If you are in the mar­ket for a smart­phone, and have been eye­balling the Droid Incred­i­ble or the Droid 2, today might not be a bad time to shop. Best Buy has added the Droid Incred­i­ble to its Free Phone Fri­day pro­mo­tion. Fur­ther, accord­ing to Droid-Life.com, the Droid 2 will join the Fri­day Fee­bie party, though I have yet to see con­fir­ma­tion of the Droid 2 in today’s Best Buy’s Free Phone Fri­day pro­mo­tion online.

Ver­i­zon is offer­ing some­thing nearly as good as free. Big Red cur­rently has a BOGO (buy one, get one free) offer on the Droid Incredible.

ALERT: The word on the street is that the Incred­i­ble and Droid 2, though both released this year, already have an EOL (End-of-Life) date set within the next three of four months. Rumor is there is an Incred­i­ble HD on the way, and the Droid 2, will be replaced by a Droid 2 Global (run­ning on CDMA domes­ti­cally and on a SIM card inter­na­tion­ally). Add to that, the HTC Merge will be out soon, too. Finally, Ver­i­zon is switch­ing over to a 4G net­work in the com­ing months, and there will be a num­ber of new phones intro­duced to take advan­tage of the increased speed.

With all of that said,  both phones are more than capa­ble, and will be so for some time. The only unknown is how long Ver­i­zon will sup­port these phones — namely with updates — into the future of a two-year con­tract. For exam­ple, the Droid Eris was barely on the mar­ket for one year before it reached it’s EOL date. Addi­tion­ally, Ver­i­zon pushed out one update (Android 2.1) and will no longer sup­port the phone with updates. It’s, unfor­tu­nately, that’s how things are going to be for a while.

So…here’s my advice. If you’re some­one who loves to have the latest…wait. If you’ve been look­ing to upgrade to a smart­phone, and want a reli­able device, I would con­sider tak­ing advan­tage of the Best Buy free or Ver­i­zon BOGO offer. Nat­u­rally, if you’re hold­ing out for the iPhone to debut on Ver­i­zon, you were just read­ing this blog piece to humor yourself…or me.