While the new Verizon Droid Incredible isn't supposed to arrive
until April 29th, a few blessed pre-orderers are getting their units early. From the sound of it, there was a glitch in Verizon's system that was allowing some phone orders to be shipped right away -- sadly, that apparently has since been plugged. Interestingly, the boxes these are being shipped in so far just say "HTC Incredible," not that it's any surprise that the
Droid Incredible moniker was a late-in-game addition. Of course, cries of "fake!" rang out in the forums, so one of the recipients (appropriately self-dubbed "SoSmarmy") posted a video of the phone booting up for all to see. Check it out after the break. Not seething with envy yet? Perhaps you should re-read
our review of the new flagship Android handset.
[Thanks, Aaron]
posted April 21st 2010 10:17AM
I have an Incredible envy.
He he he .....ho.......
@metaesapuet That's a really sexy phone....
@metaesapuet
THIS GUY IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I Wish I was him SOOOO MUCH!!!
/s
@metaesapuet : EVO 4G!! When will you free me from this Hero still with Android 1.5? :| Sprint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@metaesapuet
How does this phone compare to the iPhone 4G?
@n0ne when you succeed - can I be your camera-holding, ever-obeying sidekick?
@AppleDrank how would you compare this with something that's not out......we have 0 concrete specs of the new iPhone for all we know that wasn't the production model.
@metaesapuet
yeah. on monday, out of curiousuty, a friend of mine and i called verizon and asked about the incredible's availability. they said "you can actually order right now (monday evening) and it will ship tomorrow (tuesday). so it was true! i thought they were fibbing! I SHOULD HAVE ORDERED ON MONDAY!!!!
@AppleDrank Well it turns on, for starters.
@One Love Free yourself from Sprint's tyranny by installing a custom ROM on your CDMA Hero like a lot of us have done. I've been running 2.1 for a while now and I'm loving it. Even when they finally roll it out officially, you're still better off with a rooted phone and "unlocked" O/S. I'm now running Damage Control 2.07.2 and it's awesome. Check it (and other options) at xda-developers.com. Cheers.
@metaesapuet neat, that's the best iPhone clone I've seen yet. I figured eventually somebody would start to catch up to Apple.
@sonicwind
you itool
on a better note, i wish i had pre ordered it now, haha, what an awesome treat from verizon. now why couldn't they have sent all of them out instead of making us wait another week and a half?
@MrGoodCat Thats what I am sayin!
@metaesapuet
This guy needs sarcasm lessons.
@metaesapuet Wait so did you get an Incredible or an Envy?
@AppleDrank I don't know. No one has yet to do a comparison yet. Not even on youtube. Looks like you have to wait and see.
@Why should I have all the fun Yes, desperately. He was extremely annoying.
@Langdon Alger I don't think you should bash Sprint, without them upgrading the Hero to 2.1 (and leaking it) you wouldn't have that custom ROM of yours.
@Why should I have all the fun
I'm sure he's better then that. I think he was just phoning that act in.
This is a hot ass phone, congrats to those who got it early.
@SeanR
Real payers sport iPhone 4G...
its a $5K phone.. not this soon to be $0 contract phone...
@AppleDrank
Why pay $5k when you can get something better for $0k?
@AppleDrank
Also 'payers'? Yes, you certainly are a 'payer' if you spend '$5k'.
@AppleDrank every comment I see you post is something douchey and makes you look like an ass..... just saying
@AppleDrank
Sprint is the only carrier with 4g.
@AppleDrank
Dunno why people are still feeding this troll.
@SeanR
http://xkcd.com/37
@Seven2k WIMAX to boot. We're forecast to get LTE through Telus and Bell somewhere around late 2011/early 2012.
@AppleDrank youre forgetting the evo 4g superphone, you know, the thing thats already more awesome than the iphone 4g and isnt even out :)
@zeroinfinity2
(insert look of incredulous agreement)
Folk, ignore him/her/it.
NO FAIR
@MONKEY
lol because its in all caps i can imagine a little kid saying it
This is just a phone ud get to wait until the EVO 4G comes out, or even the new iPhone.
I for one, WILL be getting the Evo 4g, but itll be a while, because... i live in... canada :(
@uHorndog go screw yourself with new iPhone
@uHorndog Well I for one have no plans of leaving verizon for att or sprint so this phone is looking good for me!
@supraped69
haha rated into oblivion, u guys r a bunch of pussies :)
@uHorndog So what constitutes a manly action of shutting up someone over the internet? Fetch me my boxing gloves Alfred, I'll best this gentleman in a game of fisticuffs!
It's like Christmas in April.
@Waltah
Christmas in April for me is on 420. What a great day that turned out to be for some.
@aeth Youre awesome
@Waltah That's an Incredible statement to put forth, but it makes Sense.
I'm sorry. I really am.
What a jackass
@onehipcat but one with an Incredible good reason. :-) I might be a douche also if I got one and you didn't. And I would pour some salt on the wound with another video like every f'n hour.
@onehipcat ...and hes not a techie. (I can tell by the pixels)
@onehipcat Lol, this guy reminds me of Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec.
@onehipcat
yea- this guy is a major jacksass. He makes me want to knock the phone out of his hand and stomp on it.
He also really needs to work on his sarcasm skills...
@Broo
Lol reminded me of the South Park episode where they were smug from driving all those Prius'. I half expected to see him sniff his own fart. Lol
@onehipcat Here's what prompted his tone, one of the losers who eventually got pwned:
"Just a FYI the box in the picture was the box given to those blog websites to review the phone. The box changed with it's actual name for its release and was confirmed by various blog sites. Don't believe the faker."
@onehipcat
+1
Why do people like this get hooked up?
OH LOOK AT THAT, I JUST PUNCHED YOUR FACE. lol