One year ago Verizon launched Samsung Glyde, that is now followed by a successor, Glyde 2, and it will eventually be called U960. Recently, a folk at Verizon snapped a photo of his buddy’s handset and sent it over to Boy Genius (thank a lot… really a lot for that), who promptly spread it to the world. The phone, however, is considerably bigger than the first Glyde but adds a nice large touchscreen, TouchWiz UI and a four-row keyboard.

Though the exact features are not known, we can take some cues from the original Glyde. The new phone can be expected to carry a larger camera, presumably 3.2MP with autofocus and flash, 3G, A-GPS, microSD card slot, music player etc.

Unfortunately, there’s no other details regarding the handset are available right now, but we do know that Glyde 2 might pack an AMOLED screen (like Samsung Impression). Check out the sleek interface in the last pic and we sure hope that Verizon will speed up the release process of the promising phone.