The Droid Incredible has been out for less than a week now and it’s by far the best Android phone on the market. The hardware is fast and HTC has upped the internal storage to 8 gigs, but no included microSD card, which for most people will make them go and buy one because the Android OS doesn’t recognize the internal storage for some apps and an external card is needed.
Moving on, HTC has polished up the interface a little with Android and Sense UI, and running apps was fast, as well as doing things, the whole experience on this phone was good, but being a heavy smartphone user, I had to charge the battery twice a day, the battery life was ok for normal use, but heavy users would want an extra battery.
The display is an 800×400 AMOLED which is the same as the Nexus One, and it does have some color issues for all but the hardcore geeks, and using the phone outside in the sun was almost impossible because I could barely see the screen unless I went into some shade.
Also to note, this phone doesn’t have a hardware keyboard, but the software keyboard was easily usable, but I found that even though the keys were virtually the same size as the iPhone’s, it was hard to use two thumbs as it wasn’t as responsive as the iPhones, but it is what it is unless you shell out money for an app that offers a better one.
The camera is an 8 megapixel dual lcd flash camera and it’s decent enough although the photos weren’t the best, they were ok for use.
The sound quality was great, and the speakerphone and speaker could be heard in a moving car, it was also easy to hear people in the earpiece, except that again with this phone, Verizon was the worst thing about it, I was constantly dropping calls, people were cutting in and out, and the data service was itermittant at best, leaving google maps and other services like @foursquare and @gowalla impossible to use because I was unable to connect. I had at all times one or two bars of signal until I went on a little trip and was on the interstate in the middle of the state, then I finally had a full signal.
The OS itself is Android 2.1 and the sense UI which makes the usability a lot nicer and the touch was responsive and easy to use. I’ve written a lot about Android in the past so I won’t go into to much detail about it, but this phone does offer some interesting features. It gives you seven homescreens with the option to save them as a scene, so you can customize your homescreens for several different usage scenarios and change between them very easily.
I would definately recommend this phone over the Devour but if you want a hardware keyboard then the Droid would be for you, but this phone was a lot faster than the droid, and in my opinion a lot easier to navigate and use.
