Has anyone seen the post re:discontinuing the incredible on the HTC forum page? If not, here it is in it's entirety.
Discontinue Incredible? Might as well recall this defect. - DROID INCREDIBLE by HTC (Verizon) - Android Forums - HTC Community
The DX has no real selling points aside from the 720p video and HDMI out. It's a tad large in my opinion and MOTOblur is utter garbage.The Motorola hardware also has it's ample share of quirks, notably the screen-track jamming and key signals getting stuck when keys have been released. Add to the fact that the battery life is even worse than the DI and you have one lackluster phone.
There's no way I'd shell out $500+ retail or $300 to upgrade just for low-end HD support (but I won't tell my customers that). The DI isn't leaving the Verizon product line until at least Q2 next year.
This is the picture that started it all. THAT'S IT! One picture; a massive uproar. Yet no one was rash enough to question it before they got their panties in a bunch. There are a handful of red flags that scream FAUX.
First off, why crop the margins? Any "official" company memo will always, 100% of the time, have a company letterhead and the date the memo was sent.
Second, do you really think a company as vast as Verizon LLC. would use terms like "Blackberry Curve-Pink" when building database entries? NO! We use a company accepted vendor code to represent the manufacturer and a device specific code to represent the phone and then a varying last digit or two on the device code for corresponding color. Same thing with how the "non-camera" Tour is listed. We just don't do business like that within the company.
Third, also a phrasing *** uhp as well as a sure guarantee of a fake, is the heading "Phaseout/Closeout Devices." If an item comes to the end of it's "marketable product life" (
actual phrase used in product training sessions) it is taken out the store's local inventory database. (but not the regional inventory list) This is because the company stops purchasing wholesale lots from the manufacturer and we're instructed to sell/pitch them until supplies are depleted. This way corporate can manage how many devices are left per region and not have to focus on single store figures when projecting quarterly figures. Anyway, point is, a memo looking like that would never exist. I mean, what purpose would it serve? Who reads something like that? Management knows what's moving out, what's coming in and how long it will be there well before the time rolls around. It's not like we hand out copies of our closeout lists to each sales associate before we open shop. Get real.
Fourth and last on the list is this: Common Sense. Why would HTC Discontinue a phone that it's obviously spent millions of dollars to market, a year or more in the research and development stage, a phone that was designed to be it's main competing product against Apple, Palm and Motorola that hasn't even been out 2 months?(
not to mention they're bound by contract to exclusively manufacture the phone for Verizon for 1 year. In the contract, quotas are declared. If not met, production is extended one month for every month until HTC meets the agreed upon quota[shortages=longer product life]) The overhead lost would be catastrophic. You can bet that even if the DI started spontaneously igniting they'd still try to release a system patch before they scrapped the project. The for sure way to know that the DI is here to stay, even if you say "f.u." to me and blow off this whole post, is to keep an eye on wall street. If HTC stock plummets in the next week or so (realistically, it would have already happened) and apple's jumps even more than projected for the Ip4G release - then you know we have reason for concern.
Until then, I will keep selling the Incredible and my customers will keep buying them. The DI will eventually suffer the fate of the G1, though. It's broken a lot of ice and took some big steps forward, but like the G1 it will be surpassed and it will be kept on the market for far too long, although itmight get a rehash (
see: MyTouch) due solely to the fact that HTC made such a large investment in the device.
Remember, not everything on the Internet is real. But I've gotta go, the prince of Ghana is in dire need of my help transferring money from his cousin who won the Jamaican lottery that wants to buy something for his pal
David Jacobs
Assistant General Manager, Verizon Wireless llc.
Verizon Wireless
16120 Beach Blvd
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
