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I thought it was 10 cents yesterday. :thinking:

Well soundhound is still ten cents.. and in market it says ten cents in list but when you click on it it goes to normal price

I think the list from yeaterday is still ten cents. Sucks if i missed out on it..

Finally got beautiful widgets today for ten cents though..
 
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Hate to be the confirmer of bad news, but I just got on the horn to My Rep, asking about this whole Nexus thing.

S(he) told me that the phones are IN THE STORE. The accessories are IN THE STORE. But the Verizon computer system has delayed release of Nexus with NO RELEASE DATE SET.

It could be next week, it could be next year. :( :( :(

The devices are cluttering up back rooms at stores all over America, so they will either have to put them on the shelves to make room for other incoming devices or SHIP THEM BACK :eek:

Anyway, it sucks out loud.

I promise this: I will be the bearer of GOOD NEWS at 8 PM EST tonight. Trust me. Be here.
 
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Haha, why did I know that was going to happen? 1 ninja, 6 ninja'd

scratch that, 7 ninja'd

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on a side note: those who were saying "the gnex wont be able to hold ICS over the razr or rezounds heads for long and will not be the best phone at that point", just got cracked in the head. motorola said today expect it to be 4-6 months before they begin updating their current devices to ics. so those that bought an r-phone hoping it would be updated in jan or feb might be out of look longer than they thought

I really hate telling people I told you so, cause I'm not that kind of person. But I've been saying this since October.

In the history of Android devices, there has never been a non Google Experience device (G1, Mytouch 3G, Nexus One, Nexus S, Xoom WIFI) to get an update to the next major Android OS in the 1-3 months time span that everyone has been touting for the R phones. And this wasn't going to change with ICS.

With every other device other than the 5 mentioned above, there are tons of things involved in getting an update rolled out, as the Moto article pointed out. These things take time. Problems arise and delays happen. The carrier, who most of the time has to pay the OEM for the update, dictates when the device update process gets underway. They have to contact the OEM. The OEM usually has to build the updated ROM from scratch. The carrier has to add their crap, and both parties need to do stringent testing.

ICS will not be officially on either of the R phones for a few months. March would be the absolute earliest, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the May/June timeline be more accurate.

Not trying to discourage anyone from those phones. They are nice phones. They aren't perfect, just like the Galaxy Nexus won't be perfect. But the bottom line is, if constant Android OS updates are near the top of your want list, the Nexus is your only option. Otherwise, you'll be disappointed.
 
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So how long are we willing to confine our displeasure with Verizon to this thread? In this day of social media, if we could concentrate our efforts, we might be able to at least get some type of communication out of Verizon. Don't they at least owe us that? A simple "We originally planned to release on the 9th, but are having LTE issues and are shooting for the 13th now" would be huge in my book.

Again, this is JMO, but I think it is disrepectful to their loyal customers to string us along like this. Especially after we received confirmation from VZW EMPLOYEES that we'd be able to pick up our phones Friday.

There has been people here and elsewhere trying for almost two months now. They aren't going to budge on this.
 
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Here is what's going on at Verizon, yesterday they sent out updated Equipment guide with a date and a price for the Nexus, I was informed from my son who works tech support that employees are not supposed to give any details or even talk about a device unless it shows in the equipment guide with both a release date and price...the two things included in yesterdays release. That brought on an onslaught of Verizon Retail employees calling potential customers making appointments, the press is talking this release date of Dec. 9th up and you can feel the excitement in the air.

Last night Verizon executives get wind of what was happening with their Retail employees and how the media had gotten wind of the Dec. 9th launch date and was basically calling it official....remember Verizon wants this to go as a soft launch and this thing blew up in their face, so how do you stop the media...their employees and how do they make more friends? They change the equipment guide and remove the release date thus closing the door on the employees being able to talk about the device...it puts out the "Coming soon" and the media jumps on that killing two birds with one stone!

As my son said, Verizon jumped the gun and included to much information on the original equipment guide and once they realized the employees were allowed to act and talk as they did because of the information provided by there own executives they had no choice but remove the release date.

My son did see the new equipment guide today and it does say "Coming Soon" but he believes that it will still be released on Friday Dec. 9th...remember Verizon has already shipped the product to retail stores and reseller stores so it is happening and soon so everyone just chill!:cool:

I don't understand this argument. It sounds like you're saying that Verizon wanted to launch this as quietly as possible so that they wouldn't sell too many phones. Why wouldn't they want to sell more phones? Even if they want to sell more RAZR's or something, they're not going to cripple an "exclusive" phone. To sell something but to try and minimize your sales of it just doesn't sound like a plausible course of action, even for Verizon.

My bet is they were all set to sell the device and then the 4G network issues popped up and they decided to put the brakes on launching a new 4G device until the network issues are resolved. Imagine the bad PR you would get if you launched a top tier device on a broken network. I predict they will get this resolved by the end of the week and we will see an official PR from Verizon announcing a next-day launch. They already have the units and accessories, they just need the green-light from the network.
 
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Approximately 2 more hours at work and on the forum until I take a much needed break and go for a run then play Skyrim... days like today make my head really hurt.

OT: No way! This is what my recent days have been like! Except tonight I will probably play Tribes: Ascend since I got into the beta a few days ago! Bringing back some amazing feelings and memories from high school; late-night T2 games while listening to Metallica: S&M ^_^
 
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Here is what's going on at Verizon, yesterday they sent out updated Equipment guide with a date and a price for the Nexus, I was informed from my son who works tech support that employees are not supposed to give any details or even talk about a device unless it shows in the equipment guide with both a release date and price...the two things included in yesterdays release. That brought on an onslaught of Verizon Retail employees calling potential customers making appointments, the press is talking this release date of Dec. 9th up and you can feel the excitement in the air.

Last night Verizon executives get wind of what was happening with their Retail employees and how the media had gotten wind of the Dec. 9th launch date and was basically calling it official....remember Verizon wants this to go as a soft launch and this thing blew up in their face, so how do you stop the media...their employees and how do they make more friends? They change the equipment guide and remove the release date thus closing the door on the employees being able to talk about the device...it puts out the "Coming soon" and the media jumps on that killing two birds with one stone!

As my son said, Verizon jumped the gun and included to much information on the original equipment guide and once they realized the employees were allowed to act and talk as they did because of the information provided by there own executives they had no choice but remove the release date.

My son did see the new equipment guide today and it does say "Coming Soon" but he believes that it will still be released on Friday Dec. 9th...remember Verizon has already shipped the product to retail stores and reseller stores so it is happening and soon so everyone just chill!:cool:

Thank you. That's what I've been saying all day.

Riddle me this. With as "careful" as Verizon has been to catch all bugs PRIOR to this point, how in the name of all that is unholy do you TRULY believe that at this stage in the game something got through to delay the Nexus.

The Nexus is in the corporate stores. It's in the authorized retailers stores. It is LITERALLY one step from your hands. It's not like it's not shipped to warehouses, it's not even like it's in the warehouses and NOT at the stores. RELAX. It's coming. It's coming THIS WEEKEND.

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I will be the bearer of GOOD NEWS at 8 PM EST tonight. Trust me. Be here.

If you make us wait and your "good news" has nothing to do with a concrete release date of sometime next week, then you may as well not tell us. We don't want any more rumored dates or anything like that.
 
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