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best buy is 100% releasing the phone the 14th. confirmed even more

literally, ive called best buy coporate every single day since last sunday when i preordered our two thunderbolts, every single time ive gotten a different person, every single time i get the exact answer....
BEST BUY will be releasing it on the 14th, that does not mean verizon stores or other retailers will release it, but best buy will 100% be releasing it the 14th
the price is 199 w 2 year, again confirmed everyday this week by different personal including supervisors at best buy corporate, and best buy corporate mobile consultants.
why is all the speculation floating around? call 1800best buy, ask to speak with a mobile consultant, tell them you preordered and you demand to know the release date, you will get the exact same answer every single time!!!!
again 100% release date the 14 of feb ONLY BEST BUY
price WILL BE $199 ONLY BEST BUY!!
no speculation or rumor, call and see!

I highly doubt that Verizon is going to allow their flagship 4G device to be sold at Best Buy before it is available in the Verizon stores. If Best Buy releases it on the 14th it will be in Verizon stores on the 14th.
Edit: Also it is not going to be 199.99 (can't post this as a link but you can go to the bellow site and see)
w ww.androidpolice.com/2011/02/10/htc-thunderbolt-listed-at-749-99-off-contract-in-best-buys-system-thats-almost-a-whole-xoom/

ska.t73 said:
I highly doubt that Verizon is going to allow their flagship 4G device to be sold at Best Buy before it is available in the Verizon stores. If Best Buy releases it on the 14th it will be in Verizon stores on the 14th.
Edit: Also it is not going to be 199.99 (can't post this as a link but you can go to the bellow site and see)
w ww.androidpolice.com/2011/02/10/htc-thunderbolt-listed-at-749-99-off-contract-in-best-buys-system-thats-almost-a-whole-xoom/
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somehow i doubt the 750 price mark
thats nuts for a phone, tablets are cheaper than that!
some part of the paper doesnt make sense too..

my local best buy told me it was 749 on the phone last week but then when I went in store to reserve mine, they didn't have a clue so who knows

I'm 100% positive Best Buy reps have as much knowledge of confirmed release dates as we do.
Signs are pointing to the 24th, imo.

superchilpil said:
somehow i doubt the 750 price mark
thats nuts for a phone, tablets are cheaper than that!
some part of the paper doesnt make sense too..
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I'm not trusting that price mark either to tell you the truth, especialy since it seems to have changed in their system over night. However it isn't going to be 199.99 either

http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/10/htc-thunderbolt-hitting-verizon-february-feb-24-confirmed/
hahah I don't think anything is "confirmed" at this point until it comes from verizon. This is starting to remind me of the college football expansion talk

Verizon is releasing 24th I too was told by best buy mobile the 14th absolutely they rnt on the same time frame as vzw ..HTC says the phone is ready and best buy is releasing it..I don't understand vzw waiting its rediculous to me..but vzw never worries abt taking care of their customers like ..well ..best buy does..
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nygbaby91 said:
Verizon is releasing 24th I too was told by best buy mobile the 14th absolutely they rnt on the same time frame as vzw ..HTC says the phone is ready and best buy is releasing it..I don't understand vzw waiting its rediculous to me..but vzw never worries abt taking care of their customers like ..well ..best buy does..
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Like I said I highly doubt Verizon will allow this, if Best Buy releases it before it is in VZW stores then VZW will simply not allow Best Buy to sell their phones. This is VZW's flagship 4G device there is not way that VZW is going to allow someone else to sell it first.

ska.t73 said:
Like I said I highly doubt Verizon will allow this, if Best Buy releases it before it is in VZW stores then VZW will simply not allow Best Buy to sell their phones. This is VZW's flagship 4G device there is not way that VZW is going to allow someone else to sell it first.
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It's highly possible still because they are independent stores and if they do sell early then Verizon can do jack about it
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who cares if you can pre order from best buy early. last year when the incredible came out you could pre order from best buy and guess what? best buy was only shipped 10 phones and all the other people that preorderd got theirs when verizon finally released it. i have been told by a few vrz reps 24 is the day.

superchilpil said:
It's highly possible still because they are independent stores and if they do sell early then Verizon can do jack about it
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I understand what you are saying here, however those independent stores will find themselves unable to offer any contract pricing with VZW or have the ability to turn on the phone. So even if you got it from a Best Buy like that early you would still have to go to VZW to activate the phone.
Not to mention VZW would most certainly be able to tell the store that they can not sell a phone that has VZW branding all over it.

ska.t73 said:
I understand what you are saying here, however those independent stores will find themselves unable to offer any contract pricing with VZW or have the ability to turn on the phone. So even if you got it from a Best Buy like that early you would still have to go to VZW to activate the phone.
Not to mention VZW would most certainly be able to tell the store that they can not sell a phone that has VZW branding all over it.
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Not sure on that. The phone is HTC's property, not Verizon's. HTC can stop the release, not sure that Verizon would have the legal power to stop them. They could definitely throw threats out there, but not sure that it would do any good. They COULD decide to not activate any of the phones until their release date, which would still be pointless. What difference does it make what phone you are using? One other thing, if this delay was due to software problems, what was the point if you could push an update 10 days later?

The phone just got approved a couple of days ago by the FCC , one reason for a delay.
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From my experiences with Verizon they seem to have a history with releasing phones on Thursday, so I'm guessing we will see it released on the 24th
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That's correct.
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i just read on the android community forum that best buy pushed the date to the 24th so i called and they confirmed the 24th was now "probably" the earliest and that the 14th wasnt not happening most likely..cldnt give me anything definite tho..other than verizon is calling the shots

ska.t73 said:
I highly doubt that Verizon is going to allow their flagship 4G device to be sold at Best Buy before it is available in the Verizon stores. If Best Buy releases it on the 14th it will be in Verizon stores on the 14th.
Edit: Also it is not going to be 199.99 (can't post this as a link but you can go to the bellow site and see)
w ww.androidpolice.com/2011/02/10/htc-thunderbolt-listed-at-749-99-off-contract-in-best-buys-system-thats-almost-a-whole-xoom/
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Actually, It makes sense for Verizon to allow customers to buy the Bolt from Best Buy on Valentine's Day while they sell it at a later date because they can hustle customers into not cashing in their last NE2 credit in some cases and more importantly (for VZW), hustle more people into getting 2-year contracts with BB instead of 1-year contracts (or no contract) with them.
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jbh00jh said:
The phone just got approved a couple of days ago by the FCC , one reason for a delay.
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I've seen phones show up on the FCC site 2 weeks after it's release, Verizon dictates the date the phone shows up on that site not the FCC. The phone was reviewed and passed federal clearance weeks if not more than a month ago I'm sure.

Whatever , looks lile the 24th now.Just 2 more weeks.
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Sprint HTC Arrive put on EOL

I posted this on WPCentral's Arrive forum, figured I'd post this here as well... I went down to the Sprint corporate store on 42nd street in NYC the other day for kicks and noted that the HTC Arrive was nowhere to be found. The same could be said for the three Sprint Authorized Retailers around where I live. No Arrives in stock and 2 out of the 3 had no demo units on the floor (the one that did had a non-working dummy).
I asked a rep about it and he told me that as of the last signage/price changes and updates, the Arrive was listed as EOL, but it's in their systems and on sprint.com as $49.99 after $50 mail-in rebate should someone want to order one.
Hopeful for a Windows Phone 8 announcement or has Sprint officially given up?

The Arrive has been out for just over a year. It is pretty old by todays cell standards so I would just be patient for WP8 as I would bet all Windows Phone sales have slowed down since the WP8 anouncement. Lets just hope that HTC doesn't play hardball and actually develops a Arrive 2 and keeps the HW keyboard alive.

...and we wonder where Windows Phone support on Sprint went to... look no further -
Sprint CEO says paying over $15 billion for the iPhone was money well spent | iMore.com
Quoted from the CEO Hesse himself -
“I think the No. 1 thing was getting the call from Apple that they were interested in at least having the opportunity,” Hesse said. Of course, the company and its board had to take a hard look at the economics. Selling the iPhone is good for the long term, Hesse said, noting that customers are more valuable in the long term. But, in the short term, it is costly, as the company spends more in subsidies to attract those iPhone buyers.
“We committed to $15.5 billion over four years in purchases,” Hesse said. “That’s a large commitment. ”He said Sprint looked at Apple and its popularity, and “we saw no reason to bet against Apple.”
Ugh...

And you are supprised? They don't have to pay didly to get Windows Phone but the iPhone is obviously the best thing to come to both Verizon and Sprint (since the EVO) and in reality, it is money well spent at least for the next year or two until WP8 really begins to make a dent in the market. Until then, there is nothing negitive about the money spent to get the most popular smartphone on their network. The sheer number of people that were just waiting for it to happen so they could jump ship from AT&T alone probably was worth it.

After such a long time from release, it deemed to go to an end. I just am surprised why it took so long. Stupid sprint didn't go get anything new for WP7.

ctiger said:
After such a long time from release, it deemed to go to an end. I just am surprised why it took so long. Stupid sprint didn't go get anything new for WP7.
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What other CDMA Designes were released in that time? Heck how many of them used WiMax 4G? That was the problem with Sprint bringing on any new phones since none of the current 1st and 2nd gen devices were really a high end device worth bringing over to their network. The one thing they could have done is swapped the Trophy and Arrive between Verizon and Sprint, but overall the differences between the two aren't huge.
With WP8 and the new selection of chipsets and such to choose from, I am sure Sprint will have another new handset as well as the Return of Nokia to them as well.

IM0001 said:
With WP8 and the new selection of chipsets and such to choose from, I am sure Sprint will have another new handset as well as the Return of Nokia to them as well.
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Probably not. Though it is more likely now that Sprint is getting LTE, I know that I, personally, am jumping to Verizon when my contract is up in March, or maybe sooner if I decide it's worth it to pay the ETF before then. All I'm really waiting for is the Verizon store 3 blocks away to get the Lumia 822. ATIV S, or HTC 8X on display for me to go play with/drool over.

evath said:
Probably not. Though it is more likely now that Sprint is getting LTE, I know that I, personally, am jumping to Verizon when my contract is up in March, or maybe sooner if I decide it's worth it to pay the ETF before then. All I'm really waiting for is the Verizon store 3 blocks away to get the Lumia 822. ATIV S, or HTC 8X on display for me to go play with/drool over.
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I wish I could find the links, but Sprint just seems to have finished all support for WP7 period. I doubt we'll even see WP8's on Sprint. That might change due to the Softbank acquisition, but as for the current direction of Sprint, seems android and iPhone only now. Anyone who is diehard Sprint better just slap their hand's together and start praying that Softbank changes Sprint's overall direction for the better.
Besides, You can't Zune update an Arrive past 7720 anyway on Zune. It's been ages since Sprint has done anything with their Arrive. I doubt when WP7.8 hits, that the Arrive will even get the SYS update to that, regardless of what NuAngel seems to think XD.

TheXev said:
I wish I could find the links, but Sprint just seems to have finished all support for WP7 period. I doubt we'll even see WP8's on Sprint.
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I doubt it, too; anytime I go into the Sprint repair store, the reps laugh at me for my Arrive, and I'm not the one getting a phone repaired! It's always my sisters with their Androids...
But, whatever. I used to support Sprint a lot, even defending them when others bad mouthed them ("Ohh, you have Sprint? How's it feel to be one of about 17 customers?" "Yeah, well, how is it on just a 3G network?" [back when WiMax had just come out, before AT&T ad Verizon got LTE.]). Now? Not so much. Like I said, as soon as the test models Arrive (get it?) at the Verizon store, I'm gonna switch.
Besides, You can't Zune update an Arrive past 7720 anyway on Zune. It's been ages since Sprint has done anything with their Arrive.
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Which is why the development sections of this forum exist. I've been running 7.8 since around late August, early September.
I doubt when WP7.8 hits, that the Arrive will even get the SYS update to that, regardless of what NuAngel seems to think XD.
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Well, from what I hear, Zune will push the update directly, but then again, I don't hear everything, so YMMV.

AT&T Pre-order info

Spoke to a rep over chat today, and oddly enough she told me the AT&T release date of the device. She stated, FWIW, that the S4 will be released by AT&T on the 27th. I asked if pre-orders would be received by then, and she stated that they will ship on the 27th and received by the 29th.
Now, a couple of things don't make sense. AT&T doesn't release devices on Saturdays, warehouses don't usually ship things on Saturdays, and things shipped on Saturday usually don't arrive on the following Monday .
So, take it with a grain of salt, but i figure we can start an AT&T thread as April 16th is right around the corner!

cfn87 said:
Spoke to a rep over chat today, and oddly enough she told me the AT&T release date of the device. She stated, FWIW, that the S4 will be released by AT&T on the 27th. I asked if pre-orders would be received by then, and she stated that they will ship on the 27th and received by the 29th.
Now, a couple of things don't make sense. AT&T doesn't release devices on Saturdays, warehouses don't usually ship things on Saturdays, and things shipped on Saturday usually don't arrive on the following Monday .
So, take it with a grain of salt, but i figure we can start an AT&T thread as April 16th is right around the corner!
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Those reps never know anything, I had the same problem with the SIII launch. I expect to get it that same week around Friday (19th) or no later than next Friday (26th).

Anyone know if ATT will sell me the phone outright if I am not an ATT customer?

Dimeezy said:
Anyone know if ATT will sell me the phone outright if I am not an ATT customer?
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Of course. Money buys anything.

Dimeezy said:
Anyone know if ATT will sell me the phone outright if I am not an ATT customer?
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The question is, will they unlock it for you even if you pay full price? Otherwise, either you will have to become their customer or you will need to find another method to unlock it.

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The question is, will they unlock it for you even if you pay full price? Otherwise, either you will have to become their customer or you will need to find another method to unlock it.
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If.you buy retail price they have to give you the unlock code if asked for. Otherwise if your on 2 year contract you have to wait 90 days before you can receive the code. Past experience when unlocking previous phones.

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If.you buy retail price they have to give you the unlock code if asked for. Otherwise if your on 2 year contract you have to wait 90 days before you can receive the code. Past experience when unlocking previous phones.
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Unfortunately, this is not true in all cases. When the Galaxy S2 Skyrocket (AT&T) was released, many people had trouble getting an unlock code from AT&T even after paying full price for the phone because AT&T claimed it was a exclusive and they didn't have to give unlock codes until after 6 months. There is plenty to read about this in the Skyrocket forum if you want to. Of course, not everyone had trouble getting the code from AT&T, some just had to ask, others had to escalate the issue, and still others never did get a code. But it isn't a given that a carrier (AT&T anyway) will provide a code just because full price is given. They could very well claim the I337 AT&T version is an exclusive and deny unlock codes. As I mentioned, it has happened before. When you factor in the new rules regarding carriers not having to unlock phones, it is very possible AT&T will do everything possible to not unlock phones, even from full purchases. Of course, I hope there won't be a problem and they will unlock phones that are fully purchased, but there certainly is no guarantee that they will do it at all or in every situation.

i wouldn't believe those reps. when the S3 launched, NONE of them had a clue when the launch date was before hand. anyway, i wouldn't expect a solid release date to be announced until after the HTC One goes on sale. why would a company announce a date for a second product before the first has launched? it's pretty obvious it's because of the HTC One. it's because of this that i think Verizon will announce the date of theirs landing first (they didn't snag the HTC One).... prob announce it next week, too.

VZW Note 3 @ Best Buy Oct 4th(?)

Hi guys, I just wanted to pass along some potentially juicy info. I've been amped up about a potential early release of the VZW model from that last thread that got closed, so I've started my own sleuthing around.
I saw a thread somewhere that someone had heard from a Best Buy employee that the VZW version would be on sale on Friday, October 4th (that's this Friday!) As a result, I decided to call 4 of my local Best Buy stores (which included one specialty BB Mobile store) and check for myself. This is what they said
Store 1: "we don't have an exact date yet, but it should be within the next week" (this is unfortunate, because this is the closest store to my house)
Store 2: "our system says October 4th"
BB Mobile: "we haven't received any shipments yet, but the system says October 4th"
Store 3: "We haven't gotten a shipment yet, but if they arrive, they will go on sale on October 4th"
Things are beginning to look up again for the Verizon faithful. I encourage everybody give their local BB stores a call to see if you get similar responses. My only question now is if they'll price match VZW's $699 price if the corporate stores haven't started selling them yet (Best Buy currently lists full retail price for the VZW variant as $799)

f-castrillo said:
Hi guys, I just wanted to pass along some potentially juicy info. I've been amped up about a potential early release of the VZW model from that last thread that got closed, so I've started my own sleuthing around.
I saw a thread somewhere that someone had heard from a Best Buy employee that the VZW version would be on sale on Friday, October 4th (that's this Friday!) As a result, I decided to call 4 of my local Best Buy stores (which included one specialty BB Mobile store) and check for myself. This is what they said
Store 1: "we don't have an exact date yet, but it should be within the next week" (this is unfortunate, because this is the closest store to my house)
Store 2: "our system says October 4th"
BB Mobile: "we haven't received any shipments yet, but the system says October 4th"
Store 3: "We haven't gotten a shipment yet, but if they arrive, they will go on sale on October 4th"
Things are beginning to look up again for the Verizon faithful. I encourage everybody give their local BB stores a call to see if you get similar responses. My only question now is if they'll price match VZW's $699 price if the corporate stores haven't started selling them yet (Best Buy currently lists full retail price for the VZW variant as $799)
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And they said that this was for the VZW version? The only reason I want to verify, is that the AT&T version releases on Friday the 4th, so I hope they weren't looking at that.

One can only hope, ive called 5 stores in utah and 4 of 5 said the 4th?? but that's weird cause its friday and VZW usually likes thursdays???
i guess we shall wait and see....i'll know when/if i get my preorder email friday morning!

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And they said that this was for the VZW version? The only reason I want to verify, is that the AT&T version releases on Friday the 4th, so I hope they weren't looking at that.
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This is the Verizon version. I'm grasping at straws every chance I get, so I hope this Oct 4th date holds true. My heart's been broken once already with the original Sept 29 early shipment rumor (which I hold nothing against the EZ in his thread for), so I'm hoping this holds true.
And hopefully it's for both preorder and walk ins. I'm contemplating cancelling the VZW corporate preorder, and pre-ordering one with BB...
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Honestly, if by some miracle BB gets it on 10/4 then I will be at the store asking them to hold one while I call Verizon and cancel my pre-order.

Just spoke to my local Verizon store and she said that they were actually supposed to have them in-store in the next few days, but that had been pushed back and that they don't have a definitive date at this time.

RaptorMD said:
Honestly, if by some miracle BB gets it on 10/4 then I will be at the store asking them to hold one while I call Verizon and cancel my pre-order.
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Just got back from BestBuy - pre-ordered there as well. If it's a waste then I just have a $50 gift card sitting around. At this point I cant tell if my pre-order from Verizon will arrive before or after BestBuy... Either way, hoping that one of these places gets it this week.

jamdiggity said:
Just got back from BestBuy - pre-ordered there as well. If it's a waste then I just have a $50 gift card sitting around. At this point I cant tell if my pre-order from Verizon will arrive before or after BestBuy... Either way, hoping that one of these places gets it this week.
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Hopefully it's the same as the S4 release from Verizon which shipped 8 days before it's expected ship date.
..Also the S3 pre-orders arrived several days before the ship date as well.
..Unfortunately it looks like they didn't start shipping the Note 2 until it's ship by date.
It's Verizon though, so of course we can't have a truly definitive ship date.. If they botch my order I'll ship the Note back and just wait until December to cancel and go to T-Mobile. I lover Verizon's service, but they make getting the latest greatest so damn difficult.

CodyOdi said:
Hopefully it's the same as the S4 release from Verizon which shipped 8 days before it's expected ship date.
..Also the S3 pre-orders arrived several days before the ship date as well.
..Unfortunately it looks like they didn't start shipping the Note 2 until it's ship by date.
It's Verizon though, so of course we can't have a truly definitive ship date.. If they botch my order I'll ship the Note back and just wait until December to cancel and go to T-Mobile. I lover Verizon's service, but they make getting the latest greatest so damn difficult.
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They make everything difficult dont they
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Won't be available on October 4th for verizon trust me
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I've been calling best buy and only one store in my area said they'd have the verizon Note 3 Oct 6th which is a sunday.... odd date if u ask me.

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Won't be available on October 4th for verizon trust me
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May I ask what makes you say that? I'm not disputing you (quite the opposite, judging how all these early release rumors are going), but maybe you know something that we don't.
I'm gonna call BB every day until we can get something more concrete, either from them or from VZW

f-castrillo said:
May I ask what makes you say that? I'm not disputing you (quite the opposite, judging how all these early release rumors are going), but maybe you know something that we don't.
I'm gonna call BB every day until we can get something more concrete, either from them or from VZW
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youre fine i just say that knowing verizon and other people saying they would ship by now. verizon wont let bb beat them to the punch.

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Called 2 best buys near me (Hershey, PA) as well as 2 verizon corporate stores. Best buy guaranteed the 4th - verizon reps said that is the tentative date if all goes well. Take that as you will, just thought I'd share

it will be nice if they do release it on the 4th but this sounds a lot like the AT&T thread that claimed a release on the 27th at best buy. I used to work at bb a few years ago and the release dates would change all the time until the day before something is supposed to release then they would put a notice on that product to start putting it out on the sales floor. Not sure if they still use this method but thats how it worked when I was there.

Went into my local BB today (Long Island, NY) and they said the 10th.

Well, I called the store closest to me again, came at them with "I've been hearing it'll release on Oct 4th for Verizon", and they told me "we won't know until the Oct 4th release date".
I'm considering just putting money down on a preorder at the store, then waiting to see if BB or VZW will sell one to me first. Does anyone know if BB will price match Verizon's retail price if it hasn't released yet?

My friend that works at Best Buy Mobile spoke with a rep who said it will be at Best Buy on the 10th. The phone will be out for every other carrier on the 4th; Verizon hasn't given an exact date yet which is why Best Buy employees are most likely saying the 4th since that's the day it will be released for every other carrier.

I second that. My friend is a manager at the Samsung department of BB mobile and he said 10th is when BB will have the GN3.
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I second that. My friend is a manager at the Samsung department of BB mobile and he said 10th is when BB will have the GN3.
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I was told via BB Wireless sales chat (3) different chat sessions and each one said Verizon Wireless, October 4th. I will stop into the store tomorrow, if its there great, if not, then next Thursday it is. But if you notice the BB website says "In Store Only" for Verizon and "Pre-Order" for all other carriers. So why would that be if there isn't something going on.

Pre-Orders beginning April 1st, shipping the 11th!

We've been seeing every other carrier accepting pre-orders with no mention of Verizon's schedule..but today I received an e-mail stating April 1st will begin pre-orders and they'll ship on the 11th, which is the supposed day of release. I'm wondering if it's worth it to just walk into a store to get it release day, or pre-order it to get it a few days after? Not sure..but I'm selling my GS4 so I can pickup an S5!

jayochs said:
We've been seeing every other carrier accepting pre-orders with no mention of Verizon's schedule..but today I received an e-mail stating April 1st will begin pre-orders and they'll ship on the 11th, which is the supposed day of release. I'm wondering if it's worth it to just walk into a store to get it release day, or pre-order it to get it a few days after? Not sure..but I'm selling my GS4 so I can pickup an S5!
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Walk into store. I doubt they'll be sold out.
Verizon launch of April 11th is what I'm seeing too.

So we can walk in and get it on the 11th?!?!?
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mexiken said:
Walk into store. I doubt they'll be sold out.
Verizon launch of April 11th is what I'm seeing too.
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yeah, suppose you're right. has anyone ever done pre-orders though? i never have. do you typically get them release day, or days after?

jayochs said:
We've been seeing every other carrier accepting pre-orders with no mention of Verizon's schedule..but today I received an e-mail stating April 1st will begin pre-orders and they'll ship on the 11th, which is the supposed day of release. I'm wondering if it's worth it to just walk into a store to get it release day, or pre-order it to get it a few days after? Not sure..but I'm selling my GS4 so I can pickup an S5!
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Oh My God! I was literally about to switch carriers if I didn't find some hope of a release for the s5 on Verizon in the next two weeks. Then my friend sent me this link. I'm like hopping in my seat right now....It's like my friend whenever a new zedd song comes out....................:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

well it's April 1 and there's no pre-order... wtf verizon?
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got my GS5 case today..went with a spigen shell that's sort of like my incipio feather for my G2. nice case, very light. seems as if the S5 is slightly taller than the G2.

FWIW, I'm talking to a rep on the website chat, and they're saying the email information was incorrect and pre-orders begin April 5th. take that with a grain of salt..
she also explained that if you have a pre-order, you'll get it on release date...it won't be shipped on the 11th; rather, it'll be at your door on the 11th. i hope that's true!

I went into the store and they said without a doubt that the 3rd would be preorder time... I think all Verizon reps just talk out of their asses at this point. I also asked about Kitkat on the S4 and Note 3 and all they could say was every single other carrier is having major bugs and thats why it'll be a while before we see it on VZW

lmfao nice. nobody knows wtf is going on. sigh. lol
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On the Official Verizon Forums (https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/819130?start=170&tstart=174) 2 people confirm the pre-order day to be tomorrow...Don't know if they can be trusted...one person claims to have spoken with a rep who got an email (go to page 19 or 20 in the thread) stating that the S5 would be available for pre-order tomorrow. @jayochs

vampi369325 said:
On the Official Verizon Forums (https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/819130?start=170&tstart=174) 2 people confirm the pre-order day to be tomorrow...Don't know if they can be trusted...one person claims to have spoken with a rep who got an email (go to page 19 or 20 in the thread) stating that the S5 would be available for pre-order tomorrow. @jayochs
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yeah, i heard the 4th somewhere else too. weird. none of them know wtf they're tlaking about lol.

Too bad they don't just release it tomorrow
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pre-orders LIVE! they went up at 12am of the 4th. got mine in white, off contract, for 599!
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I'm in for a Black one, added a line for father, will cancel data and put on my line. Hoping for root w/ tether in short order.

Bought one...fiddlesticks

jayochs said:
yeah, suppose you're right. has anyone ever done pre-orders though? i never have. do you typically get them release day, or days after?
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You receive the phone the day of release.

sunNsnow said:
You receive the phone the day of release.
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suhweeeeeet. i'm pumped. friday can't come quick enough lol
also, i can't believe this place is STILL so dead..wtf?

sunNsnow said:
You receive the phone the day of release.
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That was confirmed on the first page already.

It is quiet in here, maybe knox is scaring everyone off.