Mark, "Ethan's" exact words were (and he has said this all 4,132 times I have asked, although that number might be a bit smaller in terms of asking) "Expect a release in May". I said, can you narrow it down to any date specifically, or a general area. He said, "Towards the end of May."

I said is that "confirmed", he said "(explicative) NO! You should know VZW by now, give or take a month..." then he laughed.

So, "towards the end of May" is what he said.

At least we are seeing other confirmation of "May", and hopefully it sticks. From what Ethan said "They are waiting for the i730 inventory to sell out", I asked how much longer, he said "It's low, very low right now".

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So I should convince all the med students around here that need a PDA by June to buy up i730's now that Dell has given up on the Axim.

And then when they ask me why I'm pushing it and don't have an i730 myself, I'll just say I'm waiting for my NE2 to come up.

When are the general VZW reps notified of new PDAPhones? When is info available on VZW's intranet?

I'm just curious because two days ago I called VZW customer service to ask a general question about their new "unlimited" text messaging plan. While I had the rep on the call, I mentioned to him that I was waiting for the i760 to be released. He had no clue what the i760 was and searched VZW's intranet but couldn't find any info. Mind you, I didn't expect him to know anything about the i760. I just figure that at some point before the actual release of the i760, VZW must "educate" its customer service reps and publish info on its intranet. So, I'm curious as to how far in advance general, frontline VZW reps are notified of new hardware.

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They announce it inhouse about a week or two before the release, which is when they start training. Normally around 2 weeks, but sometimes as short as a week before it goes on sale.

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Thanks, Michael. With such a short training period, it's no wonder most reps (or at least the ones in the stores) aren't very knowledgeable about PDAPhones.

I figure around May 1 would be a good time to start calling VZW and asking about the i760. Maybe one call a week ....

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yeah, it is amazing how little the store reps know sometimes. how many times i have walked in with my i730 and ended demo-ing mine to someone there with what you can do with them. the same thing happens with my Q now too. i actually just had a rep 2 weeks ago ask me to show her how to use her Q (she hadnt dont the software update yet) in the store and all the reps really bugged out when i showed them how i changed the silver housing on my Q to the dark grey housing from sprint and even removed the sprint logos (looks way better now!)... sorry if i got o/t but is funny!

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Everyone,

I was just checking out PhoneScoop.com's 'New FCC Approvals' page, and was surprised to find that the SCH-i760 is now listed there! Yeah, the FCC status is old news around here, but I recently asked 'Rich' at PhoneScope why they hadn't posted the news on the site. His response was that they don't post the FCC approvals until they have "full details" to post in their database; and he wrote that last week (the 14th, to be precise).

This lead me to revisit the FCC site, and lo and behold, there's info that I don't think was there before... including lists of several documents whose 'short-term confidentiality' expires 5/14/07... and that includes the user manual! Perhaps I simply didn't notice all the documents when I first visited the site, but whether or not that's the case, the dates are certainly suggestive.

Methinks that one might infer that the SCH-i760 may go fully public in the second half of May, though I don't know what that says about the actual Verizon release date. At any rate, we may get more definitive info on the phone in late May.

Am I being too hopeful???!!!???

This is almost identical to the information that was proposed in the 6800 forum.

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/617053-post69.html

It doesn't matter the date, it can be requested to be moved forward...

-Michael

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