Thunderbolt Pre Announcement Waiting Room & Availability Thread.

[funguy123us]

This by no means official but if it becomes available at 7 AM. Can I say, I told you so?

 

[green77]

Nice work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[I am Fake Jesus]

hahaha, u can say watever u want if i get my phone. i wont listen as ill be very busy

 

[biff6789]

I'm still thinking this rep has the older information, which was that it was SUPPOSED to drop on the 14th... but we have a lot of word going around now that it had to be bumped back to the 24th due to the LTE handoff issue that was just barely fixed

I would love to be proven wrong, though

 

[ckrenek23]

Was in my local verizon retailer and there was already a dummy unit in there, only a matter of time

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[ythot26]

doubtful, but I'll eat crow tommorow if true.
However, I'd rename the title of this post... it's not really breaking news if its something we've heard time and time again...

 

[funguy123us]

I think you should get up at 3am just so we can laugh at you... lol

And there are 4 LTE phones, not 3... Bolt, Revolution, LG Phone, and Bionic.

Common htowngtr, that 3 AM remark was for owners for i*hone.

 

[panicprone77]

I think they will announce it tomorrow but I don't think it will be available tomorrow. Especially after Verizon said they will have a pre-order for it as well.

 

[blizz419]

WWW.androidcentral.com

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oh i didn't notice it when i seen that post on the merge earlier that makes me also wonder about the $250 price for 2 year

 

[upz3]

I think they will announce it tomorrow but I don't think it will be available tomorrow. Especially after Verizon said they will have a pre-order for it as well.

Verizon never outright told us they were having a pre-order.....

 

[jd10984]

Not happening.. Best case is we get an announcement.

 

[SFGiants 2010]

Heres a chat I had about an hour ago:

Brandon: Hello. Thank you for visiting our chat service. May I help you with your order today?

Brandon: In an effort to better assist you are you an existing customer?

Jordan: Yes I am

Brandon: How can I assist you this evening?

Jordan: I would like to upgrade to a new phone

Brandon: I would be glad to assist you in upgrading to a new phone.

Brandon: Have you selected a phone to upgrade to?

Jordan: And in today's Best Buy ad I saw a phone called the HTC Thunderbolt for verizon

Jordan: I want this phone

Brandon: the thunderbolt hasn't currently been released it would be released on tomorrow but I would be glad to assist you in upgrading to another phone.

Jordan: It will be released tomorrow?

Brandon: What key features in a cell phone are most important to you?

Jordan: I live in San Francisco and was told there would be 4g coverage here

Brandon: Yes that is correct it isn't currently being offered until tomorrow.

Jordan: That is why I am interested in the Thunderbolt

Jordan: The ad claimed it will be 4g, is this correct?

Brandon: Yes the thunderbolt would be a 4G phone.

Jordan: Do you have any information regarding 4g data plans?

Jordan: Will it remain 29.99 like I am paying now?

Brandon: Currently you would be able to keep your current data plan of $29.99 for unlimited data.

Jordan: So will I be able to get this phone from a Verizon Wireless store tomorrow?

Brandon: Yes that is correct.

Jordan: Okay then I will wait until tomorrow...thank you for your help

 

[thedeceiver]

Guys.. I doubt the Sunday night crowd at VZW are the best and the brightest.

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[SFGiants 2010]

Guys.. I doubt the Sunday night crowd at VZW are the best and the brightest.

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Agreed. I'm still holding on to the 24th...but just in case this is true I'm calling my vzw store first thing in the morning.

 

[SUB-dawg]

how do you get to verizon chat?

 

[upz3]

I have more hope for Feb 17th. If it's announced with a date tomorrow with a preorder I feel like it makes more sense for 17th release.

 

[ythot26]

lol doing chats now are worthless. they'll tell us when they tell us, we're not going to learn anything from a rep online.

 

[jd10984]

Dang now 2 people are getting told it's tomorrow? It makes no sense to me, Verizon would have announced it already if this is the case.. Granted I will be quite excited if this actually happens but I am not getting my hopes up at all (been there, done that enough haha)

 

[blizz419]

where is the chat option on VZW website? figure i might as well get on it and see what i get told lol

 

[NCX]

There's always the chance of an announcement tomorrow or a pre-order but not shipping, but of course we all could be wrong

as far as stores having marketing materials such as dummy units, that doesn't matter, all the stores received them as was stated by the delay documents that they would still receive the materials but not to display them until the phone launches, which is currently TBD. Tomorrow would be a nice pre-order day though for Verizon, but that would suck for me though since i work till 11am...