HTC Droid Incredible Now Available on Verizon for $200

By Nick Mokey April 30, 2010

You waited after the rumors for it to be announced, you waited after it was announced for the first reviews, and you waited after the reviews for it to hit the streets. Scamper on down to your local Verizon store, it’s finally here. HTC’s Android-powered Incredible went on sale Thursday for $200 on Verizon with a two-year contract.

For those who missed the early buzz, HTC’s Incredible stakes its claim as potentially the best-equipped Android device out there with a 3.7-inch OLED screen, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 8-megapixel camera, and 8GB internal memory with a microSD expansion slot. (As our own Stewart Wolpin noted in his review, battery life and call quality could both be better, though).

See how the HTC Incredible stacks up beside competing phones, in hardware, with our HTC Incredible spec-by-spec comparisons:

HTC Incredible vs. Apple iPhone 3GS

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