When Will the ThunderBolt Be Available for Purchase

[bthomp21]

I apologize up front if this is the wrong place to ask, but I'm a noob. I'm eligible for an upgrade and waitng patiently (sort of ) for the Thunderbolt. Is there any diff in getting it from BB vs Verizon? Other than no waiting for the rebate?
Thx

nope, they can access your verizon account and everything at bb so they just renew your contract there.

 

[Its TwiX]

I apologize up front if this is the wrong place to ask, but I'm a noob. I'm eligible for an upgrade and waitng patiently (sort of ) for the Thunderbolt. Is there any diff in getting it from BB vs Verizon? Other than no waiting for the rebate?
Thx

nope, they can access your verizon account and everything at bb so they just renew your contract there.

Not necessarily. I'm eligible for an annual upgrade and Best Buy won't help at all with that.

 

[jaycemiskel]

You don't have to wait for the rebate at either place now. Best Buy doesn't do annual upgrades though. Other than that there's not much difference.

 

[bthomp21]

if someone is registered at androidcentral, can you post the pics please?

 

[bthomp21]

I apologize up front if this is the wrong place to ask, but I'm a noob. I'm eligible for an upgrade and waitng patiently (sort of ) for the Thunderbolt. Is there any diff in getting it from BB vs Verizon? Other than no waiting for the rebate?
Thx

nope, they can access your verizon account and everything at bb so they just renew your contract there.

Not necessarily. I'm eligible for an annual upgrade and Best Buy won't help at all with that.

yeah sorry 2 year contracts

 

[miss chris]

Do we have any further info on pricing? I thought 249 was solid but keep on hearing 299 thrown about.

 

[obidos]

@black_man_x
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end of march?? Heck ya! Maybe feb if we can get this unicorns to stay in their boxes
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what does he mean by "unicorns" ??

 

[Its TwiX]

@black_man_x
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end of march?? Heck ya! Maybe feb if we can get this unicorns to stay in their boxes
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what does he mean by "unicorns" ??

Metaphor for Thunderbolts.

EDIT:
Best Buy's weekly ad for next week still shows $299.99. I think HTC and Verizon are still 'trying' to keep it at 249.99.

 

[Jas O]

if someone is registered at androidcentral, can you post the pics please?

Here you go. Pics requested.

 

[miss chris]

I swore last week's BB ad said $249, right. Or am I hallucinating?

 

[hemorrdroid]

cjohnson481 Chris Johnson
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for the bolt? Both are good. Just other factors need to be corrected.
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@black_man_x
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If u take half ur network team and have them strengthen the old network for fruit.. How are they supposed to get ur NEW network ready?
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@black_man_x
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@DrayBlack
end of march?? Heck ya! Maybe feb if we can get this unicorns to stay in their boxes
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Okay, so they sent half their network team to strengthen 3g for the apple release, and i'm guessing we are waiting on the release because of something needing to be addressed on the 4g network?

And i'm very confused on that last quote, unicorns in their boxes, hmmm...

 

[hemorrdroid]

You know, at first i didnt like that the other thread had closed, as it had become like a 2nd home to a lot of us lol.

Just realized that we can edit in this thread, so now i'm actually glad that we moved over.

 

[Its TwiX]

I swore last week's BB ad said $249, right. Or am I hallucinating?

There was two pages of ads with $299.99 and one page of ad for $249.99.

When I contacted Best Buy through mobile chat they pretty much all said $249.99.

 

[electric6]

Wow...

Just got off the phone with my local big red corp store. Yeah, it got pushed back again. Was supposed to go up for order today tho. VZW telesales agents confirmed this as well. Sucks majorly.

At this rate, they might as well cancel it altogether. By the time they make up their dam*ed minds about releasing the phone, its gonna me so outdated that we might as well wait for next year's tb.

I would gamble on a next thursday release, but seeing as how that always gets pushed back, I wont even do that this time. :icon_evil:

 

[jaycemiskel]

Yeah, I've officially lost interest in this phone. I mean, I've waited this long, I can wait a bit longer. Might just buy a Xoom to hold me over until I can get another phone.