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Voice is 3g, Data is LTE
yea thats what i thought, but the guy above him asked about doing voice and data over 3G, which to my knowledge, just is not technologically possible with CDMA networks.
Voice is 3g, Data is LTE
Simultaneous voice & data is possible with CDMA. The Thunderbolt can do voice calls and use 3G data (where 4G is unavailable) at the same time.
This isn't something that has suddenly become available to CDMA, it's simply that Verizon didn't think the experience was good enough to have it offered on it's phones, so manufactures didn't include a chipset that could do it.
First-generation devices are often, if not usually, a little rickety -- proofs of concept that are more about the manufacturer (or carrier) being able to say that they're first to launch a particular feature than they are about delivering a solid, all-around winner. Fortunately, that's not the case with the Thunderbolt: HTC's managed to put together a handset here that we can honestly recommend with a straight face, owing in no small part to the fact that it borrows heavily from the company's existing parts bin. If you're looking for the sexiest 4.3-inch phone of the bunch, the Inspire still beats it -- you can't go wrong with the thinner, metal, unibody shell -- but the Thunderbolt is easily one of the best Android devices in Verizon's expansive lineup even before you take the LTE capability into account. And if you're lucky enough to live or work in an LTE market (or one that's going live this year), it's the best choice by a country mile.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the effects of signal strength on throughput are far more pronounced and predictable here than on any other device we've ever seen: with a single bar of LTE strength, we'd typically get 5 to 7Mbps down; with two, 10 to 12; and with three, 15 and up. In any event, you're in good shape compared to competing technologies.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. The two lower download tests was in the data center. Wifi has been checked and it is off and the LTE icon is lit. If I'm missing something, let me know and I will redo the tests. Had to use my Xoom to take the pics so they are not the greatest.
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Here you go Bateluer, since you're obsessed with this phone, Engadget review:
G-D PLEASE WHEN IS LTE iPhone coming out?!?!
2012, there's no way Apple would sell something with this kind of battery life.
<---Hugs his new Thunderbolt and calls it George.
How is the coverage in LA?
Updated the OP.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...age-from-motos-playbook-bootloader-is-locked/
Unsettling and disheartening.![]()
It's locked but not encrypted.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...orkmod-recovery-loaded-rom-floodgates-opened/
<3 HTC
I played with it yesterday at a Verizon kiosk in the mall. Not too shabby! But $$$$
Really? Where you at again? I only really go as far north as Rochester, west to Northville, and south to Monroe, but I haven't lost 4G once yet.grr, the 4g coverage from detroit doesnt go south enough...
if it did, i would have this phone, and cut off my normal internet subscription... boo
Really? Where you at again? I only really go as far north as Rochester, west to Northville, and south to Monroe, but I haven't lost 4G once yet.
