The telecom company has partnered with manufacturers HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung to serve smartphones on the 4-G network. Additionally, the company is working with Motorola and Samsung to offer 4-G tablets.

“During this three-year journey, from acquiring spectrum to launch, we not only transformed our network, but also our business by engaging in a strategy of collaboration and openness, while driving partnerships that will make 4G LTE successful across the globe,” said Dan Mead, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless. “The result is true magic – the sum of a powerful network, applications, software systems and devices that bring 4-G LTE to life.”

Succeeding 3-G networks, the 4-G network operates under a standard LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, a cellular standard that carriers are adopting internationally. (If you haven’t already, read Wired.com’s full explainer on 4G.)

Verizon and its rival AT&T both highlighted their 4-G networks at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Both carriers are promoting flagship Motorola 4-G smartphones: the Atrix 4-G on AT&T and the Droid Bionic on Verizon. Each smartphone features the brand-new, dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.

The rest of Verizon’s 4-G lineup includes the Motorola Xoom, a tablet that will ship with Honeycomb, Google’s Android OS modified for tablets. Also, the already-released Samsung Galaxy Tab will work on Verizon’s 4-G network, too.

The remaining devices are Android smartphones from LG, HTC and Samsung that include the older 1-GHz Snapdragon processor.

Releasing 10 devices can be considered a punch in the face to AT&T, who only disclosed three 4-G smartphones during CES. However, AT&T said it expects to have more than 20 4-G devices released by the end of 2011.

Regardless, in the 4-G numbers race, neither AT&T nor Verizon beat Sprint. Sprint said this month that it has already introduced 17 4-G compatible devices.

Authors: Brian X. Chen

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