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No more waiting for the "gold code" the local schlock promised.
No more installing 30+ operating systems hoping the NEXT ONE would actually work.
No more incompetent RIM programmers.
It's over.
It's done.
ALL HAIL THE HTC DROID INCREDIBLE. LIGHT YEARS ahead of anything RIM can produce....
...goodbye Crackberry...
...and goodbye Storm.
04-30-10 11:27 PM -
Got mine Incredible on the 28th, pre-ordered. It is just incredible how fast it is! The browser is killer compared to the BB Storm1 I had. To get into Ebay and display a terrible rendering of the Classic version of the webpage (not the mobile one) use to take minutes on the Storm1.
On the Incredible it is 10 seconds to startup the browser and get to my homepage and to the ebay login. Then type in your name and password and it does it perferctly since you can pinch and zoom to make the fields big to select and then you can actually click the little box to stay logged in (it resizes the box) and it checks it in 1 try and then it gets fully logged in in 15 seconds with all icons displayed and that is with the WI-FI OFF. With WI -FI on I get 5 Mbsec down and 2Ms up. With standard wireless no wifi I still get like 900-1200 down and 200-500 up or better. I am in the boonies. up in the mountains.
But the HTC Incredible is great. Way ahead of RIM products. I like the extra memory. I only booted with 15-20 mb free on the storm. This boots with 300 or more free. I downloaded over 100 applications to the Incredible and it still has memory free and runs like a scalded dog. It is incredibly fast compared to a storm and I could not imagine a faster phone when it is on wi-fi connection.
Browser is so fast and fun to use. The pinch and zoom is flawless and makes it so you can zoom in to read the text and the text word wraps to fit your screen.
You can flick the screen and it will scroll so fast it will litteraly go pages and pages flying by. Not like the storm that did maybe one page.
The keyboard/screen is so much easier to use than the storm. Really fast and everything is sooooo smooth. If you ever should do a battery pull it is quick too. like a minute or so not 5 minutes like the storm.
Things I miss:
Having to wait 5 miutes to boot. -nope
Not having memory - nope
Haveing to monitor memory -nope
Having to end programs so you do not grind to a halt waiting on memory - nope
Being so slow on the browser that you would give up and go find a PC. - nope
Having to wait for Slacker to sync it's cache for an hour for 20 channels while attached to a PC - nope (the Incredible syncs the cached channels online OTA no PC required.)
Having to push in the keys all the time unless I used Opra mini. ( the default browser on Incredible is way faster than Opera mini on the storm and renders way better)
Seriously You need to try out the Incredible. It really is just that. And there is not much missing from it. Most things you can download for free from the thousands of little apps for it. There are some killer system monitors to that show CPU use, network use, sdcard status, memory status, process status for system process, user running process and idle processes and you can kill them or check status and see how much CPU and memory they have used.
When your battery is low you can look at a tool that tells you what processes used all the battery up.
The things I do not like about the Incredible. Not much, but it does appear to be missing any real full data and app backup tools. There are tools to backup the app files but not very much data. I am not confident that you could do a restore and be as close to the same setup as you can with the storm. Just like you left it prior to a back up. Well the storm was pretty good at it. You still had to fix some things after a restore but it was close.
But then you have 7 screens you can put stuff on with the Incredible and then you have multiple sceens you can use too so there is lots of places to configure things to your liking on the incredible. And more of a reason for a good backup/restore tool.
The other thing is currently it sucks the battery up pretty fast. Of couse I am using it a lot since it is so useable. Lots of time on the brouser. The thing does flash lite so most all the websites work and videos stream nicely.
But a full battery will maybe last me 5 hours. Only 1350 Mah. You can get a compatible 1750 and next week (I think) they are comming out with a 2100 Mah. I need one of those! Probably will require a new back and then my new case may not fit.
But This is a great phone.
I paid $230 for it for a 1 year contract so I could upgrade in a year when verizon get the LTE network going and may have even better phones.
Check them out. There is not much I miss from the storm. I have not even looked at the storm since I got the incredible. This is a very usable phone. There are lots of new things you can do with it too. All the old apps I had hav similar apps on the Incredible and are usually better too.
You can press the Search button and say " Navigate to Sears" or "Navigate to Home Depot" And it brings up the google navigator and you press a button to confirm and plots a path from your location. one more button to press and you are on your way with speech for each turn. When you get to the destination it tells you if it it on the right or left and shows a streetview if there is one so you know what it looks like!
Try that with a Storm! Wait a minute to get navigator up and then remember what buttns to push and wait for the GPS and wait for a search if you can find it and then get the view..... Hey I am already driven 5 miles in that time with the Incredible.
You can also press the search buttun long and get the voice input and say anything and google will give you a choice of video or web or 3 or 4 other things and off you go to the locations. It is a great search tool
And does voice dialing presss search, say "hpone Home" or someones name in your address book and it confims the person and you press call and it dials.
I took my 16 GB card from my storm and stuck it in the Incredible. It sees all my music and files. I downloaded some doc viewers for the business docs and a file manager ASTRO for looking around and backups and restores and MyBackup ofor other backup style. everything on the sdcard works for me on the Incredible.
There is a lot of glitze and the thing is really fast. Active walpaper and the like (battery burner) The camera and video work too. unlike my storm where it worked for the first couple weeks until the first update on dec09 and then did not work until AUgust 09.
One other thing I miss is it only does landscape in one mode. counter clockwise. Maybe they will add to that in a new release.
The storm2 would have fixed most of my memory concerns on the storm1. But then I would still be stuck with RIM and the BBOS and old tech and paying for most apps of value. (weather, thether, file managers, navigator etc) The phone works way better on the incredible. It answers when I press answer and everything! The storm ususally too 2 or 3 attempts to answer.
And the verizon plan is cheaper by $10 since I do not need to pay for VZnavigator any more.
Just about everything I wanted from the storm is already on the incredible or a free app is available to load for it.
Apps load from the marketplace website in like 10 seconds and are read to go. I loaded litterally 30 games one after the other in a few minutes and when I got done with the last one they were all done and installed. The thing is fast.
Well this is the last you will hear form me. I am "svwilbur" over on HTC Incredible - Android Forums we already have (1,999/77,946) users. 1999 logged in and 77,946 as members and the phone has only been out less than a week!
The interface for the forum is exacty like the crackberry website forums so real familiar and lots of people to help out there too. There are a lot of old Blackberry users there too.
It is a great website.
Sorry I evey bought the storm but I did learn a lot from it. I will not miss all the attempts at using leaks to resolve issues that should have been fixed day one and not 18 onths later! They really left us high and dry and then came out with the storm2 to fix the issues with the storm1 and did not offer upgrades or recal the storm1!
Everything works on the incredible.
RIM did me wrong. and so did virizon. Never got offered an upgrade to the storm2. And I asked multiple times online and at stores. It should have been free. The storm1 was really bad. buggy software and no memory for apps. The HW was good. The storm still works like day one, but it is soo slow even with version 5 on it with the later leaks. It is incredibly slow.
The Incredible is like 20 to 40 time faster than the storm doing just about any activity.
I finally caved in and upgraded using my wifes line as it was ready for upgrade. My line is still a couple months short for an upgrade as I bought the storm1 on Nov 21st 2008, a day that will go down in infamy for me and RIM!
Try the Incredible. you will not be able to take your fingers off it.....
05-02-10 09:53 PM - Half the files I tried to transfer over BBM would return an error stating they were too big.
You can't transfer files over gtalk, but on the incredible, there's gmail. If you have a gtalk account, you also have a gmail account.
Another ******** assumption. I know what the red square means - that it's sending the message to the network. Why it would only lag up on BBM and not on gtalk, yahoo, or SMS, was the irritating part.
If I had to cry over a lost feature, it'd be the unified inbox before an IM client. I can replicate every function of BBM I used on the incredible, I can't get my unified inbox back.
05-20-10 05:41 PM
