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[RELEASED] The 4.3 inch "Thunderbolt" aka "Mecha" aka "Incredible HD" from HTC...beyond coming soon!

Lucidot said:
So what you are saying is that if you owned your own business and you had a product that stood to make your company a pant load of money you wouldn't market it just a little more than the rest?

They stand to gain huge market share over AT&T with their iPhone. It's just absolutely nothing more than extremely smart business on their part.
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I agree with you 100%. But I don't think the iPhone sales turned out to be as high as projected
 
You have to understand though. It's about market share as well.

They are stealing customers from a competitor by the buckets full and even if they were taking a loss on the iPhone it will pay them back in spades in the long run.
 
jfoey22 said:
You can get a bigger mah battery in the same form factor.
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I hope you're not using the seidio slim battery as an example.

I don't know if battery density can simply be increased to yield a greater mAh per volume, else we would've seen a greater variance in mAh among stock batteries (of similar volume) of various manufacturers.
 
mdeblaz said:
I agree with you 100%. But I don't think the iPhone sales turned out to be as high as projected
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Lucidot said:
You have to understand though. It's about market share as well.

They are stealing customers from a competitor by the buckets full and even if they were taking a loss on the iPhone it will pay them back in spades in the long run.
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Going by Apple Stores not being swamped vs. going by Verizon's PR, the analyses add up differently.

There's a lot of spin to it all - one story claims they're taking a bigger bite out of Android than ATT - although the two aren't mutually exclusive, btw.

I'd say the differentiation of the iPhone is prejudicial against Android.

Sprint _way_ underestimated the demand for the Evo and people had trouble getting them for quite some time (over month-long waits in many cases for months on end).

I certainly hope that Verizon doesn't pull the same stunt - but their lack of tie-in to HTC's clear Evo reference: this isn't the phone you wanted, it's the one after that - doesn't bode terribly well.

Verizon just wants monthly subscribers.

Who knows? Maybe they're not meeting their iPhone buy commitments and that's why the Bolt is late? Could be.
 
Those kooks over at DF that are super,super moderators that had the inside info on the announcement yesterday (A text from vzw corporate ) , they backslid and said today for sure , what time ? :D
 
jbh00jh said:
Those kooks over at DF that are super,super moderators that had the inside info on the announcement yesterday (A text from vzw corporate ) , they backslid and said today for sure , what time ? :D
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It's 6:45 am out here. :D

But if you're asking if they've updated their projected time, I'd call that super, super brave. ;)
 
Lucidot said:
Where are you seeing these ads at? I was just on that site and didn't see a single ad for anything.
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There is a link to BGR on my pc home page and they had a link to the story about Google maps 5.2 . When I clicked on it there were ads all around the google story. I just went back and they are still still there.
 
jbh00jh said:
There is a link to BGR on my pc home page and they had a link to the story about Google maps 5.2 . When I clicked on it there were ads all around the google story. I just went back and they are still still there.
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Ok. I had to use IE to see them. Must have ads blocked in FF.
 
Lucidot said:
You have to understand though. It's about market share as well.

They are stealing customers from a competitor by the buckets full and even if they were taking a loss on the iPhone it will pay them back in spades in the long run.
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Can you tell and iPhone from Verizon apart from AT&T in passing (other than the network being shown on the screen)? Just wondering, because here in NYC it doesn't seem like I see that many new iPhone users while riding the subway. And of my friends who already had an iPhone with AT&T, I don't know any of them that has switched to Verizon.
 
@dempsey2284
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@black_man_x so the phones are ready to go you know that for a fact? I am hearing the 10th but you are more reliable!! Is the phone sweet?
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@dempsey2284 10th or 17th , april.. no clue.. out of my hands. now it marketing, inventory and those that make the final call. hardware done
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@dempsey2284
David Dempsey
@black_man_x but its a pretty solid phone though right? Is it better than the droid x I have now?
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@dempsey2284 LTE is the real star of the show...
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@dempsey2284
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@black_man_x ok but you said the sammy and the bionic are both better?
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@dempsey2284 better? in that its a lil faster.. has better data both 3 and 4g..video chat.. if thats what u looking for then yes..
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@dempsey2284
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@black_man_x when are the sammy and bionic gonna be released? Yeah I heard the screen is nice on sammy. I hate moto blur sense is nice
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@dempsey2284 sammy has better screen.. bionic has faster proc.. if u dont NEED a device then wait till all players are on site..
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@black_man_x
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@dempsey2284 its actually not all that.. I think the issues with the launch and the craziness have jaded me.. its an evo so still amazing
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Source (10:10 PM): 10th is right. Just got off a conference call with [Some partner] things are getting chippy around here. Someone’s more impatient than you — We heard HTC threatened to pull all its ads if we don’t announce a date before Saturday
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Interesting....
 
I was just reading on that site as well...I'm headed to DC for the weekend, was hoping to have this phone before my trip, but doesn't look like that is going to happen.
 
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