Advice needed/ Verizon discontinuing the TP2???

[Laos101]

Originally Posted by suntopper

I ordered one last Thursday, received it on Friday. It's still 6.1. The web page actually showed them in stock. I had a xv6900/vougue running a custom rom. Not quite sold on the TP2 yet. I can handle the weight and the keyboard is awesome (especially coming from a soft kb), but the screen doesn't seem as sensitive as the vougue. I'm sure there are fixes out there so I'm not too concerned. It did reboot for no apparent reason last night.

ST

did your vougue have a screen protector

[suntopper]

Laos111
No smart phone I ever bought from vzw has ever come with a screen saver including the TP2. For the vogue (xv6900) I bought some screen savers from smartphone experts which served me well over the past 9-10 months. They came in a pack of 3 and I'm still using the first one. It feels like a hard plastic, but it worked extremely well.

ST

[RiftReaper]

I was going to buy the Verizon TP2 in January, I wonder if will still be available lol

[jmorton10]

None of the local VZ stores have the TP2. If you ask, they say "it is a special order item, we will ship it to your door free overnight"

They are basically just putting in a telesales order for you.

I know a dude who works in one of the stores & he told me they are NEVER going to stock it as they decided it was such a "limited appeal item" & expensive to stock.

He's probably right about the limited appeal, nobody I've showed mine to had the slightest clue what it was (or they ask "is that an iphone?"). I found the same thing with my original TP's also...........

~John

[eman]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

None of the local VZ stores have the TP2. If you ask, they say "it is a special order item, we will ship it to your door free overnight"

They are basically just putting in a telesales order for you.

I know a dude who works in one of the stores & he told me they are NEVER going to stock it as they decided it was such a "limited appeal item" & expensive to stock.

He's probably right about the limited appeal, nobody I've showed mine to had the slightest clue what it was (or they ask "is that an iphone?"). I found the same thing with my original TP's also...........

~John

They should have released it with a ton of advertising and called it the new tPhone.......People would have probably slept outside the night before to buy it.

[BeanAnimal]

Verizon pushes BB devices. They have a huge contract and have spent a tens of millions advertising BB. I own an IT consulting company and send people to purchase WinMO phones at Verizon stores (at least 5 different stores in the metro area). Some of the larger clients have a dedicated Verizon sales reps and in some cases I go to the store to purchase the hardware for the client. I send the client with a SPECIFIC LIST of phones to look at, EVERY TIME. The list is clear with instructions for both the client and the VZW sales rep. My clients ALL use Exchange Server and thus we need WinMo with ActiveSync.

In almost every case, the sales person attempts to talk the client out of the WinMo device in favor of the BB device. In at least 50% of the cases they end up convincing the client that my list is wrong and the BB device will work fine for what they want to do. No joke, this is almost a weekly event! I have had it out witjh store and regional managers regarding the subject. They deny pushing BB and say that they only sell what the client asks for. Furthermore, they ALL have told me that WinMo devices dont' sell well. The joke is that they don't sell well becuase the sales people don't push them.

So yeah.. you may never see the TP2 in stores, it is WinMo and not a BB.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by BeanAnimal

I send the client with a SPECIFIC LIST of phones to look at, EVERY TIME. .

Sure, but what good does that do if they don't even stock the phone??

We have our own "VZ rep" where I work & a few weeks ago he wasn't even sure what the TP2 was...........

~John

[BeanAnimal]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

Sure, but what good does that do if they don't even stock the phone??

We have our own "VZ rep" where I work & a few weeks ago he wasn't even sure what the TP2 was...........

~John

I send a LIST... they always have a few WinMO phones to choose from. Not to be rude, but does anybody here every read for context before replying? In no way did my post infer the context to which you replied.

The point was that the VZW reps will go to any length to talk a customer out of a WinMo phone, even when confronted with a LIST of choices and instructions to sell teh client a WinMo phone and the reasons why.

It is not a practice isolated to a specific store, but rather a company wide practice. The TP2 is simply going to be a victim of the VZW marketing choices, no matter how good the device is. VZW is concerned about selling BB devices, not WinMo devices. It used to be PALM and LG devices before they signed a huge deal with BB.

[mongoose0318]

Watching a football game last night, I saw a verizon commercial and the phone on it was the TP2. Of course they didn't give a name for it but at least it made it into an ad. So maybe they will push this phone once they get enough with 6.5 on them ready to go.

[wodurrah]

Um Verizon representatives know nothing at all. They do not have prior knowledge of any decision making at Verizon. The day I ordered my phone the rep I spoke to didn't even know they weren't sold in stores. You have to check Verizon everyday for stock. The TP2 was available sparsely throughout the end of sept and october. Even the Imagio and the Ozone Talks were out at times.

Verizon doesn't have a iphone and they are happy that they have the best looking cheapest TP2 and it aint goin nowhere.