Well, it's not because it's a ThunderBolt. It's because when a phone is released a big "GAME OVER" feeling is propagated and work begins on newer phones still in development. Gotta get the next one out the door, and the next, and the next. Point is, all these newer phone are being developed at a more recent time than the ThunderBolt therefore they naturally incorporate subtle newer updates as they each reach their GAME OVER status. Then it begins again.
All this time the developers and manufacturers are trying to play "catch up" with the now "legacy" ThunderBolt. If you owned the company, which would be more important to you?
Such is the way of market pressure today.
Better answer: Hang in there, we'll catch up.
-Frank
ummm really guys??
First: to the op: what is it getting last?? The only newer htc phone on vzw is running a slightly newer version of sense.. that is all. Incred 2 is not running gingerbread yet so what are you talking about?
Second: FrankXS your post is ridiculous. Thunderbolt will be getting gingerbread.. if its not quick enough for you from htc then root your phone and put it on there...mine is running 2.3 with sense 3.0... whats more current than that?
Third: This is HTC's first LTE phone, now maybe im wrong here but if there are to be any delays in getting anything out to it which i really dont see that there has been yet... that definitly could be to blame. Sometimes thats the price you pay for a new form of tech.
Fourth: In your post you claim its the manufacturers fault because they are releasing newer phones at a fast rate but then claim that the manufacturers are trying to play catch up.. confusing
That is all.
Just my opinion.
very sad.This is all.
This, plus the overly bloated nature of HTC Sense, is why my next phone will be a Nexus.
I had an iPhone for 3 years. Got the TB mostly for 4G and I did not like need for iTunes and a computer. I will move back to iPhone when 4G is available. Vanilla iOS, everyone gets updates, tons of accessories, Netflix, etc, etc and iOS 5 fixes most of its deficiencies.
Jailbreaking is also much easier on iPhone. I like Android, but it is way too limited unless you hack it which is too messy for me at present on the TB.
Bob