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I actually have this phone and have had a change to test it for awhile now and its incredible. I have an iphone with both carriers and this phone is honestly amazing. I was never an Android fan before but this is different. And the speeds, even though the network is empty are incredible. I can download a movie in less than 10 minutes.
 
The battery life is going to suck on that thing...

The battery life DOES suck on that thing. Engadet showed it gets less than 6hrs of normal use. Terrible! Add that to the ugly "sense" android skin, fat plastic design, and single core processor (which is awful for android)... No thanks!
 
I'm getting well in excess of "six hours of normal use" on mine. The battery life is not exactly what I'd call amazing, but forcing it to LTE-only has actually greatly improved my battery life.

The LTE coverage in my market is broad, and I seldom leave that area.

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and single core processor (which is awful for android)

What exactly does that even mean? Look, I've owned several iPhones and several Android devices. They've all been wonderful. Seriously. Why the hate? Why the incoherent, babbling, non-sensical hate? I mean, "fat plastic design?" It's more aluminum than you realize. As to the whole "fat" bit? LTE radios are new, and I suspect not small. What would you suggest they do? Hire Rick Moranis to shrink it with his ray-gun?
 
Because it doesn't have an apple on it, people on this site will never find it worthy or actually admit that it blows the iphone away hands down. The phone is better as well as the network and I was with and still have a iphone 4 with at&t. The Thunderbolt is an amazing phone, battery is not great but what do you expect? Its powering a huge screen and the processor and new lte radio is killing it. Wait a few weeks and a new battery will come out and everything will be fine with it. Mine last's 7-8 hours anyways but I would like to get at least 12 or so out of it. If you think its cheap plastic, go pick one up at the Verizon store and see which one feels cheaper when your done! There is no comparison. There is not 1 thing the iphone will do that the Thunderbolt won't. And yes you can talk and surf at the same time...except now you can surf 4 times faster than at&t's network can do so I hope they come up with a new way to get at Verizon cause that one don't work anymore!!;)
 
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