Why Verizon Crippled the Touch Pro - Page 2

**TurboFool** · #11 (**permalink**) 09-24-2008, 12:16 PM

There's no benefit in preventing users from making their phones work better. Anything that makes the users happy enough to stay is a benefit to Verizon. I don't see this as being their logic. As well, I doubt it would be much of a deterrence, anyway. I suspect the ROMs would work right off the bat without trouble.

m0nti13 · #12 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 05:30 PM

I've just been thinking... And this idea might be because I havn't eaten all day, but...

From what I can find... the only evidence that Verizon is going to cripple this phone is a image of the verizon specs next to the sprint specs... Could this just be a tactic of a sprint fan or even employee to try to get "bad press" for verizon... or even people switching who like the phone?

Basically, I've seen nothing leaked from verizon documents... Am I missing something?

Also... this picture looks like a sprint document... how would they know what verizon's specs are? (that's not sarcasm, i'm actually asking)... Does HTC share that info between companies somehow? Or would it be corporate espionage?

holo · #13 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 07:05 PM

While verizon sure does make their phones ugly (*cough* 6800 *cough*), I still have a hard time believing this. I have yet to see HTC manufacture multiple versions of a CDMA handset for the US besides the outer casing. We'll see but that could just be a total fake. Not that I really care since I am with sprint anyways.

jmstansell · #14 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 07:41 PM

HTC may have made a contractual obligation to Sprint that would keep Verizon from matching the options for Sprint's Touch Pro. Sprint usually gets HTC phones first anyway and knowing that there's would be better than thier main competition, would more than likely secure more tech savvy customers.

Just a thought...............

jeraldoronaldo · #15 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 07:54 PM

is it possible (if the less robust verizon hardware turns out to be factual) for verizon customers to just purchase the htc branded model as htc intended it to be and activate it themselves? it seems feasible to me, but most likely expensive.

**drexappeal** · #16 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by jeraldoronaldo

is it possible (if the less robust verizon hardware turns out to be factual) for verizon customers to just purchase the htc branded model as htc intended it to be and activate it themselves? it seems feasible to me, but most likely expensive.

Verizon is a CDMA provider. Original HTC (unlocked) is GSM. How do you propose that's feasible?

ajm144k · #17 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 08:11 PM

from what i believe to be a good source, the touch pro will be called the xv6850 and the specs for it have not yet been released.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=429429

jeraldoronaldo · #18 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by drexappeal

Verizon is a CDMA provider. Original HTC (unlocked) is GSM. How do you propose that's feasible?

this may come off as sarcastic but uh..... doesnt htc make the cdma version? or will every cdma handset be branded by its respective carrier and have the pertaining hardware? i dont know how these things work.

dizidi · #19 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by jeraldoronaldo

this may come off as sarcastic but uh..... doesnt htc make the cdma version? or will every cdma handset be branded by its respective carrier and have the pertaining hardware? i dont know how these things work.

+1 on that. If HTC can make an unlocked gsm device, can't they also make an unlocked cdma device???

**TurboFool** · #20 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by yardizidifer

+1 on that. If HTC can make an unlocked gsm device, can't they also make an unlocked cdma device???

There's no market for unlocked CDMA. GSM's a worldwide standard, and all the other countries have unlocked phones. It's a very normal, typical thing to make an unlocked GSM phone as in other countries it's a very normal, typical thing to buy your phone with no regard for what provider you have. CDMA is very proprietary, though. In the US, unlocked phones are still a very new and rare concept. It's too small a market for HTC to support. The only reason unlocked models are hitting the US at all is because they're already manufacturing them for other countries. CDMA doesn't have this support elsewhere, so they'd literally be manufacturing a run of a few hundred, at best, which just makes no economic sense.