In case the sight of several thousand HTC ThunderBolt owners either twiddling their thumbs or jamming them obsessively on the “Check for update” button wasn’t enough for you, it appears that the 1.13.605.7 update for the ‘Bolt has been delayed. That’s the update that Verizon’s Twitter support account said was pushing out starting yesterday, and the one that nobody has seen either hide or hair of since.

It’s big, it’s bright, it’s fast — but is it worthy of the Droid name?

How many 4.3-inch 4G LTE smartphones does Verizon need? How many you got? Because with the launch of the Samsung Droid Charge, Big Red now has a pair of large, fast Android 2.2 smartphones.

If you’re on Sprint or Verizon, or another CDMA-based network, you might have heard the term PRL thrown around once or twice. It stands for Preferred Roaming List, and it’s basically a way of telling your phone phone where to look for a signal so that you get faster, better connections. Technically, it tells your phone which frequencies to scan and in which order.

According to a tweet sent from Verizon’s official @VZWSupport account, beginning today, HTC Thunderbolt users will start receiving that software update we’ve all been patiently waiting for.

@VZWSupport: New s/w update being pushed out to Thunderbolt devices, in stages, beginning today. Visit http://bit.ly/lXxeeh for details *JB

It appears that Verizon and AT&T are serious about not wanting you to use your current data plan for tethering, as they have blocked access to popular applications that enable it on the Android Market.  There’s a bit of conflicting information out there, as a few other sites have reported that all carriers, or that other carriers have done the same.  We’ve found that T-Mobile and Sprint haven’t blocked them, but Verizon and AT&T have, as shown in the image above.