Why in the heck would he take a pic. Lets think about this, he is in Northwest Montana and how many stores are in that area. Not like he is in downtown NY. Also, the guy already went out on a limb calling him from a verizon phone.
Why not go ahead and ask him for his phone records too? Would that make you believe him more.
ummm, he has a cell phone. My first thought in that situation is "grab a pic."
not brain surgery here dude.
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How about we Twitblitz Verizon (@VZWOffers, @VZWSupport. @Verizon, @VerizonWIreless) and HTC about how we have 10k+ posts, 500k+ posts, and 200+pages all on a phone no on e will even hint at. If this thing isn't a hit...
Of course Verizon is red and black, but I don't think this is any reason to lose hope that this box has something to do with the Incredible. We know the phone has red and black; we know it is being kept locked-up in a vault patrolled by [incredible] sharks with [incredible] lasers; we know that an [incredible] announcement has to come out sometime, and that the evidence is pointing it will come soon.
It isn't a sure thing that the box is about the Incredible, though. So I wouldn't use this as any hard evidence.
Or here's a crazy idea. Maybe the stickers were red and black because those are fairly standard colors to make you notice an urgent message. Police crime scene tape is yellow and black does that mean crimes are sponsored by Sprint.
I'm all for reading into stuff but lets keep it realistic. Oh and remember this box came from HTC not Verizon. Do we really think HTC had special stickers made just for the Incredible?
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There is a pretty good working relationship with Verizon and Disney. That goes back a couple of years. So, that leads me to believe that the characters from the movie will be involved in the promotion. I Google Verizon Disney and a lot of sites came up that seems to go back years.
Say the box weighed 20 lbs, and an Incred weighs 4.5 OZ. There could be roughly 71 phones in there.... haha I had to say it =D You are prob. right, promo materials. Thanks MM!!!!
I'm all for reading into stuff but lets keep it realistic. Oh and remember this box came from HTC not Verizon. Do we really think HTC had special stickers made just for the Incredible?
Yes! I mean c'mon, this is the Incredible we're talking about here. I'm surprised the outer box wasn't totally customized, too
Say the box weighed 20 lbs, and an Incred weighs 4.5 OZ. There could be roughly 71 phones in there.... haha I had to say it =D You are prob. right, promo materials. Thanks MM!!!!
Actually I'd figure with charger, manual, box, packing materials, whatever other gadgets are included I'd say probably over a pound a phone.
Wouldn't marketing material come from VZW's corporate offices not from HTC?
My guess is the box has product HTC has made phones/accessories. I don't see why HTC would be sending VZW their marketing material.
This is a little off topic but also on-topic, but I work at Champs Sports, and our advertising materials ship from Adidas, Nike, etc. Not the Champs corporate offices. It could be the same way for Verizon.
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Wonder if since Motorola got the highend handset out in Nov and HTC released the Eris same day, if this is HTC 's highend handset and Devour gets the low end same day release. Makes sense...
Thread is moving super fast now! Sorry if this has already been asked, but just say your friend doesn't open it for a couple days. Do you think he would be up to taking the box to a doctor friend if you have one and getting it x-rayed?
Might be a little too much, but if the store happens to be near some x-ray machine, you could give it a shot!
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I really see no reason it WOULDN'T be stuff for the Incredible. Red and Black SCREAM incredible. So much that they have branded the phone (to the best of our knowledge) in red and black. HTC + Red and Black = Incredible. I don't see a phone branding obvious special material (like special tape) to sell a company (Verizon) to its own employees, since employees would be the only one's who would really see it aside from us forum/tech freaks.
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Thread is moving super fast now! Sorry if this has already been asked, but just say your friend doesn't open it for a couple days. Do you think he would be up to taking the box to a doctor friend if you have one and getting it x-rayed?
Might be a little too much, but if the store happens to be near some x-ray machine, you could give it a shot!
Love the forums btw, and many thanks to everyone that has been posting information and thoughts. A lot of good info on here, and everyone is pretty respectable of each other.
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LoL... it's northwest Montana.... the VZW store is near..... trees...... and a creek. Literally!
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The HTC Ozone launched and initially only sold online. It's also possible that they will advertise the Incredible in stores on day one, but only sell it online for a short period.
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Wow... what an afternoon! My good friend / VZW manager calls me up around 1 pm to tell me to come down to the store to see something. He didn't say much else. Needless to say, I bolt down there - it's a slow Sunday afternoon and he's the only one on staff in the store. He says, "You may want to see this." In the small backroom/warehouse was a 4' cube plain cardboard box that he had just received from Fed-Ex.. on a Sunday, mind you. The return label address read as follows:
HTC America
13920 SE Eastgate Way, Suite 400
Bellevue, Washington 98005
Tel: 425-679-5318
Also on the box in red and black tape (think crime-scene type of tape, only in red and black instead of yellow and black) with the words "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL FURTHER INSTRUCTION). Just like that, in all caps. The tape was ALL over the box!! The invoice that came with the box said only, "New - Promotional materials." The box weighed next to nothing, but there was at least one thing that "thumped" in the lower corner of the box when we shook it a bit. We cracked the tape JUST enough to see some red and black paperwork / literature / posters but that was it. Our best conclusion is that the box is full of Incredible promotional materials (i.e. Launch Kit) along with a possible "dummy" Incredible phone (as his store does not have live phones on display, only "dummy" phones). He told me this was exactly how the Droid launched - the mystery box showed up on a Sunday, with no warning, with the weird tape all over the box. In the box was a "dummy" Droid for display purposes and some posters. The Droid released about 1-2 weeks later, if I remember correctly. Keep in mind, in today's case and in the Droid's case, the word "Verizon" was nowhere to be seen on either box or on the accompanying paperwork.
Pretty exciting stuff for a slow Sunday afternoon in Montana! This is driving me crazy!
I really see no reason it WOULDN'T be stuff for the Incredible. Red and Black SCREAM incredible. So much that they have branded the phone (to the best of our knowledge) in red and black. HTC + Red and Black = Incredible. I don't see a phone branding obvious special material (like special tape) to sell a company (Verizon) to its own employees, since employees would be the only one's who would really see it aside from us forum/tech freaks.
Exactly what I was thinking!!!! "HTC + Red and Black = Incredible." Perfect thought process!
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Wow this is amazing stuff right here!! I used to work for FedEx and we would see all kind of stuff like this come through there from new movies to new video games to new cell phones we always wanted to accidentally break into the boxes to see what they were
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Hey I just thought of the perfect name if they don't use Incredible. They can call it the HTC Droid Obsession.
I LIKE that!
(I can't even talk to my husband about this phone anymore. Every time he sees me on the computer--which is always ANYWAY--he asks "What's new with your phone?")
I think the general consensus here is that the DROID name is not continuing onto brand new models other than the DROID & Eris successors....
Actually since it's a Verizon exclusive phone it will probably be Verizon something. And seeing how awesome Verizon is with naming phones I'd say we are looking at the newest addition to Verizon....
The XV6300 (this is based on my current HTC phone from Verizon the XV6800).
Hello, my name is Mike and I'm addicted to the Incredible. God I hope this dam thing gets released soooon, I want to get my life back. Thanks for all the info guys.
Wow!!! I am gone for 4 hours and I come back to this.
First thing I am doing tomorrow is hitting up my peeps and see what I can find out.
Now that I think of it I will be taking an early lunch and I will try to get pics myself if there are boxes there.
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Wow!!! I am gone for 4 hours and I come back to this.
First thing I am doing tomorrow is hitting up my peeps and see what I can find out.
Now that I think of it I will be taking an early lunch and I will try to get pics myself if there are boxes there.
apang, did you ever get your spec sheet from overseas?
apang, did you ever get your spec sheet from overseas?
Yeah, it was the specs from the prototype with the red back. It is pretty cool, It has a pic of the proto with the red back and all the tech specs.
I would post it but all it would do is cause this forum to go another 200 pages of people wondering what happen to the current specs and why it changed again.
haha jk I was kidding anyway 
