A Droid-Life leak from several days ago had pegged the Droid Incredible 4G LTE's release on Verizon for next Thursday, July 5th, and a fresh tweet from HTC USA's official account now all but confirms it. The long-rumored phone — a successor to last year's Rezound — was finally announced at CTIA last month, but Verizon has said virtually nothing about it since; HTC says it's "got some special fun" next week that's going to be "incredible," so it's easy to put those puzzle pieces together. Samsung's Galaxy S III hasn't yet been released on Verizon (and is still hard to come by for any US carrier), so an early July rendezvous is looking like a sure thing for both phones. Which would you choose?

Next week, we've got some special fun headed your way. We hear it's going to be INCREDIBLE.

— HTC USA (@HTCUSA) June 29, 2012