Verizon LTE comercial boasts December launch; Motorola DROID 2 Global becomes official

By on Nov 22, 2010 at 7:25 AM
General November 22, 2010

If you were watching Sunday Night Football last night, you may have caught Verizon’s first TV spot for its LTE, 4G network. At the end of the spot — which stars an eager consumer getting a Verizon parcel containing a lighting bolt — the screen reads “Coming December 2010.” We’re fairly sure that VZW won’t flip the switch on its next generation network without a little press fanfare; expect to see a Verizon media event announcement in early to mid-December.

Also, Verizon quietly updated its website replacing the three-month old Motorola DROID 2 with the DROID 2 Global. The device is available for $199 with a signed two-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate. The only announcement Verizon made was a small entry on its Facebook page touting the device’s ability to operating in over 220 countries — perhaps an effort not to insult those who purchased the original DROID 2?

Hit the jump to check out the LTE advert and more.

Read [LTE Commercial] Read [DROID 2 Global] Read [Facebook]

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  • http://twitter.com/twilli47 Trevor A. Williams

    This is good news for me since I am looking to upgrade. Any idea about phones being rolled out with it?

    • Anonymous

      VZW’s CEO said not to expect any phones before February 2011.

      • Anonymous

        Must be why the VZW LTE teaser ad showed a laptop and not a phone then.

  • Anonymous

    I hope this means Incredible HD releasing in Dec to coincide with the LTE launch

  • Anonymous

    I surely miss the Can You Hear Me Now? guy. VZW renew his contract!

  • Anonymous

    Should be interesting to see if VZW LTE has better real-world speeds than Sprint/Clear WiMAX (though I’m sure the in-building penetration of VZW LTE is better) or T-Mobile and AT&T’s HSPA+ upgrades.

    Bring on the 4G wars!

    • Anonymous

      From everything I’ve been reading real world speeds are only about 2Mbps faster than WiMax. Which wouldn’t even be that noticeable being that WiMax averages 4-8Mbps.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Diaz/100000639956723 William Diaz

    Most advanced 4G network in the world? Thats a lie, since LTE isnt even 4G, neither is WiMAX in its current iteration. So sorry Verizon, you DONT have the most advanced 4G network in the world, you have ONE OF the most advanced 3G networks in the world, and its not THAT advanced since its only in 700Mhz and isnt compatible with ANYTHING AT ALL worldwide…

    As for coverage, there may be in-building penetration, but 700Mhz has a lower bandwidth then 1700, 1900. 2100 and 2500 frequencies – meaning T-Mobile and Sprint CAN and likely WILL always be fast all around rather then just directly in front of a tower like Verizon might.

    This is such a joke too – look at where this guy lives? He has to run to his mail box to get a package? That means he lives extremely far out in the rural areas, this guy might be lucky to even get LTE in the next decade.

    • Anonymous

      He won’t ” …be lucky to get LTE in the next decade”. Verizon is planning full nationwide coverage with LTE by 2013, even in the white spots on their map that they don’t serve with native 3G coverage.

      And AT&T is also using the 700 MHz band for their LTE deployments, along with repurposing 850 cellular /1900 PCS spectrum like Verizon eventually plans to do. We could be seeing the day where AT&T and Verizon have 4G roaming agreements.

      • Anonymous

        Yeah, so they’ll lie about even more when it comes to their map? Just like their current map, it may say there’s coverage everywhere but it won’t tell you if the coverage is garbage in a particular area. Which I found to be in A LOT of areas.

      • Anonymous

        I agree, Verizon’s lack of “good/better/best” street-level coverage maps like everyone else is a shortcoming of theirs.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Diaz/100000639956723 William Diaz

        Really? AT&T is gonna repurpose their already existing and over saturated 850/1900 network? The same 850/1900 network that handles not only 2G GPRS but also EDGE and 3G HSPA/HSPA+?
        REALLY? Are you so sure that after all the problems AT&T has BARELY even getting EDGE to work, as well as HSPA+ they are gonna use the SAME frequency (with the little remaining spectrum they have left in said frequency) to throw “4G” LTE on it?
        You are the biggest idiot Ive read a comment from if you believe that.

        And no.. Verizon doesnt plan to convert their 850 or 1900 spectrum for LTE anytime in the next few years. By then, LTE Advanced will be out, and I should hope that all 100% of Verizon customers have converted to LTE by that point before they dismantle their CDMA/EVDO network. Remember when AT&T decided to prematurely turn off TDMA and forced GSM on everyone, and they failed, got bought out and STILL have problems… Just a thought.

      • LTE is going WorldWide

        It’s obvious this @William dude works for Sprint…still, the fact is what @MFfan310 wrote is as close to the truth as we have…minus the timelines. Both AT&T and Verizon have stated exactly what he put in his comments.

        Just wonering…@William, where exactly did you get your information? A blogger? The same one that told us the iPhone was coming out earlier this year?

    • BestBuyKnowItAll

      ^^DORK^^

  • Anonymous

    My T-Mobile HSPA+ was just turned on over this past weekend. I went from an average of 1mb download to between 3.7 and 5.8 MB on download and 1.4 MB on upload. The speeds keep getting faster daily. Call it what you want, I just call it kick ass speeds. T-Mobile rocks in Boston and surrounding suburbs. These speeds are on my Nexus One.THANK YOU T-MOBILE.

  • Anonymous

    So… does this mean I’ll get a D2Global if my D2 gets lost or stolen?

  • Norms Soiled Underpants

    Anyone seen my owner Norm on here????? BGR stop with all these Droid articles so my owner can get his laundry done. Do you guys know what its like to have a brown streak running down the back of you for a month? We all know DROID JUST DOES and that resistance against the Droid OS is futile so enough with the the articles. NORM COME WASH ME!!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/MikeMcDaniel MikeMcDaniel

    I gotta hand it to the advertising agency that works making VZW’s Ads. I love it.

    Other than that, im not really impressed,, I am a sprint user and have no need for faster data than current Rev A 3G data. Even if one day I really had the need for speed, I could get a 4g/3g device and enjoy the speeds, reliability and omnipotence of Sprints Network.

    I actually love Verizon, because they carve out the high end market for fools willing to pay twice as much for crowded airwaves while I sit here and pull a constant 2-3 megs down on sprint and pay 67.00 a month after taxes on my blackberry.

    Cool Marketing VZW, and people by all means keep switching to VZW, it just frees up more spectrum for me on my nice empty Sprint Network :)

    • Scott

      The reasons you don’t need more speed is because you’re on a BB. Switch to an Android, WebOS or an iPhone and look at how much more media and data you’ll consume.

    • http://twitter.com/derrickisonline Derrick -Lex-

      You might pickup a Sprint “4G” phone but I doubt you’ll get any 4G. Sprint/Clearwire’s 4G service is extremely pathetic. While I love Sprint and their service in our area, that 4G crap is so unreliable and weak when it comes to wall penetration it’s pretty much pointless. If 4G is going to be the new 3G, Sprint had better get on the LTE ball or get left behind. WiMax = Another bad business decision for Sprint. Much like the Nextel merger.

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