HTC Thunderbolt hands on video [UPDATED]

[edoublediz]

edizzle, chill out dude

The power of the Tegra 2 will be more apparent with gingerbread, but even so with gaming. The GPU is significantly better in the nVidia platform, and gaming with a dedicated 2nd CPU will be impressive. Not to say that it won't be good on T-Bolt, but it will be better on nVidia.

And as I said in another thread, the Bionic will be more "future proof" than the T-Bolt. I'd def sign up for 1yr with TB but I wouldn't be worried about 2yr with Bionic.

chill out? im not worked up. im just asking someone to back up their trollish remarks. why would you come on the thunderbolt forum and say the following.


********Duh really still nothing new on.HTC part you cab surf and talk on 3g cdma VZW just never got around to doing it. Like I said this will be on the bionic and any new phone that has the new cdma chip in.it. thunderchicken is already out classed by LG , MOTO, and Samsung. Unless u buy on one year contract or buy out right you'll be on a 2010model phone with some minor 2011tweeks.********

it is not even true! Has anybody confirmed the bionic has the new CDMA chip with SVDO capability. i was also asking how he thinks the LG and samsung outclass the thunderbolt. am i the only one that wants to know why? oh well.

 

[edoublediz]

Not going to get into pisssing contest over this. We can argue over this and never get no where.



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pissing match? way to bow gracefully! you came on here and posted inciting paragraph. i replied and asked why you feel lg and samsung outclass the tbolt and where you heard that Bionic will have same 3G voice/data feature that Tbolt has. you flat out say the Bionic has it. not that you think it will have it or anything. how is that a pissing contest? i just want to know how you came to that conclusion.

 

[rigorx]

Few things:

1) The 1 year agreement options on Verizon are great. What I don't think I've seen anyone mention yet, is that 1 year agreements are actually only 10 months. Buy a hot new phone at release for $269 (Full price $599), and you can totally sell that phone 10 months later for at least what you paid for it. Check e B a y and see what off contract Droid X's & even D Inc's in full working clean ESN conditions STILL sell for... surprising!

2) If you're debating a 1 year vs 2 year contract because of the $70 price difference... perhaps you're splurging for a phone you really shouldn't be.

3) Unfortunately based on leaked HTC Thunderbolt pricing, likely just cause it's VZW's "first" 4G device and there is a lot of hype for it, the pricing shows right now as $249 for a 2 year, and $349 for a 1 year! All prior high end phones that I've seen launch in the past year, were only $199 for 2 years & $269 for a 1 year. Bummer. This price hike may also be to help VZW recoup for their 4G LTE network deployment. To me, I don't have too big of a problem with the price hike, as these super phones are becoming seriously fast & powerful with their abilities. Companies need to not forget to make some decent mid range devices as well for folks with smaller budgets.

 

[leehblanc]

I have to go with edizzle on this one. I haven't seen any evidence that dual (duel is something you do with pistols, BTW) core will be of benefit on anything short of Honeycomb. I use my phone for web browsing, music, video, pictures and casual gaming. On most of those features, you could be running them on Big Blue and not notice the difference, because the network is going to be the bottleneck, NOT the processor.

As far as Samsung outclassing the TBolt, good luck... you'll be running Froyo on it till the day you retire it. That is unless they ship it with Eclair, which wouldn't shock me.

 

[zero neck]

if you want a samsung device I'd wait and see what the galaxy s2's are like.

 

[anon(75289)]

I'm guessing the bionic and the LG WON'T have an SVDO chip in them, they will just have the regular EVDO one.

At the Verizon CES keynote, durring the Q&A at the end, a blogger asked if ALL the new 4g phones would support data + voice at the same time to which Verizon responded, "No." We already know for a fact that the TBolt does, so that means at least one of them doesn't, and I bet it's the bionic.

 

[colesl4w]

I've heard nothing to suggest that any phone but the TB will support it.

 

[anon(75289)]

I've heard nothing to suggest that any phone but the TB will support it.

Yep, me either. And I don't think any of them will. Only the TB!

 

[Jude526]

what a gorgeous phone and a whole lot more!

 

[mclarryjr]

Let's all try to stay on topic here this thread is discussing the video not comparing phones.

Thanks

 

[joncat84]

What hurts with the 1 year plan this time around is the reasoning with regards to the $250 for this phone. To me it's still crap that Verizon is selling this at $250. I can't remember the last phone that went for $250 on Verizon base. Maybe the original Droid but in the last year overall no phone went for $250. Evo was even $200.

Verizon needs this to be $200, especially with the Atrix. iPhone aside, the fact that the Atrix is being subsidized for $150 and that it's "4G" is huge.

What should be $270 for 1-year is now $320 and IDK if I want to pay $320 for the device. What will suck even more is if Verizon releases the Bionic at $200.

I will get this on 2-year though because I know I won't need duel core anytime soon, and instead of the extra $70 for the one year, I'll spend it on that extended battery HTC is releasing for it.

The iPhone 32gb will be 300 so the t bold with 40 gb seems reasonable at 250. Also I know for a fact ATT won't be selling the atrix for 150 on a 2 year. The 150 price you are talking about is a screen shot from amazon who always sells phones cheaper.

 

[htowngator]

I would bet that if they set the precedent at $250 for T-Bolt that the Bionic won't be $200.

 

[kmully]

Haven't read through the 10+ pages of comments... anyone have the links to the data showing Thunderbolt outscores Bionic in all the various performance tests?

Is this accurate?

A fair representation since the Bionic at CES was an incomplete device (or that's what I think I read...)?

That would definitely change my mind if the Thunderbolt is that much better even with a single core. Hmmm.

 

[06cbrf4i]

Could be a staged video to boost sales. I would like to see the scores in various performance tests. Even if that was staged I would still like to have one. To bad my contract isn't up until August of 2012.

 

[moosc]

Guess we can wait for atrix at end of year to buy on vzw. At this rate VZW have all super android phones on there network

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[thebizz]

Haven't read through the 10+ pages of comments... anyone have the links to the data showing Thunderbolt outscores Bionic in all the various performance tests?

Is this accurate?

A fair representation since the Bionic at CES was an incomplete device (or that's what I think I read...)?

That would definitely change my mind if the Thunderbolt is that much better even with a single core. Hmmm.

it didn't and wont the thunderbolt gets around 1900 while the bionic will get anywhere from 2200-2500 thats just what I've seen but that doesnt mean the tb isnt great i think it would do well on a 1 year contract

 

[htowngator]

it didn't and wont the thunderbolt gets around 1900 while the bionic will get anywhere from 2200-2500 thats just what I've seen but that doesnt mean the tb isnt great i think it would do well on a 1 year contract

Agreed. I wouldn't dare do 2 years on TBolt, but I would consider it on Bionic.

To me, Bionic with the dual-core T2 and DDR2 memory has a lot more "future proofing" than the T-Bolt. By that I mean it will be a viable phone spec for more than one year. I think the T-Bolt will be yesterday's news by the end of summer.

 

[javadandy]

Could be a staged video to boost sales. I would like to see the scores in various performance tests. Even if that was staged I would still like to have one. To bad my contract isn't up until August of 2012.

I ponder this because I read on Engadget that Skype is disabled:

HTC Thunderbolt rumored to be hitting Best Buy February 14th, sans mobile hotspot or Skype video? -- Engadget

What does all of this mean in light of the videos that are out there?
I've watched several - and the phone looks really nice , especially since I will be coming from a Storm 1. I just want it to have all of the parts to a video chatting phone. I can use wi-fi, I don't care. I'm in KC so I can use it's 4G-ness at the airport - and I will have 2 years to get all the parts to work as long as all of the parts are there. I remember the Samsung Galaxy series and their rumored front facing camera, only to have the Verizon version be without this feature. So if I get the phone and I am new to Android, what's to say that I cannot find a way to use this feature? Would anyone care to weigh in?

 

[rigorx]

I remember the Samsung Galaxy series and their rumored front facing camera, only to have the Verizon version be without this feature. So if I get the phone and I am new to Android, what's to say that I cannot find a way to use this feature? Would anyone care to weigh in?

Keep in mind, this is the cooked into HTC Sense version of Skype that is going to be delayed. You can still do video calling from day 1 via a download from the Android Market. Tango & Yahoo IM both have nice video calling capability, while I hear Qik is slightly worse.

 

[Raptor007]

HTC wanted to get this out a bit, and maybe they decided to hold back the Skype part and we will get it as an OTA in a month or so. Either case HTC isn't going to drop the ball on this and Verizon wants data use $$$$$$.