If you’re impatiently waiting for any and all details surrounding the delayed HTC Thunderbolt, Verizon feels your pain and appreciates you ability to hold off on any current smartphone purchases. But they have nothing specific to share with us yet. Today on the company’s Facebook page, they stated the following
Hey fans, we appreciate all the excitement about the anticipated launch of the ThunderBolt by HTC. We’re excited too! Verizon 4G LTE is America’s fastest, most advanced 4G network & we want to ensure the advanced technology behind our first 4G LTE phone is flawless. We will announce its release date as soon as it is confirmed. Thanks for your support & patience while we work to bring you the ThunderBolt by HTC.
Yes, it’s more of a tease than anything, but a tease we will gladly play along with…
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Of all the things many would list as iOS’ largest shortcoming, notifications and their intrusive nature would likely take the win. When first unveiled, iOS lacked any dedicated 3rd party applications that could alert you. But even then, many people who received tons of text messages began raising concerns with Apple’s approach of notifications â€" you have to deal with each one as soon as it arrives. Since 2007, more notification-capable apps have been added to iOS as well as the market seeing three new competitors in the likes of Android, webOS, and Windows Phone 7. 
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As much as Apple loves to keep secrets, it makes us consumers happy when information about their latest and greatest leaks out. Case in point: the upcoming iPad 2. From the image above (and following images after the jump) we can tell that Apple managed to trim down the overall footprint of their Jesus Tablet by a few millimeters here and there. Overall, the iPad 2 is boxier than its predecessor and features shorter, yet still tapered edges. We should know very soon whether these so called iPad 2 images are in fact legit. But assuming they are, what do the fine readers of GS think? Personally, I’m still waiting for the hardware info before I make any judgement calls. More images after the jump…
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Social butterflies on RIM’s BlackBerry platform have some new and exciting things to look forward to in Facebook 2.0. Pictures of the new v2 app leaked out onto the interwebs tonight showing among other things, a much needed UI redesign that makes the app more pleasing on the eyes overall, and less like a 2003 mobile app. But besides the added eye candy, v2 of Facebook for BlackBerry adds in support for Facebook Chat, the ability to view friends’ profiles, information, pages, and other lists, as well as improved core app integration to the BlackBerry OS as a whole.
Slashgear has stumbled on to a potentially troublesome issue for owners of Verizon’s Pantech LTE modem and one of the new Sandy Bridge powered MacBook Pros. Apparently, they don’t work together. At least, that’s what the screenshot above would lead to suggest. Anyone else out there have access to both a Pantech LTE modem and brand new Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro?
If you’re one of the LTE-crazed Motorola XOOM groupies that will be staking out store lines across the country tomorrow, we’re proud to say you can go to bed tonight a more relaxed being. The LTE upgrade process for the Motorola XOOM has been leaked in its entirety, giving us a look at the organized chaos that will ensue 90 days after the XOOM’s launch.
Looks like rumors of an impending iPad 2 announcement/release were true. Apple has begun sending out media invites. Check back with GS on March 2nd as we keep you up to date on Apple’s latest tablet venture.
Within the last couple of weeks, the minimum specs for Crysis were made public. While it gave us a good glimpse as to what would be required of our machines to power the latest and greatest Crytek has to offer, it didn’t tell us much in the sense that minimum requirements are often low-balled. Recommended specs are what really matter. Unfortunately, thus far Crytek has been pretty tight lipped about said requirements. Until now. Well, Crytek still isn’t actually saying anything, but fellow tech site VR-Zone is. They claim to have the recommended specs in the bag. As seen above, Crysis 2 is still a very power hungry game, but not in the same context as it was back in 2007. These days, a Core 2 Duo and Nvidia 280/ATI 4870 aren’t exactly “high-endâ€. Nevertheless, the true test will be running the final version of the game on our systems to see the results for ourselves. 
There you have it folks. Sony has finally published a ban-hammer press release on PS3 Jailbreaking. We’ve been covering all the info about the lawsuit against geohot, but here it is, finally something release for the regular mom and pop on the street. It’s pretty easy to understand; they don’t want you to do it!!!
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In the race to become the thinnest phone, sacrifices are often made. Sometimes, it’s done with little fanfare and clever engineering. Other times however, the reduction in size comes at too great a cost. Such is our view of the HP Veer â€" a miniature Palm Pre/HP Pre3 of sorts. Because of the overall thin design of the veer combined with sliding keyboard, HP simply didn’t have room to cram a 3.5mm audio port and micro-USB port. The end result is nobodies favorite outcome â€" proprietary adapter. 
Owners of Intel’s newest platform (dubbed “Sandy Bridgeâ€) are no doubt feeling pretty frustrated after the recent announcement of faulty Intel-based SATA II controllers and ports. The workaround for people with only a hard drive or two is to not use the affected ports. For someone such as myself however, 7 of the 8 ports are taken up meaning I don’t have that luxury (similar to many other people I’m sure). Luckily Intel is going to make it right and issue replacements to everyone who claims one. But int he meantime, how do you know if you’re using faulty ports on your own motherboard? If you’re a Gigabyte P67/1155 chipset owner, you can download the new Gigabyte 6 Series SATA Check app. It will tell you which ports are affected as well as what is/isn’t plugged into them and where to move them. Those who have built their own computers won’t likely need this app as they already know which ports are the problem ports. But we can’t discount how handy this is for the less tech-savy.
