Why must you keep teasing me with new info? Coupled with Verizon's lackluster launch timing of the red 8X is making me wonder if I should wait for the Odyssey. If the red was available in store tomorrow I'd jump on it, but as it is, I don't know.
I can't remember if it was Honestabebread or someone else, but the talk was that red will be in the stores on Black Friday (ironic, eh?). I don't really get any info on colors, just phone info.
I can understand not wanting to wait. I just thought I'd share. Told my contact that the Odyssey looked disappointing. VZW knew of the leaked image and he was told by his superiors that the leaked image was not the Odyssey, but the low-end Marco. That name will probably stick.
The ATIV name is not supposed to be attached to the low-end phone. Samsung wants the ATIV Windows 8 branding to have some quality associated with it, so while it does share some of the looks of the ATIV line, don't expect it to share the name.
Most of this stuff came out in the Apple court case anyways. Both the Odyssey and Marco are coming to VZW. I'm surprised all the tech sites jumped on the pictures and forgot about the Samsung Marco.
It sounds like the 8S is also coming in December.
So if this does prove true, if Verizon ends up having a high-end Samsung with a HD display (Odyssey), the HTC 8X, the Lumia 822, the HTC 8S with 8GB storage, and the Samsung Marco with 4GB by the middle of December, will anyone be doubting their commitment to WP8? Let's see if it does happen, but I think most of it will.
I miscounted too. It's five phones by January 1. Still, five WP8 devices within a month and a half or so of launch versus 1 WP7 device over a two year span.