We have great news this evening for all those fans still rocking the HTC ThunderBolt. Yup, Ice Cream Sandwich is finally here thanks to an official build that was apparently leaked. The actual update to Android 4.0.3 was leaked and a few awesome developers have made it into an easy to flash ROM for those interested.
Thanks to team BAMF you can enjoy the sweet and tasty treat before it melts waiting for Verizon to send it out. Ice Cream Sandwich ThunderBolt style is here right now. The folks from Droid-Life got word that this was finally available and we figured you’d all like to finally take a look at ICS.
So far everything looks pretty standard here and in line with other HTC devices that have received Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the recent past. You’ve been bumped to HTC Sense UI 3.6 but sadly no 4.0 like the One series. Also team BAMF was nice enough to remove all that HTC spyware and get rid of some of the bloat.
For now the HTC ThunderBolt crowd is still waiting for an official update from HTC and Verizon although it should be coming soon. Earlier this month HTC confirmed the update was still on track for “August” so we have a little more than a week at most of waiting — and hopefully nothing more. It’s worth noting this build is not rooted, so you’ll have to take those usual steps should you want root. Feel free to wait it out or give this a try from the link below.
Story Timeline
- HTC ThunderBolt Review [After Three Months of Daily Use]
- HTC ThunderBolt gets an Ice Cream Sandwich SDK port
- HTC Thunderbolt gets the HTCDev unlock treatment
- Verizon drops HTC ThunderBolt to free on contract
- HTC confirms ICS update for Thunderbolt, Incredible 2, Rezound and more
- HTC Thunderbolt “test builds” of ICS could be coming next week
- HTC Thunderbolt update leaks – Not Ice Cream Sandwich
- HTC confirms ICS for Thunderbolt, Desire S by end of August
- Device Name : ThunderBolt
- Manufactuer : HTC
- Carrier : Verizon
- Announced Date : January 06, 2011
- Release Date : March 17, 2011
- Also Known As :
- Screen Size : 4.30 Inch
- Resolution : 480×800
- Screen Type : TFT
- Height : 4.75 Inch
- Width : 2.44 Inch
- Depth : 0.56 Inch
- Weight : 177 Grams
- Battery Type:
- Lithium Ion
- Battery Capacity : 1400 mAh
- Talk Time : NA
- Stand By Time : 330 hours
- Android OS:
- 2.3.x
- Audio Playback:
- AAC
- AMR
- MID
- MP3
- WAV
- WMA
- Video Playback:
- 3GP
- MPEG-4 (MP4)
- WMV
- Messaging:
- SMS
- MMS
- CPU : Snapdragon
- CPU Clock Speed : 1000 Mhz
- Core : 1
- Ram : 768 MB
- Internal Storage : 8.192 GB
- Front Facing Camera :
- Camera Resolution : 8 MP
- External Storage:
- MicroSD
- MicroSDHC
- Camera Features:
- Auto focus
- Flash
- 720p Video Recording
- Sensors:
- Accelerometer
- Proximity
- QWERTY :
- Network Technology:
- CDMA
- CDMA Band:
- 800
- 1900
- Wi-Fi:
- 802.11b
- 802.11g
- 802.11n
- Bluetooth:
- Bluetooth 2.0
- Location Features:
- Compass
- GPS
- Cellular location
- Wi-Fi location
- FM Radio :
- NFC :
[via BAMF]
