying the release of the phone?
I guess I don't understand what your definition of "delaying the release" of a phone means?
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What is your take on why the V600 has been pushed back from it's initial release date for months?

Your saying it's not Moto's fault, but the carriers.

I'm saying, the carriers don't have the phone to distribute yet. It's moto's fault.
Old 12-30-2003, 10:36 AM
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Originally posted by KCPreki11
What is your take on why the V600 has been pushed back from it's initial release date for months?

Your saying it's not Moto's fault, but the carriers.

I'm saying, the carriers don't have the phone to distribute yet. It's moto's fault.
Maybe Cingular doesn't have the phone yet because for whatever reason they won't accept them from Motorola who is trying to ship them [as is].

Honestly in this case, I don't think anyone is the blame. I think the public is ready for the phone TODAY, and if they can't buy it right now, somebody is to blame.

All electronics suffer from the same "availability date" problem, could be parts, could be yield, could be customs, could be interoperability, could be quality, could be the contract, could be a lot of things. Nobody really knows.

But now I am curious and I think I should find out.

So I took a closer look at the V600 and it does Video clips. Suppose the video clip today when you upload it on ATT, it uploads just find, and you can play it...but when you send it from the ATT website to another email address, it get corrupted 50% of the time. Who's fault is that?
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http://www.mototone.co.uk/viewreview.asp?reviewid=5

i thought this was a great review of the v600. the guy paid about 1500 for the phone. this delayed release is so frustrating, no matter who's fault it is.
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Damn that phone looks hot. I'm not reading all 3 pages. Is this a Verizon phone?
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Seems like a pretty cool phone. I think I will get one.

Edit: After doing some research, this phone only playback video...won't record video.
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Really? Damn, I thought it could record also.
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update: motorola v400 is coming out defiantely on Jan 6th.
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Cool so I can pick it up today, whats is gonna run me with a new 2yr contract
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Originally posted by gdubb
Cool so I can pick it up today, whats is gonna run me with a new 2yr contract
aww shit its on the website.

looks like 199 - 50 dollar rebate 2 year contract.
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Went to pick one up today, but they didnt have any. This was at a small loctation, you think I might have better luck at a large Cingular location?
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Originally posted by gdubb
Went to pick one up today, but they didnt have any. This was at a small loctation, you think I might have better luck at a large Cingular location?

yes and no...larger shipment, larger store, more traffic. I went there to a Cingular to see if they were in, and they werent..

they are most probably in stock today...better fin be
Old 01-07-2004, 06:41 PM
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Well I called the larger store today. They talked to the Moto rep and they were saying late this week or early next week. And Im waiting to spend my damn money
Old 01-09-2004, 01:08 PM
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i got the v400, its pretty iLL na na
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hopefully within a couple days I will have mine
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V600 or bust...
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finally it came in, I got the first one out of the store.


Whoo Hoo!! after 3 months, its over
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v600 should come out in the first week of february thru att exclusively. i dont know if it will go to the other gsm carriers at all. i got this from howardforums. i am waiting for this phone too.
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Well Cingular has the V-400, thats the phone I got
Old 01-14-2004, 06:33 AM
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It should go to T-Mobile after a while. These delays are ridiculous, I have heard even Spring.
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v600 is gsm only i think...mot. coming out with a diff version for cdma
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Haha I can get one right now....for $650. Blah...I was about to..then it hit me..this is for a phone! It would be for a full working unlocked version, so it would be better than the att one that is going to come out first. Still though....it's a phone. I think I can find better ways to blow 650...
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thats not a bad price....you should get it and sell to the fools on ebay for twice the price.

v600 is only gsm (quad-band). the cdma version of it will be v800 series, which eventually come out for verizon.
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TW...i'll take one.
Old 01-18-2004, 02:22 PM
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Ill go check the store guy and see if he can really get it within the week time frame he quoted me. It's from a store so it's pretty legit..

Yeah I was thinking about doing ebay with it, but with such a high demand item...you run into a lot of deadbeat buyers.
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Check eBay...you'll barely break even.
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Yeah that's what I noticed....I think everyone is waiting for att to release it so that they can "try" and get the free bluetooth headset. 600 only...come on what's the chances of getting that. One thing I noticed is that almost all the ebay ADs don't have real pics of the v600. I wonder if I'd corner some bidding with real upclose, high quality pictures haha
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It's possible, that's the #1 thing people are looking for in the auctions, security. If you take a pic of the phone in front of your daily newspaper to see the date, i'd bet you could make some $.

Does the guy allow refunds?


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