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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's astonishing. I thought it would be about 2016 before LTE would be
used for voice and texting, but apparently Verizon is moving things along
quite rapidly:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57591213-94/verizon-says-first-lte-only-phones-to-arrive-in-late-2014/

That says late 2014. This is a short production run of an ultra advanced
product. A few months early is less than surprising. So yes, this sounds
like it will work on Verizon. I apologize for being wrong earlier, I had no
idea that they would roll this out.
On Jul 29, 2013 7:05 PM, "Daniel Clem" <clem11388@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> NEW UPDATE!!! The Indiegogo page now states specifically states the Edge
> will work with "LTE and GSM networks, including Verizon and Sprint” !!!
>
> Taking it exactly as it reads, that means it will not work on CDMA 3G. But
> once Verizon's LTE spreads to rural areas, the both voice and data will
> most likely switch to all LTE and phase out CDMA over a few years until all
> the (at that point) 3G legacy phones are no longer uses.
>
> What do you guys think??
>
> Daniel Clem <clem11388@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I deleted the more relevant mail already, so sorry for being out of
>> order. But we have a GSM phone and account from a pay as you go company
>> called "Tracfone”. Is this Sim card compatible with?? If so I will
>> definitely pledge one I have 830 saved.
>>
>> "Omar B." <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Nice, thx for recording the data and the graph.
>>>
>>> did you get any data on individuals who may had purchased multiple times
>>> consecutively? , how many each individual got ?
>>>
>>> I Think indiegogo only lets you select one perk even if you add more
>>> cash to the amount.
>>>
>>> So it wouldn't be a surprise if some made multiple purchases
>>> consecutively.
>>>
>>> Anyway this will be a crucial week, hope their double edge and other
>>> perks get mass acceptance.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> From: coder543@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:41:00 -0500
>>> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)
>>> To: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> CC: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> Actually, this will probably help. This is the amount of funding the
>>> project had received over time. The data was sampled at a rate of once
>>> every 90 seconds. You can clearly see the moment when the $600 phone option
>>> ran out. Calculating the trend line for the second half of the graph
>>> indicates that the campaign will raise about $20,000,000 total over the
>>> full period of the campaign, which is not enough. I believe that this is
>>> the reason Canonical introduced the Double Edge option a few minutes ago,
>>> which might boost sales by a little bit more. Hopefully this clarifies my
>>> point. There lines are very smooth. If a company bought 100 units all at
>>> once, there would be a visible blip on the graph, in my opinion. That would
>>> be $60,000 in pledges all at once, which would break the monotony of the
>>> graph.
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not saying companies *couldn't* buy from the indiegogo deal. I'm
>>> just saying the companies with the money to buy from this fundraiser
>>> wouldn't be able to move fast enough to have gotten in on the 1st day of
>>> sales. Companies move slowly for the most part, and I was watching the
>>> sales figures carefully. I've even plotted them on a graph over time as the
>>> data has come in, starting at about $1.5million dollars in sales. I
>>> should've started the data collection earlier, but I stupidly didn't think
>>> to. I watched the number from the start though, even though they weren't
>>> being recorded. The rates were constant. There was no bulk purchase done by
>>> any one company. If you would like to review my numbers, I can send you the
>>> spreadsheet.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Stores and resellers were not purchasing from indiegogo yesterday.
>>> There might have been one or two, but that's simply not what happened. This
>>> whole campaign is all about individuals buying these phones. I don't want
>>> to see this campaign fail anymore than you do. People will either buy them
>>> at $830, or they won't.
>>>
>>>
>>> yes... sure.
>>>
>>> I didn't see anywhere that said limited one per client.
>>>
>>> Or that you shouldn't get involved with business reasons in mind and get
>>> a bunch of them.
>>>
>>> There's nothing to lose at the moment, which makes it even better. In
>>> fact anyone can come in and buy most of the 35k remaining, I don't think
>>> its prohibited.
>>>
>>> I believe even companies got into the discounted 600 tier and took their
>>> share and is why you see 0 in the enterprise tier. Why would you as a
>>> company pay 80/160k when you can pay 60/120k right there (Big discount in
>>> one go), is a no brainer, they wouldn't survive as companies by being dumb
>>> about $, specially on this economy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>     Josh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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