Android-powered HTC Desire 6200 has Verizon in its sights
It looks like it soon may be raining Android handsets in Big Red country as yet another handset touting the Google OS has reportedly been spied in Verizon’s inventory system. The image above is an alleged screen capture showing the previously unheard of HTC Desire 6200 sitting pretty in VZW’s system. We know the Sholes will be announced a week from today and last we heard, the Calgary still isn’t set to drop for a while but what when did VZW start getting gaga over Android and what is this mysterious third Android handset? We suppose it could also be the HTC Click, though that’s pure speculation for the time being. The Hero perhaps? It is pretty desirable no doubt, but rumblings suggest that the Hero may be a Sprint exclusive for a while to come. The only other info provided by the source of the screenshot is that the Desire will be a Google-branded handset, meaning no Sense UI. We’ll keep an ear to the ground but truth be told, the only Android handset headed to VZW that we’ll be caring about for the next week or so it the Sholes.
is it better than the sholes? if so, i want it.
Please be the hero!!!
If it is googled branded then it’s not the Hero. I wonder what it is…
Google branded I mean.
My Verizon Tommy boy’s tell me sholes is better.
I saw a chin-less Android phone on another site this morning…just sayin’
So Vodaphone has the Magic. Vodaphone also has Verizon. Does this mean Verizon will have the Magic (Desire)?
yawn…a low spec android phone, buggy os and a boring phone. as yawn as yawn can be
I think that chinless picture going around is rumored to possibly be the hero for sprint…
iS diS FOnE guNna BE KeWL oR NOt???!?
I’m still really curious how Verizon and Android will coexist?
Can open source and Verizon be mentioned in the same sentence?
If so the whole Android concept sounds awesome for Verizon customers. A huge shift from the whole red striped, wall-gardened, crippled, stripped UI experience of yesteryear.
They have a decent overall voice and data network but Android and Apple devices are the type that are media centric and bandwidth hogs. It will be interesting to see how it holds up if Android really takes off with Verizon subs.
No wonder they are starting to force data plans on regular feature phones.
It’s not necessarily Google branded just b/c it says Google. The screen shots of the Sholes said Google next to it as well. Google is the one who created Android, so maybe Verizon just didn’t come up with a better way of describing the phone. Just saying.
Reference: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/08/23/upcoming-verizon-handsets-motorola-sholes-blackberry-curve-2-blackberry-storm-2-more/