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Originally posted by DvdBones
No problem. There's been info on this phone in our system officially for a few weeks now on the 5500. I've been checking out the online userguide for it since it's been posted where we check out info for our complete phone portfolio. It's definitely going to be a hot product. It's my next phone to!

I should mention that we had a visit from a rep from Audiovox yesterday and he had a phone which he says is slated to be available early December as well. It's Audiox/Toshiba's competition for the 5500! Though it didn't have Ready Link capability, it was a full-featured video phone with a 256K color display on the inside and a 65K display outside for the caller ID window and a loud speakerphone. The screen inside the flip was absolutely gorgeous! When you see it in the next few weeks, you'll know what I mean. He called it something like QVGA. It's a Toshiba developed display that is very close to OLED. It was stunning to say the least. The rest of my staff were taken back by it. Pictures looked awesome, though the 15 second video portion was a little on the grainy side. It was pretty cool anyhow. If you've seen the A600 or the VGA1000/A620, think of the multishot mode only a little smoother. There was a drop in quality in the playback of a video as opposed to just being in the "My Camcorder" mode and moving the phone around. Everything improves in time, right?!? Zooming was done either from the menu options once the phone was open or using the volume keys on the left side of the phone. It recorded audio pretty well. The menu system looks similar to the T608 where there are about 9 icons on the screen. Size was a little wider than the 5300, though shorter when I held it up to my ear. It was the typical silver outside and a cool blue on the inside along with bright blue LED's for the keypad. Nice tropical screen background reminiscent of the beach scene from the Virtua Fighter series too! I wonder if they'll keep the Toshiba name on the outside of the phone. I asked him how much memory the phone had and he stated that it had something in the 3MB range, which sounded right given its capability.

He also stated that this phone was ready to ship right now and that it could feasibly be available early December. This could be one of those products that launches "covertly," if you will as there is nothing in our system even discussing it just yet. He didn't quote me a price on the phone only saying that it will most likely be in the $299 to $399 range, which should be expected. The Video Mail option will launch on the 24th on a trial basis with usual $5/month add-on for it eventually. Hope this helps, guys. There's a lot to look forward to going forward!