HTC ThunderBolt is officially Verizon's first LTE handset, come March 17th

0. phoneArena posted on 15 Mar 2011, 08:51

Here we have it - the first phone to take advantage of Verizon's expansive 4G LTE network ushers us in a new era, where waiting for pages to download, or hiccups while streaming high-quality video to our handsets should be a thing of the past...

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56. Alex (unregistered) posted on 15 Mar 2011, 23:11 0 0

Man its too bad my upgrade isn't until June. I really hope they still have the Unlimited Data when I am eligible.

59. brikz4real posted on 15 Mar 2011, 23:52 0 0

Droidfreak, your comments are at least ONE hour after the previous comments. Hard to believe they weren't "there" when you switched to this page. But for the record, ( and in case you miss another comment ) the Thunderbolt was already officially announced.

60. bobby (unregistered) posted on 16 Mar 2011, 00:28 0 0

Our local best buy had one demo phone and wasn't suppose to show it but did. Phone looked really good and very fast. Didn't get to see for long but was very impressed!

61. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 16 Mar 2011, 00:37 1 0

Funny thing is how people say the thunderbolt is the evo on verizon. But once they seen the evo 2, it will be the thunderbolt on sprint.

63. snowgator posted on 16 Mar 2011, 04:05 0 0

Kinda funny, and probably true....

66. BradyEvans (unregistered) posted on 16 Mar 2011, 08:53 0 0

"... use the ThunderBolt as a Wi-Fi hotspot, you won't be charged to do so until May 15th"

I've heard conflicting rumors on different sites about this one I have heard is :

A) "They arent charging till the 15th, so if you buy before its including in your $30 a month data"

The other which sounds more realistic is:

B) "free till the 15th but after that you have to pay extra no matter if you bought before or after the 15th"

Opinions?

67. Kory (unregistered) posted on 16 Mar 2011, 09:55 0 0

As much as I want it to be A, its probably going to be B. Though I do get free MiFi through my Pre, but that was more of selling point for it. This is a selling point for MiFi. It doesnt matter though, I already bought PDAnet ha.

68. Droid Expert (unregistered) posted on 16 Mar 2011, 14:34 0 0

The $20/2GB plan is not available, the hotpsot will be for unlimited use until May 15th.

69. ESNM (unregistered) posted on 16 Mar 2011, 15:52 0 0

Sweet phone. Too bad it looks like Portland wont have 4g til 2012. Too steep a price for the phone just to run it on 3g.

70. zach_17 (unregistered) posted on 16 Mar 2011, 19:55 0 0

yeah iphone is overrated. i hate MAC and everything about it. funny thing is droid is linux based. so i will consider myself semi-converted. as i type on my PC lol. thunderbolt will make iphones look like the razr. and it has been officially announced. bestbuy called me monday to let me know my thunderbolt will be availabe thurs the 17th... so official is actually official... this time haha

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