Though tough facts upon the HTC Thunderbolt’s accessibility were hard to come by, conflicting rumors were drifting fast and strong — right away, the Best Buy ad seems to clear many everything up. Like we’d creatively heard, the 4.3-inch LTE smartphone will launch for $250 on a two-year contract — or the wallet-crushing $750 without — but the key ingredients here have been 3 difference at a very top. The Thunderbolt is assumingly a “national sell exclusive” for Best Buy, which explains how a device could concurrently face Verizon delays as well as nonetheless come in for a Valentine’s Day landing at a big box store. You’ll also note that a ad mentions Skype video as well as 4G mobile hotspot functionality, so we’d be astounded if the phone came but, though it’s additionally possible that a total kit and kaboodle has been behind to compare — Droid-Life says this ad comes from a February 20th circular, so we competence not see anything until then.

In box you needed an one more reason to be vehement about the Thunderbolt, the developers at AndIRC have some related headlines — they’ve already rooted the antecedent version (which only so happens to have a informed codename Mecha) and believe the same technique will work on retail devices. Wouldn’t it be good to have root upon day a single… at your convenience which is?

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Via Engadget