HTC ThunderBolt confirmed as Best Buy exclusive

As we previously speculated, Best Buy has announced its national, retail exclusivity of the juicy HTC ThunderBolt phone from Verizon. The good news about this announcement is that the LTE phone is already available for pre-order from Best Buy as we speak, though the bad news is that a specific launch date wasn’t given, but the press release did say something about mid-February. In case you’re wondering what all the fuss over the HTC ThunderBolt is about, imagine a phone with:

• Android 2.2 and HTC Sense
• 4.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen display
• 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
• 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera
• Wi-Fi b/g/n
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• A-GPS
• 1,400mAh battery
• 1GHz Qualcomm processor