Motorola RAZR V3i / V3t / V3e / V3r
so what does this mean
i was looking on wireless imports today and this caught my eye.
http://www.wirelessimports.com/ProductDetail.asp?Pro ... »
what what does this mean? is it sooner than we hoped or what?
http://www.wirelessimports.com/ProductDetail.asp?Pro ... »
what what does this mean? is it sooner than we hoped or what?
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it just means they loaded cingy software into the phone and locked it to cingular. i'd like to know if its v3 or v3i software. but however the phone itself that they are selling is NOT cingular branded so i wouldnt buy incase you need to have insurance coverage because they do not support unbranded phones.
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thank you for telling me all this. thats kinda odd that they would say oem cingular branded then. oh well. im still going to wait till they release it from cingular to get just for the insurance reason
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hate to burst your bubble dude but cingular does not insure the current razr and i seriously doubt they will for the new V3i. i had to go to Tiger Direct to puchase the original V3 with insurance.
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oh, and the added benifit from doing that was i didn't have to get suckered into a two year cingular assrape. after getting the phone from TD i just walked into my local cigular shop and asked for a sim card and out i went with only a 1 year deal... no charge.
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If your talking about Cingular not insuring unbranded equipment then you are 100% right. However Cingular does insure the current Razr phones, black, silver and Feb. 1st from the latest info I was handed today the pink one as well. They do not insure any higher end pda style devices, BB, treo, hp...
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thats what i thought. something about after the price dropped they started since everyone was getting the phone
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We were able to add Insurance starting last July in regards to these Razrs. I have heard that this phone is "old", "Outdated" so on so forth but I tell ya...so many people love this phone..why kill it when its working for most....and yes I do work for Cingular.
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No, I am talking about Cingular branded phones. I guess they recently started insuring the V3. When I went to my local cingular store about 6-7 months ago they were not insuring it. Said the phone was to expensive to insure. LOL. Meanwhile they had other phones equally expensive that they WERE insuring. I called a couple other cingular stores from PA to NJ and got the same story. I guess when the prices dropped they decided to insure it.
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I think you're assuming that the "cost" of a phone is what they're selling it for. The RAZR is a more expensive phone than another phone that "costs" the same because it's more expensive to replace.
Because of the RAZR's unprecedented popularity they decided to sell them at a loss to get more people to buy contracts. The unwillingness to insure it for $3.99 a month initially was because they would (actually the underwriter would) have to take a loss on the replacement, with no offsetting economic benefit.
Now that the supply of refurbished phones is plentiful, and there are enough RAZRs out there to spread the risk around, the economics are different. It has very little to do with the "price" dropping. Moto still charges just as much (...
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Because of the RAZR's unprecedented popularity they decided to sell them at a loss to get more people to buy contracts. The unwillingness to insure it for $3.99 a month initially was because they would (actually the underwriter would) have to take a loss on the replacement, with no offsetting economic benefit.
Now that the supply of refurbished phones is plentiful, and there are enough RAZRs out there to spread the risk around, the economics are different. It has very little to do with the "price" dropping. Moto still charges just as much (...
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