Official Confirmation? Lumia 929 listed

[Morpheus Phreak]

Phones are subsidized so VZW has a choice to make: Spend money on the network, spend money on the latest and greatest phones, or raise prices. Right now they are roughly the same as AT&T price wise, so they chose to have the better network at the expense of not having the absolute latest phones.

I think both are valid choices, and a lot of my friends are on AT&T specifically because they want the latest and greatest hardware. If it were an option I would too, but I won't compromise my network quality, I travel a lot and its an important selling point.

That actually has nothing to do with it interestingly enough. These days they are not far enough behind to get a discount on the models, and even when they were far behind they didn't get a discount since the companies had to extend the manufacturing of a product past the normal timeframe that they would produce it.

The decision was almost entirely to do with reliability of a device after it has already received several updates on the other networks.

As much as I dislike ATT I'd pick them over Verizon and cdma any day.

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Luckily this isn't as much of an issue with the newer 4G/LTE technologies. It will only be a couple more years before it's a complete non-issue, but I still agree at this point that I prefer AT&T over VZW.

 

[Kebero]

As much as I dislike ATT I'd pick them over Verizon and cdma any day.

While I do agree with the sentiment, at least we know that all VZW LTE devices have the GSM portion unlocked. I once used my company ATT SIM in an HTC Imago that was on my personal VZW line. If the 929/Icon looks good and is priced right on release, compared with the RM-937, I may put it on the top of my list.

 

[David Fleetwood]

That actually has nothing to do with it interestingly enough. These days they are not far enough behind to get a discount on the models, and even when they were far behind they didn't get a discount since the companies had to extend the manufacturing of a product past the normal timeframe that they would produce it.

The decision was almost entirely to do with reliability of a device after it has already received several updates on the other networks.

I do not really agree with this assertion. Reliability is likely one factor, but you underestimate savings by waiting. ARM generations are moving every 6-12 months, and a phone loses a couple hundred in value fairly rapidly now. In the past they also took advantage of this cycle since phones would drop in value before hitting second tier markets(manufacturing did not end just because a phone wasn't a hot item in the US/EU anymore). When the 929 was first rumored the Snapdragon 800 was just hitting the market. By the time it is released, the Snapdragon 805 will be in prototypes and Qualcomm will be discounting the older chipset just in time for Verizon to ramp up volume.

Luckily this isn't as much of an issue with the newer 4G/LTE technologies. It will only be a couple more years before it's a complete non-issue, but I still agree at this point that I prefer AT&T over VZW.

I would go further and say its a complete non-issue. Most VZ phones are unlocked nowadays, I just returned from a trip to China and my HTC 8X worked just fine on China Telcomm without any special unlocking, just popped in a local SIM. The phones today support both CDMA and GSM for the most part, and from a customer point of view 'favoring' one tech over the other is pretty dumb. Historically when phone chipsets were one or the other it made some sense, but even then it depended on where you were travelling, GSM was huge in the EU, CDMA was huge in Asia. Nowadays there is no difference and its a not a differentiating factor.

 

[psamf24]

Re: Official Confirmation?

yea but i do not see the 928 listed? did some one did a list mistake