Motorola V710 release date?

I would be VERY surprised if VZW is trying to pare down the onboard storage of the phone for the sole purpose of forcing you to transmit pictures. Moreover, I'd be dumbfounded if this is holding up the release of the phone .

 

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The V80 can be in the numbering system because it's the newer version of the V70. They both swivel and share some keypad charactaristics. Just the V80 is much better. And the V600 falls more within the V300, V400, V500/V525, then V600. I'm 90% sure I'm right lol.

 

You're correct about the V300-->V600 progression, and that makes sense to me. But in terms of features, the V80 should have a number in the 6XX or 7XX series, to reflect its featureset. But you're also correct that since the V80's lineage is directly drawn from the V70, the progression is logical. I never said it was a PERFECT system.

On the CDMA side, tho, you have to admit, things are a little screwed up. The V710 is supposed to be the high end phone, but has a lower product number than the mid-range phone, the V810. And the V810 looks to be supplanted by the V26X series. My brain hurts just thinking about it.

If you had read the comment in context, "Dildo" (what, was P**isMcF**ksAlot already taken?), you'd know that Cory was kidding. He has a longstanding rep on these forums - well, not THESE forums, since they're reasonably new, but more on WA in general - and was simply "reintroducing" himself. This isn't HoFo....we have a sense of humor (and reality) here. =)

 

V810 in Brazil

Hello outhere!

Friends, I bought a motorola V810 4 days ago.

If anyone would like to ask about the fone, i am here for that. (sorry for the poor English)

But i can say something. It doesn´t have an alarm clock. I need an alarm and it doesn´t come with one , i had to set up an appointment to the time i wake up and set it to daily. when you go to the schedule you see all days marked that´s not good for me as i seted up some birthdays date on it and i can´t visual see it because it´s all marked (hope you understand what I mean).

It comes with a speakerfone :browani: but in the manual doesn´t say how to activate, i had to contact motorola for that, they replyed very fast. When you are in a call you have to hold the OK button for 2 seconds then come a message (activate speakerfone?).


Take care!


Dedell

 

Well your definately right about the CDMA confusion. I don't think they had any prior planning on what the model numbers were going to be like in the GSM market. But I do have a question, what does the V stand for? I know like T720 is Timeport 720, but what is V?

 

Hello there!

V means Vulcan, atleast here in Brazil. model v8160 aka Vulcan 8160.


See ya...

 

I'm pretty sure it was also short for "Vader" at one time. Somewhere around the release of the V60 they dropped the word designation and just started referring to it as the "v-series".

 

Verizon is doing exactly this with BlueTooth are they not? My understanding is, the V710 is not going to have full BT functionality, IE, transfering files to and from the phone.

 

I wouldn't. This is one of the major concerns Verizon had with this handset...They are already not allowing you to send anything like this via. bluetooth to force you to send it via VZW PIX

 

Re: V810 in Brazil

That is too bad that they didn't bother to put a real alarm clock in it. All the old Motorola models were missing an alarm clock and you had to use the stupid datebook. THe v600 has an alarm clock though, so maybe the v710 will as they use similar menus.

 

Re: V810 in Brazil

I agree with you, a pretty new fone and it doesn´t have a simple alarm clock plus it doesn´t have games and you can´t do a search in the contacts list. you have to scroll to find a name... this is bad for me, i have 300+ contacts...


We don´t have the V710 here... the newest motorola is the V810, we have the E310, the T720, T731, V60ci and C210 - all cdma there´s others but are GSM and TDMA.

Take care...

 

I'm going to play with the phone once it comes out. And if I see that verizon is putting too many restrictions on the phone...I'll probably only stick with vzw until a small gsm flip comes out that has the features of the 710.

 

I thought it really didn't have anything to do with GSM or CDMA. Since it seems like excluding the V80. The V7xx series is the hgh-end even though there is the V750 GSM model for the v7xx. But it seems like the v8xx is more of a smaller phone with the compromise of less features than others since the v878 is for GSM and the v810 is for CDMA.

 

From what I remember, the v8160 was known as Vulcan while the v60 series was known as Vader. The newer v series may have different names as I think the names were just given for the prototype of each specific model.

 

The V60 codename was Phoenix. Vader was the code name of one phone, but people keep attributing it to just about every phone ever since.

 

Wow the "v" series can be confusing on what it can stand for, lol. What about c? Like c331g, etc.

 

Candybar?

 

V doesn't stand for anything. It is a marketing term. Just like the A840 is basically a V710 but with GSM world roaming. The A line is the high end business, world services phone line. The E line is the fun, youth oriented, gadget line. MP is the professional, PDA-like line. All marketing brands (C,V,E,A, and MP) have every price point also. The T line is going away basically. The R and S lines show up now and then. So V does not mean that phone came from the Vader family of phones. The T phones of last year were not based on the Timeport etc.

Now Nokia's branding strategy, now that is more than a paragraph...

 

Yeah, I remember that people referred to the v8160 as the Vulcan and then the v60 as the Vader.

 

Bono is right. People were calling every V-series phone Vader, not just the V60. First time I heard Vader was with the V36xx series.

 

I was talking to a friend last night and one of my friends had a analog Motorola phone that came out after the StarTAC came out but before the v60 came out, so probably the same time the v8160 or earlier and that analog phone is called the Vader as well even on the box. Is that the v3xxx? So the v36xx was a analog phone known as a Vader and then the v81xx was a digital phone known as the Vulcan and then the v60 is called the Vader again?

 

That was probably it. When I first saw the V3620 it was $999.00 and was so small compared to the Nokia 6000 series. I think I had a POS Ericcsson with Omnipoint. It was the first Motorola I ever wanted so when I switched to Verizon in 99/00 and saw the V8160, I jumped at it.

 

I didn't jump on the V8160 for one reason alone. I had the StarTAC 7760 which was basically CDMA 800/Analog from GTE Wireless then I guess when the V8160 was available, it was about the same time Verizon Wireless was formed and the PrimeCo areas required the 1900Mhz frequency which I was able to get on the StarTAC ST7868 which was Dual Band/Tri-Mode except I got it before the merger and GTE Wireless corp stores sold me the phone before the actual release date so I had a old PRL and went to Florida and couldn't use PrimeCo either as everything was going to the old GTE Wireless in Florida which was already Alltel. I had GTE PRL 51000 which was the May 2000 PRL and that was actually older than the Verizon PRL #'s even though the number was higher and OTA was not available yet.

 

Lol I was starting to think that because I couldn't think of any flips in the C line. But oh well they don't really stand for anything from what people are saying here I actually I agree with you guys.

One easy line is what Sprint renames most of the phones. RL (Ready Link), VM (Video Messaging), PM (Picture Messaging), VI (I think it's Vision) and then the numbers. I could be wrong on these but whatever lol.

 

So, what you're saying in a nutshell, is that you got absolutely slammed with roaming charges?

 

Nope, no roaming charges at all. Since I had GTE Wireless's America Choice which is similar to Verizon's National Single Rate. It was a $95 plan with 400 minutes and no weeknight/weekend. Verizon NSR was later introduced which was cheaper. GTE's America Choice was No Roaming in the entire US. Verizon's later introduced America Choice which I eventually switched to does have roaming charges but I never really went anywhere for the past two years.

 

Just talked to a buddy of mine at Motorola who sits in on conference calls with Verizon. He says the phone still has quite a few software issues and Verizon is now saying there are RF issues as well.

I'm waiting for a reply back to see if this will affect the release date.

 

Is it me or does the 710 use the same battery as the v60 series? I noticed when one clicks on the accessories page where it shows the 710, the batteries seems to be the same as the v60 so hopefully the phone doesn't ship with only a 700mAH battery like the 5704.

 

Right. So I've been reading at HoFo all sorts of things that have been coming out of the "friendly user" trials of the V710 - RF problems, battery doesn't last the day, etc. - and I'm wondering two things:

1) how much of this is actually true, given the quality:troll ratio over at HoFo, and
2) if any of it IS true, how it's possible, considering the (for the most part) positive reviews of the newer Vseries phones on the GSM side. Is it the CDMA chipset?

All I know is I'm taking everything (EVERYTHING!) with a grain of salt until either I can hold the phone in my own grubby little hand, or until some of the more reliable folks here do the same. It's just...the speculation...it's so frustrating.