Post # 723 on the 6800 thread on Ho-FO said that a B2B rep told his customer today that the 6700 has been discontinued and the remaining stock should
be gone by 11/9/2007.

Ha! I'd hate to be the poor schlep that gets the last xv6700!... Oh...wait....I'm the poor schlep that has been waiting for this phone since the earth cooled..... Hey, I could always get a Juke!

Hi All.

I am new to the sight, but thought you all might like to hear a story related to the release of the XV6800. Prior to Monday I had not so much as heard of the XV6800. I went into a Verizon Store to look at the i760 because my "New Every Two" date is Thursday. While I was examining it, a sales person came up to me and told me "That phone is a piece of crap, you don't want to buy it" I figured at first it was an up-sell strategy so I played along and asked him what was better.

He told me that there was a new phone coming out in "the next couple of weeks" which would be better suited to be a PPC replacement (I currently use both a PPC and a Cell) I pushed him a little harder and he told me about the "VX6800" phone. His knowledge of the phone was sketchy and said I was better of checking the web for details as he was not "Officially Trained" yet. He then went on to explain that the managers get a 2 week notice of pending releases, and he had seen a memo about the phone being shipped to stores on November 7th. He also said that the stores were expecting them about a week later and then they would be trained on them sometime between the 13th and the 15th. The Phones would then be made available to the public on the 16th, but more likely for "Black Friday" because that was the "Official Start" of thier holiday sales. For those of you not familiar with Black Friday...it is what retail stores call the day after Thanksgiving.

He told me that I should call the store on the 16th to see if it was in. He took my number and said if it came in before then he would let me know but in the mean time he gave me his card and wrote down on the back of it HTC VX6800 and told me to search the web to get more info on the phone. Needless to say, the search urned out results for the "XV6800" which I assume is the samething and the sales person just transposed the letters as most verizon cells are VX not XV.

All I can tell you is that this is what happend to me Monday at a Verizon Store (not some knock off reseller). The guy could have been making the whole thing up for all I know, but since the motive should have been to sell me something as I live no where near that store, I can't see why he would.

with fingers crossed, all I can do is wait.

and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait......

Exact thing I heard today from the same guy who has exchanged my 6700 a couple of times (He knew me right away, and stopped me before I signed in!) because mine keeps crapping out on me...

I was told a couple of weeks is when it will be out, today as a matter of fact, and was told definitely before Christmas!! So, I have to deal with another dying XV6700 and hopefully get upgraded to the XV6800!! He said I probably would, but it was up to the manager. Anywho, thank god I bought that cheap ass $2/mo warranty! =) Not to mention the fact that I get a 15% on my bill.

Ciao, can't wait for the new version!!

I was at a Sprint Business Meeting that had HTC, Samsung, Palm, LG, Sanyo, and RIM presenting their business devices. I had a chance to talk to the HTC guy about the Touch and the 6800. He said the 6800 is going to be released on Black Friday. Take it for what it's worth.

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Preet

Hawkinpaul,

At best u are next to last; Verizon swapped my Samsung i730 for a vx6700.

So far I'm happy with it, but I'm disappointed that it too can have alignment problems. Definitely a software issue.

I told the Verizon manager, who disagreed, that there ought to be a bypass available - at least when the phone has a pull out keyboard. You should be able to at least see your contacts & calendar, etc. even if you need to replace the phone.

My screen was only slightly misaligned, but it still worked.

BTW, the screen on the 6700 is about 1-2 mm smaller on top & bottom. I put the Samsung i730 screen protector on it to compare and that's how I found out. It looked bigger to me - optical illusion I guess because the screen has less of a frame around it.

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Ileana

You can go into the screen settings on the the 6700 and realign it when
needed.
If you plan to keep it for a while there is a great WM6 upgrade by Helmi
on ppcgeeks.com . I put it on my 6700 in September and it works great.
Makes the wait for the 6800 a lot easier !

I have been a "LONG" time reader of this thread. Everybody that is waiting for the XV6800 is tired of waiting!! Well for what ever it's worth. If you go into Verizon's website and do a search for XV6800 they have a "Coming Soon" ad for the XV6800.

Hope is out soon!!

Yeah, VZW is susposed to make a decision on the phone today
according to the company website.