The Samsung Droid Charge, also known as the Samsung Stealth for Verizon has just appeared on WalMart’s website. Seeing as how the suspected date for the release has already come and gone, the handset is bound to launch any day now. Hopefully.
The appearance of the Charge on WalMart’s site should at least signal a pre-order of some sort, but there are rumors that the handset could drop as soon as tomorrow. If said rumor does turn out to be true, it’ll be interesting to see how it’s priced, as the retailer routinely offers many handsets at a discounted rate, compared to direct carrier pricing. Seeing as the price of the Charge could be somewhere towards $300, a discount of any sort would be appreciated for some potential buyers.
The Charge is a powerful handset that could be considered one of Samsung’s most impressive Android smartphones to date. The Charge will most certainly be eclipsed by the Galaxy S 2, but with no announcement for the US availability, the Charge will be the best you’ll get until we hear otherwise.
The Charge should easily meet the needs of power users, offering up a 4.3 Super AMOLED Plus display, 4G/LTE support, 8 megapixel camera on the back, and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video chatting. Putting the single-core Hummingbird processor in such an otherwise powerful handset is a bit disappointing, but it’s still up to snuff for a single-core CPU.
What’s been a major challenge for the HTC Thunderbolt is the battery life when using Verizon’s LTE network, and one can only hope that Samsung’s new handset won’t be affected by the same issues. Realistically, it likely will, but we can remain hopefully, right? Right.
Verizon’s upcoming Android lineup is stunning to say the least, offering up both high-end 3G and 4G LTE phones. We still have to see Droid Incredible 2 and Bionic before Verizon can call it a day, but some of you may already have your hearts set on the Charge.
[Via: DroidLife]