I'll stick with my 3 year old iPhone. It works fine... and is a marked improvement over my old one. I ran out of string!
Posted on 04/21/2011 6:11:38 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Back when the Verizon iPhone was first announced we assumed that it would easily outsell the HTC Thunderbolt because, well, it's the iPhone. But it looks like we might have been very wrong because according to one analyst the Thunderbolt is beating up the iPhone and taking it's lunch money.
Walter Piecyk, an analyst at BTIG Research, and his team made calls to 150 Verizon stores across 22 US cities and discovered that while the iPhone was outselling the Thunderbolt at 11 percent of the stores, the phones were selling even at 61 percent. Even better for HTC, the Thunderbolt was outselling the iPhone at 28 percent of the stores.
So hey, maybe Verizon really did delay the Thunderbolt because they were afraid it would overshadow the iPhone.
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I think I’ll wait for the Droid Bionic to see what that phone is like before looking at this one.
All droids are wide open to crimeware and Iphones are tracked.
The HTC Thunderbolt does actual 4G. The iPhones are limited to 3G.
Great name, congering images of fighter aircraft and drag race cars. Unfortunately, thunder comes in claps. Lightning comes in bolts.
I'll stick with my 3 year old iPhone. It works fine... and is a marked improvement over my old one. I ran out of string!
Microsoft is calling about a job offer.
I just upgraded my phone to an IPHONE. I looked at the thunderbolt , read about how the battery has lasted about 3 hours before needing charging, and went with the Iphone. I don’t particularly love the IPHONE but really do not like the idea of google knowing every little detail of my life. I am sure an application will come out to block the tracking on the IPHONE,,, gonna be harder to get rid of google..
Where I live there is no 4G coverage and no plans for another year so the issue is a mute point. The real issue is how happy are you with Google not only knowing your location like Apple, but also recording info on all calls and text messages. Add the fact of the information sharing between Google and the Obama Administration and you are screwed if you oppose the administration and the want to neutralize you.
Randall
I like mobile phones that work - sadly most of them don't half the time even in and near big cities. But, IF you can get coverage, they are mighty handy in case of car trouble. That's about all I really need one for. Unfortunately the cost of using them is almost cost prohibitive, and I make very good money - I just lose the big $$ to pay for the wife (soon to be X) to live on one.
Too bad Verizon says different:
"The carrier also disproved speculation that the HTC Thunderbolt was outselling the iPhone and noted that just 260,000 Thunderbolts had been activated in the two weeks the 4G phone was available."—Electronista, Thursday, April 21, 2011
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Posting from a Thunderbolt right now.
Was out of contract and waiting for dual core phones when my Blackberry died. VZ announced that they were killing the one year contracts, which I wanted, so I grabbed the Tbolt.
It’s very fast for a single core, and 4G is very fast, but I’ve been using mostly 3G to save battery life. The other downside is the often quoted 8gb of internal memory works out to about 2.5 gb of user accessible. So 4-5gb’s are set aside for the OS...Weaksauce.
Anyway, my plan is to upgrade next year when the truly monsterous phones hit the streets.
HTC Thunderbolt owner here. It’s my first smartphone, so I don’t really have anything else to go off of, but it’s one awesome piece of tech. Now if I can get the wife out of the 1990s with her flip phone....
This is hugh and series
Verizon adds 2.2 million iPhones in its first quarter
updated 08:50 am EDT, Thu April 21, 2011
Verizon Q1 2011 results have few iPhone details
Verizon posted results on Thursday for its winter quarter that rode heavily on iPhone sales. It added a total of 1.8 million new customers, 906,000 of which were regular cellphone subscribers, but was propped up chiefly by 2.2 million iPhones being activated in the network. The carrier also disproved speculation that the HTC Thunderbolt was outselling the iPhone and noted that just 260,000 Thunderbolts had been activated in the two weeks the 4G phone was available.
The carrier's iPhone activations were less than AT&T's 3.6 million but still gave Apple a major lift during the quarter. It sold 18.65 million total iPhones, significantly higher than the 16 million some analysts had been predicting. A comparison to Verizon's total platform mix wasn't made available, but the number suggests the iPhone may have been Verizon's most popular by a wide margin.
No mention was made of the impact of tablets, either of the iPad 2 or of the Xoom. It's believed the iPad has been outselling the Xoom at Verizon both because of constant sell-outs but also through a much lower $630, contract-free entry price for 3G versus the $800 for Motorola's Android 3.0 hardware.
The company did stress the importance of smartphones and tablets in its results. About 32 percent of its regular subscribers were smartphone users, and data revenue was up 22.3 percent from year to year as more of its customers were opting for data plans. Turnover of old customers for new was also at a very low 1.01 percent, helping support notions that most Verizon iPhone buyers were established customers rather than converts from other networks.
Its subscriber additions were still slightly lower than predicted by industry watchers and gave reason for concern about its ability to compete should AT&T complete its merger with T-Mobile, which would give the two over 130 million subscribers. Verizon may have hope in coming months both for the addition of multiple other 4G phones as well as the possible launch of the iPhone 5 in September. Many are presumed to be waiting for a genuinely upgraded iPhone to either upgrade at Verizon or switch from another carrier.
I had a Motorola Droid which after a year was only giving me five hours of battery life, even with battery life-saving extreme measures. When iPhone was offered on Verizon I switched. I get three days of battery life, something I never had with Droid even when brand new.
Add to that the lack of day-to-day annoyances that built up over time, I am one very happy camper not being stuck with Android.
HTC makes good phones. I have the HTC Evo 4G which is a wonderful gadget.
I really thought hard about going over to apple, but can’t commit yet. My wife has the fruit phone and loves it. Maybe I’ll jump on the 5 if its got enough new features. I would love to enjoy your battery life :)
Get a Tracfone. I’ve used mine for several years and am very pleased with it. No contract, I just buy extra minutes once a year. Very anonymous, pay cash for the phone and minutes, enable it via the Internet with minimal information. No tracking data. Worked out so well paying once what I used to pay in a single month for contract phones, that lots of relatives doing likewise. You want additional gadgets, buy them. If you want a phone that always works anywhere anytime dirt cheap, get a Tracfone.
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