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08-09-2002, 10:58 PM

Does anyone know anything about this phone? Looks pretty impressive. Can anyone comment on Audiovox/Toshiba quality?

08-10-2002, 9:40 AM

I agree - it seems to have it all - color screen, 1x, voice dial, BREW, GPS, and a speaker phone. It seems to have more than the A310, T720, and the VX-1. All of the other phones are missing at least one of the above features. Why isn't this phone getting more interest? The Audiovox phones made by Toshiba (this is one) are supposedly excellent.

09-16-2002, 4:36 PM

Is there any more info out on this phone that people have seen? Reviews seem mixed on the a310, T720 sounds very expensive. This phone is slated for Q3 release. Opinions?

Thanks

09-25-2002, 5:12 PM

Its not available yet.

10-15-2002, 7:50 PM

This CDM-9500 has 64k colors TFT, brighter than 4k TFT of A500 or 4k STN of T720. So, needless to say, it is greatest phone of Verizon. If there are any questions about it, will replay as far as I know!

10-16-2002, 12:15 PM

Any Idea when it will be available and what it will cose. I've been looking for a flip phone with built in speaker

10-16-2002, 4:04 PM

I am a Verizon Wireless dealer if anyone is wanting any of these new phones and a plan I can send these out for you along with service. Call me at 614-595-6004

CoreyTheGent · 10-17-2002, 3:34 PM

The reason there isn't much interest in the CDM-9500 is because it's horribly ugly. Where the T720 was simply "boxy" and conservative, this new 9500 is a very ugly phone with only one line on the outer caller ID display. Nobody likes an ugly phone, no matter what its capabilities are.

The way you're offering the phones, Anonymous, makes it seem like you stole them or aren't legitimate.

10-18-2002, 6:41 AM

I've seen pictures and it looks fine to me. Audiovox's website says it has two lines on the outside.

CDM-9500

Merlyn3D · 10-19-2002, 6:02 PM

Yes, the outer display is two lines, and according to my local Verizon rep, he said it's slated for release in mid-october now. He said there's a really good chance the shipment coming into my local store on thursday will have these phones. If that's the case, I'm gonna get one and try it for 15 days.

Rafale · 10-20-2002, 11:27 AM

Yup, this phone looks promising. Unlike the T720 & A310, this one has a lot more features. Hopefully, this is the one that will ginally make me upgrade.

CoreyTheGent · 10-20-2002, 3:50 PM

Whomever posted the link to the Audiovox Corporation's picture had the wrong phone. If you'll look closely at the bottom of the picture of the opened phone, you'll see it says "Toshiba". This phone was planned to originally be Toshiba, but they changed their minds and decided to release it as an Audiovox phone.

The phone coming out on Verizon will be silver, not blue. As you can see, Audiovox made some changes to the phone. It would look nice as the blue picture on that link above, but as silver I dislike its appearance.

Here's what the Audiovox CDM-9500 will look like:
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?id=170

I was wrong about one thing, however: it is a two line outer display. It's just extremely small, and to me, it looked like one line.

10-21-2002, 12:31 PM

Sorry for any confusion, I am an Authorized Verizon Wireless agent. I work for a company called Flexicom. We sell all Verizon equipment, you just don't have to deal with the corporate Mumbo-Jumbo. Unfortunatley of those of you who have been calling me about the new phones I can only activate service in Ohio. I can get the phones for you, (except the 9500 because it hasn't been approved by Verizon) I will post a message when the 9500 is available for purchase using Verizon Wireless service. The A-310, and the Motorola 720 are currently available I can mail these out to you but you will have to activate service in your area. If you are a preexisting customer give me a call. The Kyocerea 7135 and Audiovox 9500 will be available in the next couple of weeks.

Thank you

Mike McGovern
Authorized agent of Verizon Wireless
614-595-6004

10-21-2002, 5:52 PM

stop advertising here...we don't want your "hot" phones....go post on ebay.

10-22-2002, 1:05 AM

CDM-9500 looks nicer than it looks through the picture.
I would like your everyone's voice: which do you guys think has more branding
power "Toshiba" or "Audiovox" as cellular phone?
Thanks for your honest voices!!!!

10-22-2002, 9:17 AM

Alltel will have this phone around mid-November in most all of their markets...

CoreyTheGent · 10-22-2002, 10:17 AM

It depends on which market you're aiming for:

If you're aiming at the cellular market, then Audiovox would probably be better. That name already has a pretty good reputation for quality phones. In my opinion, their phones last long, but they are always behind in terms of appearance and impressive features (take their last big hit, the CDM-9000, as an example).

If you're aiming outside of the cellular market, then Toshiba would be better. Everyone knows that name through their electronics and they make pretty good TVs, so that's what the population would associate the phone with. Not many people outside of the cell-loop have heard of "Audiovox" at all.

If it were up to me, I'd have it as an Audiovox phone but with the blue color of the Toshiba. When a phone doesn't have changeable faceplates, it should come in a dark color like the one on that Audiovox Corp. website. Aside from that, it just looks better blue.

10-23-2002, 8:42 AM

Thank you very much for your quick valuable opinion.
I agree with you that Audiovox has name in mobile phone while Toshiba does not.
Now I am watching how Toshiba is received by the end-users as cellular phones.

In fact, there is one more thing that I would like to know;
what generation has the cellular phone the most in U.S.
I mean,,, do most students in the U.S have cellular phone?
Also do you use e-mail through the cellular pohne
I am asking this since I am now away from the U.S.

Please advise.

CoreyTheGent · 10-24-2002, 3:56 PM

The mobile phone market has definitely gone to the youngsters.

When they were first introduced, the cell phone was for the business man/woman, and its price made it that only the most important of people would have it.

However, as their prices came down, the result of more and more cell phones being available with more technologies and companies, its market age became younger and younger. Today, the cellular market is mostly comprised of teenagers.

Teenagers control most big U.S. Markets, and most adults don't even realize it. From movies to music to cell phones to shoes, the teenager controls the U.S. market. There are more and more of them working, yet without bills to pay they have their money to spend on whatever they want. Today, the cell phone is a "Status Symbol" and I truly don't know hardly anybody without one, especially those in the younger age bracket.

Wireless companies have re-designed themselves around the teenager, making phones more fun with the addition of things such as games. If you ask me, the StarTac was the revolution of cell phones, because until the StarTac came out, all cell phones were naturally boring. The StarTac made wireless companies/phone manufacturers see that a cell phone could be a fresh, new idea. And the money it made for Motorola also helped. Why, I remember someone telling me about it before I even saw it. They were telling me about a phone "that you could place into the palm of your hand" and that amazed me. I was so used to the big, clunky cellulars.

So yes, mostly all students have a cell phone. And the mobile internet has gotten very big as well, so there are plenty of people sending e-mails through phones. It's mostly text messages, though. A lot easier to use.

Airb330 · 10-26-2002, 7:29 PM

Corey, why didn't you like the T720 and the A310, I like both, and was thinking of getting one or the other (or something else lol)....you dont really need to re-hash it all if you could give me some URL's. I played with the T720 today...it was OK, kinda boring...color does not thrill me much I guess.

CoreyTheGent · 10-27-2002, 9:44 PM

The only good thing the T720 has going for it is the color screen. There were many things I disliked about the phone, particularly it's cheap/unsturdy feel and look. I just don't believe that it's worth the money I'm paying for it, and worth a contract at all, which means I'd be paying full retail for it. It's not that I'm a penny pincher, but when I get something I'm going to be using all the time, and very vital in my life, I want to be --100%-- satisfied with it. I was about 65% satisfied with the T720.

I was 50% satisfied with the A310. When it first came out, it was a good phone, but once I realized that there were so many new and better phones coming out on Verizon, I felt that if I kept the phone, later on down the road I'd be wishing I got another one.

Plus, I also got word of all these new phones Verizon will have coming out from now until Christmas and after. So I simply sent the phones back and went to my old minute plan, on a month to month basis, until something comes out that I truly love. Until then, my old TM-510 will do.

Jonez · 10-28-2002, 12:12 AM

Great phone, but the battery life is gonna be horrible. 95 min. talk time?? No thanks. That color screen is just gonna drain the crap outta the battery

Rafale · 10-28-2002, 11:36 PM

Where did you get the 95 minutes talk time from?

Gatorman · 10-31-2002, 3:50 PM

Check this out on ebay. How could this guy get this phone to sell? The CDM-9500.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=1394061173

11-04-2002, 12:53 PM

I work for verizon and the audiovox9500 is gonna be awesome. it has everything the t720 and samsung a310 have plus more, such as the speakerphone. the resolution is incredible. i saw it today from a regional vice president of verizon. I must agree that it is kind of ugly looking though. Anyone interested in this phone might also want to take a look at the new samsung 530, the new LG phone, and the Kyocera 7035 that will be released by verizon before the end of the year. This series of phones will all offer color displays.

Gatorman · 11-04-2002, 3:07 PM

I can't wait for the 9500 to get here. The other phones you mentioned would be very nice if they all had the speakerphone feature. I can't understand why all phones do not have this wonderful and practical feature. If more phones had all the good features combined, they would probably sell like hot cakes. Just my opinion.
Keep the news of the 9500 coming! Ron Wix

CoreyTheGent · 11-04-2002, 8:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by: Anonymous
I must agree that it is kind of ugly looking though.

That's enough to turn me away. Considering Verizon has plenty of new phones coming out, why jump on the boat for an ugly one that you're not even sure works well? I've done that too many times. I'm just gonna wait it out.

11-06-2002, 11:26 AM

ALLTEL will be launching the phone in store across the Nation on November 27th.

I like the silver phone better. But I, personally, think the phone is too boxy.
The belt clip makes the phone stick out about 3/4 inch. Not very portable or convenient to carry [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]

08-09-2002, 10:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 Does anyone know anything about this phone? Looks pretty impressive. Can anyone comment on Audiovox/Toshiba quality?

08-10-2002, 9:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 I agree - it seems to have it all - color screen, 1x, voice dial, BREW, GPS, and a speaker phone. It seems to have more than the A310, T720, and the VX-1. All of the other phones are missing at least one of the above features. Why isn't this phone getting more interest? The Audiovox phones made by Toshiba (this is one) are supposedly excellent.

09-16-2002, 4:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 Is there any more info out on this phone that people have seen? Reviews seem mixed on the a310, T720 sounds very expensive. This phone is slated for Q3 release. Opinions? Thanks

09-25-2002, 5:12 PM	#4 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 Its not available yet.

10-15-2002, 7:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 This CDM-9500 has 64k colors TFT, brighter than 4k TFT of A500 or 4k STN of T720. So, needless to say, it is greatest phone of Verizon. If there are any questions about it, will replay as far as I know!

10-16-2002, 12:15 PM	#6 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 Any Idea when it will be available and what it will cose. I've been looking for a flip phone with built in speaker

10-16-2002, 4:04 PM	#7 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 I am a Verizon Wireless dealer if anyone is wanting any of these new phones and a plan I can send these out for you along with service. Call me at 614-595-6004

10-17-2002, 3:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
CoreyTheGent Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 821 Phone(s): Silver V3m Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 The reason there isn't much interest in the CDM-9500 is because it's horribly ugly. Where the T720 was simply "boxy" and conservative, this new 9500 is a very ugly phone with only one line on the outer caller ID display. Nobody likes an ugly phone, no matter what its capabilities are. The way you're offering the phones, Anonymous, makes it seem like you stole them or aren't legitimate.

10-18-2002, 6:41 AM	#9 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 I've seen pictures and it looks fine to me. Audiovox's website says it has two lines on the outside. CDM-9500

10-19-2002, 6:02 PM	#10 (permalink)
Merlyn3D Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 115 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 Yes, the outer display is two lines, and according to my local Verizon rep, he said it's slated for release in mid-october now. He said there's a really good chance the shipment coming into my local store on thursday will have these phones. If that's the case, I'm gonna get one and try it for 15 days.

10-20-2002, 11:27 AM	#11 (permalink)
Rafale Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: San Diego Posts: 187 Phone(s): LG VX-8000, Audiovox CDM-9900, Samsung SCH A-530 Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Devices: Iaudio G3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 Yup, this phone looks promising. Unlike the T720 & A310, this one has a lot more features. Hopefully, this is the one that will ginally make me upgrade. __________________ A ceux qui restent...whether times good or bad, happy or sad.

10-20-2002, 3:50 PM	#12 (permalink)
CoreyTheGent Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 821 Phone(s): Silver V3m Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 Whomever posted the link to the Audiovox Corporation's picture had the wrong phone. If you'll look closely at the bottom of the picture of the opened phone, you'll see it says "Toshiba". This phone was planned to originally be Toshiba, but they changed their minds and decided to release it as an Audiovox phone. The phone coming out on Verizon will be silver, not blue. As you can see, Audiovox made some changes to the phone. It would look nice as the blue picture on that link above, but as silver I dislike its appearance. Here's what the Audiovox CDM-9500 will look like: http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?id=170 I was wrong about one thing, however: it is a two line outer display. It's just extremely small, and to me, it looked like one line.

10-21-2002, 12:31 PM	#13 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 Sorry for any confusion, I am an Authorized Verizon Wireless agent. I work for a company called Flexicom. We sell all Verizon equipment, you just don't have to deal with the corporate Mumbo-Jumbo. Unfortunatley of those of you who have been calling me about the new phones I can only activate service in Ohio. I can get the phones for you, (except the 9500 because it hasn't been approved by Verizon) I will post a message when the 9500 is available for purchase using Verizon Wireless service. The A-310, and the Motorola 720 are currently available I can mail these out to you but you will have to activate service in your area. If you are a preexisting customer give me a call. The Kyocerea 7135 and Audiovox 9500 will be available in the next couple of weeks. Thank you Mike McGovern Authorized agent of Verizon Wireless 614-595-6004

10-21-2002, 5:52 PM	#14 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 stop advertising here...we don't want your "hot" phones....go post on ebay.

10-22-2002, 1:05 AM	#15 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 CDM-9500 looks nicer than it looks through the picture. I would like your everyone's voice: which do you guys think has more branding power "Toshiba" or "Audiovox" as cellular phone? Thanks for your honest voices!!!!

10-22-2002, 9:17 AM	#16 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 Alltel will have this phone around mid-November in most all of their markets...

10-22-2002, 10:17 AM	#17 (permalink)
CoreyTheGent Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 821 Phone(s): Silver V3m Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 It depends on which market you're aiming for: If you're aiming at the cellular market, then Audiovox would probably be better. That name already has a pretty good reputation for quality phones. In my opinion, their phones last long, but they are always behind in terms of appearance and impressive features (take their last big hit, the CDM-9000, as an example). If you're aiming outside of the cellular market, then Toshiba would be better. Everyone knows that name through their electronics and they make pretty good TVs, so that's what the population would associate the phone with. Not many people outside of the cell-loop have heard of "Audiovox" at all. If it were up to me, I'd have it as an Audiovox phone but with the blue color of the Toshiba. When a phone doesn't have changeable faceplates, it should come in a dark color like the one on that Audiovox Corp. website. Aside from that, it just looks better blue.

10-23-2002, 8:42 AM	#18 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 Thank you very much for your quick valuable opinion. I agree with you that Audiovox has name in mobile phone while Toshiba does not. Now I am watching how Toshiba is received by the end-users as cellular phones. In fact, there is one more thing that I would like to know; what generation has the cellular phone the most in U.S. I mean,,, do most students in the U.S have cellular phone? Also do you use e-mail through the cellular pohne I am asking this since I am now away from the U.S. Please advise.

10-24-2002, 3:56 PM	#19 (permalink)
CoreyTheGent Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 821 Phone(s): Silver V3m Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 The mobile phone market has definitely gone to the youngsters. When they were first introduced, the cell phone was for the business man/woman, and its price made it that only the most important of people would have it. However, as their prices came down, the result of more and more cell phones being available with more technologies and companies, its market age became younger and younger. Today, the cellular market is mostly comprised of teenagers. Teenagers control most big U.S. Markets, and most adults don't even realize it. From movies to music to cell phones to shoes, the teenager controls the U.S. market. There are more and more of them working, yet without bills to pay they have their money to spend on whatever they want. Today, the cell phone is a "Status Symbol" and I truly don't know hardly anybody without one, especially those in the younger age bracket. Wireless companies have re-designed themselves around the teenager, making phones more fun with the addition of things such as games. If you ask me, the StarTac was the revolution of cell phones, because until the StarTac came out, all cell phones were naturally boring. The StarTac made wireless companies/phone manufacturers see that a cell phone could be a fresh, new idea. And the money it made for Motorola also helped. Why, I remember someone telling me about it before I even saw it. They were telling me about a phone "that you could place into the palm of your hand" and that amazed me. I was so used to the big, clunky cellulars. So yes, mostly all students have a cell phone. And the mobile internet has gotten very big as well, so there are plenty of people sending e-mails through phones. It's mostly text messages, though. A lot easier to use.

10-26-2002, 7:29 PM	#20 (permalink)
Airb330 Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 3,525 Phone(s): iPhone, Pantech EVDO Provider(s): at&t/Sprint for datacard Devices: iPod Nano (Black), XM Radio Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Images: 3	Audiovox CDM-9500 Corey, why didn't you like the T720 and the A310, I like both, and was thinking of getting one or the other (or something else lol)....you dont really need to re-hash it all if you could give me some URL's. I played with the T720 today...it was OK, kinda boring...color does not thrill me much I guess.

10-27-2002, 9:44 PM	#21 (permalink)
CoreyTheGent Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 821 Phone(s): Silver V3m Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 The only good thing the T720 has going for it is the color screen. There were many things I disliked about the phone, particularly it's cheap/unsturdy feel and look. I just don't believe that it's worth the money I'm paying for it, and worth a contract at all, which means I'd be paying full retail for it. It's not that I'm a penny pincher, but when I get something I'm going to be using all the time, and very vital in my life, I want to be --100%-- satisfied with it. I was about 65% satisfied with the T720. I was 50% satisfied with the A310. When it first came out, it was a good phone, but once I realized that there were so many new and better phones coming out on Verizon, I felt that if I kept the phone, later on down the road I'd be wishing I got another one. Plus, I also got word of all these new phones Verizon will have coming out from now until Christmas and after. So I simply sent the phones back and went to my old minute plan, on a month to month basis, until something comes out that I truly love. Until then, my old TM-510 will do.

10-28-2002, 12:12 AM	#22 (permalink)
Jonez Shoulda joined long ago! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 Great phone, but the battery life is gonna be horrible. 95 min. talk time?? No thanks. That color screen is just gonna drain the crap outta the battery

10-28-2002, 11:36 PM	#23 (permalink)
Rafale Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: San Diego Posts: 187 Phone(s): LG VX-8000, Audiovox CDM-9900, Samsung SCH A-530 Provider(s): Verizon Wireless Devices: Iaudio G3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 Where did you get the 95 minutes talk time from? __________________ A ceux qui restent...whether times good or bad, happy or sad.

10-31-2002, 3:50 PM	#24 (permalink)
Gatorman I have a weird title! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 Check this out on ebay. How could this guy get this phone to sell? The CDM-9500. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=1394061173

11-04-2002, 12:53 PM	#25 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 I work for verizon and the audiovox9500 is gonna be awesome. it has everything the t720 and samsung a310 have plus more, such as the speakerphone. the resolution is incredible. i saw it today from a regional vice president of verizon. I must agree that it is kind of ugly looking though. Anyone interested in this phone might also want to take a look at the new samsung 530, the new LG phone, and the Kyocera 7035 that will be released by verizon before the end of the year. This series of phones will all offer color displays.

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11-04-2002, 3:07 PM	#26 (permalink)
Gatorman I have a weird title! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Audiovox CDM-9500 I can't wait for the 9500 to get here. The other phones you mentioned would be very nice if they all had the speakerphone feature. I can't understand why all phones do not have this wonderful and practical feature. If more phones had all the good features combined, they would probably sell like hot cakes. Just my opinion. Keep the news of the 9500 coming! Ron Wix

11-06-2002, 11:26 AM	#28 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	Audiovox CDM-9500 ALLTEL will be launching the phone in store across the Nation on November 27th. I like the silver phone better. But I, personally, think the phone is too boxy. The belt clip makes the phone stick out about 3/4 inch. Not very portable or convenient to carry [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]