The name of Verizon Wireless' next Droid phone has been discovered, and it's Incredible, literally.
A member of the Android Forums found an advertisement for the Droid Incredible on Verizon's staging Web site, where pages wait to go live. The URL has since been locked down, but not before MobileCrunch got a screenshot. This is about as officially confirmed as rumors get. April 29 is apparently a key date, and could be launch day, though that doesn't leave much time for the pre-orders mentioned in the ad copy.
The Droid Incredible was previously codenamed the HTC Incredible, and its specs were recently leaked to Boy Genius Report. It's reportedly got a 1 GHz processor, a 3.7-inch touch screen (no physical keyboard) and Android 2.1 with HTC's Sense interface on top. If BGR's report is accurate, there's also an 8-megapixel camera with flash, auto-focus and video capture, and 8GB of on-board memory, the largest we've seen in an Android phone. A MicroSD card slot expands the potential storage capacity.
I could see the Incredible as a sort of successor to the Droid Eris, whose outdated version of Android and weaker processor is starting to look stale on store shelves. Otherwise, the phone's Sense UI and solid candy bar form would provide basically the same user experience.
But this causes a dilemma for Verizon. What will happen to the Eris now? Will it be replaced entirely by the Incredible, or will Verizon still offer the weaker phone at a lower price, requiring customers to factor processor power, software versions and camera megapixel count into their decisions?
I suppose it's a good dilemma for a carrier that less than a year ago was being criticized for not having enough good smartphones.
