Bestbuy has trophy dummy phone on display

[WP7SmartPhones]

I see it in the link.  It is still listed as coming soon.  Hopefully that mean coming real soon.  If we use Verizon speak Coming Soon (Some time in the next 6 months to a year), it is a lot more depressing.

I am hoping for a tomorrow and not a

[Jax_Omen]

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This is the answer that I get from Verizon every time that I go to a store and ask about something they don't yet have released. I swear that they tell their employees they will be fired if they talk about anything that isn't visible on their store shelves. They often don't even know what the on-line site is offering. I have had an employee tell me Verizon doesn't have a phone and it is available on-line already, on their own Web site.
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To answer these two points:

A) They do fire people for leaking pre-release information. Pretty regularly, in fact.

B) Since employees DO leak pre-release information regularly, they avoid giving them any info they can until release actually happens. I remember when the Droid Pro/Droid 2 Global came out, the employees knew all about the Pro, but NOBODY knew about the D2G. It was for sale before any employee had heard of it. Led to some amusing conversations, I can tell you that much.

[EdW_VZW · Accepted solution]

Hi Grimmer 74,

Thank you for your your interest in HTC Trophy phone. We respect the desire of wanting to know a release date of this device as well as others who may also inquiry.  This reply is not meant to disappoint you or others but to simply state that we are not able to provide a release date on the HTC Trophy phone. This is because of not wanting to set an expectation that cannot be met. We always try our best to refer our customers to a link at our web site as the official place to check if and when a certain device will become available. The link is: http://search.vzw.com/?market=53520&q=email+alerts&p=null&ss=null&b2eFlag=N.

[chodi]

edw.... too funny.... tell us, do you have that memorized?  or do you cut and paste it into everything you type?  we all know the standard bee s line from verizon.  i have to admit, life over here at ATT is much easier.  i'll put up with dropped calls before i come back to verizon

[hopmedic]

Cracks me up that we out in the world know more than them in the red box....  I love the canned responses.

[Grimmr]

well he did use my name but added a 'e". But what the hell is grimmer? as for everyone laughing, Paule is no different than an in-branch employee. he can neither comment, confirm or deny anything not sanctioned by Verizon.

What i want to know is Paule was there a Xbox live theme and gamerpic made available by Xbox for the HTC Trophy?

This way we can see if he can even tell us the truth

[mangolover]

At least they're not referring to it as the "Windows 7 Phone" anymore.

[hopmedic]

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mangolover wrote:

At least they're not referring to it as the "Windows 7 Phone" anymore.

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+1

[chodi]

incredible....  you vzw boys are remarkable.... you are marking things solved.... and your solution?  sign up for an email

so whats in the kool aid they force feed you?