HTC Thunderbolt Release Date

[bp328i]

With the ho-hum specs of the TB, each day its delayed is another day closer to EOL....

Seriously folks, with those specs, why is there so much interest here? 4g? HTC Sense? I'm curious why more people aren't waiting for a true next-gen phone with all of their dual-core goodness?

I think when iPhone 5 and Bionic are out, the TB becomes an Eris.
So, you'll have 3 months before obsolesence.

For me, 2 words:

Unlocked bootloader.

I'm still using the OG Droid (running gingerbread stable at 1.1ghz) and it still holds it's own so I don't see the TB being obsolete in 3 months. I would have waited till the Bionic but Motorola locking down their bootloaders has turned me off them.

 

[jcbsides]

With the ho-hum specs of the TB, each day its delayed is another day closer to EOL....

Seriously folks, with those specs, why is there so much interest here? 4g? HTC Sense? I'm curious why more people aren't waiting for a true next-gen phone with all of their dual-core goodness?

I think when iPhone 5 and Bionic are out, the TB becomes an Eris.
So, you'll have 3 months before obsolesence.

I have a Voyager. I don't need to have the newest thing, so after the TB I don't think I'll buy anything for a couple of years. It's great for my needs.

Im with you, I have an LG Dare, this will be my first smartphone, I could honestly care less about most of the specs, if it wasn't for the possibly of getting 4G for the same price, I'd be getting a X tomorrow

Yeah, I was ready to get on the iPhone train and then I did some more research and decided Android was more for me. I was also ready to get another kind of Android but I thought if I was going to start my smart phone career I would like to start with the newest phone. The TB looks great.

 

[ScarletBuckeye]

and to UNC about the TB becoming obsolete, you could say the same thing about the bionic and such once the new wave of phones come out, after 6 months almost all phones will be come old

 

[bp328i]

and to UNC about the TB becoming obsolete, you could say the same thing about the bionic and such once the new wave of phones come out, after 6 months almost all phones will be come old

So true but the good thing about the TB is it has been rooted already and as such you can update the software prior to it being released to the masses. While the Bionic will have to wait for Motorola.

 

[Martin030908]

with an unlocked bootloader potentially, and root already attained... the TB will have a long life.

Dual core won't truly be taken advantage of until the OS is written with it in mind... so a single is by no means obsolete.

 

[mjforte]

To me, if you have a strong dev community out there that supports your phone, it makes the life of your phone much longer. I mean look at the OG Droid for example. Still a very active dev community for a phone that is 1.5 years old. I would still keep my Droid if it had 512mb of RAM as opposed to 256. I mean it can be overclocked to 1.2ghz to keep up with newer phones so no problem there, just not enough memory. That's why I'm getting the Thunderbolt. The processor in it has already been shown to be pretty overclockable, and it's not locked down.

 

[bp328i]

To me, if you have a strong dev community out there that supports your phone, it makes the life of your phone much longer. I mean look at the OG Droid for example. Still a very active dev community for a phone that is 1.5 years old. I would still keep my Droid if it had 512mb of RAM as opposed to 256. I mean it can be overclocked to 1.2ghz to keep up with newer phones so no problem there, just not enough memory. That's why I'm getting the Thunderbolt. The processor in it has already been shown to be pretty overclockable, and it's not locked down.

Exactly my feelings...well said!

 

[harshpatel11]

DROID X2 Pictures and Specs Surface: Dual-core Processor, 1GB RAM, and qHD Screen Included - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

 

[mjforte]

DROID X2 Pictures and Specs Surface: Dual-core Processor, 1GB RAM, and qHD Screen Included - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Ehh on the DX2. No LTE, no FFC, and it looks exactly the same as the DX, minus the camera button. I am however interested in the Droid 3, but hate the fact that rumors say it will not be LTE.

 

[Martin030908]

DROID X2 Pictures and Specs Surface: Dual-core Processor, 1GB RAM, and qHD Screen Included - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Ehh on the DX2. No LTE, no FFC, and it looks exactly the same as the DX, minus the camera button. I am however interested in the Droid 3, but hate the fact that rumors say it will not be LTE.

not to mention locked bootloader and no root once GB hits.

 

[bp328i]

DROID X2 Pictures and Specs Surface: Dual-core Processor, 1GB RAM, and qHD Screen Included - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

• NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core 1GHz processor
• 1GB RAM
• QHD LCD Display - 540 x 960 Resolution (Same as Motorola Bionic)
• 3G Only – No LTE/4G
• 8MP Rear Facing Camera (No Front Cam)
• Froyo (Android 2.2) – Could get Gingerbread (Adnroid 2.3) before launch
• New Moto Blur (Same as Droid Bionic)
• FM Radio
• Locked/Encrypted BootLoader
• Launch in Q2 of 2011
• No Hardware Camera button

No thank you...

 

[mjforte]

Yeah that locked bootloader really turns me away from any of Moto's future offerings. Interesting though that they said they would try to work something out about it. But they could just be covering themselves over that nasty comment they made about buying elsewhere if you want custom ROMs.

 

[smokiedabong]

Verizon HTC Thunderbolt STORE DISPLAY Phone & Poster - eBay (item 280628496778 end time Mar-12-11 17:16:24 PST)

LMFAO!

CarbonCase should buy this and build a nice carbon case for TB .

 

[ScarletBuckeye]

I prob won't try to root my phone til about a year with it (im gettin 2 year contract) I have a pretty low IQ when it comes to how phones work (seeing as i've only used brick phones) so I'm happy with just using all the normal capabilities of a smartphone, then once I become more familiar with the phone and how it works, then I'll prob root it so I can enjoy it even more

 

[Martin030908]

Yeah that locked bootloader really turns me away from any of Moto's future offerings. Interesting though that they said they would try to work something out about it. But they could just be covering themselves over that nasty comment they made about buying elsewhere if you want custom ROMs.

rumors point that Moto's offering to 'work' with dev's will be another Google experience phone, similar to how the D1 is/was.

They'll probably lock down every offering they have and leave one device open to save face.... that's my guess. But I doubt we'll ever see a device from Moto like the OG Droid.