The Incredible is a GREAT phone... especially for those who don't already have an Android phone and are on the fence about one. Maybe they're a VZW customer waiting for this form factor. Maybe they're an at&t or Sprint customer and wanting a reason to jump ship to Big Red. These are the people, in my opinion, that the Incredible should and will lure. For those of us who have and been living with the DROID all this time, especially for me, the Incredible will not cause me to jump ship for a couple of reasons: 1) I was an early adopter of the DROID, so I picked it up when the ETF was still half of what it is now, 2) I'm generally satisfied with the performance of my phone/device. It does everything I need it to do without err or problem. I love having a physical keyboard and I cannot fathom what it would be like to not have one.
That being said, there's just no reason for me to jump ship now with LTE around the corner and the pace of Android device development. There's no bragging rights with the Incredible either with the Evo4G looking like a beast on the Sprint network. And you know it'll just get better. If I didn't have a smartphone already, then I wouldn't recommend anyone wait for a "something better," get the Incredible now. But if you got a DROID, what's the point? If we've learned anything, you got the new kid on the block device for less than 6 months before it's out-done!
Honestly, I feel sorry for Nexus One owners and future Desire owners because the Incredible just outdoes those phones within the same form factor. At least being a DROID owner, you can claim you STILL have the best slide out QWERTY Android device, going on 6 months strong. N1 came out in January and was outdone by Desire in three months. Desire had all the fanfare for all of one month before the Incredible reared its head. And the Evo4G is still king, hands down for the slab form factor.
Honestly, I've been recommending friends to pick up a DROID when it drops in price. No point in shelling out $200, two-years and what might be a $500 ETF for a new phone. Mitigate that expense wherever you can, especially, like I said, with LTE around the corner, even if roll-out will be gradual, knowing VZW it won't be piece-meal like the way Sprint is doing 4G. From what I understand, much of the infrastructure for LTE is there.
By the way, Engadget reported the 8GB of onboard memory on the Incredible... not even recognizable by certain apps (not like iPhone onboard memory and can't recognize it as an "SD card"). Another fragmentation problem? Now developers have to program for recognizing on-board memory? That's a huge issue in my opinion.
