TS2R Wireless News: HTC ThunderBolt $699?, Battery DOA, More Free Windows Phone Apps & OED Sexting tbh

ThunderBolt699.JPGTS2R Wireless News for February 27, 2011.

More HTC ThunderBolt Slips - For a brief time, the HTC shopping website showed the price of the HTC ThunderBolt without a contract to be $699.  No official price has been announced yet.

HTC ThunderBolt Battery DOA
? - Engadget reported that the delay of the HTC ThunderBolt is due to the battery sucking too much power.  Batteries were dead after only two to three hours of use.  New firmware is expected to fix the issue.  Read recent HTC ThunderBolt news.

HTC Gingerbread Updates in the Future - HTC confirmed that the HTC Desire HD, Desire X, and Incredible S will be updated from Android 2.2 Froyo to Android 2.3 Gingerbread by the end of June.
More Free Windows Phone 7 Apps - Microsoft has increased the
number of free apps that developers can submit from 5 to 100. 
Developers previously had to pay a $20 submission charge for each app
after the first free five.  Microsoft is also allowing employees to
develop Windows Phone apps and retain intellectual property rights.

OED Adds More Mobile Terms - The Oxford English Dictionary
has added some new words that mobile users read all the time - rumor mill,
feature phone, cyberbullying, sexting, woot, tbh (to be honest),
textspeak, clickjacking and scareware.

Full news stories today include a review of the Motorola Xoom, the new Home Phone Connect service from Verizon, and the update that HTC Aria is getting to Android 2.3 Froyo.