NEW: When Will the ThunderBolt be Available for Purchase?

[electric6]

This crap makes me wanna scream. Why cant they just do things like att and release devices in a reasonable time fram, without too much drama.

HTC should just cancel the phone, and cease doing business with big red until they can get their act together. Maybe renegotiate their contract with them. This is the route I would choose if my business partner screwed me over this bad. I can only imagine how much respect HTC has lost with verizon. Then, let them see what its like to not have ANY HTC devices, while soley relying on motorola and apple to carry the responsiblities of providing quality smart phones. That is my 2 cents.

 

[motty69]

Check out the SELL BY date on this gallon of milk I purchased this morning;

:icon_ banana:dancedroid:icon_ banana:dancedroid:icon_ banana:dancedroid:icon_ banana:

 

[Sentrix]

Clearly it's a sign.

 

[Stevessvt]

This is my last statement I'm going to make on this phone. First, I apologize for being wrong about the announcement. Right up until 6:00 pm Eastern Time I was told that announcement was going to happen.

I'm still hearing things but now I don't feel that there is anything definite coming out. I lack confidence in what I am hearing and it's not necessarily the source, it's what the exact words are. I don't know if any of you saw that Facebook posting last night but it's very similar to that. The Facebook post, and I'm paraphrasing said that the rumored date of 3/10 may be delayed. However in the same posting it said that they were confident it will be available by 3/10.

That's what I'm hearing now too. So rather then pass along something that is wishy washy like that, I'm going to just keep out of it. Sorry if that disappoints some of you but I gave it my best shot.

-hook

You did your best with what you had for info. Again, I am not angry with you, but the situation. I put my money on a product, told when I could have it, then had it taken away. This is what I am unhappy with.

 

[ZoneBlitz44]

Check out the SELL BY date on this gallon of milk I purchased this morning;

:icon_ banana:dancedroid:icon_ banana:dancedroid:icon_ banana:dancedroid:icon_ banana:

Coincidence? I don't think so.

 

[Its TwiX]

This is my last statement I'm going to make on this phone. First, I apologize for being wrong about the announcement. Right up until 6:00 pm Eastern Time I was told that announcement was going to happen.

I'm still hearing things but now I don't feel that there is anything definite coming out. I lack confidence in what I am hearing and it's not necessarily the source, it's what the exact words are. I don't know if any of you saw that Facebook posting last night but it's very similar to that. The Facebook post, and I'm paraphrasing said that the rumored date of 3/10 may be delayed. However in the same posting it said that they were confident it will be available by 3/10.

That's what I'm hearing now too. So rather then pass along something that is wishy washy like that, I'm going to just keep out of it. Sorry if that disappoints some of you but I gave it my best shot.

-hook

That Facebook was outed as a fake in the beginning in February. It even sounds like a 5th grader wrote it...

 

[SixStringMadMan]

2 sausage mcmuffin's on my desk and coffee is a brewin'. Where's my Tbolt update?

 

[Preach2k]

I was told yesterday in the Verizon store April!!!

Were you told by your carpool guy that it will be "in the verizon store in April", or was this by a Verizon store employee?

A Verizon Store employee.. I have not talked to the Vanpool guy in a while the class we were taking is over now....

 

[ScarletBuckeye]

This is my last statement I'm going to make on this phone. First, I apologize for being wrong about the announcement. Right up until 6:00 pm Eastern Time I was told that announcement was going to happen.

I'm still hearing things but now I don't feel that there is anything definite coming out. I lack confidence in what I am hearing and it's not necessarily the source, it's what the exact words are. I don't know if any of you saw that Facebook posting last night but it's very similar to that. The Facebook post, and I'm paraphrasing said that the rumored date of 3/10 may be delayed. However in the same posting it said that they were confident it will be available by 3/10.

That's what I'm hearing now too. So rather then pass along something that is wishy washy like that, I'm going to just keep out of it. Sorry if that disappoints some of you but I gave it my best shot.

-hook

That Facebook was outed as a fake in the beginning in February. It even sounds like a 5th grader wrote it...

close, he admitted on there he is 13

 

[scottt732]

Look, here's what we know:

-The phone is ready and has been for awhile now
-Ads are out for it
-HTC is pissed and putting pressure on VZW to announce a date this week
-People have received demos already
-No matter how absolutely ****ing stupid verizon is, they will definitely not let HTC pull the TB because its their first 4G phone

We know the ads are out. Everything else is speculation and 99.9% of it has been wrong. There are 0 credible sources. Nobody has come out with anything that has come true. Valentine's day because wouldn't that be sweet of Verizon?! 2/24, 3/3, 3/10... all Thursdays. 3/4 because some random BestBuy manager somewhere in California didn't realize that 3/4 was a Friday. 3/17, 3/24, 3/31 are next in line for baseless speculation should 3/10 come and go w/o a release.

If anyone can prove anything without pointing to some tweet or some random website that is treating this thread as a reliable source, I'd love to see it.

EDIT: Sorry if I sound bitter. My Droid is dying :-(

 

[jawa6969]

My Droid is dying :-(

Mine too. Or at least I suspect the battery is on it's last leg. Hurry up TB!! I have a screen protector, extended battery and case waiting for you.

 

[Stevessvt]

I think a Feb 28 was in there too.

 

[Raptor007]

I was on the phone last night with a vzw csr to get my wife's phone replaced (it went into the washing machine with the laundry,it's dead now). I actually found doing the assurion online replacement option pretty easy and it will arrive today.

So why did I post this, well I asked about the ThunderBolt and she told me it was SHIPPING. I asked her what do you mean it's shipping? She explained that she was helping a customer with tech support who was having issues with their smartphone that was way beyond the normal screwed up messes we have been had.

She said that tech support replaced his phone with a ThunderBolt, she said that it was a rare exception but they did authorize it. This is what the customer told, now of course they may be swapping it out when it releases next week, they could have done it already, the customer could be a wacko who is making things up.

None the less I wanted to share my experience last night. I also tried to get them to allow an early upgrade on one of my lines and they couldn't budge. She did suggest I contact a 3rd party reseller of theirs and if I was going to Best Buy I should get the Wireless Dept Mgr. to offer some help on an early upgrade.

Since I have the Gift Cards to spend there I will go that route, if they won't I will just get a refund and goto a Verizon store instead.

 

[seldon]

How embarrassed should Verizon be right now? They made a huge deal about LTE handsets in a highly publicized presentation at the beginning of January and are now unable to deliver. People should be fired for this nonsense. If they can't push it out the door before the end of the quarter they're going to get some pretty sharp questions on their next earnings call, especially since the iPhone didn't turn out to be the smokescreen they were hoping for.

I'm just a casual spectator, but my gut tells me that this phone will not release, and if it does, it will not be the first LTE handset on Verizon.

 

[jkc3usc]

I was on the phone last night with a vzw csr to get my wife's phone replaced (it went into the washing machine with the laundry,it's dead now). I actually found doing the assurion online replacement option pretty easy and it will arrive today.

So why did I post this, well I asked about the ThunderBolt and she told me it was SHIPPING. I asked her what do you mean it's shipping? She explained that she was helping a customer with tech support who was having issues with their smartphone that was way beyond the normal screwed up messes we have been had.

She said that tech support replaced his phone with a ThunderBolt, she said that it was a rare exception but they did authorize it. This is what the customer told, now of course they may be swapping it out when it releases next week, they could have done it already, the customer could be a wacko who is making things up.

None the less I wanted to share my experience last night. I also tried to get them to allow an early upgrade on one of my lines and they couldn't budge. She did suggest I contact a 3rd party reseller of theirs and if I was going to Best Buy I should get the Wireless Dept Mgr. to offer some help on an early upgrade.

Since I have the Gift Cards to spend there I will go that route, if they won't I will just get a refund and goto a Verizon store instead.

Calling B.S. Sorry