My rooted and rom'd Incredible is keeping me busy till the Thunderbold REALLY comes out. Maybe @ MWC Verizon will finally speak up about whats going on. As soon as i can pre-order it tho Verizon i will.
What astonishes me is that if it's true the TBolt was delayed because of the Mobile Hotspot feature, or any Software issue for that matter, that it has taken them this close to launch to delay it's release. If there is some sort of lingering software issue, clearly they have known about it for a while. Why bother giving companies like Best Buy the date internally? Makes no sense.
Does VZW normally do pre-orders? I don't remember seeing them.
Does VZW normally do pre-orders? I don't remember seeing them.
If Skype isn't ready then that's on Skype. If something is not working properly but all the software is "complete" that's on Verizon or their vendor's QA team. Maybe they should redeploy the idiot at @VerizonWireless to a job that has value, like testing their handsets.
I think VZW was planning on 2/14 for their stores too. Dummy phones with 2/14 as the date? Signage and those same dummy phones showing up this week?
They just seemed to have low confidence on the release.
Nothing, Nothing No news is good news ????
I think a lot of this revolves around the *phone. Apparently you can't even have one delivered till after the 18th so they have a one-week delay on new orders already. IMO Verizon is going to push back the Bolt to give people ample time to buy an *phone.
Hopefully they announce the obvious.
"Today is Valentine's Day, you should all be having sex and not running around like ******s, worrying about a telephone"
I don't think Verizon is going to destroy it. Sure, the iPhone on Verizon is going to change the landscape of Smartphone owners on their network, but it's surely not going to kill Android off by any means. The ones who switch to the iPhone are mostly going to be average consumers, who quite frankly, mostly never understood Android anyway. Many of them used the platform as a holdover until the iPhone or because it was the next big thing.
With that being said, Android still has and will continue to have a huge market. Android has been doing just fine overseas in other markets where the iPhone is sold unlocked and readily available on any carrier, so it will do just fine here.
They aren't going to destroy it, but it's plainly obvious that VZW has found who they believe to be the prettier girl at the party and they will give her the attention first.
Just look at these forums for an examples on how it's damaged... are there lots of posts? Yes. But now the commentary has gone from a very hopeful and probably 2/14 release date to anger over the slippage.
I think what really solidified this was the Best Buy Pre-orders. That gave it an official stamp that while VZW didn't say anything, a company they signed an exclusivity agreement with did. If BB had not taken pre-orders... it'd still be speculation.