Poor Verizon. They’ve got the nation’s best 3G coverage, but there’s no concrete plans for them to get an iPhone in sight. They don’t even have the so-called Googlephone, the HTC Nexus One, probably the second best smartphone on the market after the iPhone.
Looks like Verizon just caught a break, though. They’ve just announced that they’ll be getting HTC’s latest, the Droid Incredible on April 29th, which is equal to the Nexus One in almost every way, including a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 3.7-inch 800 x 480 AMOLED touchscreen display, an 8MP camera with dual LED flash, integrated 3G, GPS and wireless. It’ll be available for $200 with a two-year contract.
Not a bad little coup for Verizon, but with the next generation iPhone just around the bend and likely boasting a 1GHz A4 CPU, a 960×640 display and dual-cameras, the Incredible’s not going to look so very much so for long.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
