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jbh00jh said:
A big change on CBS since Wednesday night.
Have not seen 1 Tbolt commercial tonight.
Have not seen one on tv all day. Oh well.
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And the prior week it had been on all the time and we didnt get it this week so ... not sure there needs to be a connection at this point - good or bad.
 
matt0715 said:
i just called my best buy... they said march 4th
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I have extreme high hopes this launches next week
all the signs were getting today say its going to, i mean all the hands on videos from random users, the training event on Wednesday, the pricing showing up on HTC's website today, along with other stuff such as Signage arriving at BestBuy and another sighting tonight at HTC's meetup with Engadget
 
NCX Designs said:
I have extreme high hopes this launches next week
all the signs were getting today say its going to, i mean all the hands on videos from random users, the training event on Wednesday, the pricing showing up on HTC's website today, along with other stuff such as Signage arriving at BestBuy and another sighting tonight at HTC's meetup with Engadget
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it must be this week. im sure it will be. :D
 
matt0715 said:
ok then, when the thunderbolt comes out you will regret it :D
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Most definitely, i've been fighting the urge to just get the Inspire 4G (even though its slower *Fake 4G*

LTE is not in my area yet, so that wouldn't be my reason for the ThunderBolt alone

EVO 4G might get discontinued and be very useless soon if the rumors of Sprint switching to LTE are true, there in a bad bind with Clearwire's WiMAX

so all those EVO 4G owners will be left without 4G unless they can figure out a way to still have wimax after the LTE transition

but it was dumb for them to do wimax in the first place just because they wanted to be first to market with 4G and all that, unfortunately for them, WiMAX is quickly becoming yesterdays news with that LTE Sprint rumor floating around
 
NCX Designs said:
Most definitely, i've been fighting the urge to just get the Inspire 4G (even though its slower *Fake 4G*

LTE is not in my area yet, so that wouldn't be my reason for the ThunderBolt alone

EVO 4G might get discontinued and be very useless soon if the rumors of Sprint switching to LTE are true, there in a bad bind with Clearwire's WiMAX

so all those EVO 4G owners will be left without 4G unless they can figure out a way to still have wimax after the LTE transition

but it was dumb for them to do wimax in the first place just because they wanted to be first to market with 4G and all that, unfortunately for them, WiMAX is quickly becoming yesterdays news with that LTE Sprint rumor floating around
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I would never do it. Been with VZW for 9 years :rolleyes:
 
If you check out the XDA development forum, the HTC Inspire 4G, is fairly difficult as of now to root. You have create some kind of gold card in order to root it, and judging by what others who have posted on the forum, is not an easy process.

Considering that the Thunderbolt and the Inspire are fairly similar devices, I wonder whether we will have to use this same gold card method in order to root the Thunderbolt when it comes out. I believe that there will be more dev for the Thunderbolt than the Inspire, but now that we're so caught up in the excitement of the Thunderbolt's release, there still might be a lot more work involved getting the phone S-off like the Inspire is now.

Any thoughts?
 
this is all so sad. i am no longer excited for the phone. they have spent every emotion and treated their customers terribly. i will get the phone when it comes out, but at this point it feels a bit tainted. i do not see what they gain in any aspect by not communicating with the customers.
 
theacoustician said:
3:45 ... he takes the back off to put in the battery.
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As I said prior the existence of a back batter cover does not a priori mean that the device can not be a unibody type construction. I have not seen a video that show a disassebly. I think the only way to be 100% sure on this detail is a disassembly.
 
swamp said:
As I said prior the existence of a back batter cover does not a priori mean that the device can not be a unibody type construction. I have not seen a video that show a disassebly. I think the only way to be 100% sure on this detail is a disassembly.
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i DIDN'T say it wasn't Unibody, but the Inspire 4G is made from a solid aluminum block, it was even put in the press release when they announced it

the THunderBolt yes, it has a battery cover, but the part around the kickstand and under the battery may be Unibody unluminum material, but its not a Unibody design, a unibody design is when its made from a solid piece, just like (God forbid) the Apple macbooks... blech...

this is the first HTC device to use the material
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bScdnDnTWc

The HTC Legend

Update: apparently the Incredible S has this (how the heck do you access the battery if its got no slots? this could be like the ThunderBolt (behind the battery cover aluminum body)
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/1...-4-inch-display-with-unibody-aluminum-design/

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Dear God, I hate apple more so than ever now...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Thunderbolt+-+unibody&aq=f
 
NCX Designs said:
I think its there focus to fix since the whole world and there dog were bitching about the battery life on the Incredible / EVO in the first place, don't think they want another year of that, and it was touted to have atleast 5hrs talk time (notice they don't have the battery life info posted on the HTC website yet? but Inspire 4G had theres listed right after it was announced
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I do not think it is a battery issue. As I've posted on prior the TB Snapdragon uses the 45nm manufacturing process ("2nd gen") as opposed to the earlier (also 1GHz chip) in the Evo 4G CPU. The EVO 4G Snapdragon is 65nm process and "1st gen". Comparing equivalent Snapdragons in that entire line up of chips between the 45/65 Qualcomm stated that this change provides a 30% lower dynamic power consumption and a much lower standby power as well (at the same clock speed). The battery capacity reduction from Evo 4G to Thunderbolt is only about 7%. This guarantees overall longer times between charges with the TB (of course under identical use). Adding an aftermarket higher capacity battery should be icing on the cake.

That being said I suppose something Verizon specifically has done could have actually shortened battery life. Either way the device absolutely should have much better battery life than the Evo 4G.

I think I have also posted this as well but BB did post the TB talk time at 6.3h. See image below. Can you believe anything from BB though, that is another question entirely.
 

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NCX Designs said:
i DIDN'T say it wasn't Unibody, but the Inspire 4G is made from a solid aluminum block, it was even put in the press release when they announced it

the THunderBolt yes, it has a battery cover, but the part around the kickstand and under the battery may be Unibody unluminum material, but its not a Unibody design, a unibody design is when its made from a solid piece, just like (God forbid) the Apple macbooks... blech...

this is the first HTC device to use the material
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bScdnDnTWc

The HTC Legend
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Mole;)
 
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