LG Vus popping up in AT&T stores ahead of launch

Stores have started stocking up on Vus ahead of their launch next week, and we're getting a little photography here to prove it. It looks like this one is an honest-to-goodness CU920, too, meaning it sports MediaFLO reception -- either that, or AT&T was too lazy to put the Mobile TV-less CU915 model in a different package without the "TV" icon on the screen. We're still hearing May 5 is the official launch day for these, but it seems some locations are selling early, so try your luck and let us know how it goes, k?

[Thanks, Kal]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2008 6:47PM]

is there a price set for the VU yet?

[(Unverified) Posted May 14th 2008 4:39PM]

I hope we can order online or have it reserved

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2008 7:33PM]

The LG Vu just arrived in our store (Las Vegas, Nevada) this afternoon from FedEx but we recieved less than 5 at the moment, more to come by Friday I would hope.

We still don't have information on the pricing yet because we are supposed to talk about the phone along with the Samsung Access and Mobi TV in our Saturday morning meeting since the phone doesn't launch until the 6th.

I believe just by looking at other prices that the phone would be -

Full Retail: $450.00
2-year: $299
Mail-In Rebate: $50

Don't know about 1-year since we don't do 1-year (in the COR stores anyway).

I gauged these prices off the current prices of phones in our line up (for this market). The LG Shine goes for $169.99 and the Motorola V9 & Z9 go for $269.99 and then mail-in rebates so I can't see the new LG Vu being less than $299.99 before mail-in rebate.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2008 8:55PM]

full retail is $570 for cu920 and $520 for cu915

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2008 7:31PM]

accessories are coming in too. both the view and the access...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2008 7:32PM]

vu, not view...

[goula Posted Apr 30th 2008 11:16PM]

supposedly the $520 price tag for the 915 is for vu in non tv markets, but how the hell does LG and at&t have the nerve to charge more for that phone than the iPhone? no gps, and with at&t java restrictions, i bet google maps wouldn't work.

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2008 12:38AM]

What restrictions on Java????? there has been no restriction before and there will be no restriction in the future. do you have att????

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2008 9:36AM]

AT&T put Java restrictions on my v3xx. Everytime you want to download any data from the internet you have to allow the transfer. Every time, meaning every time Google Maps wants to refresh or download a new area on a map, you are prompted. It turns out to be every 10 seconds you hit Allow. That's only one example, but I don't know about any phones after that. I have a Tilt now. I had the v3xx but I would lose the AT&T built in java applications by swapping the security file.

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2008 11:31PM]

you call this a restriction. although this is anoying but at least you can download and use java apps. have you tried t-mobile??? now thats a restriction. with t-mobile you can't even connect to the internet with java apps....not to defened att but people are the number one reason for that so called restriction...they download crap to thier phone and when the bill arraive they raise hill to att that they were not worn about accessing the internet..so there you have it..thank you people..thank you very much

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2008 12:27AM]

I really want one of these, but with the newest news of a possibly cheaper 3G iphone, and all these limitations, I'm starting to lose interest.
AT&T has shit timing. They should have released this thing back in January.

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2008 10:54AM]

I agree. :)