I think I've found the fountain of youth--it's called Verizon Wireless!

If the latest rumors are true, I may never have another birthday and, thus, will never be any older. . . .

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Yes I am so excited about the iPhone only becuse it is the first cell device not crippled by the service provider.

Things are going to look a lot different out there with the next 12 months.

Mark

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VZW, It's 2008! Time to embrace technology, not suppress it. - oops too late I've moved on over to the iPhone w/ AT$T!

lol that was awesome

i think i am in the same boat as you, this was going to be my main purchase this summer and who knows if it is ever coming

Well, it is sad that Verizon continues to drag their feet. It just cost them about 30 equipment sales with me. I manage about 110 lines with Verizon for our corporate office and outfitted about 25 of those with i730 devices and unlimited data a couple of years ago. I was fortunate enough to carry an i730 from an Engineer in Data Sales a few weeks before release which sold me on the converged device. Now I sit here 2 years later awaiting something to move my users to and there is nothing on the Verizon horizon. I began testing Aircards last month when the i730s began failing and have sinced rolled out about 20 which were being used in conjunction with the current 730 user base. Since this delay continues to have no end in sight, we have begun the process of moving all of the users to Aircards only rather than utilizing both methods of connectivity. So, in the end instead of Verizon having a couple of dozen hungry users with new PDA phones and unlimited data plans on throughout, they are only getting revenue from the Aircards and I am rolling out free LG 8300 flip phones. Way to go guys.

This is ridiculous...i just called another store and the same story..."...uh I don't know...uh" Very frustrating. They need to leak something before we all jump ship.

once again, we all need to understand.... those in the stores will know that the i760 has been released when they put one up on display on the wall of the store they work in. And, even then, they may still not know!

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i think you are right. this should be the wakeup call for samsung, htc, motorola, ms, and Palm - get your act together! this unbeleivable hype surrounding the "i" should show all the manufacturers that the public is now beginning to understand/want/pay a premium for converged devices.

back O/T...
maybe this being officially released by vzw
Verizon, LG intro new Chocolate - Engadget Mobile

will free them up to release th i760... lets all hope and pray!

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What is next??? The Saga i770? The Omnia i910? The Touch Pro XV6850? The BlackBerry Storm?

Miata492,

It's not the manufacturers it's the service providers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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VZW, It's 2008! Time to embrace technology, not suppress it. - oops too late I've moved on over to the iPhone w/ AT$T!

How do you figure it's not crippled ?

While it's undoubtedly true that Apple had more leverage than most vendors, they made compromises - we just don't what they are because unlike Windows Mobile, we don't have a baseline to reference.

Crippled aspects (from my point of view):
(a) It's locked to AT&T. You can't use it on another GSM provider
(b) You can't load 3rd party apps on it.
For all the bitching and moaning about VZW crippling the handsets they market, you can still load 3rd party apps on it.
(c) No tethering.