Verizon road map finally gives release dates for the Android phones you want

March 30, 2011 | by Michael Heller

A buddy of mine has been in the market for an Android phone for a couple months now. He is dead set on staying with Verizon, and he doesn’t want to get a phone that will be obsolete too soon (that’s the biggest trouble). I was able to convince him to avoid the iPhone 4 (for obvious reasons), and the HTC Thunderbolt (because of the battery life). But, keeping him from making a rash purchase has been trouble, because the release dates for the most exciting Verizon phones has been pretty vague. There had been rumors that the LG Revolution would hit in March, and there were teases for the Samsung Galaxy S II, and Droid Bionic, but nothing set. Until now.

A leak reported by Phandroid today shows 8 Android phones coming to Verizon in April and May, and almost all of them are pretty exciting. The only one I might leave off of the exciting list is the Casio Commando, which has an interesting idea, but Casio hasn’t built any trust with me in the Android market. More towards what users have been looking forward to, we’re getting:

Samsung Charge on April 7th
Sony Xperia Play on April 14th
HTC Incredible 2 on April 28th
LG Revolution on May 5th

The Droid Bionic, Galaxy S II and Droid X2 are also listed for May, but no specific dates are given. An interesting note here is that the Incredible is not listed as the Droid Incredible 2, but simply the HTC Incredible 2. And, of course the Samsung Charge is the fabled 4G phone teased back at CES.

What do you guys say? Is it a good time to be a Verizon customer?

[Phandroid]

Droid Bionic, DROID X2, HTC Incredible 2, lg revolution, release dates, Samsung Charge, Samsung Galaxy S II, Sony Xperia Play, verizon

3 Comments

Alex says:

March 31, 2011 at 10:35 am

So when Samsung Galaxy S2 comes to Verizon, CDMA or GSM??? Far as I know SGS2 is only for GSM
David Williams says:

March 31, 2011 at 12:10 pm

Not until there rates are more in line with Sprint's.
- Charles says:
  
  April 3, 2011 at 1:16 pm
  
  Never going to happen. Sprint's prices are artificially low compared to other major carriers because they are hemmoraging customers and will do anything to keep them. They have no money to roll back into their network or their services due to their low plans and features, leaving them little in the way of operating capitol. Yeah, it's nice for the customer looking for a deal…but I'd rather be with a company like Verizon that costs a bit more and pours massive amounts of capitol into their network and services. Sprint isn't long for this world if they continue to low-ball everything. They'll either be gobbled up by Verizon, or in the future will just be a low-price, small-network carrier, leaving their remaining customers stuck in the slow lane.

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