Droid Incredible arrives early for a few lucky, smug pre-orderers

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]

[EYC Posted Apr 21st 2010 2:12PM]

The Verizon in the loop, Chicago had one floating around and let me play with it for a while. Very very nice. The typing was absolutely flawless - best typing experience I've had on a touchscreen phone.

The sales rep also explained that an LG Android 2.1 device would be released before my upgrade date, July 21, 2010. I've been kinda out of the loop...does anyone know which phone she was referring to?

[DannyDarko Posted Apr 21st 2010 2:28PM]

ENVY .....DOES Early Pre-orders:(

[chriset Posted Apr 21st 2010 3:03PM]

Ordered at 10:49am on the 19th. Wondering if that was early enough :) Anyone know what time the people who got theirs early ordered?

[LowSky Posted Apr 21st 2010 3:40PM]

@chriset supposedly the the early released phones were from people who phoned their orders in.

[TBolt Posted Apr 21st 2010 3:10PM]

I pre-ordered hoping that this error would happen to me. Damn!

[Randomdude Posted Apr 21st 2010 4:32PM]

Lucky bastered

[sharpy2534 Posted Apr 21st 2010 4:45PM]

i just got mine too!!!

[tomer Posted Apr 21st 2010 4:50PM]

If the back wasn't so damn fugly I'd get it in a heartbeat.

[thepickle Posted Apr 21st 2010 4:52PM]

Who cares if jagoffs like this get lucky now and again?

These are the people that end up living under bridges and frequenting clinics for free hypodermic needles. Let him have his one, too bad he shot his wad on a phone instead of, say, a winning lottery ticket.

[zingfoo Posted Apr 21st 2010 5:07PM]

Had a dude at a T-Mobile stand stop me at the mall the other day. My usual response is "You got nothing that can compete with a jail broken IPhone" but I have to admit, i am impressed with Droid.

Lou
www.ultimate-privacy.at.tc

[EggoEspada Posted Apr 21st 2010 5:57PM]

Wow... Can he be anymore of a jackass.
He got it a week early, like a lot of people. Ain't that big of a deal to be acting like that. Seriously.

[JakeInDC Posted Apr 21st 2010 6:12PM]

That's a great looking phone.

:drool

[dimipa Posted Apr 21st 2010 6:28PM]

What an ugly phone... , though people have different taste so whatever makes you happy...

[matthewdbenson Posted Apr 21st 2010 7:25PM]

I'm guessing he actually found it in a bar, but after hearing about Gizmodo, was too afraid to admit it ... ;-)

[cc92260 Posted Apr 21st 2010 11:23PM]

If I had to sum you up: INCREDIBLE...D-bag.

[nanascho Posted Apr 22nd 2010 12:28AM]

@ "the guy in the video" ---

The only haters here would be the ones who sympathize with your girlfriend (if you have one) for being such a pretentious prick. I'm not seeing a ring on that finger and I'm guessing there won't be one there for a very long time. Try modesty next time -- your attitude doesn't suit you.

[mobilephone5 Posted Apr 22nd 2010 2:16AM]

I found this post while looking for some random stuff. Thanks for sharing I’ll be back regularly and will email this post to my all my buddies

Mobile Phone Review

[tnkgrl Posted Apr 25th 2010 7:08AM]

Here's my unboxing: http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/unboxing-the-htc-incredible/

[Xtant Posted Apr 27th 2010 11:01PM]

Just got our package from FedEx :-D About a week earlier then I thought it would get here. And it has the FREE 2gb micro sd card as well!

[Xtant Posted Apr 27th 2010 11:05PM]

@chriset I ordered online on the 20th around 9a.m.