Fascinate vs. Incredible

[Lars]

My first Samsung smartphone was the i600 on WM 2002. It had a horrible speaker for music and speaker phone calls. The screen was impossible to read outside.

My second Samsung smartphone was the i770 Saga on WM 6. It had a horrible speaker for music and speaker phone calls. The screen was impossible to read outside.

Actually I'm using that now because my incredible overheated itself into a constant reboot cycle. The Inc did last longer than my HTC Touch which was a really bad phone. Kept that a week.

Waiting on the X instead. Both Moto Q's I've had were solid so I'll try that. Luckily I have a whole drawer of back up phones I can activate in between! LOL

 

[Clittzen]

...bing really? What a waste of time and a slap to google. No interest what so ever on this phone.

 

[waynester]

So Bing is the breaking point for many?
On my sammy Omnia I used google.
Dinc of course google.
I don't use IE.
FireFox FTW !
Homepage google classic (with foggy forest background),just for loading , then on to igoogle.
But I really don't have anything against Bing.
From the few articles I have read , it seems to be an OK search .
But I "like" google, search, advanced search, gmail etc.

any one care to comment on why Bing would be a negative on the Fascinate?

 

[contagous]

So Bing is the breaking point for many?
On my sammy Omnia I used google.
Dinc of course google.
I don't use IE.
FireFox FTW !
Homepage google classic (with foggy forest background),just for loading , then on to igoogle.
But I really don't have anything against Bing.
From the few articles I have read , it seems to be an OK search .
But I "like" google, search, advanced search, gmail etc.

any one care to comment on why Bing would be a negative on the Fascinate?

I just this MS makes things clumsy looking most times... I use chrome, never like I-Google but Google is by far the superior search engine...

We shall have to see, but from what I've seen in video's and reviews Bing looks wrong IMO of course :-0

 

[NightAngel79]

The Samsung Omnia was an awesome phone, and the Fascinate does look nice, nice spec, nice looking, and great camera details, like panorama, face detection, and burst just like on omnia, BUT BUT BUT

loved my omnia, was first smart phone. honestly though without people like necosino, bgill55, Adrynalyne, lioryte, and rob storm(the very best chef's winmo had to offer). i wouldn't have any good things to say about the omnia. just saying

Agreed Samsung have defo got the screen technology of the future, BUT they can't get enough of them out... So until they do its kinda useless to most people.

The Super AMOLED screen is beautiful, but TBH the regular AMOLED on the Dinc is just as nice

O they have plenty of screens, they are just keeping them for THEIR phones and saying screw everbody else, so double f*ck them
My 2 cents

 

[contagous]

loved my omnia, was first smart phone. honestly though without people like necosino, bgill55, Adrynalyne, lioryte, and rob storm(the very best chef's winmo had to offer). i wouldn't have any good things to say about the omnia. just saying

Agreed I used most of Adrynalines ROM and defo made the Omnia more bearable



O they have plenty of screens, they are just keeping them for THEIR phones and saying screw everbody else, so double f*ck them
My 2 cents

iSuppli: OLED panel shortage a concern for Android smartphone makers -- Engadget


As you can see, it doesn't get much better over the next 2 years, but LG might start getting involved again so we shall see...

 

[waynester]

iSuppli: OLED panel shortage a concern for Android smartphone makers -- Engadget


As you can see, it doesn't get much better over the next 2 years, but LG might start getting involved again so we shall see...

I think he was re the reason of Dinc shortage, sammy IS the amoled screen maker.
They are apparently keeping all their screens for the various galaxies.
So if you want an amoled looks like sammy is the only game in town for now

 

[Dex]

Im a Inc fanboy all the way. I think the Droid X is gimmicky, cheap looking, and junk. I love HTC sense!!!! I am currently on pre order for the Inc, waiting patiently. Now if my Inc ships the first of August. And the Fascinate is released mid-August with nice reviews. I may have to consider Selling my Inc when I get it and getting the Fascinate. This thing looks really sweet. Anyone else already pondering these thoughts?

I figure that 3 months after I got the phone I could probably still get it with a SAMOLED screen. Whereas the Incredible is not the same way. If I ever lose, break, or damage my Incredible in any way, I won't get the same phone back. I won't be getting what I paid for back, is what I am saying. Samsung won't have this issue.

The phones are similar enough that performance difference is going to be minimal for the most part. With the eventual inclusion of 2.2 into this it probably won't even matter. I love the Sense UI, but I don't want to be scared to even use my phone because I don't want to risk breaking it and losing my gorgeous screen forever.

 

[SadisticAutopsy]

Nope, I think Samsung phones are garbage

I will never buy another samsung phone... they are horrible

 

[Bearly]

I think he was re the reason of Dinc shortage, sammy IS the amoled screen maker.
They are apparently keeping all their screens for the various galaxies.
So if you want an amoled looks like sammy is the only game in town for now

I agree with that.

Also, I think that root will and custom ROMs (on both Incredible and Fascinate) will leave the phones either dead even or the Samsung a bit ahead (screen tech, camera, battery life with hummingbird). But we don't know how hard root is to achieve on the Samsung and how far past official product release that will come for users.

I'd love the Fascinate BUT one thing I hate is the 2 GB internal memory; I wish they put in at least 8 GB.

Also, not a fan of Bing or M$ services. Huge step backward.

 

[kevinbakon]

Video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4833634/samsung_fascinate_hands_on_verizons_galaxy_s/

 

[Nashdroid]

Samsung phones ARE garbage. The End.

 

[contagous]

Video:
Samsung Fascinate Hands-on - Verizon's Galaxy S - Video

Exactly


Is it me, or does the touchwiz 3.0 look identical or VERY CLOSE to the one on the WinMo Omnia... lol

is just so FUGLY... %80 the same as it was o the Omnia, with android running, kinda lame...

 

[euph_22]

I agree with that.

Also, I think that root will and custom ROMs (on both Incredible and Fascinate) will leave the phones either dead even or the Samsung a bit ahead (screen tech, camera, battery life with hummingbird). But we don't know how hard root is to achieve on the Samsung and how far past official product release that will come for users.

I'd love the Fascinate BUT one thing I hate is the 2 GB internal memory; I wish they put in at least 8 GB.

Also, not a fan of Bing or M$ services. Huge step backward.

I know atleast one of the Galaxy S phones has been rooted for a couple weeks (still hasn't been released yet). I know from my previous phone (the Behold II, piece of crap) they only OTA we got for 6 months was mainly to close a root vulnerability. Fortunately almost nobody actually GOT the thing

And it depends on how much 3D graphics you use. If game performance is important to you, the Samsung (rooted and vanillized) will be FAR better based on the benchmarks I've seen. Everything else, performance wise, is really about the same.

 

[Damn_Smooth]

For me, I'm loving my Incredible. I will be upgrading in a year to whatever superphone H.T.C. has on Verizon. Nothing before then will make me change.

 

[5150Marley]

O they have plenty of screens, they are just keeping them for THEIR phones and saying screw everbody else, so double f*ck them
My 2 cents

Thats my reason for not buying a Samsung phone.... they screwed the Dinc owners with the screen shortage.

 

[mttfrog13]

the samsung facinate(and its sibling phone with the ffc) is the only android phone other than the nexus one on any carrier i would trade my droid inc for. The Evo 4g is too bulky and i don't want to pay extra for 4g or mobile hotspots. There really is nothing special about the droid x vs the droid inc. both the evo and droid x are too big, especially the evo.

 

[Eazail70x7]

I've seen people torn between the Fascinate and Droid X but I am interested in what people think is better when comparing Droid incredible vs. Fascinate...

How many of you would get a Fascinate over the Droid Incredible?? (We're excluding the DX for now)

 

[Deleted User]

In a DROID Incredible forum, I think you'd get a lot more people saying they would get the Incredible.... Count me as one of those.

 

[chris61292]

The galaxy s without a doubt. It blows the incredible hardware out of the water. The only thing is that it doesn't have a flash but I hear it takes good low light photos and videos

 

[euph_22]

Yes, you might want to google selection bias

 

[mjandroid]

Loved the Incredible but it was a lousy phone. Returned it. Hoping the Fascinate will be the phone for me. Interested in what others have to say.

 

[dreamsensei]

Loved the Incredible but it was a lousy phone. Returned it. Hoping the Fascinate will be the phone for me. Interested in what others have to say.

Thanks so much, Cap'n First Post, for taking time to slam the Dinc in the Dinc Forum. Our lives are enriched for it, as I'm sure yours was.

 

[DocTauri]

I don't know about anyone else, but as far as I'm concerned, the 3.7" screen of the Incredible is the largest I want to go. The EVO, X, and Fascinate are just too big, and I won't even consider them. Kind of like the difference between a 14.1" laptop, and a 15.4". The 14.1" is the largest I want to go, it's just on the breaking line, anything above it is just too awkward.

Doc

 

[KB3MMX]

I love my Incredible but if I were buying a phone right now, I'd be getting the Samsung most likely. It's just a awesome phone!
How could you be torn between the Galaxy S and a DX? Side by side screen quality and functionality aren't even in the same ball park IMHO.