Posted Mar 30th 2008 12:00PM by
Chris Ziegler
We've gotten the inside track on a few dates on Verizon's radar for the next few months, and it looks like the boys and girls in red are prepping an interesting mix of exclusive and Sprint catch-ups to keep customers fat and happy. As handsets go, the
Motorola Q9c is planned for April along with the TouchFLO-powered
XV6900,
LG enV2, and the CDMA rendition of the BlackBerry Curve (so much for exclusivity clauses
on this one, it seems), while the
Samsung Glyde is currently slated for late April or early May. Centro fans will be happy to hear that the diminutive Garnet phone will finally hit Verizon following
Sprint and
AT&T launches in the tail end of May or the beginning of June, followed shortly by the Nokia 6205, which apparently
isn't either the
2505 or 7205 unless one of those flips have been renumbered.
As technology goes, Verizon looks to launch EV-DO Rev. A-based push-to-talk services -- Sprint folks will know this as Qualcomm's
QChat -- toward the end of May. We've also caught wind of something called "Verizon Hub," which we're told will go head-to-head with T-Mobile's
HotSpot@Home service. It's not known whether this'll be a WiFi setup (a la HotSpot@Home) or adopt
Sprint's CDMA femtocell strategy, but seeing how Verizon and Sprint seem to be endlessly engaged in a game of cat and mouse, we wouldn't be surprised to see 'em go with femtocells. We don't have a date on Hub just yet, but it's targeting the second half of the year at the earliest.
Verizon Hub headlines carrier's 2008 initiatives, devices 
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