It hasn’t been a secret for months, but Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam has confirmed that a multitude of devices from RIM, Palm and Android-based devices are coming to the nation’s largest network in the next six months.
Speaking at a recent Barclays Capital conference, McAdam announced that Verizon would soon carry the BlackBerry Storm 2, BlackBerry Tour, Palm Pre, Palm “Cousin” aka Pixie, Android devices, and a new Motorola device.
“Over the next six months or so,” he said, “you will see devices like the Palm Pre and the Cousin on our network from Palm. You will see a second-generation [BlackBerry] Storm. You will see a new device we call the Tour from BlackBerry as well. That is an upscale of any other QWERTY-based devices that we have from BlackBerry today.”
He continued, “You’ll see Motorola back into our portfolio. We feel very good about the progress that the Motorola team has made. And, yes, you’re going to see Android devices as well.”
via CEN
Two key “tells” in McAdam’s words:
1. No iPhone anytime soon.
2. Six months “or so”, emphasis on “or so”.
a very strange posting and informative article
And will all those phones be crippled by VZW as well?