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Best Buy Leaks Feb 14th Date for HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon

Jared — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:07:29 +0000

The Grand Rapids. MI Best Buy Facebook page has apparently leaked the pre-sale dates for the HTC Tundebolt.

The phone was unveiled at the recent 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and will be the first 4G LTE Android smartphone for the carrier.

Key Features:

4G LTE – download speeds of 5-12 Mbps, upload speeds of 2-5 Mbps
4.3-inch WVGA display
Mobile Hotspot capability – share 4G connection with up to 8 Wi-Fi devices
Android 2.2 OS
32GB microSD card included
HTC Sense 2.0 with new features, including Fast Boot
Built-in kickstand for easy media viewing
Dolby and SRS surround sound
Fully integrated Skype mobile experience
720p HD video recording
DLNA streaming multimedia support

According to reports, on Monday, February 14th the pre- sale orders for the HTC Thunderbolt go live for Best Buy and will run for 10 days until February 23rd.

Best Buy Cuts Microsoft Kin One, Two Prices by $50

Jared — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:36:43 +0000

Verizon Wireless seems to have been one-upped by Best Buy with news that the electronic retailer has lowered the price of Microsoft’s Kin One and Two phones by $50. That’s right $50. That means the 1 now retails at $0 and the 2 at $50 (with a 2-year contract of course).

“The price cuts could help: they make the Kin 1 a free phone, and while it’s not as functional as a high-end smartphone, it’s better than a lot of the basic phones that most carriers give away for free,” said Directions on Microsoft analyst Matt Rosoff. “The data plan still seems a bit steep, but if it’s purchased in the context of a family plan, it’s not so bad.”

Best Buy’s new prices bring the Kin smartphones more in line with the “dumb phones” on the market.

Verizon Wireless however, still sells each for $50 and $100 respectively online.

The new prices, at least in Best Buy, could finally convince people to purchase the phone now that it is much cheaper than better performing, though more expensive, alternative handsets like Apple’s iPhone or the Motorola Droid.

Now if only Verizon would reconsider that pesky $30p/mo data pricing plan and some parents may actually consider buying their kids a phone specifically designed for the social networking crowd.

New Verizon Android Phone Available at Best Buy

Jared — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:08:50 +0000

Verizon’s third smartphone running the Android OS – Motorola’s Devour – is now available exclusively at Best Buy stores. The Devour is a mid-range model with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, and 3G mobile broadband.

Best Buy is selling the phone for $100 to new Verizon subscribers with a two-year contract.

The Devour has a 3.1-inch, HVGA (320 by 480 pixel) color touch screen Android smartphone with slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.

This model is debuting with Android OS 1.6, and has the standard suite of software for connecting to Google services, like Gmail and YouTube. User can also pick from over 20,000 third-party apps.

In addition, the Devour is the first Verizon model with MotoBlur, Motorola’s software that brings together messages from a range of social-networking services like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, text messages, as well as consumer and business e-mail accounts, into a universal inbox.

Lots of your favorite Google and Verizon Wireless apps are pre-loaded, and thousands more are available to download from the Android Market. When words aren’t enough, record videos and snap photos with the 3 megapixel camera/ camcorder.

Naturally, it comes with software for playing music and video, and this model is being bundled with an 8 GB microSD memory card for storing thousands of files.