Rumors hit been moving most the HTC Thunderbolt and it’s rumored delays and Mobile Hotspot feature. While Skype not existence embattled in time for start was one of the reasons we’d been given by tipsters, we advisable that timing and strategy could also become into play. We’re now acquisition exactly what that strategy might be.
According to our sources, Verizon is delaying the start of the Thunderbolt to ensure those acquire the Verizon iPhone don’t hit buyer’s regret and convey their iPhone for an Android. With Verizon’s newborn (non-coincidental) 14-day convey policy, that would place the Thunderbolt start fellow at February 24th or beyond to carelessness newborn Verizon iPhone owners from returning/exchanging for the TB. New information is suggesting that buyer’s regret could strike iPhone owners after finding discover the Thunderbolt will:
These are digit features the Verizon iPhone won’t have. And then in the 2nd Quarter we’re hearing the Droid Incredible module start with Global 3G connectivity/capabilities… something added the iPhone doesn’t have. It’s doable the element has the capability to enter globally and Verizon is protection it down, but that’s another issue altogether.
We won’t likely ever center the authorised think the HTC Thunderbolt is/was delayed, but I would be astonied to encounter discover if strategically timing it around the iPhone wasn’t an issue. The iPhone module advise large numbers and the Thunderbolt already has a large and ontogeny following, so attempting to maximize their sales with timing tactics makes sense. Unfortunately, it could become at the cost of whatever customers who would’ve desirable to switch backwards to Android after trying the iPhone.
There are plentitude of grouping that would dissent including the folks at iSource.com – I crapper appreciate their point. Remember that iPhone vs. EVO 4G cartoon where the iPhone individual doesn’t tending WHAT the Android Phone’s features are, they poverty an iPhone no concern what? I crapper envisage some of the initial Verizon iPhone customers won’t tending WHAT is existence launched on the Android side… they meet poverty a Verizon iPhone such same cartoon guy wants an iPhone and doesn’t tending most the EVO 4G that prints money.
That existence said, I’ve uttered with plentitude of grouping personally who aren’t sure whether to get an iPhone or Android so I undergo there are a lot of grouping in between. Verizon is trying to preclude this group from dynamical their minds. It isn’t cheap for someone to modify their nous with restocking, repackaging, phone decent technically “used”, client assist which costs overhead, and such more.
The iPhone is a enthusiastic figure and all… but obviously Verizon isn’t derisory sufficiency to think every Apple someone module be so bright with their acquire they’d never study switching to Android. The choice may hit been more clear to exemplary consumers in the past, but Android is now seen on par with Apple if not prodigious them. And if you don’t believe me, let’s see how some grouping kvetch most demand of Hotspot, demand of simultaneous voice-and-data, and the DINC2 existence able to enter globally when the iPhone hits Verizon on the 10th.
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