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Monday Poll: The Most Important Smartphone Feature Today is…

Kellen January 31, 2011 180

We're about to enter a period in smartphone technology where minimum specs are going to become more important than ever. There are so many quality options currently on and headed to the market that it has become difficult to decide which phone should be the...

Verizon Quickly Changes Mind, Thunderbolt will have Mobile Hotspot at Launch

Kellen January 31, 2011 112

We received information from Verizon over the weekend suggesting that the HTC Thunderbolt would launch without the ability to act as a mobile hotspot for up to 8 devices, but boy can things change quickly. As of this morning, VZW seems to have flipped their...

Video: HTC Thunderbolt Unboxing and Quick Walk-through

Kellen January 31, 2011 122

A brave soul took to YouTube over the weekend to release an unofficial unboxing and quick walk-through of the HTC Thunderbolt. We're calling this "unofficial" because it is definitely not coming out of retail packaging and could be from a tester or someone...

Verizon Compares HTC Thunderbolt to iPhone 4 and EVO, Confirms Lack of Mobile Hotspot and Skype at Launch

Kellen January 31, 2011 64

We've been doing a lot of comparison charts lately (like this one and this one), but we're apparently not alone. Verizon is also doing their own set of comparison charts for the new HTC Thunderbolt which we're all expecting to see some time in February. With...

HTC Thunderbolt Won’t Launch with Skype Video Chatting and Mobile Hotspot Active

Kellen January 29, 2011 58

The good news is that the HTC Thunderbolt will be one of the first devices on Verizon's new 4G LTE network to utilize Skype's new video chatting feature and also act as a mobile hotspot for up to 8-devices. The bad news is that it won't have either at launch...

HTC Thunderbolt Appears Locked into February 24 Date, 14 Days After the iPhone

Kellen January 28, 2011 166

We're hearing from our peeps that February 24th will be the day the HTC Thunderbolt is released and prices will look as follows: $249 on 2-year contract, $329 on 1-year contract and $599 full retail. That's only part of the story here though. We are...

Netflix Android App Headed to Qualcomm Snapdragon Phones First?

Kellen January 27, 2011 59

The Netflix app has been in the works on Android for what seems like an eternity, but according to a Qualcomm rep we may actually be closer to a release than most of us had expected. Our buddy Taylor over at Android and Me had the opportunity to hit up one of...

HTC Thunderbolt Can Handle Data and Voice Over 3G, Why Not Announce it?

Kellen January 26, 2011 116

When we broke the news that Thunderbolt training had started today, we were also tipped to the possibility that the phone could handle voice and data while on 3G. As you all know, Verizon CDMA network was incapable of producing this in the past, but...