Verizon had already said that it expected rising the first LTE handsets in the first half of 2011, though as we’re rounding third bottom toward a launch of Big Red’s initial blurb 4G markets, it’s shedding a little some-more light on how it thinks this’ll all go down. Basically, wireless arch Lowell McAdam says you can expect “up to” 5 handsets by May of 2011, just the year from now — that could mean anywhere between 0 and 5, as far as we’re endangered — as well as which Motorola, LG, HTC, as well as EDGE have been all in a using to offer up which initial bombardment of hardware. What’s not transparent is whether these will have voice calls over CDMA to one side (a laEVO 4G) or if they’ll be agreeable with a IMS-based (and GSMA-friendly) voice the association expects to in the future roll out upon tip of the LTE network, though possibly approach, it’s great headlines.

Turning the courtesy to Verizon’s new inscription tumult, McAdam says that nonetheless “there’s no reason [the association couldn’t have an iPad,” a initial tablets it offers will be Android-based — approbation, “tablets” plural — as well as which many of them will launch in the fourth from companies “together with Motorola, Samsung as well as LG.” Interestingly, this dovetails rather conveniently with an NVIDIA-powered Motorola inscription with Verizon branding which was quickly (and sensitively shown off during CES this January, so you wouldn’t be surprised if which was a section you finished up removing. None of these inclination competence end up with a iPad’s name approval, patently, though an LTE-powered Android tablet with HTC’s good pattern sense certainly can’t harm.