To start, I am VERY happy with my Thunderbolt...and have been since day 1.
I read this though, and to be honest, it's pretty much right on the money. Granted, the MR2 update fixed the reboot issue for most of the folks that we're experiencing that, but it was still a real problem that frankly, took HTC/Verizon way too long to fix. (And I didn't even have a problem). The problem may be "fixed" now, but the bad press that the reboot issues created can be hard to recover from.
4G is super fast, but it really does just suck the battery right out of it.
Now, if I were writing a blog post about the five Android phones to avoid, I definitely would NOT put the Thunderbolt on it...in fact I'd be more likely to put it on the top 5 I'd recommend...I'm just saying that I don't necessarily disagree with the points that were presented.
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article that was linked to, however, it just the rant of someone who has obviously had abnormally negative experience. With every other phone on the list, he based his reasoning for it being there on pretty much specs alone, and then ranks the TB #1 based on his personal experience. If you're gonna do a list like that, either use every phone for a while and base your ratings on the experience, or rate the phones on specs alone, but don't mix and match just to "create" an arena to complain about your current phone. To even lump the TB with some of these other devices is like comparing apples and oranges. Oh, and the "fauxG" thing? Yeah, we get it, you came up with a clever name...for a network that actually DOES live up to it's advertised speeds? Sorry, the "fauxG" thing made sense for the Inspire review, but it really doesn't fit for Verizon's LTE.