Thread: Anandtech: The HTC Droid Incredible Review, Clearly Better than the Nexus One

Maria Wars? WOW!

I got the Incredible the day it was available (May 1). It's EASILY the best phone I've ever had. The one lacking thing that all the other phones had in comparison to the iPhone... was the UI. The iPhone's UI, despite everything else it had wrong about it, was AWESOME. The incredible gives me back everything I missed about the iPhone and added an OS that I can do anything I want with.

The 1Ghz snapdragon processor is easily twice as fast as my buddy's droid (not sure exactly which one). Even he was going "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW FAST IT IS!" It's roughly the same size as the iPhone... Maybe a bit smaller in width. The 8MP camera takes PHENOMENAL pictures for a cell phone. Video is pretty good too (640x480). The android market isn't quite as big as the iPhone market, but it's more than adequate and I can write my own apps for it without having to worry that Steve Jobs is going to tell me I can't run them.

Replacing the trackball on a lot of android machines is an OPTICAL joystick. Not entirely sure about it's mechanics... but it's pretty slick. Just swipe your finger across it's sensor and it acts just like the trackballs. I thought it was going to be a bit crappy, but I played one of those old snake games (run around the screen eating fruit and growing your snake) and as it got faster and faster I kept thinking it was going to have some sort of lag at some point... That it was going to show that it just wasn't going to be very accurate... But when I finally lost the game and the snake was streaking across the screen, it was my own mistake that made me lose. It wasn't the joystick. I'm impressed.

I spent 200+ for early cancellation of my AT&T contract and another 200 for the phone + some wacky screen protector that's equally as awesome as the phone (self healing rubbery thing).. And it was worth every penny.

ONE complaint... The screen... totally unusable in bright sunlight. Can't see ANYTHING. Other than that... zero complaints.

Originally Posted by HeavyG

I have had the original Motorola Droid since the first day it was out. After months and months of use, I am still happy with my phones. The HTC Incredible has a 1GHz processor (like the Nexus One), while the Motorola Droid is only 500MHz (more like the iPhone). The Incredible is a snappier phone than the Motorola Droid. Both have Android 2.1 and have great screens. The Motorola Droid has a slide out keyboard if you prefer that over the touch screen keyboard, but I haven't used the slide out keyboard once.

The biggest difference, in my opinion, is the processing speed. The Incredible has the edge, but I am 100% happy with my Motorola Droid.

I have an Archos5 running android 1.7 with a 600mhz processor and I will definitely say that while it's noticably slower... the OS does such a nice job that it's really a non-issue. There are few apps out there that I think really need the extra horsepower of the 1ghz snapdragon. However I did see Quake 3 running on an Incredible earlier and I think IT might push that processor.

Originally Posted by Phyrelight

my incredible runs android 2.1 This website explains the differences between the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Incredible

Android 2.1 has been out officially for the Motorola Droid for over a month now. The difference between the HTC Incredible and Motorola Droid (other than the obvious hardware differences) is the HTC Sense UI that runs on top of the Android OS.