***Official HTC Incredible Thread***

[pewpewbangbang]

Spec wise, I'm sure it will matchup.


I'm sure the Incredible will be "high-end" for at least 5 months.

lol thats what im telling Angel......atleast 7 months sounds good.

The next big thing is gonna be dual processor CPU's in phones if im not mistaken, something in that area i heard.

 

[Ruben]

dual processor?! I might as well throw out my computer and just use my phone!

 

[Angel894]

Keep in mind that you can't sync DRM content. If you bought your iTunes music a while back, you will have to rebuy it via the store to take the DRM off. Also, you won't be able to sync iTunes TV shows, movies, audiobooks, etc.

There goes my bubble.

They do have a expected faster CPU. It's like 1.5ghz but only rumored. Snapdragon is still the fastest CPU in phones currently and if the HTC Incredible is rumored to be released within months, i doubt it will be considered mid-end. Snapdragon has only just been implemented into phones like within the past months, i doubt it will become mid-end within the next couple of months. We won't be seeing something faster till the end of this year to next year and even then, it may not be implemented into phones yet, snapdragon is still high-end for this year and probably early next year.

I realized this after I posted. There is always something better just around the corner. My thought process went weird for a few minutes.

 

[Ruben]

I feel like we need to start a petition to Amazon telling them to start selling TV shows and Movies for Android because Apple has no competitors.

 

[kyler13]

Competition with the Desire? Maybe if it looked better...

100% agree. I'd like to know who at Verizon thought it would be a good idea to take a Desire and re-design the outer shell to make it ugly. I'd like to recommend they be fired. The smartest thing Verizon could have done was to approach HTC and say, "can you spin the Desire with a CDMA radio so we can give US customers the exact same choice with much better coverage?" Somebody dropped the ball.

For all those who are keeping the Incredible's red backplate from considering this phone - do ya really think that a company like Seidio isn't already drooling over the chance to sell thousands of black backplates for this thing?? Hell, they're going to be all over this like white on rice!

You'll still have the red color coded buttons on the side. Not a big deal but it'll be impossible to remove the red entirely. The best thing Seidio could do is make a backplate that is flat without the weird beveling. But then you'd be giving up the backplate trickery to make a thick phone feel thinner than it is.

 

[kyler13]

There goes my bubble.

Keep in mind you have two options to remove the DRM. You can pay a small fee per song (you shouldn't have to re-purchase), or you can actually find software that will do it for free. You're looking for anything that will convert from Apple's m4p format to, well, whatever you want (like mp3). I still haven't gotten around to doing this, though I only have a handful of purchased songs. Most I downloaded years ago (you know what I'm talking about ), or just imported from CDs.

 

[wordweaver27]

EDIT: Reading other posts, something is supposed to happen on March 7th apparently? Well March 7th is the academy awards (oscars), could advertising on this day be their idea?

Well, if that's the case, then someone better post if/when there is some advertising because my cable company is having a spat with WABC's parent company and as of 12:01 am today, we don't have WABC.

 

[Steven58]

Granted, it's still up in the air, but for anyone who's curious, the following conjecture is gaining steam online...

Has Verizon Started Training Staff For Nexus One Launch?

That's a rumor that Kappy started from his letter from a VZW employee. The rumor is going somewhat viral that it is the N1. Funny having stuff come around here full circle.

 

[Steven58]

I am going to go crazy with all these iPhone rumors. I know some of you don't like it, but having something that can play my iTunes and be a phone? I don't have an iPod right now. In fact, I don't have any MP3 player atm. My worry is does the iPhone have phone issues b/c of the network or the phone?

I'm getting motion sickness!

 

[Steven58]

i agree. even the "motorola devour" is a tough, bad ass name, but the specs are pretty mediocre. i think people are looking into the "incredible" name a little too seriously when it comes to "this phone BETTER BE DAMN INCREDIBLE!!!1!"

I handled the devour at Best Buy, yesterday. None of their phones are plugged in so I just held the dummy phone. I was impressed with the sturdiness of the metal. Nothing else about it impresses me, though I'M A SPECS MAN!

 

[Steven58]

OK! I'm all caught up on this thread from last night.....


You can carry on, now.

 

[wordweaver27]

100% agree. I'd like to know who at Verizon thought it would be a good idea to take a Desire and re-design the outer shell to make it ugly. I'd like to recommend they be fired. The smartest thing Verizon could have done was to approach HTC and say, "can you spin the Desire with a CDMA radio so we can give US customers the exact same choice with much better coverage?" Somebody dropped the ball.



You'll still have the red color coded buttons on the side. Not a big deal but it'll be impossible to remove the red entirely. The best thing Seidio could do is make a backplate that is flat without the weird beveling. But then you'd be giving up the backplate trickery to make a thick phone feel thinner than it is.

Am I missing something? Isn't the Desire almost identical to N1 except that it wears the Sense UI and it doesn't have the noise cancellation mic. It wouldn't make any sense at all for VZW to offer this phone since N1 is supposedly coming yesterday (or something).

I think I'm spending way too much time on this thread.

 

[Ruben]

^ Get ready to be hated...

 

[Kappy]

This is a take it for what you will post.

So a friend says he's talked to a guy that works for the production company that was hired to film the first verizon Iphone commercial

Hmmmm

Ron Jeremy doesn't film phone commercials... haha just playin'

 

[Kappy]

^ Get ready to be hated...

hes from Long Island, he already is.. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh just kiddin' again! I'm rackin' these *hits up

 

[Kappy]

Am I missing something? Isn't the Desire almost identical to N1 except that it wears the Sense UI and it doesn't have the noise cancellation mic. It wouldn't make any sense at all for VZW to offer this phone since N1 is supposedly coming yesterday (or something).

I think I'm spending way too much time on this thread.

VZW wants a sense phone that can match the Desire. The N1 doesn't have sense and the Desire is GSM so they are getting the Incredible...

 

[wordweaver27]

hes from Long Island, he already is.. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh just kiddin' again! I'm rackin' these *hits up

I'm a she and no LI hatin' please. We are no more proud than those from Jersey.

ETA: Ooops, my bad. Mixed you up with another poster re: the NJ thing...But still...

 

[wordweaver27]

VZW wants a sense phone that can match the Desire. The N1 doesn't have sense and the Desire is GSM so they are getting the Incredible...

That's exactly what I mean. The Desire would be redundant on VZW.

 

[Androidoholic]

Spec wise, I'm sure it will matchup.


I'm sure the Incredible will be "high-end" for at least 5 months.

The Incredible will be a high end phone always. In 5 months from now it might not have the newest technology but neither will the N1 or the Desire, that doesn't mean it its not a high end device it makes it an older device. If you put high end technology into a device, the qualitly of the device doesn't change, technology does.

 

[Angel894]

dual processor?! I might as well throw out my computer and just use my phone!

I was telling my husband we can have computers just for gaming and nothing else. Our phones will be able to do everything else.

 

[Kappy]

I'm a she and no LI hatin' please. We are no more proud than those from Jersey.

ETA: Ooops, my bad. Mixed you up with another poster re: the NJ thing...But still...

haha deal, my bad!

 

[Kappy]

That's exactly what I mean. The Desire would be redundant on VZW.

not for VZW people tho, we don't have a desire type phone

 

[woop]

I think they would refrain from using a Snapdragon CPU if the HTC Incredible wasn't high end. They also probably wouldn't make the screen 3.7 inches or AMOLED. I also doubt it would have the (supposedly) amazing camera it has and be one of the first (good multi-media players) meaning it has DivX and all that (still rumored though).

If they were gonna make it mid-end, i would expect HTC to just put specs almost the same as the HTC Legend. It's also safe to say that the HTC Legend is the successor to the HTC Eris pretty much. Considering the Eris and Hero are pretty much the same.

Idk, i just don't believe they would put the fastest CPU out there into a mid-end system, even underclocking it would be a waste of money and hardware somewhat, they would or should just put a slower/mid end CPU in the phone.

Just curious, would the fact that the Legend and the Incredible sharing the same battery put any implications that it MIGHT be a mid-level phone?(as opposed to the N1's 1400mAh) Not saying it is, as i'm sure it isnt that big of a deal.. just throwing ideas around.

 

[woop]

That's exactly what I mean. The Desire would be redundant on VZW.

Which is why we aren't getting it, and are stuck with this Incredible.

 

[pkpmoa1536]

Interesting! For those of you that care....I heard from a friend who works for one of the 3 lettered government agencies that he was told last night there would be a Verizon Ipod announcement at CTIA or the Apple developer's conference.

If I had to guess, I don't think Apple wouldn't announce anything at CTIA, but rather on their own stage, at their own developer's conference, in their own city where they have control. Funny how the 1984 Super Bowl ad was about Apple being the sledgehammer that defies Big Brother, and now...they are Big Brother.

But unless there's a way to make it LTE upgradeable, why would Apple bother?

While I'm playing with my Ouija board, Apple would bother because this way, they could get you to buy two instead of one. Remember when the first iphone came out? 3G was just starting to gain momentum around the country and that phone didn't work on 3G. The one next year did, and does anyone know of someone who bought the original iphone and the 3G? If there's a way to get a consumer to buy the same thing twice, who wouldn't exploit that?

In a way, this is sort of what's happening a little with the Android fragmentation debate as of late. Entelligence: Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform? -- Engadget
Since this is the Incredible thread, let's think about that for an example. Maybe someone bought the Droid or Eris within the last few months. That's nice, but now, how about a phone more powerful than either? And we'll take the UI from the little one and use the same screen size as the one from all those commercials? Great! We all buy that one, and then four months later we hear about the NEXT VZW Android wet dream. 4,3" screen, full HD, dual-core processor, 6 GB RAM, 3D Holigraphic UI, Lightsaber, and it makes a killer Ruben for you when you need to eat . A bit much, I know, but the point is, Apple, HTC, Google, Motorola, Verizon, At&t, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc... none of them want us to be happy for too long; just happy enough to throw more money their way every time they release something new.

Whenever the Incredible gets released (or whatever they end up calling it) I think that it will be good enough with respects to hardware and 2.1 that it has the strong possibility of remaining on the higher tier for a good while, but only time will tell when all of the next crop of large screen, snapdragon and beyond, super AMOLED, with more and more advanced versions of Android handsets come into our hands.