Bidding farewell to my T-bolt after getting it day one. Well at least I'm handing it off to my wife who dropped her Fascinate in a creek while hiking. Replacing it with the Rezound which seems to me an under-rated phone.
While it had it's faults (what phone doesn't?) I rather liked my T-bolt. I had few of the issues many reported with the device. But I got lucky I guess, It basically just worked for me. I did end up getting the extended battery shortly after, but honestly it seems there are very few phones I would not get the extended battery for. I could get two solid days of use on the extended and charging became an after thought. I didn't care for the "pregnant" form factor of it and glad my new phone ops for a fully extended back.
I don't abuse my phones by any stretch, but I don't baby them with cases and screen protectors either. My t-bolt looks rather well after a year of use. One or two very hard to see scratches on the screen, but disappear when turned on. The case and body look very good with a quick wipe of a micro-fiber cloth. I did have the peeling on the kickstand, been slowly working on it with a guitar pick.
Likes
I like the heft and feel of it, but I really don't care for the ultra thin super light phones
I really did use the kick stand quite a bit, I will miss it.
I really like Sense, I do turn a bunch of it off (friend stream and the like) but over all I think it's a pretty well laid out overlay.
Even with going to a very fast dual core phone the TB never showed me any lag comparatively. I think it holds up pretty well.
Never any issues with just using it as a phone or using bluetooth, as stated it just worked for me.
Dislikes
I hated the name "Thunderbolt", when asked by folks what phone I have I always spoke very softly "Thunderbolt"
The USB connector on the wrong side of kickstand, I don't care what HTC said, that was a stupid error that someone should have caught in testing.
the capacitive buttons were too bright or wouldn't dim\turn off.
So over all I had a pretty positive experience with the phone, if my wife hadn't dropped hers I'd probably still be using it happily. But I always love a new toy
I'm still looking forward to ICS when it comes out just to see how it improves the phone for my wife.
While it had it's faults (what phone doesn't?) I rather liked my T-bolt. I had few of the issues many reported with the device. But I got lucky I guess, It basically just worked for me. I did end up getting the extended battery shortly after, but honestly it seems there are very few phones I would not get the extended battery for. I could get two solid days of use on the extended and charging became an after thought. I didn't care for the "pregnant" form factor of it and glad my new phone ops for a fully extended back.
I don't abuse my phones by any stretch, but I don't baby them with cases and screen protectors either. My t-bolt looks rather well after a year of use. One or two very hard to see scratches on the screen, but disappear when turned on. The case and body look very good with a quick wipe of a micro-fiber cloth. I did have the peeling on the kickstand, been slowly working on it with a guitar pick.
Likes
I like the heft and feel of it, but I really don't care for the ultra thin super light phones
I really did use the kick stand quite a bit, I will miss it.
I really like Sense, I do turn a bunch of it off (friend stream and the like) but over all I think it's a pretty well laid out overlay.
Even with going to a very fast dual core phone the TB never showed me any lag comparatively. I think it holds up pretty well.
Never any issues with just using it as a phone or using bluetooth, as stated it just worked for me.
Dislikes
I hated the name "Thunderbolt", when asked by folks what phone I have I always spoke very softly "Thunderbolt"
The USB connector on the wrong side of kickstand, I don't care what HTC said, that was a stupid error that someone should have caught in testing.
the capacitive buttons were too bright or wouldn't dim\turn off.
So over all I had a pretty positive experience with the phone, if my wife hadn't dropped hers I'd probably still be using it happily. But I always love a new toy
I'm still looking forward to ICS when it comes out just to see how it improves the phone for my wife.
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