Whoa, this article makes some pretty big assumptions. This tosser in the article talks about LTE adoption and the Thunder including LTE support, perhaps dropping EVDO completely. Sounds like he's just pulling facts out of his butt. And even if they include GSM support for a "world phone" like the 8830, we can probably expect it to be disabled for North America and instead only function in Europe. That's been the pattern so far at least.

I'd love to try one out on AT&T, but I'm not expecting it anytime in the next 2 or 3 years.