Verizon's XV6600 EV-DO Pocket PC Phone on sale? Not exactly…
This totally feels like a scam, but a company called Imagination Entertainment claims to have "limited quantities"
of Verizon's XV6600 Pocket PC Phone for sale. The XV6600 is basically an EV-DO version of the Audiovox PPC-6601 Pocket PC Phone that Sprint is already selling, and comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 128MB of RAM, a 400MHz processor, Bluetooth, and an SDIO expansion card slot, but no built-in 802.11b WiFi. They want $950 for 'em, plus you have to sign up for a Verizon service plan, but you might want to think about it before you drop all that cash. The numerous typos on the site (they misspell EV-DO as both "EDVO" and
"ED-VO" and also mistakenly label the phone as the "XV660") and the use of an anonymous Hotmail account as the main contact address are enough to give us pause, but a little digging reveals that Imagination Entertainment's primary business isn't selling fancy 3G cellphones that haven't even been officially announced yet, it's producing theatrical and corporate special events. Something ain't right here.