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The HTC Droid Incredible has been plagued by supply shortages because the first actual day it was released. the reason for here’s not just the high demand, but additionally the very fact that Samsung can’t produce enough AMOLED displays for HTC.

The display problem can be solved soon (with HTC turning to Sony and its Super LCD displays), but things still don’t look good for HTC .

According to AndroidGuys, Verizon now allows customers who pre-ordered a Droid Incredible to “cancel their order and get the Motorola Droid X instead.” for sure, the Droid X isn’t yet available, so that you’ll sill must wait until July 15 to have it – but that’s earlier than the date you’ll be getting the Droid Incredible (which “will be shipped by July 26”).

AndroidGuys also suggests the Droid Incredible might possibly be phased out (just like the Droid Eris), but I actually don’t thinks this can happen – in spite of everything, that’s why HTC is ditching Samsung’s displays in favor of Sony’s, to make certain it may possibly ship all its high-end smartphones (although this won’t happen too soon).

Anyway, in case you’ve pre-ordered the Droid Incredible and Verizon didn’t send it yet, you may also are looking to confer with the carrier and notice in case you can change the order and get a Droid X instead. The phones’ prices don’t differ ($200 on contract), and both are great devices.

With the Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) also coming soon to Verizon, the longer term looks rather bleak for HTC at this time (as a minimum when it involves its partnership with this actual carrier, which happens to be the biggest within the US).

Last week, when talking in regards to the problems that the hot iPhone has, I said I used to be sure that Apple would announce record sales after only few days of iPhone 4 availability. And it sure did: the Cupertino company says it sold greater than 1.7 million iPhone 4s in three days (the 1st week-end of availability).

Steve Jobs declared that “this is the main successful product launch in Apple’s history”, which probably also means the iPhone is, at the instant, Apple’s most profitable product.

The 1.7 million iPhone 4s sold over the week-end are just black units, because the white version of the smartphone has been delayed until July.

At the instant, the iPhone 4 is out there only within the US, the uk, Germany, France and Japan. By the tip of July, Apple will launch it in other 18 markets across the world, including Canada, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

iPhone 4 sales will continue to grow quickly, although this year, in the U.S., there’ll probably be less customers to flock to AT&T for the iPhone (thanks  to Samsung’s, HTC’s and Motorola’s newest smartphones – which all run on Google’s Android).

Via Press release

I’m a chunk tired reporting about Verizon Droid Incredible delivery delays by now. the next post I need to publish about it, can be “Droid Incredible shortages resolved”.

Alas, I don’t expect such excellent news until HTC gets those replacement SLCD displays from Sony.

But, I do have one bit little bit of good news for Droid fans, who preordered HTC Incredible, with delivery date past mid-July. you will have the ability to interchange Incredible for Droid X, as soon because it is available on Verizon, on July 15th.

It seems that you just’ll still need to wait a couple of days, and even weeks to get your taste of Android 2.1 Eclair on HTC Hero. Pocket-lint has been capable of confirm with U.K’s 3, that their Hero Eclair update will come only in mid-to-late July,  while T-Mobile promises more details on upgrade  in a couple of days, and Orange says that their update will are available “very near future”.

There’s also some interesting news on Android Froyo updates to HTC Desire, Legend and Wildfire. HTC confirmed that they’re updating their Sense UI to work with Android 2.2. And they expect to launch the upgrades for above mentioned 3 models, beginning in Q3, 2010.

A “glass half full” guy in me desires to start jumping from joy. Q3 starts in 2 days. So you possibly can read HTCs statements, and begin looking ahead to Android Froyo on their Desire or Legend, from next week.

But there’s that “glass half empty” guy in me, whispering that this early Froyo upgrade talk, is only a load of selling bull from HTC. Q3 lasts until October, and see that “beginning in Q3”. Well, beginning in Q3, could rather well be “ending in Q1 2010”, and still be true.

Looking at how long it took HTC to get Android 2.1 upgrade to Hero, and the way the upgrade was rolled out in several markets, I wouldn’t be surprised that Europe gets Froyo update last, sometime in November or December. When everyone seems to be already  looking for Android Gingerbread handsets  under the Christmas tree.

This makes me really wonder, how long smartphone vendors can maintain their custom Android UIs, as they do now.