HTC ThunderBolt is Free on Verizon For Limited Time
Verizon smartphone business meddlesome in speed and opening are removing some good news: The renouned HTC ThunderBolt can be snapped adult for free, for a few days during least.
The 4G LTE phone is giveaway with a two-year agreement by Jan 26, and Verizon is throwing in giveaway shipping to boot.
The ThunderBolt has perceived decent reviews and a smartphone has been popular with consumers. While it creates use of a 1 GHz Snapdragon chip instead of a dual-core 1.4GHz processor that’s enclosed in top-of-the-line Android devices, it’s a quick phone.
It’s also a complicated and large during 6.23 ounces and 4.75 by 2.44 by 0.56 inches. The 4.3-inch screen, with a 480 by 800 WVGA display, has important shade quality, if not as glorious as Samsung’s Super AMOLEDs. The ThunderBolt also comes with an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera that does video during 720p, as good as a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It can also act as a hotspot for adult to 8 other devices.
The ThunderBolt was Verizon’s initial 4G LTE phone, that it started offered 10 months ago for $250 on contract. As justification of how fast a mobile space evolves, now a association has several 4G phones in a portfolio, including: Samsung Galaxy Nexus ($300), Motorola Droid Razr (16GB for $200, 32GB for $300), Motorola Droid Bionic ($200), HTC Rezound ($200), Samsung Droid Charge ($200), LG Revolution ($100), LG Spectrum ($200), Samsung Stratosphere ($100), and a Pantech Breakout ($50).
Until recently Verizon has been aristocrat of a 4G hill, though other wireless carriers have been hustling to locate adult and used CES 2012 as a showcase for new 4G LTE phones and tablets. ATT has been aggressively expanding a 4G network and has even edged out Verizon in a speed test, according to one study.
And while it has been late removing into a LTE game, Sprint recently announced its initial 4G-enabled smartphones: a LG Viper and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, nonetheless a association won’t be rising a LTE network until mid-2012.
T-Mobile, for a part, has large skeleton for a “HSPA+ 42” 4G network, that has achieved remarkably good in PCWorld’s 4G speed tests — in fact, it’s right about on standard with Verizon’s LTE network. T-Mobile also announced a joining to expanding a line of 4G-capable phones, tablets, and mobile hotspots, starting with a Samsung Galaxy S Blaze and a Nokia Lumia 710, that runs on Windows Phone.
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