HTC Merge delayed -- to get LTE?

[Phil Nickinson]

Admittedly, I don't know @V3RDICT. And the HTC Merge hardware I saw looked pretty final, but I wouldn't blame anyone if they pushed it back for LTE. But wouldn't new radio testing/FCC approval *really* push things back?

[Jared DiPane]

Seems rather interesting. I would be surprised that they didn't delay the Droid Pro for the same thing as well.

[JoseN305]

Dont trust a bills fan.

[Phil Nickinson]

Originally Posted by JoseN305

Dont trust a bills fan.

lol. Why not? What else have they to lose?

[map724]

If true, it's a D2G for me...

[icu]

*vader* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Ah well shucks. Looks like coal in my stocking this year.

Those in "the know" testing for a new radio implementation like this could push it back how long?

Why not just release the Merge and then give us the Merge Pro w/ LTE later on? LTE would be great for the future, but TBH I don't really care about that atm. I mainly use Wifi already.

[ecfiffer]

i'm still holding out for the 'incredible hd'

[DolfanCole]

Would be disappointed if true. I was holding out for this phone. If this turns out be correct, what are we looking at? March, April 2011? I've seen discussion that Verizon will do what Sprint did and release the LTE cards first and then the phones. So that really pushes things back (in addition to the new FCC approval). This could really suck!

[Mark_Venture]

Considering I saw a VZW rep using this device "in the wild" when VZW had a "quarterly review" with the customer that I support.

He had it on the table the entire meeting...

[The_Engine]

HTC is definately testing LTE devices. Meaning they already have test models running on VZW's Network. I am sure other manufacturers do as well. So putting in the radio may not be a big delay at all.