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Verizon finally figured out that the XV6600 can’t be fixed. No matter how many of them they send me, I am going to keep calling them and complaining. So after the last call they agreed to send me a XV6700. What a difference!

First off the phone is smaller. I can actually fit it in my pocket! No need to constantly wear it on my side, proclaiming to the world “look at me, I must be important because I carry one of those big phones”. I hated the size of the XV6600 ever since I got it. The XV6700 is a much more realistic size.

The screen is smaller, but on the upside, it seems like it is sharper, and brighter. I actually like the XV6700 with the smaller screen more.

The keyboard is actually usable! Unlike the XV6600 that you either need to have the worlds smallest fingers to use, or type with your fingernails, the XV6700 contains a full qwerty keyboard that slides out the full length of the phone. But keys are huge (well at least compared to the XV6600). It is very easy to “thumb type” with it. I can’t type nearly as fast as I can on a real keybaord, but I don’t feel myself trying to come up with the shortest email response possible because is it so frustrating to type.

Overall, I would say it seems like the team reponsible for building the XV6700 actually thought about what they were building, unlike the guys that put the xv6600 together.

I have only had it for 3 days now, so the jury is still out on whether or not this one will have the same freezing problems that my other phone did.  If it does, I think I will be very happy with the XV6700.

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