HTC Thunderbolt is the first Verizon's Smartphone support for their LTE 4G service in all coverage areas. After along wait, finally confirmed and Verizon officially put it in their official page. The article below will cover information about, how fast LTE on Thunderbolt?, What in the box?. and prices.
LTE 4G TestSpeed on Verizon's HTC Thunderbolt
What is the first thing in our mind about the Thunderbolt? Yes.. We do a speed test using Verizon's 4G network, since we know that the Thunderbolt is the first Verizon's LTE 4G phone. Result : Download speed around 10-15 Mbps (vary result depend on some situation, such as how many people are connected with the LTE in your BTS), Upload around 5-6 Mbps.
Thunderbolt is also equipped with a feature called Internet Connection Mode. This feature allows users to connect the Thunderbolts to a PC or laptop via a usb data cable (included in box), and make Thunderbolt as a source of internet connection. This is similar to something like a function as a modem. Test results obtained by using a PC similar to the results of tests using LTE modem LG VL600, varied between 10 Mpbs to 15 Mbps, upload half.
In general, the speed is amazing for a handheld device, but we will look to the future, if this speed will survive even though more and more users of LTE in the future.
For comparison : Speed test result with Droid X in the same servers, off course using 3G CDMA EVDO Rev. A (no LTE), result : 1.32 Mbps download, and 0.43 Mbps upload. Speed test result with iPhone 4 CDMA, Result : Less than 0.68 Mbps download and 0.43 upload.
Conclusian : Whatever the result is, it is clear that LTE network provides faster data transfer than previous 3G EVDO Rev. A network.
What in the box:
In the box : HTC Thunderbolt LTE, 1400mAh battery, SIM card, Sandisk 32 GB Class 4 microSDHC (pre-installed), battery cover, user book, wall charger (with detachable USB cable used to connect Thunderbolt to USB port on PCs), few metal pin, one for GPS, one for BT (bluetooth), and smallest one for 4G LTE antenna. phone used without battey cover installed, signal will drop to CDMA 1x and 3g evdo rev. a only.
On the front side we can see a 4.3 inches display screen with TFT 16 million colors on 480x800 pixel resolution. Sharp screen, text clear. On the bottom, 4 touch button control, volume rocker on the side. On the top of the phone : a 3.5 mm audio jack, power /lock key button. While on the back, a 8MP camera with AF and DUAL flash led, sepaker, kickstand.
HTC Thunderbolt also comes with new HTC sense UI which offers 6 scenes and 5 skins with full customization, 7 home screen, very fast and no delay on move.
Thunderbolt browser speed:
Note : LTE-techno on Thunderbolt provides the internet data speed, so you can download an upload faster than 3G EVDO rev. A. While the speed of loading an page, there will be no different, because its depend on your smartphone hardware performance to load all parts of page and how big the page, is there a flash, graphics etc. You can do it faster with LTE, but your smartphone don't.
Official Price on Verizon's Page for Its Thunderbolt LTE 4G
HTC Thunderbolt detai price :
2-year contract price of $249.99,
Full-retail price $444.99.
Non-contract price $599.99
