HTC has always been my favorite when it comes to hardware specifications. We know almost all the new phones from them sports a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and atleast 512MB of RAM. And if you thought you had it all, then you may wanna read this. HTC Thunderbolt(teaser pic above) has been speculated to feature a 1.2GHz dual core Snapdragon, the MSM8960 to be precise. The specs showed up on a German HTC fan blog called HTCInside, which got them from a German retailer’s inventory system. And the rest of the list is just as crazy. 4.3 inch touchscreen, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, 8MP camera with dual LED flash and 1080p video recording, a 5MP front camera, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS, LTE and a 1800mAh battery. 16GB of internal memory plus a microSDXC slot that supposedly takes cards upto 128GB!!
Before you get too excited, theres a catch. Qualcomm has said the MSM8960 will only start sampling in 2011 and ship in 2012. So either somebody typed the wrong chip name into that system or this whole thing is a bad rumor.
The Thunderbolt, earlier known as the Incredible HD, is supposed to be Verizon’s first LTE phone. The sheet also lists O2, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, so a GSM version may be on the cards too. Verizon is expected to announce it at CES next week. Stay tuned.
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