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what is the good word everybody I'm known from TechnoBuffalo this is the Apple iPhone 4 this is the HTC Thunderbolt both phones are available on Verizon although this is the III AT&T version of the iPhone 4 the Thunderbolt is the biggest baddest new kid on the block it's got LTE it's got an 8 megapixel camera on the back 1.3 megapixel camera on the front it's got Android it's got HTC Sense it's got a kickstand the iPhone 4 still perhaps the most popular smartphone in America maybe in the world if you're looking at individual model still it's not the whole platform either way it's still the one people want to know well that's missing the Thunderbolt is it better than the iPhone let's find out I'm gonna get you alright alright so on the left it's the Thunderbolt the HTC Thunderbolt for Verizon Verizon's first LTE smartphone on the right the iPhone 4 like I said this is the AT&T version not the verizon version not a whole lot of difference for the purposes of this video Thunderbolt just announced it'll be available well it is available now March 17th sorry um and it is - $49.99 on contract after rebate although already some online deals a little cheap from that iPhone 4s been out for a while now for both 18cm verizon and 199 or $2.99 after contract depending on how much memory you want in the device and so speaking of that Ref the bat will say that the thunderbolt has eight gigs of internal storage built in it comes with a 32 gigabyte microSD card pre-installed so essentially you've got 40 gigs of internal storage microSD cards generally not quite as fast as internal flash storage but still you've got 40 gigs of storage space or a little bit less formatted iphone4 16 or 32 gigs so if you get the 32 gig iPhone model for $2.99 it's 50 bucks more retail than the thunderbolt and you have a little bit less storage 32 gigs as opposed to a total of 40 on the Thunderbolt if you want to look at such things also we'll talk about the physical design obviously the Thunderbolt a big phone larger you know very clearly then the iPhone so Thunderbolt you've got a 4.3 inch WVGA display it's a super LCD technology Super LCD capacitive multi-touch and you're looking at 480 by 800 pixels so 217 dots per inch iPhone 4 you're looking at a 3.5 inch display 640 by 960 the so-called Retina display at 330 pixels per inch so the iPhone is a smaller but higher resolution display Thunderbolt is a larger but lower resolution to display so there you go the devices themselves obviously you know a big physical difference Thunderbolt is just it's larger all the way around its chunkier or you know thicker or whatever you want to say and it weighs roughly 20% more than iPhone 4 does and and you definitely feel it you know there's a very different field of the two devices holding them here again you know you get a larger display and so if you want you no more physical room a little bit easier to type on you know that kind of thing God you get that on Thunderbolt iPhone you know I'm not personally a huge fan of the iPhone 4 design that's all subjective I like the old iPhone design better myself but you know a couple things right off the bat you've got the Android design here with the four capacitive touch buttons on the bottom of the Thunderbolt iPhones got the single home button more bezel particularly the top and the bottom on the iPhone forth and the Thunderbolt you know the front of the Thunderbolt you've got some bezel especially down there on the bottom but mostly it's taken up by the screen when you turn the devices over you know the iPhone has more of a squared off design Thunderbolt you know very rounded on to the back the back feels curvier because you've got these edges you know this have this big bulge in the middle the edges really taper off the iPhone you know very flat across the back with the iPhone 4 design you know overall that the iPhone is more pocketable both in terms of footprint and thickness and it weighs less but you know both devices solidly built I kind of like the the curved edges of the the Thunderbolt a little bit easier to hold in the hand I like the way they feel better than the more kind of sharp edges of the iPhone 4 but not a big deal I don't think many people are really gonna you know care about that kind of stuff it's really just the overall side of the device both devices have front-facing camera the edge goes to the Thunderbolt in terms of just raw you know megapixels 1.3 megapixels versus the VGA sensor on iPhone 4 and then on the back you've got an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash 720p HD video capture on Thunderbolt iPhone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera with a single LED flash and also 720p video capture I think you know the cameras fairly even the iPhone iPhone where I found takes slightly better videos still image quality you know you have more megapixels on the thunderbolt but actual image quality yeah it's kind of a push to me you know I'm gonna go you know overall I think the iPhone is a little bit of an edge because the video captures better but if you just want to rob megapixels certainly the Thunderbolt has the edge both devices have 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and lock switches on top nice to see that they put the Thunderbolt lock switch over on the right side where it's easier to use I think iPhones is there as well on the right spine of the phone Thunderbolt has the rocker switch on the right side iPhone has nothing you've got that SIM card slot there but that's about it on the bottom both devices have a microphone the iPhone of course has the Apple iPod connector and then on the other spine you've got USB micro USB port on the Thunderbolt iPhone has its volume up/down buttons as well as the the mute the silent switch over on the the left spot so a little bit different there Thunderbolt has divine controls on the right spine iPhone on the left spine Thunderbolt neither phone has an HDMI out port which no surprise for iPhone now apples got that adapter you can use optional adapter to hook it up to a monitor the iPhone and all the iOS devices interesting that the Thunderbolt does not have HDMI out since the other HTC device has been coming out lately and even back to the Evo 4G have the microwave the mini HDMI rather so that's a little bit disappointing maybe a deal-breaker for some people because the HD HDMI out on on some of these new devices is kind of handy if you're hooking this up to a big screen monitor or what have you and then of course the Thunderbolt has the kickstand which I phone does not and it's it's nice you know it's it's solid it's got a nice snap to it it stays in place and you can prop your device up for viewing ipad you can prop up well no you can't so there you go iPad it's called iPad iPhone you know when you get into the using the devices themselves I pardon the pun but it really is apples and oranges here you know it's it's Android 2.2 its iOS version for right now and HTC Sense on the you