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Originally Posted by Mylt1
looks like if i want one and not pay $600 i will be using ebay. several on there for around $400. think i will hold off for a bit though. still want to know the quality of a moto phone after going through 7 moto phones between myself and the wife a couple of years ago.
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I don't know how far you are from your upgrade but it might be worth a phone call to VZW to see if you have the gift of talking them into an early upgrade (if you haven't tried already). It may be over now but back when the Droid was first released in November if you said the right thing to the right CS rep, they were giving some early upgrades to some lucky people. Some folk got nowhere trying and others were surprised how easy it was.
Yes, if you are a year or so off, probably not but if you are a couple months, it doesn't hurt to try them and see if there's any way they can get you into a Droid. Especially if you happen to be *cough* *cough* having some flaky problems with your current phone and really want to help VZW be a success with the Droid by "offering" to get one early.
I assume you are aware of the annual upgrade program and if you are eligible for that as opposed to the normal two-year (20 month) contract.
As for quality, I'm not sure how to help but I can say mine has been perfect. The only "hardware" problem was the loose battery cover that Moto replaced for free. I have followed multiple forums and have seen a few people take theirs back for replacement for various problems. However, I'm not sure how many of those were due to "user error" and it was just simple to do since they were under warranty. I don't think I recall hearing of a consistently bad component that was causing returns. Very early people were replacing trying to get cameras that worked better as some seemed to work better than others. I think we all found out later it was more of a software problem than hardware. I guess that's all I can offer. Good luck.