Lebowski13
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As a Marketing strategy, you're right on. They wouldn't confuse the market...however, iPhone and Droid, while both smartphones, are two completely different customers. People looking for the Bionic or TB would have no interest in an iPhone, generally. An iPhone is a mass market smartphone for idiots...also the iPhone coming to VZW is not LTE! So I think it's far more important for them to hit the market with an LTE phone (TB or Bionic) in the long run. iPhone customers will come either way.
Been looking for tbolt news and found some interesting stuff posted in another forum.
Next is about the tbolt release date. Tbolt2011 said he heard from all the Verizon employees at his store that it would be released on Feb. 11th. There is a thread over at Android Central that's got a lot of info pointing to that being true or close to it. To sum it up, there are three dates that are prevalent, Feb. 10th, 11th, or 14th. The supposed reason for coming out at the same time as the iphone is that they want to see how the two stack up to each other. Here's the link to the thread if you're interested.
[Unconfirmed] Thunderbolt in early February - Android Forums
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is NO WAY Verizon would launch their first LTE device against the iPhone. Why spend all that money getting the iPhone and then put it up against the first LTE phone. iPhone would destroy TB in sales, and the TB would be bogo in a month. Verizon doesn't want that! I mean seriously, VZW is already running ads for iPhone, they've got the price set and its on their website... they have done none of that for the TB.
I am pretty damn certain that the TB will release either the last week of Feb. or the first week of March..... "something" tells me it'll be Feb. 24th.
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Hey, I'm with you, I'm leaning towards Feb 24th myself, but I've also heard a lot of talk lately about Feb 14th being the date. Maybe that's just pre-order, not sure. You would think that if they were releasing that close together, we probably would have heard something more concrete by now on the TB date.
As a Marketing strategy, you're right on. They wouldn't confuse the market...however, iPhone and Droid, while both smartphones, are two completely different customers. People looking for the Bionic or TB would have no interest in an iPhone, generally. An iPhone is a mass market smartphone for idiots...also the iPhone coming to VZW is not LTE! So I think it's far more important for them to hit the market with an LTE phone (TB or Bionic) in the long run. iPhone customers will come either way.