My theory of why / how VZW is going to do this.

[humpagardengnome]

No need to break anything down, it isn't going to change the fact verizon does all this testing yet still has a ton of bugs with their phones. Simple as that.

You"re 100% correct, but on the same note, your a little askew on who foots the blame. You put to much value on Verizons role in the software testing process on their network.

 

[Cory Streater]

Lol. At least other people that troll have a sense of humor with it... and it's made obvious they're trolling like jcase...

VS910 4G Kangwich

There seems to be some misconception that outside entities/non members who Tweet "news" should be held to different standards than other outside entities.

When Steve Jobs died -- there were post celebrating his death. When an Engadget or any other blogger speaks unfavorably about an Android phone that person is called a fanboy, many bloggers are attacked when they report dates from insiders that do not materialize.

When Phil relayed and retracted information from one of the most reliable sources you can imagine -- a few people in the forums were outraged at him and one said he "is the main reason rumors are all spread." The list of examples goes on.

I'm not giving special protection to someone who takes to Twitter to blast insults at our site and the moderation team; sells open source media files from ROM dumps; and needs to realize he is the common denominator in his criticism.

If he were an active member my postion on that would change.

 

[YourMobileGuru]

You're right, they didn't. Don't you remember google's nexus S page? "For the nexus S on verizon, buy the DROID INCREDIBLE 2."

That was Verizon's bait-and-switch remember???

And that is the real reason the incredible 2 left, and now is back. They had all their leftover Incredibles fitted with a red exterior and they're trying to get rid of them all this Friday by making them free with contract.

That was the Nexus ONE and it was the FIRST Incredible.

No I think the delay is because the RAZR and Rezound have more mass consumer appeal.

 

[YourMobileGuru]

Just throwing this out there... Would the volume bug even have an effect on the LTE version? If it is radio-related like they're saying, I would think it wouldn't do the same thing to a phone with completely different radio hardware.

I don't know anything on the subject, though

From what I read the volume bug only effects GSM phones operating on the 900 Mhz frequency and no GSM phones in the US use that, also LTE uses 700 Mhz

 

[YourMobileGuru]

Lol I'd rather trust slashgear, and that's saying a lot.

And yes, I am dead serious. Even though it'd be an expensive endeavor on their part, I am sure it would be MUCH more expensive for Verizon not to sell a large number of incredible 2s (which are off the market already) Verizon has to move their merchandise.

The Incredible 2 would sell at FREE weather it was black or read. No need to do such an expensive retrofit.

The inc 2 wasn't the nexus s counter part. Maybe if you said the original inc was the counterpart to the nexus 1 that would be true since google said that but saying the inc 2 was meant to be the bloat infested version for verizon makes no sense at least the inc and nexus one were made by htc.

No it wasn't the two devices are NOTHING alike, unlike the Nexus ONE and The Incredible which shared a similar design and innards and more fundamentally the same manufacturer. Nexus S was made by SAMSUNG not HTC.

 

[anon(512898)]

From what I read the volume bug only effects GSM phones operating on the 900 Mhz frequency and no GSM phones in the US use that, also LTE uses 900 Mhz

I don't know about at&t's lte bands but verizon uses the 700mhz bands for their lte, not 900mhz

 

[YourMobileGuru]

I don't know about at&t's lte bands but verizon uses the 700mhz bands for their lte, not 900mhz

Typo, I know VZW uses 700 Mhz, so does AT&T for that matter just a different part of 700 Mhz.

 

[anon(40376)]

Some people have a great imagination, and too much time on their hands.