Full FeedVerizon’s white XV6900 Touch: Better pics, looking more real
While we first posted about the white HTC Touch that will hit Verizon as the XV6900 all we had to show off were some blurry camera phone style pics that were uploaded over on HowardForums. Those pics have since changed and the phone is being confirmed as real.
The XV6900 Touch will offer EV-DO, a 2-megapixel camera, built-in GPS and run Windows Mobile 6. It was originally noted as being thinner than the Sprint branded version however there is still no confirmation on that. Its kind of sad though, because I am no longer a Verizon customer or a user of Windows Mobile, but I am still drawn into this phone. No release date or pricing has been announced, hopefully the first reports of March will hold true.
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This phone is really a sorry offering. I’ve had ‘dozens’ of phones through the years, and this is one of hte worst. Touch mechanism is horrible - my three year old has toys with better touch screens. Everything about the phone is slow, Slow, SLOW. Once you’ve made a phone call you have to push all kinds of buttons to get a keyboard up so that you can do voicemail commands in the middle of a call. The side button which is the default button for the camera is in the wrong damn spot. No matter what you chage the button to command, it gets in the way. Using your finger (instead of the stylus) on the touch screen is very frustrating. No way you can use your fingers on the qwerty. Battery life sucks. And the color white is so damn girly I’m not sure why a man would want to own it. Do not buy this phone - it is crap.
on July 1, 2008 at 11:36 PM - LINK防静电地板This phone is really a sorry offering. I’ve had ‘dozens’ of phones through the years, and this is one of hte worst. Touch mechanism is horrible - my three year old has toys with better touch screens. Everything about the phone is slow, Slow, SLOW.
on July 7, 2008 at 04:34 AM - LINKThis phone is horrible. I cannot find a headset either wired or bluetooth that will work well with it. The touchsceen stinks and the functions take a long time after pushing buttons to load. The sound quality is lousy and the coverage is bad. DO NOT get this phone.
on August 20, 2008 at 01:22 PM - LINKI agree that the XV6900 is way too sluggish!!!
on November 19, 2008 at 01:47 PM - LINKBut I had a theory on how to speed it up and it seems to have helped significantly.
Some of the new API features keep track of all media and seem to be able to seemlessly find files, no matter where they are.
This tells me that the more memory you have, the slower it will be. You will have a particular bottleneck, if you have a SLOW sd card.
I removed my 2GB sd card and have seen significant reduction in sluggishness.
The XV6900 is the WORST PHONE EVER. I am so disappointed with HTC and Microsoft for allowing such a crappy product into their line. I am a dedicated windows programmer and have owned pocket pc’s since windows CE so I have a history and an in depth understanding of windows phones.
I have had three replacements and am currently being shipped my forth (Verizon won’t swap phone for something else).
1st phone cracked two times on the case. Camera software was all screwed up and would erase pictures and corrupt existing pictures on phone.
2nd phone wouldn’t open email at all –even after hard reset. Main speaker was blown. Half of incoming calls would go directly to missed calls because the phone wouldn’t ring.
3rd phone is currently having a crazy software/ hardware glitches where I am getting debug screens popping up every couple minutes. D Pad doesn’t work. Incoming calls seldom ring, Phone freezes multiple times per day, battery life is less than 8 hours with just email checking and a couple voice calls. Case is also cracking.
I have finally lost faith with HTC and, to a larger degree, Microsoft. What a joke this phone is – what a horrible horrible joke.
on December 20, 2008 at 09:28 PM - LINKOkay just got my forth phone from Verizon.
Still a piece of crap. Yesterday I missed every single call that came in. The phone simple would not ring or respond to incoming phone calls. How I have come to figure this one out is that I magically get voice messages without an incoming call - it is rad. Half of missed calls never show up in any call log.
Odd but the buttons on the phone screen are all jacked up. They are different colors or missing from the screen entirely. For example after you start a call the screen will change and have 2 rows of 3 buttons on the bottom of the screen. Well all of my old phones had buttons filling out the two rows. This new phone I recieved from Verizon has buttons only in the first row. Second row is entirely empty although if you press on an empty box it will do what the button should do for example bring up contacts. Also the buttons visually look all messed up - either they are some random color like green or they are simply not displayed.
You think you don’t understand - I have no idea how Verizon is still selling this POS. WORST PHONE EVER - I vote Yes!
on January 9, 2009 at 03:28 PM - LINKWow, I wish I had seen some of this before I got this phone. All of the bad reviews I read before were written by people who say things like “sux” and wrote in all caps, so I sort of disregarded them..
I got this phone in February. I’d say for the first month and a half, the phone worked fine. Battery life wasn’t great, but it was pretty zippy, got calls just fine, etc. Then I moved to New York for an internship, and my phone rapidly went downhill. It became so sluggish at times that I couldn’t make calls. I would press the contacts button, and nothing would happen for hours. If the screen was off, I did not receive calls. When I would turn the screen on, an incoming call would flash on the screen and ring once. It would say the call took place right then, but when I called the person back, it had actually been hours before. Though I knew better, I was really hoping it was something with the network in NYC.
Sadly, I was too busy to take the time to go to the Verizon store in NY, so I waited until I came back here to take the phone in. Let me just say that I’ve been in customer service positions before, and I see how people get when they march into a store and are much more interested in making someone their punching bag than trying to get a real solution. I always try to calmly explain what is happening, because in the past if I’ve had problems with my phones, I’ve had pretty good & knowledgeable service from VZ.
I was really annoyed because naturally the phone was fine when I took it in. So I couldn’t truly show them what was happening. The phone was perfectly fine. I explained what was going on, and I was immediately met with the response of “well, you don’t have a data package.” I was stunned. Yes, it’s a smart phone, but I was unaware that the data package was necessary to basic function. I’m not going to stand there and justify why I bought the phone if I wasn’t going to use every feature. I actually asked the guy, “do I need a data package for this to work?” and he started to tell me that I could get really cool things from the package. I thought I was talking to a robot. He couldn’t answer yes or no, couldn’t address my simple direct questions. Next, he asked me if I had ever plugged it into the computer. I said no, I have a Mac, and was unaware that I needed to. I then thought, “oh, maybe there is some firmware update I need.” Naturally, you should have seen his face when I said I had a Mac, I could just see the words forming in his head “then you should have just bought an iPhone, lady.” Indeed.
One thing became really clear to me, and that was he didn’t know much about the phone. He couldn’t answer a single question about it. Once again, I know there are a lot of phones out there, but it is their job. He started to look around on my phone. I was still holding out hope that there was some setting I had on by accident or some update I needed. He noticed that there was something taking up a lot of room on the phone, but couldn’t determine what. He then proceeded to grill me “are you sure you’ve never plugged this into a computer?” He acted like I was lying. I don’t have a PC! I’m here in the store because I don’t know what’s wrong with it! When he was done being rude, he said he was going to reformat the phone. I was fine with that at that point. I was a little uncomfortable since it really honestly seemed like he didn’t know much about the phone, but what was I going to do?
After backing up my contacts, he brings the reformatted phone back out, and says he can’t get it to make calls. At this point I was just shocked. I wasn’t even angry. I just couldn’t believe that I brought in a working (that day) phone, and he had actually completely messed it up. And when I say it couldn’t make calls, I don’t mean that he couldn’t press the button, he was dialing numbers and all of that was working fine..but the call would actually fail. He then says to me “we don’t have any of these in stock. We can order you a new one, or you can buy (!) another phone.” Okay, blood boiling. I said to him, “I honestly don’t mean to be a jerk, but I brought in a working phone and now it doesn’t work. You need to do something better, I want THIS phone.” He disappeared into the back, and for some unknown reason, the phone worked again. He then made a really outlandish statement. “If this phone continues like this, please let us know and we will replace it with any phone in here.” I should have just told him to give me a blackberry storm on the spot. Haha. But really? You can’t promise that. I just didn’t believe that. Thanked him for his “service” and left.
The phone is a little less sluggish, but essentially still doing the same things. I’ve been putting up with it because my service was so bad last time. That was a month ago. Last night, I opened up the bill. Guess what bumped my bill up from the normal $65.00 to 100.00? Data package. I’m at a loss. All I can think is that he somehow added the data package to my plan.
To be continued after I visit them again today…
PS: The real point is, don’t buy this phone. If you don’t want the data package, buy one of their dinky flip phones that your five year old cousin uses.
on June 27, 2009 at 09:56 AM - LINKwish i saw this before i ordered it. this is the worst phone i’ve ever had. i’m very upset i ordered it.
on July 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM - LINKwell i just ordered the phone thru the net as an upgrade but after seeing some of these comments kinda having 2nd thoughts im only hoppin vz has fixed the problems and if not they got one angry customer theyre going to have to deal with
on August 2, 2009 at 05:06 AM - LINKwell, writing the same concern as sal, i just ordered the phone as well over the computer as an upgrade. but my phone stopped working all together, so it cant get worse than that. haha. im really hoping the bugs are fixed by now. and i made sure that i can send it back b4 30 days.
on August 13, 2009 at 01:34 PM - LINKThe HTC Touch xv6900 was an awful phone from day one for me. Then I recently updated it with the free Windows Mobile 6.1 software offered by Verizon and it is just as bad, alarm clock doesn’t work which is ####### spectacular, and the phone rings about once out of every five calls. This phone was just an awful attempt, failure from whatever angle you view it from.
on September 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM - LINK