Oh you thought HTC was going to leave you out Thunderbolt owners? OK truthfully, we did too. But that has all changed! According to their official Facebook page, not only will the Thunderbolt see Ice Cream Sandwich, but so will the Rhyme and Incredible 2. Yessir, HTC doin’ big thangs.
No timeframe for release was given, but they have confirmed that upgrades “are planned.”
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Another security hole has been made public that affected a number of HTC handsets, including the Thunderbolt. The issue was first discovered back in September of 2011 and was then patched in most of the handsets through OTA updates without any of you knowing. The vulnerability had to do with the way some of their handsets connect securely to WiFi networks, potentially leaving your password available.
A list – from what we can tell – of devices that have already been updated is not available at this time. HTC has asked that we all check back next week to see whether or not your phone has already been fixed or if you need to manually patch your phone yourself.
If your pockets are empty, it is looking like the perfect time to snatch up the HTC Thunderbolt from Verizon. Now through January 26, you can pick up the device for free when you enter a new contract on Big Red. Thanks to HTC unlocking the bootloader, the Thunderbolt still receives love from the developer community so we know that this device won’t disappear from the radar anytime too soon. And the fact that this was Verzon’s first 4G LTE device, means owning one just for nostalgia is completely justified.
Via: Phandroid
Update: We’re not so sure now that this list is actually real. The Facebook page has been pulled, and was reportedly not even from an HTC employee. Go ahead and ignore this one, folks.
HTC has taken to their Facebook page in Turkey to provide their hungry users with some much wanted information. This info has to do with the upgrades to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for their 2011 handsets. Almost 8 phones are listed as being worked on for upgrades already for release in the first quarter of 2012. Aside from the EVO 3D, which was said to have an update of December 2011, the HTC Amaze 4G, Sensation, EVO Design 4G and Vivid are all on this list.
The HTC Rezound and Thunderbolt are also on this list, but one interesting note about the Thunderbolt. It is the only phone with a “confirmed” Q1 update status as opposed to the rest of the phones “unavailable.” While that is nothing to set in stone it’s at least comforting to know that HTC is working hard to bring people ICS who were early adopters of 4G LTE. Making a list of upgrades is one thing, but 8 phones in a month is one tall order, is HTC ready for that?
HTC, after announcing that all of their phones released after September of this year would have unlockable bootloaders, has updated their dev site to reflect that statement. Oh but wait, they went even deeper than that and even included the Thunderbolt and Incredible 2, two devices released long before September. Talk about making a statement to both the developer crowd and other manufacturers in the game.
We were led to believe that this was all up to the carriers, but HTC seems to have either found a way around that, doesn’t care what the carrier’s think, or produced a carrier accepted bootloader unlocking tool that everyone is willing to accept. No matter what, we are loving it.
I think all that’s left to be said now is, ”Doesn’t Motorola owe us an explanation?” A solution? Something?
And go get yourself unlocked if you haven’t already at HTCDev.com.
Cheers to everyone who sent this in!
Still rockin’ the HTC Thunderbolt? An update for it has been approved by Verizon that should improve issues with contact ringtones, notification volume, and local streaming playback. The Twitter API for Peep has also been updated, the clock app will now show up in your app list, and Exchange ActiveSync will see improvements. It’s not Ice Cream Sandwich or anything major, but hey, who doesn’t love a good update?
Since the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich source code, the wait for ports of the OS to different devices has begun. It has been just 2 weeks and we can happily report that many devices (more than expected) already have semi-working builds and that there are others on the way. In this list of devices with working ports you will find the Motorola XOOM, HTC Thunderbolt, DROID 3, DROID Incredible, and even an alpha build for the DROID Bionic.
ICS for these devices is not 100% yet, but from what we can tell, these builds will start becoming more user friendly in a short time. If you want to keep track on the work for these devices, follow the links to their homes down below.
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