Verizon has introduced the HTC Incredible as its newest Android based phone. HTC has a long history or providing quality smartphones going back years. As a result, HTC has a good idea of what users want and how to build a quality handset. The HTC Incredible’s build quality and usability fit the name. For all intents and purposes HTC hit one out of the ballpark with the Incredible.
It blazes across the digital universe. It snaps stunning 8-megapixel photos. It zips them instantly to all of your 8,000 friends. With such attention to detail on the inside and out, the name of this phone pretty much says it all.
Detailed focus. With eye-popping 8-megapixel resolution and built-in editing, it’s not a camera phone. It’s an amazing camera that happens to be an amazing phone.
Built for speed. HTC designers found inspiration for the Droid Incredible by HTC in a jet-black Italian sports car. With a blazing-fast 1GHz Snapdragon™ processor, it seems our hardware engineers did, too.
Instant sharing. Capture the moment and post it instantly on Facebook®, Flickr®, or Picasa™. Mail it, message it, or send a peep to all your peeps.
Instant friends. With the Friend Stream app, you always know what’s going on on Facebook and Twitter™, without actually going on Facebook and Twitter.
Instant apps. The Android™ OS with HTC Sense™ delivers easy access to thousands of apps and games available at the Android Market™
CPU Speed - Qualcomm® QSD8650, 1GHz Snapdragon™
Platform - Android™ 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC Sense™
Memory - Flash 8GB + 512MB/RAM 512MB
Dimensions - (LxWxT) 4.63 x 2.30 x 0.47 inches (117.5 x 58.5 x 11.9 mm)
Weight- 4.6 ounces (130 grams) with battery
Display - 3.7-inch AMOLED touch-sensitive screen with 480 X 800 WVGA resolution
Network - Dual-band (800 and 1900MHz) CDMA2000 1xRTT/1xEVDO/1xEVDO rev. A and IS-95A/B voice or data with up to 1.8 Mbps uplink and 3.1 Mbps downlink speeds (Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
Onscreen Navigation - Optical joystick
GPS - Internal GPS antenna
Sensors - G-Sensor, Digital compass, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor
Connectivity - Bluetooth® 2.1 with FTP/OPP for file transfer, A2DP for wireless stereo headsets, and PBAP for phonebook access from the car kit
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
3.5mm stereo audio jack
micro-USB (12-pin micro-USB 2.0)
Camera 8-megapixel color camera with auto focus and flash
Video capture Audio Supported
Formats Playback: .aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma
Recording: .amr Video Supported
Formats Playback: .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv
Recording: .3gp Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 1300 mAh
Talk time: Up to 313 minutes
Standby time: Up to 146 hours
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.)
Expansion Slot microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
Up to 32 MB card support.
No pre-installed card.
AC Adapter Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A
Email - Push Gmail™ and Exchange
Special Features - Friend Stream
In-Box Content - Main unit, Micro USB cable, Battery (1300 mAh), AC adapter, RF Brochure, Product Safety & Warranty Statement, Quick Start Guide
By MATT SCHULER
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (LIN) - Thinking about the current state of the smart phone industry makes me think of the lyrics from a certain Ben Folds song . "Smile / Like you've got nothing to prove / No matter what you might do / There's always someone out there cooler than you." Today, that cooler belongs to the HTC Droid Incredible, which is without a doubt the best phone I've ever gotten my hands on. (Yes, it's even better than the Motorola Droid, which I previously declared was " The Droid you should be looking for .")
The Motorola Droid came out almost six months ago, and if it were a person I would tell it there's always someone cooler than you. (For the sake of brevity, the review will refer to the HTC Droid Incredible as simply "Incredible", heck even the box eschews the "Droid" moniker, which I would presume is the branding assigned to it by Verizon.) If you were waiting to upgrade your phone for the next great thing, I'd point you to the Incredible. If you are looking to jump into the smart phone space, I'd point you to the Incredible. The hardware and software combine to create the best mobile experience I've had. The Incredible is the best smart phone on the market right now.
Incredible Software
At its base, the Incredible runs Android 2.1, but HTC didn't leave the stock Android experience alone, it put its polish on top in the form of the latest Sense UI. HTC's Sense UI adds a good amount of functionality to Android in the form of widgets and subtle software tweaks. For example, if you bring the Incredible back from hold, the phone will mimic the weather outside. If it's raining, little drips will appear on your screen before a windshield wiper squeegees them away. I was asked on Twitter if there was a way to remove the Sense UI, and right now there's not. But I don't know that I'd remove it if I was given the option because I really feel it adds to the experience.
My favorite aspect of the Sense UI though is its expanded home screens and the navigation on the home screens. On the Incredible the number of available home screens jumps to seven, compared to the three found on previous iterations of Android phones. The additional home screens adds a lot of functionality because it lets the user fill it up with widgets. During testing I ran seven widgets and still had two completely open home screens to fill up. In addition to the seven home screens there are also different profiles you can set that will change the home screens themselves. You can set yourself work, social and other layouts to be even more customizable.
Some of the widgets included with the Sense UI leave their Android equivalents in the dust. The Sense UI clock has 12 different functions, my favorite being the one that integrates weather to show me the current forecast. Another Sense UI favorite of mine is the People widget. It integrates a speed dial function with social networking and messaging. You can tie your family and friends Facebook and Twitter accounts to their profile on your phone and little numbers appear next to their name if they've had a status update.
With the additional home screens HTC also created an elegant solution to manage them. A quick pinch of the screen will show you all seven of your home screens in an "expose"-like fashion. You can jump instantly from the screen you're on to any of the other seven. It's a fantastic implementation that shows even more the amount of polish that went into the phone.
On top of all of the surface level changes the Sense UI offers an improved copy and paste and a modified keyboard from the stock Android. I found it to be pretty decent to type on as far as software keyboards go and with time, I think I could become quite a speedy typer. The Sense UI adds a tremendous amount of depth to the Android UI. I'd say it's like going from jumping into the deep end of your community pool to jumping into an Olympic level diving pool from the top deck.
There's a lot to like about the software on the Incredible and that's even before opening the browser. The browser is now equipped with Flash lite. It's not the best implementation of Flash I've ever seen, but during my testing it was functional, showing animations on websites and allowing me to head to Hulu. Still, the execution wasn't 100-percent because watching videos was a bit of a struggle. I could navigate around the Flash-based website with ease, but when trying to stream a video, it gave me an error. It's a start, though it reminds me more of how the tortoise started out than the hare. Beyond Flash, the browser is improving from previous Droid iterations. The addition of multitouch to zoom is welcome, though I do wish the double-tap zoom function was a bit different and locked in on text easier. The browser is great, and seeing as going to websites is one of my favorite aspects of a smart phone, that's an important staple.
Read the rest of the story about the HTC Incredible at http://www.kxan.com/dpps/entertainment/consumer_tech/htc-droid-incredible-review_3335164
HTC Incredible comparison to the iPhone –
Digital Trends compared the droid to the iPhone and came to this conclusion –
On paper, the HTC Incredible aces more categories than the iPhone, but without properly weighting the importance of each one, we don’t suggest you take this particular verdict to mean much. Apple’s dominance in software – especially its commanding lead in apps – probably means much more to potential buyers than a few extra millimeters here and there. That said, HTC’s hardware outmaneuvers Apple in just about every way possible, from an improved screen and microSD slot to an incredibly powerful Snapdragon processor and 8-megapixel camera. Is it really the superior phone? Depending on what’s important to you, absolutely.
Read the full story at http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/devices/htc-incredible-vs-apple-iphone-3gs/?news=123
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