HTC Incredible Android 2.1 phone to come via Verizon in US

Just last week, Samsung announced its first Android 2.1 phone, the SHW-M100S, less than a month after the launch of the Google HTC Nexus One Android 2.1 phone.Now it looks like HTC is on its way to launch its own Android 2.1 phone, the HTC Incredible, via Verizon Wireless, that also carries the Google Nexus One Android 2.1 phone.

Photo: HTC Incredible display screen

At least that is what some new details and incredible shots of the HTC Incredible Android phone, outed by Pocketnow, indicate.

Rumors of the HTC Incredible first surfaced in December 2009, when Boy Genius Report carried a leaked list of upcoming HTC Android phones in 2010. The list consisted of names, such as Bahamas, Bravo, DesireC, Dragon, Dream, Espresso, Halo, HeroCT, HeroC, Hero, Huangshan, Incredible, Legend, Liberty, Memphis, Paradise, PassionC, Passion, Sapphire and Supersonic.

HTC Incredible Android 2.1 phone front view photo

Some specs of the HTC Incredible have been circulating for a while now. What we knew earlier, unconfirmed of course, was that the HTC Incredible will come with HTC’s Sense user interface and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

pocketnow has revealed that the HTC Incredible will come with a 3.5-3.7 -inch WVGA display screen, most likely to be AMOLED. There is a dual-LED flash 5 megapixel camera at the back. Other features include 256 MB RAM and an optical mouse pointer at the lower end of the device, doing away with a trackball, for navigation.

Photo: HTC Incredible back view

The HTC Incredible has a metallic red cover at the back, as seen in the photo above.

HTC Incredible Android 2.1 photo

Verizon Wireless’ Android line-up includes the Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris Android phones. In the pipeline is the recently launched Motorola Devour Android 1.6 phone that will go on sale in March 2010.