Comments on: HTC Passion/Dragon Launching Mid-December?

By: cscoot03

cscoot03 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:35:31 +0000

Why a feminine name like the Passion? What’s wrong with Dragon? I mean I can adapt to having a “Passion” but I’d feel more comfortable carrying a “Dragon”. Yea this may sound stupid but it’s just a question concidering the “Leo” changed to “HD2″ which seems acceptable to the female & male to carry. You know?

By: dragondude

dragondude — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:52:52 +0000

i dont know if im right but i noticed that the iphone app http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16800022&p=1 where it displays time in a book way only has 2 pages to each side or four in total. and the picture of the passion has 3 in each side and six in total so they are different …. Hope im right and they throw some dragon passion for christmas.

By: Ooberandy

Ooberandy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:26:39 +0000

Does anyone know if this phone will be available in the UK? If so, would you know a rough date?

By: mulda71

mulda71 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:45:17 +0000

philly-you can return it… if you wait 4 days to buy your next phone you can avoid the 35 dollar re-stocking fee. i’m not sure how it works if you added a new line/#, that may complicate things… might lose the # if you plain out return the droid, or just pay the 35 bucks and buy the passion the same day you return the droid to avoid the hassle, presuming it is out in time. I myself have the eris and I freakin’ love it, but I will return it for the passion if it does come out… but boy i really do like it, and i actually kind of like the size, as it fits right in the pocket…

By: BachinPhx

BachinPhx — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:38:25 +0000

Unfortunately, she wasn’t terribly time specific but sounds like we could be around mid-December.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:54:41 +0000

@BachinPhx

Any time frame in December? I am thinking of getting the Moto Droid, hopefully if I do the new phone will come out within the 30 day window.

By: BachinPhx

BachinPhx — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:15:47 +0000

When I was at the Verizon store checking out the Moto Droid and the HTC Eris, I was chatting it up with the nice sales girl. She may as well have just told me to wait for “great” things to come soon. Oh, right, she did. She was so giddy and couldn’t help but giggling like a little school girl. She couldn’t tell me anything concrete but more than implied that by December, we were going to see some awesome devices. I am only hoping and praying that she is right. The Moto Droid just is too heavy and the UI just isn’t exciting. The Eris is gorgeous but the 1.5 and the 528mHz Qualcomm is a deal killer for me.

The Passion/Dragon or whatever you want to call it will smoke them all. Why, do you ask, is VZW bringing out so many devices at once? They don’t care. They want to sell units. Lots and lots of units and want to smoke AT&T. They will do this with a great selection to appease everyone. Good job Verizon!!

By: waiting

waiting — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:40:37 +0000

@phillypharm-i have verizon and I know that they offer a 30 day trial. If you don’t like the phone in any way you can exchange for a different one. I am not sure if there is a limit or any fees though so you may want to contact you verizon store.

By: jose

jose — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:18:52 +0000

wishful thinking Biggles… like i said before.. the image above has nothing to do with an HTC device…

so dont defend BGR for reporting something like this. Second… why don’t you do your own homework… and look through the FCC filings and find information on said device?

By: phillypharm

phillypharm — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:45:17 +0000

so if this phone comes out after december 6th how can i get it? i just got the droid and love it but the offset keyboard is making it almost useless for me.

i added a plan (was going to anyway) and used that to get the droid. can i return the droid and have that line go month to month? then buy the passion with that line and make it a 2 year contract?

By: Biggles

Biggles — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:58:25 +0000

@Jose: Phonedog is no more credible. They claim the phone pictured by theunlockr.com is a gsm phone on pretty flimsy evidence but offer no explanation why it has the same capacitive soft keys as the Droid and similar to the Eris when any other android phone out there not on Verizon has buttons. I have yet to hear anyone offer an explanation for this, but the insistence is that the pictured phone is heading anywhere but Verizon and to a gsm carrier. Yeah, right. Mark it down. Mid-December. Big red.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:21:19 +0000

It just doesn’t make sense for VZW to release another flagship Android phone so close to the Droid phone, then again maybe they will just to sell more phones.

I am thinking of getting the Eris, hopefully this phone will come out within 30 days so I could return the Eris for the Passion.

By: jose

jose — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:38:31 +0000

here goes the link for the iphone app for jailbroken iphones

http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16800022&p=1
i guess BGR might be going for a ride… I hope they have a real credible source… I am beginning to question their credibility.

By: jose

jose — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:21:03 +0000

This is a fake! This image is a blurry cam picture taken of an app for the Iphone which is made to copy or emulate the sense UI…. I hate that BGR is such a verizon fanboy site that it reports anything like this. I speculate they are being taken for quite a ride. Look up the FCC filings for such a device being CDMA… I highly doubt you will find it. According to Phonedog.com… this phone that is rumored to be the dragon (again nothing to do with this screenshot) is a GSM phone headed to EU at some point later this yr or early next.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:35:30 +0000

Pretty much everyone at verizon from the top down claims to know this and won’t talk about it… There are reports all over the place in comments and forums of ‘reps’ looking like the cat that ate the canary every time the subject comes up… I don’t think I’d rule sprint out, but it wouldn’t surprise me if verizon gets it first. I’ve also seen someone who claims to be from HTC bitching about ‘HTC being held down by the man’ with exclusives and suggesting that this is the end of it because they will be dropping this phone on all carriers ASAP.

Who knows…it’s all a bunch of BS….but it does seem pretty solid that this phone will be out in the next 2-3 months…somewhere.