[Update: And Now an App] Marketing Blunder: Verizon Sends “Thunderbolt Available” Flyers to Customers
This has easily become the greatest device joke in the history of Big Red, and it’s getting even sillier. Reports have come in suggesting Verizon customers are now receiving promotional flyers for some new devices Verizon’s trying to push. Alongside a Samsung messaging phone, a Blackberry of some sort, and some other phone that I really don’t care to identify lies an HTC Incredible and – you guessed it – an HTC Thunderbolt that Verizon wants you to know is “Now Available”. (The irony here is that we’ve had to suffer through the same circus that was the aforementioned HTC DROID Incredible.) Really, Verizon? I used to laugh, but now it’s just downright mean. I think I feel a tear trying to squeeze out of my eye socket. [via Droid-Life]
[Update]: And now there’s a freaking application in the Android market. Great! Next thing you know, they’ll officially “announce” the device to be on store shelves only for them to mistake the dummy units for real phones. Can you tell I’m frustrated yet? [Source]