Possibly Delayed until March?

[Dreday24]

Two people already beat me to saying it, but the same screen said 2/14 last week. So I'm not even taking that into my memory banks as information. Just a picture of a thing.

And about the Atrix: If anything, in my opinion, it's a plastic phone with less capabilities and almost the exact same specs. Sounds like another gust in the wind to me. TBolt is FAR superior, if you're only looking at the physical build alone. And then there's the network... Lol.

the atrix has far better specs than the thunderbolt.

they arent "almost" exact.

 

[funguy123us]

no TBolt by 24th, I am getting Atrix

 

[qzic]

Atrix if no TBolt

no TBolt by 24th, I am getting Atrix

Same here, I'm on AT&T now, and was willing to make a move for the TBolt, but I'm not going to wait forever. I don't need to change providers, but I did want to get a new phone. Either will do.

 

[rigorx]

the atrix has far better specs than the thunderbolt.

they arent "almost" exact.

Has an extra 256MB of RAM over the TBolt, and of course another core on the CPU. The "qHD" screen is higher res, but it's a pentile LCD; text quality to be determined at this point I suppose... I'm sure it's good enough.

Locked bootloader drags it way down for me.

 

[TBolt2011]

Has an extra 256MB of RAM over the TBolt, and of course another core on the CPU. The "qHD" screen is higher res, but it's a pentile LCD; text quality to be determined at this point I suppose... I'm sure it's good enough.

Locked bootloader drags it way down for me.

Dual core is virtually useless and a non factor at this point in time, and the screen quality, at least from what I've read, won't be any better than the Bolt. The only thing that's left to make a difference is the RAM, which is actually important.

Still on a bad network, and probably less 'strong' physically.

 

[ShaggyKids]

I don't care for the currently available Android phones. My original decision was 'tween the TB and the Bionic and that isn't available yet anyway. So, either way I play the waiting game.

 

[asianrage]

If they move it to a March release date, I'll be pissed, but I want a good phone with LTE speed, so I'll wait. I'm not going to get the Atrix unless AT&T upgrade their speed to be above 2Mbps.

 

[qzic]

Still on a bad network, and probably less 'strong' physically.

I would have thought people on this forum were less subject to marketing hype. Oh, well. In any given area, any of the networks can be better than the others. On average AT&T works just as well as Verizon. Verizon played funny games as to what qualifies as 3G, and now AT&T is playing similar games with 4G. Neither are great and both stretch the truth like it's silly putty.

 

[ASLgeek]

I would have thought people on this forum were less subject to marketing hype. Oh, well. In any given area, any of the networks can be better than the others. On average AT&T works just as well as Verizon. Verizon played funny games as to what qualifies as 3G, and now AT&T is playing similar games with 4G. Neither are great and both stretch the truth like it's silly putty.

As a former AT&T customer-- it's not just marketing hype. AT&T lacks the service because they don't put the time and money into it. It's just not acceptable that a person can't change altitutdes in their home or go a few inches in their city and not have the same service. At the very least with VZW I get the same service in the same general area.

Naturally you expect weak spots from all carriers but a weak spot shouldn't be the next door neighbors

 

[TBolt2011]

I would have thought people on this forum were less subject to marketing hype. Oh, well. In any given area, any of the networks can be better than the others. On average AT&T works just as well as Verizon. Verizon played funny games as to what qualifies as 3G, and now AT&T is playing similar games with 4G. Neither are great and both stretch the truth like it's silly putty.

Sorry but it becomes more than marketing hype when it's a widely known fact. I will admit that when the same service is active on both carriers (we'll say 4 bars) ATT is faster, but how aften do people get that good of service on ATT? Hell, how often do they get more than half that? Probably well under 50% of the time, as a conservative estimate.

Anyways, this is way off of the original topic. I'd prefer if we got back to my original question instead of getting into a carrier war. Not the intention of my thread. :S

 

[thebizz]

Maybe I should say the same about Verizon im in a weak spot I can make and receive calls but data speeds are bad go a half mile up the road im pulling 1mb down go half mile the other way I get 256k when I get 3g were my wifes 3g get a constant 3g and only drops to edge on occasion shoot I see 1x more than she drops down
Edit
But as for the question ill get a fascinate and wait for the optimus 3d or dualcore non Moto

 

[rigorx]

say what ?

 

[qzic]

I'd prefer if we got back to my original question instead of getting into a carrier war. Not the intention of my thread.

OK, avoiding the carrier war. No, not yet, I've been in areas where AT&T had the only signal, and I've been in areas where Verizon was the only working carrier. Same with Sprint. Oddly, I've never been anywhere where T-Mobile was the only working carrier. I'm sure those places exist though. All of this is anecdotal, and the plural of anecdote isn't data.

Back to the question at hand, I need a new phone. I changed jobs and need to sign on to a corporate carrier (Verizon or AT&T) and can choose from the limited corporate set of phones or bring my own phone with me. I've put off the decision for a while, but I'm running out of time. I've had 5 HTC phones and I've worked with Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, so I'm biased that way, but I have no carrier prefrence. (Peter won't know me from Adam, but he and my former boss were good friends, hence the connection.)

I like flashing new ROMs every few months as it keeps a phone fresh and new feeling. I'm not as interested in a Moto device, but if I need to decide soon...

Actually, maybe I'll just go with a Desire HD from Rogers (works with AT&T 3G and HSPA+). Not exactly a Thunderbolt but close enough.

Q

 

[Droid800]

If it gets pushed back to March, I'm either going to stick with my iPhone or get a Droid X. If I stuck with the iPhone, I'd probably sell it shortly after the T-bolt goes on sale to pick one up at full retail.

 

[odiej34]

If it gets pushed back to March, I'm either going to stick with my iPhone or get a Droid X. If I stuck with the iPhone, I'd probably sell it shortly after the T-bolt goes on sale to pick one up at full retail.

The X2 should be here soon. (hopefully) The current X is fantastic, minus the locked boot loader.

 

[experiment 626]

I saw the "One Mississippi,Two Mississippi" Thunderbolt ad last night. Says "coming soon" at the end so I'm betting the 24th is launch day. We should see the Thunderbolt in this Sunday's BB ad.

 

[DolfanCole]

No TBolt on the 24th, then I'm going to go ahead and get the Merge. Oh, wait ...

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

The only thing I can really do is wait. I'm not going to settle for any non-LTE phone and the Thunderbolt is set to be the first LTE phone to market. So I'm fine with the waiting. I would just rather it not wait too much longer because I'm still planning on getting my wife the 3DS.

 

[DolfanCole]

Or better yet ... since the Thunderbolt is supposed to be the phone after my dream phone, maybe I'll just get my dream phone while I wait.

 

[Treknologist]

I'm getting the TBolt. I want an LTE phone on Verizon and this is it. If I have to wait a little longer, I don't care. I'll get it on a 1 year contract so that I can upgrade next year to whatever new thing is out there (quadcore?).