Unbelievable... VZW sure does have its head up its you know what! They should just give up at this point.

Man, it sure does suck to be stuck with Verizon... I can either move to Sprint, or Qwest.. ugh.

Well, I guess I move to a Q9, xv5800, or xv6800 if they are ever released. It sounds like the Q9 will be the next...

i know that there are many supporters of VZWs way of doing business on this thread, but how they order phone specifications from Samsung is making less and less sense every day...the idea of VZW choosing the design of a phone plenty of time in advance, and then VZW getting the phone from Samsung and trying to continuously modify it so that it stays competitive is ridiculous.....the fact that this phone was introduced at CES LAST WINTER and there is even a chance that it will be released THIS WINTER blows my mind....

ok, there, im done, had to get that off of my chest...i know this is a rumor for its release, but Mark_A_K's thought of waiting until 2008 is starting to look more and more feasible

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but Mr Rourke is definitely not saying "Smiles...Smiles, Everyone"! Welcome to Fantasy _____. (Sorry I could'nt include i760 in the blank)

Please make yourself feel better by watching the Cordoba video in my signature line...that will cure all ills today.

Moderators: I know I should be dabbling in the humor section but was just trying to help the mood. I'll shut up now

sorry to continue the O/T banter, but that video was way too great and brought back some memories!!!
come on VZW!!! give us the i760!!!

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

All the credit goes to Tazburns for that video...thanks! Ok--i'm done back on topic.

someone needs to get in contact with "ethan" if it was a corporate email, then he should have gotten it?

I think it might be possible that readers of this thread will go down as some of the most "fair weather fans" in history. One moment we're fans of a rumor that has possibilities of bringing us the i760 in July and "Ethan" is our resident insider. The next minute KBAM comes through and offers up something completely sensible followed by an post of unconfirmed information (no offense meant - this thread is built on unconfirmed posts) that says things will be put behind. As soon as we see that, all hell breaks loose for a while until the next person comes by and calms us down (usually MRailing telling us something else "Ethan" said) -- and the cycle begins again.


Will somebody fess up to actually breaking something after one of the "doomsday posts"? I'd love to hear that unconfirmed information actually provoked a thrown phone or something...yeah...great.

Anyway, I went back to the i730 release thread just to get a feel for the insanity that was happening last time around. I didn't read everything, but it appeared that until about midway through the day's posts on 06/10/05, there was still only speculation about the release date. In fact, only the day before I saw more of the "I hate Verizon and everything about them" posts. Then midday on the 10th somebody found the actual release date information posted for 06/23/05, and Viola!!! -- everybody was happy again. The next 20 or so pages of posts are a bunch of people getting excited and trying to find the fastest way possible to have the unit shipped to them.

This doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it does say that we can still enjoy this as a RUMOR THREAD and keep crossing our fingers. No reason to despair yet (Although I do hate waiting). Certain sources in this forum have a pretty solid track record, and it will be interesting to see who was right. The day is going to come where the information is going to surprise us and the phone release day will be given. The release information on 06/10/05 seemed to be a complete surprise, even though everybody had their "inside information" at that time as well.

Mark or anybody else who was there remember all of this?

crmealey

My corp rep just contacted me again and apologised for some mis information. It appears the memeo they received regrding the delay on the i760 was true, however the pushback to December was a typo. It is slated to be released "late August" in the same timeframe as the xv6800 and xv5800. Sorry for the confusion, but wanted to get this out as soon as I was contacted. There is still hope.