We have received credible information that the highly anticipated LG Dare VX9700 is expected to be released on-line starting June 26 and in-stores July 3rd. In doing so, Verizon is beating the release of Apple's iPhone 3G by two weeks (July 11th). The Dare has been rumored for months, with small bits on information slowly coming out. This week, a day after Apple's announcement, Verizon announced the Dare, Decoy, and Chocolate 3 models would be out by July.

New spy images of the Dare show the user shortcuts menu, text message screen (multi-tap), and label diagram of the exterior. The diagram shows that there will be a light sensor to detect the amount of the surrounding light and automatically adjust the LCD's brightness to conserve power, as well as a proximity sensor to turn off the LCD when placed near your face during a call. Additional features include a 3.2MP autofocus camera with flash and editing capabilities, VGA video recording, HTML Browser, 3.5mm headset jack, DVD quality video playback from memory card, handwriting recognition, drag and drop contact and photo interface, multitasking, Bluetooth 2.0, accelerometer, EVDO Rev A, microUSB, and microSDHC (8GB).