To expect this to be dual core was a bit of a stretch ok. But you mean to tell me they shelved this phone from its Nov release to January or whenever for LTE? No updated screen, no Gingerbread, no updated RAM, same battery. And they didn't either bother to give it a 1.2 ghz processor.
So yes, for many this was a disappointment. If you knew this all along. Then good for you. Wish you would've shared this information with us 6 months ago so we wouldn't have waited.
I know a guy who works for Verizon and, while he himself wasn't a tester, a few of his friends in the company were and he got to actually see a working prototype of this phone way back in Fall of last year. The interesting thing he mentioned was that the test units of this phone back then were only 3G capable, and could not run on 4G LTE
Perhaps Verizon originally intended to launch this phone back in November before the holidays (which would have made it a monster of a phone back then), but then decided at the last minute before mass production to sit on it another few months in order to get it ready for when the LTE network went live. If true, it would explain why this device has been held onto for so long (prototypes debuted last August!!) and then released late while other phones have better hardware. At that point it would have been easy to switch out the radio, but it would have taken way too much time to go back to square 1 and rebuilt an entirely new TB with a whole new motherboard, processor, screen, etc... So they just switched the radio and kept the hardware the same.
Also, in regards to talk of the processor over the last few pages, the TB has the newer 2nd gen processor which will be more power efficient and has a better GPU than the Inc and the EVO. This sucker should also be easy to overclock. Hell, the G2 can be OC'd to 1.8GHz without breaking a sweat. So I fully expect this thing to hit 2 gigs with a custom kernel. Like someone else already said: I'd rather have more RAM and a slower proc that can be crazy OC'd than a phone with less RAM but a dual-core chip (which the Android OS isn't even fully capable of utilizing yet).
But to each his own; each of the new phones revealed at CES has its own pros and cons. I like that we have a choice between this phone or the Bionic or one of the new Samsungs - unlike the iPhone fanbois who are stuck with whatever Apple wants to give them whether they like it or not