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Why is the "fire red" V3r less expensive than the V3i?
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Posted by: NOSintake

i was looking at cingular's site today to see if they put the samsung a707 up there, and i saw that they added a new music phone. but when i looked, all it was, was the red V3i. but for some reason, it is $100 less than the normal V3i. as far as i can tell, they are both basically the same. seems to me like cingular is just trying to bank some money off the "itunes" razr.

Posted by: bodeh6

On my premier it is $70 less $129 vs $199

Posted by: Maverick05

The only thing i can think of, which really sucks, is that maybe apple is charging a premium to license itunes?

Posted by: ivwshane

No itunes, no memory card included, no data cable, no software, no headset, no headset adapter.

Basically the v3r only comes with the home charger.

Posted by: bobolito

The V3r is the same plain-old vanilla phone as the original RAZR. That's why it's cheaper (less features).

The rumor I've read is that the only difference between them is a more updated hardware and firmware which is more battery efficient and faster menu response and processing speed. Oh, and the other thing is that the V3r can record video something I believe the original RAZR never did.

Posted by: mafiazz

the v3r is a non-tunes v3i. plain and simple.

the only difference is the itunes.

Posted by: bodeh6

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Originally Posted by mafiazz

the v3r is a non-tunes v3i. plain and simple.

the only difference is the itunes.

You are right.

Posted by: xxCingularxx

fire red looks cool

Posted by: Lil Moshi

Think of the V3i as an Ipod and the V3r as an mp3 player pretty much the same thing only the i-tunes

Posted by: NOSintake

lol, so they are charging $100 for itunes. pretty messed up

Posted by: ivwshane

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Originally Posted by NOSintake

lol, so they are charging $100 for itunes. pretty messed up

Did you not read my post?

Posted by: bobolito

Sorry for my post above. I was going by the fact that the V3r on T-mobile is the same old RAZR as I stated. The V3r that Cingular sells is more advanced thant the T-mobile's.

Posted by: djdownhill

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Originally Posted by bobolito

Sorry for my post above. I was going by the fact that the V3r on T-mobile is the same old RAZR as I stated. The V3r that Cingular sells is more advanced thant the T-mobile's.

The second generation Tmo V3r razr is different the Cingular V3. 2 totally different SW from one another and can not be used with one another on unlocked phones. R3443U2 = V3r and R374 for the Cinguar and first generation Tmo V3

The V3t on the other hand from Tmo for the most part is a V3i without iTunes just like the V3r from Cingular.

Posted by: bobolito

Now that's really confusing! Why don't they just standardize to use the same letters in the model for all carriers?

Posted by: NOSintake

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Originally Posted by bobolito

Now that's really confusing! Why don't they just standardize to use the same letters in the model for all carriers?

or stop making so many variations of the razr

Posted by: cuidinsider

GOD DAMN! its a RED V3i GOT IT WE DONT CARRY A V3R IN A CORPORATE CINGULAR STORE!

Posted by: chain299

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Originally Posted by cuidinsider

GOD DAMN! its a RED V3i GOT IT WE DONT CARRY A V3R IN A CORPORATE CINGULAR STORE!

we have it in our store, same price as the v3i too....ridiculous.

Posted by: xj911

when are people going to get tired of this phone?...reminds me when everyone had Nokia 5100/6100 series phones and Motorola had Startacs... :/