Verizon's pricing revealed for DROID Incredible 2, DROID Charge, others

By on Apr 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM
mobile April 14, 2011

The prices for several upcoming Verizon Wireless smartphones — including the Samsung DROID Charge, HTC DROID Incredible 2, LG Revolution, and Motorola DROID X 2 — have seemingly been revealed by Phone Arena. There aren’t too many surprises in store, but it’s clear that you’re definitely going to be paying a premium for a new 4G LTE phone. The DROID Incredible 2, and DROID X 2 are both priced at the standard $199.99 with a new two-year contract. The Samsung DROID Charge, on the other hand, could be priced at $299.99 — the cost of a low-end netbook — but it does pack in 4G LTE support, a 4.3-inch Super-AMOLED display, an 8-megapixel camera, and other high-end hardware. Next up is the LG Revolution, another 4G LTE Android 2.2 smartphone with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a 4-inch display. It’s apparently priced at $249.99, which is dead-on with the pricing of the HTC ThunderBolt. Release dates for these devices haven’t been confirmed, but we’d bet you’ll see a few of them — almost certainly the DROID Incredible 2 — in the coming months.

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  • http://twitter.com/belogical2 Be Logical

    No we just need the Incredible 2 to be “revealed” with a dual core processor…

    • Steve

      and 4G /fail

  • Anonymous

    When the hell do we get the Bionic?

    • Tedkord

      Well, since the Atrix came out a month or two ago, and VErizon generally releases the newest handsets 6-8 months after everyone else, probably around September – you know, when it’s old news.

  • Anonymous

    They will all change to $0.01 to $49.99 after the Map Period.

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      But that mean a win for the consumers. By that time they will also have had their final OS updates.

  • KMcCarthy1991

    I still dont understand why you would charge so much for a phone that is most likely going to be replaced in 6 months? I understand 200 or 150 but not 300 for a phone that might have less memory then you can buy for the same price.

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      Replaced in 6 months? LOL. I get a new DROID every month.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t know very many people getting new phones every six months. If you’re buying phones that often, then you’re buying them full retail, which means you would kill to get them for $300 a pop. I imagine that a fair number of people do actually keep their phones for two full years. Don’t let the tech blog echo chamber confuse you as to the reality of what consumers do.

      They aren’t us.

  • Tedkord

    Anybody remember when you could get the newest, greatest smartphone from Verizon for $200 on a new 2-year contract. And you would also get that New-Every-2 discount on top of it? Or you could opt for the 1-year contract since smartphones are evolving at a breakneck pace? And, you had 30-days to try out your new smartphone, and return it if it was dud, no harm no foul?

    Ah, those salad days of LAST YEAR. Thank goodness is such a customer oriented company always looking for ways to SIMPLIFY smartphone buying experience!

    • Anonymous

      They are making it simpler.

      It’s simpler for them to charge you more money.

  • Anonymous

    smartphones are getting pretty damn expensive these days. I would personally just buy a phone off of amazon or wirefly for a cheaper price than what these retailers are asking. Seriously why would people buy a new phone every six months when 99% of the smartphones are so close in specs.

  • Anonymous

    Do android manufacturers really think they can compete with a $300 phone with a cpu/gpu from last summer? The iPhone is looking like the bargain phone.

    • Bob Trag

      Last time I looked at the iPhone4 it also had a 1 year old processor and also cost $299. Plus it has an inferior camera, poor maps, no 4G, etc.

      The iPhone4 is very tired right now. Let’s see what Jobsy can come up with by the end of the year. He knows about Apple’s “up or out” policy on employee performance.

  • drew dogg

    Looks like that thing was made on an Excel spread sheet! What a joke.

  • Biggles

    Time to take a hard line on this ridiculousness. Based on that 2 year pricing and the recently eliminated 1 year pricing, you need to add $70 to the price of a phone in that list and then divide the total by 2. That’s the maximum reasonable price you should negotiate Verizon down to on a 2 year contract. Deduct another $50 if you’re on some corporate discount. The carriers are slowly turning the mobile sales industry into an automobile buying experience. Anyone who pays bloated advertised pricing is a SUCKER.

  • Blair Jh

    These are not retail prices. These are minimum advertised prices that Verizon enforces with its 3rd party retailers. When the thunderbolt came out, its MAP was $299.

    In other words: this list means absolutely nothing.

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