Thunderstorms in Town

At last there is the first phone for Verizon's 4G LTE, brought to you by Verizon at this year's CES the new HTC thunderbolt, also known by people watching the event as the HTC Tundabow. Now to the long awaited phone from Verizon that could've been called the Incredible HD or the Mecha, it is essentially the Incredible HD because of how similar it is to its HTC predecessor, the Incredible. It shows off the same 8.0 megapixel dual led back camera, but now it also has the long awaited front facing 1.3 megapixel VGA camera. It is the first phone on Verizon that a front facing camera. They also claim since they have a front facing camera they have integrated Skype in the phone heavily. They say that even if your phone is asleep it will still receive Skype messages and calls. This could be potentially bad toward the battery but they say it won’t, which I find very hard to believe. It's disappointing that this phone doesn’t have a dual core processor so it has the same old 1GHz processor. 

The screen is much like the other popular HTC phone, the EVO 4G. It is a 4.3” WVGA TFT capacitive touch screen. This screen will be really nice to watch the HD the camera can capture and even better the kickstand will allow hours of entertainment without having to hold it. Other miscellaneous specs about the new phone include: 8 GB internal memory and 32 GB preinstalled to the phone, also it will have the android 2.2 froyo software. 

One weirder thing i thought i would mention is that it has been released with LTE so it will have an LTE sim card slot. People might try to take advantage of this slot and maximize the phones potential on other networks, and if Verizon forces the new network on anyone who buys the phone they could suffer many losses because the incredible is a really good substitute to save money by just being satisfied with they’re powerful 3G network. We will see how Verizon tackles the price issue and I will let the tech world know.