***Official HTC Incredible Thread***

[singer82]

I don't know... Apple has a lot of clout, but I can't see them screwing Verizon by ruining their Android plans then then Verizon happily accepting the iPhone. That'd be a real "say my name, Bitch!" moment for Apple.

No Android for you! Now take this, and you better act like you like it.

Whatever happens with this lawsuit, I hope Google sends a few megabucks HTC's way to help with the legal bills.

Whoa..................
thats hot LOL

 

[TechGeekPro]

Way to go, now we will all have to wait 31 days for the incredible (one day past the 30 day return window). I was hoping 1-3 weeks.

Better than May.

 

[vzw+google+htc=:)]

Very well may be. But, something here now has Verizon's attention.

Verizon, AT&T win FCC auction, Google wins open spectrum
(AFP) – Mar 20, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — US telecom giants Verizon Wireless and AT&T on Thursday took home the big prizes in a record-setting US wireless spectrum auction while Google got the open access it eagerly craves.
The 700 MHz band currently carries standard television broadcasts, and will be freed up when stations switch to all-digital broadcasting after February 17, 2009.
The spectrum is poised to become a conduit for high-speed telecommunications and Internet services delivered to mobile devices across the United States.
Carriers like the spectrum because signals travel long distances and penetrate buildings better than parts of the radio frequency spectrum they are now allowed to use.
Verizon bid 9.4 billion dollars for most of the licenses in the prime 700 MHz radio spectrum. AT&T won most of the regional licenses with bids totaling 6.6 billion dollars.
Meanwhile, Google's top bid barely surpassed the 4.6-billion-dollar minimum requirement but the online search king won what it really wanted by making certain that spectrum owners can't block out Internet or telecom rivals.
"Although Google didn't pick up any spectrum licenses, the auction produced a major victory for American consumers," Google lawyers Richard Whitt and Joseph Faber said in a written response to an AFP inquiry.
"We congratulate the winners and look forward to a more open wireless world."
Google insisted the FCC make open-access a condition of sale in the coveted "C-block" of the spectrum before it signed on as a bidder.
By barely bidding more than the minimum, Google managed to pay nothing while ensuring that companies whose life blood is the Internet will be able to offer high-speed services to mobile devices on the spectrum.
"We don't necessarily have to have our own spectrum," Google co-founder Serge Brin said in an interview prior to the auction.
Google's aim was to make certain people can freely connect with the entire range of mobile telephone and Internet service providers via the spectrum, executives said.
"All they were after was open access," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.
"Google didn't really want to buy spectrum. They got what they wanted and they got it on the cheap. It was a nice strategy well executed."
Before the auction, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt assured reporters the California firm had no intentions to buy the spectrum, "build a network and put all these mobile devices out there."
"Wouldn't it be better if all these other companies do that and we just sit back and reap a benefit?" Schmidt said. "The auction is a tactic to an outcome and the outcome is end-user choice."
Verizon bought all the licenses in the C-block, except for Puerto Rico, for 4.7 billion dollars.
"We were successful in achieving the spectrum depth we need to continue to grow our business and data revenues ... and to continue to lead in data services and help us satisfy the next wave of services and consumer electronics devices," Verizon Wireless, which is owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group, said in a statement.
The new rules mark a revolution in the US cellphone industry, where customers have largely been tied exclusively to their operators' handsets and applications.
"The locked nature of mobile phones really slows down innovation in the US market with respect to mobile" Brin said in the interview.
"In comparison, Europe is really quite ahead and typically doesn't have the phone locked to the network. We want to do as much as possible to make that happen."
The FCC raised a record 19.6 billion dollars in 261 rounds of bidding. There were 101 winners among 214 bidders.
"As a result of the auction, consumers whose devices use the C-block of spectrum soon will be able to use any wireless device they wish, and download to their devices any applications and content they wish," Whitt and Faber said.
"Consumers soon should begin enjoying new, Internet-like freedom to get the most out of their mobile phones and other wireless devices."
AT&T, the nation's largest telecom, won the bulk of the B-block licenses.
The D-block, which requires the buyer to work with authorities and set aside airwaves for public-safety and emergency uses, went unsold.
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[Montana Man]

Top 3 questions on this thread (in no particular order):

1) When will the Incredible be released?

2) What are the final specs on the Incredible going to be?

3) What the hell page in this massive thing am I reading again?!?!?

 

[s34n1811]

Who here is sporting the oldest phone that they are getting rid of when the incredible comes out.

I have a Motorola L7c SLVR from 2007.

I'm rocking the xv6900 #2 .... 1st got screen cracked. Had to replace the digitizer on the 2nd. Not old to Verizon but old as phones go. I think Sprint had this thing a whole year before Verizon got it. I'm glad those days of getting new old phones are over (fingers crossed).

 

[Steven58]

3) what the hell page in this massive thing am i reading again?!?!?

haha!

 

[Ruben]

Top 3 questions on this thread (in no particular order):

1) When will the Incredible be released?

2) What are the final specs on the Incredible going to be?

3) What the hell page in this massive thing am I reading again?!?!?

All questions we have been trying to figure out this whole thread. I think we are making great progress though. We're almost to release with some hefty specs.

 

[tluv00]

Who here is sporting the oldest phone that they are getting rid of when the incredible comes out.

I have a Motorola L7c SLVR from 2007.

LG Voyager day 1 it came out.....sometime in 2007....I think.

 

[Reginald VelJohnson]

Guess what i just found out!! I work for vzw as well and every friday and sat we have early store meetings... Normally its just numbers stuff but this week... wait for it... on friday an HTC will be in the store for the early meeting!!! now I dont want to jump to conclusions but i have been working there for a while and this will be the first time a rep will actually be there for the meeting and not just browsing around the store during regular hours.. could they be there to announce something??? I HOPE SO!!!

Incredible???? even the Nexus would be nice!!!

This tip is worth what you paid for it (i.e. nothing ), but I talked to a buddy today who works in tech support for Verizon, and he said everybody is buzzing about some big announcement that's supposed to be made on the 19th. He said some think it's an announcement about Skype (possibly), some think they're announcing the iPhone (impossible, IMO), most think it's about new Android device(s).

A pre-CTIA buzz builder perhaps?

Hmmm... Friday is the 19th... Hmm...

 

[Deleted User]

I read this over at BGR... is this true?...
(forgive my ability of not knowing how to quote outside sources)

Jones says:
March 15, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Alex, I didn’t know that you could disable Sense. Interesting. Does this man that I wouldn’t have to wait for HTC to get up to speed when a new version of Android comes out?
I don’t quite understand how this works. E.g. the moto droid runs vanilla android. Yet, it seems like they have to wait for motorola to prep it before they can get 2.1, etc.
.. a little confused.

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Alex says:
March 15, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Yes it is possible, but you would have to root your phone. It isn’t hard to do, there are forums that would be able to show you how to do it. You wouldn’t have to wait for the release of a new version to come out for the incredible, there would be a version available well before.

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Jones says:
March 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM
Alex.. good to know. Thanks

 

[djgabriel]

For those of us that think that VZW is going to plan it's release of Incredible around the N1, or go out of it's way to train/support the N1 for Google, you might want to consider this article. Not directly on point re N1 or Incredible, but shows that Verizon is not as close with Google as some of us thought. It looks like Google is trying to form a new wireless carrier, and Verizon is trying to stop it:


Verizon Communications has allowed Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's acquisition of AdMob - NYPOST.com


Sorry if this has been discussed, I didn't see it.

I think the article is spot on.

Google IS battling on AT LEAST 2 fronts, one being China and the other is VZW.

And for the matter, if Google does "pull out" ;-) of china then I would find it much easier to find some belief in their motto...

As for Google developing its own wireless network. Then I say "f*ck yeah bring it!"
And not because I don't like VZW (I LOVE VZW) but competition in the market place is NEVER a bad thing

EDIT: Censoring search results is EVIL!

BRING ON THE INCREDIBLE! hahahaha (sorry - lost myself in the moment)

 

[s34n1811]

Hey is there an irc channel about the incredible?!@!

 

[Deleted User]

Hey is there an irc channel about the incredible?!@!

We should just pay homage to google and google wave this bad boy.

 

[woop]

I read this over at BGR... is this true?...
(forgive my ability of not knowing how to quote outside sources)

Jones says:
March 15, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Alex, I didn

 

[greggds]

FWIW: for those that hope there might be some news from the gdgt party in Austin, if there should be, one of our contributors is there:

DevDroidian

standing in line — at gdgt Austin - Austin Music Hall gdgt Austin - Austin Music Hall on Gowalla
about 1 hours ago via Gowalla

 

[Ruben]

And if you do you stock, you don't get the stock apps. You get the HTC Sense UI apps with the Vanilla launcher.

 

[Deleted User]

So with the nexus one instead of waiting for an OTA I can just download it off a site or market place?

 

[djgabriel]

It just dawned on me that there are some seriously powerful forces at play within the emerging world of wireless technology.

Please keep in mind that ANYONE can subscribe and become a member of this forum.

I find it very hard to believe that there is not a single Apple "fanatic" subscribed to AND participating within this thread. Not to mention AT&T and possibly even others... if I found this thread on page 34 then I imagine others can too. The excitement building within this community is hard to ignore.

Remember to keep an open mind when you read something that may seem offensive - it could be placed here purposefully.

Just some thoughts.

Peace,
Dj

 

[daveydog]

i have no idea what that means... but its well written

 

[Deleted User]

Yes it IS all about the Incredible. However, I think its about more than just the phone. Its about the technology that brings US TOGETHER and allows US TO STAY CONNECTED.

Uh.... WTF DJ

 

[Paznos]

So with the nexus one instead of waiting for an OTA I can just download it off a site or market place?

No you still have to wait for google to release it OTA but since it's their own device and it doesn't have the Sense UI skin on it you'd get the newest updates before HTC or any other manufacturer would.

 

[Deleted User]

No you still have to wait for google to release it OTA but since it's their own device and it doesn't have the Sense UI skin on it you'd get the newest updates before HTC or any other manufacturer would.

Can google just release these? Or does it have to go through vzw, then they approve it, then they kick it out when they think we should have it?

 

[Tyler]

And if you do you stock, you don't get the stock apps. You get the HTC Sense UI apps with the Vanilla launcher.

What different "stock" apps does it not come with? And can you just download those from the marketplace?

 

[shawn487]

Or you could just pound the girl if she's hot afterwards.

even if she's not that hot cant you at least take one for the team?

 

[shawn487]

Who cares? They make such good stuff.

i bet apple fanboys say the same thing... but they are wrong