Verizon GN Launch: Three disappointments in a week?

[Each3]

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[MRW1215]

How often does Verizon announce official release dates other than the OG Droid countdown ad campaign? Almost never.

I guess, but even the HTC Rezound had an official date at least a few days before it actually came out. I don't expect Verizon to hype up the Nexus a lot, but I'd think they'd at least announce a date at least a few days beforehand, yanno? I dunno, maybe I'm wrong. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me to randomly release a new phone without giving any kind of "heads up" beforehand.

 

[charveldude]

Perhaps it won't be Verizon that's handling the marketing campaign on the GN. Wouldn't it make more sense for Google to take the lead on this? It's their phone, after all.

I do find this entire thing mystifying. Samsung and Google shouldn't have had their launch event in October without some kind of definite release date in place. They're the ones with egg on their faces. Verizon hasn't really promised anything to anyone yet.

 

[gnipeh]

I have completed my research and everything points to the 18th, so yup thats when its going be

lol Mind to publish your paper? or at least bibliography?

How often does Verizon announce official release dates other than the OG Droid countdown ad campaign? Almost never.

mmm... RAZR? Both Verizon and Moto had a huge campaign for that ugly octagon device...

Perhaps it won't be Verizon that's handling the marketing campaign on the GN. Wouldn't it make more sense for Google to take the lead on this? It's their phone, after all.

I do find this entire thing mystifying. Samsung and Google shouldn't have had their launch event in October without some kind of definite release date in place. They're the ones with egg on their faces. Verizon hasn't really promised anything to anyone yet.

It could be in the contract between Samsung and Verizon, that says V controls the final release date. G and S held that launch event simply because it was around iPhone launch, methinks, so they could build some hype (and steal some thunder from iPhone). They probably never expected V could just embarrass them like this. Of course, the bug theory also stands. G and S found some bug after the launch, and then wanted to shoot themselves in the face. However, I doubt this theory, because G is not new/afraid to launch things prematurely.

 

[charveldude]

It could be in the contract between Samsung and Verizon, that says V controls the final release date. G and S held that launch event simply because it was around iPhone launch, methinks, so they could build some hype (and steal some thunder from iPhone). They probably never expected V could just embarrass them like this. Of course, the bug theory also stands. G and S found some bug after the launch, and then wanted to shoot themselves in the face. However, I doubt this theory, because G is not new/afraid to launch things prematurely.

Of course, the entire worldwide debut of the GN is more than a month after the launch event, not just the U.S. launch on Verizon. That would tend to support the debugging theory, since Samsung was willing to launch the SGSII in other countries many months ahead of the U.S. launch. Or, it could be that Samsung & Google just plain screwed it up.

I can understand why Google would have wanted to rain on Apple's parade last month, but Samsung already had an "iPhone killer" fresh on the market in the U.S. in the form of the SGSII. I suppose I shouldn't really care too much about this specifically, since I don't own stock in either Samsung or Google. I just want the darned phone.