Apparently this is new-phone-week, and Verizon isn’t one to be left out of the party.
The next clone of the HTC smartphone, the MDA III, the USStarcom (was Audiovox’s handheld biz), and the recent SprintPCS PPC6601 is the Verizon-labelled XV6600. It sounds like it’ll first be available through their business group, much like the PPC6601 was – at $549.99 with a 2-year customer agreement, it’s on the pricey side, so we’ll wait until it hits with rebates. But it should be available in January.
Just to reiterate for those of you who haven’t read our , the XV6600 phone will be most know for its full QWERTY keyboard that hides away in the back of the phone’s 3.5″ QVGA color LCD on a slide-away panel, making for a slim but fully-capable smartphone. Add in Bluetooth capabilities for devices and syncing with your desktop, calendar, email, etc., and this could be a winner.
We assume the XV6600 is running the same 400MHz XScale chip as its clones, and it has 64MB ROM and 128MB RAM for healthy storage. Plus it has a full SDIO slot, which allows for rather infinite storage, as well as the potential for WiFi using an SDIO card since the XV6600 relies on Verizon’s BroadbandAccess for live networking.
Of course, this being a fully-capable PocketPC phone, you have full access to Windows Mobile applications, such as Pocket versions of Outlook, Excel, Word, Messenger, Internet Explorer, and Media Player. And with Pocket Windows Media Player, you of have a capable media player in your pocket as well, with full support for MP3 and WAV music playback, and viewers for JPEGs, GIFs, BMPs, and more. We assume it’ll handle WMA and WMV files as well, but will have to wait to see.
The PPC6601 unit had an estimated battery life of 3.6 hours talk, 6 days standby – we’ll assume for the moment that the XV6600 should be reasonably close until told otherwise. 
But as always, with a smartphone you tend to use the battery a lot more for non-talk usage, so get yourself an extra car charger and battery.
We’ll let you know as we find out more. Read on for the full release.
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Your article claims the XV6600 has a 640x480 display, but the specs on the next page say QVGA which is 320x200. Whats up with that?
Thanks for pointing that out – an inadvertent error got introduced. It is in fact a QVGA screen, as is the PPC6601… -d
My coworker is an early adopter of this model and found one big problem with this phone… it loses the headset connection when it goes to sleep (between calls). it wakes up when it rings and he has to go through several steps to reset the headset connection. he says he’ll be returning it within the 30-day period if there is no fix.
we have these phones supercharged too… finally… thanks for waiting… bob. see http://video-phones-evdo.com