Agreed. Battery life is pretty abysmal. The new iPhone will have much better battery life. The Incredible has even worse battery life than some other Android phones while the iPhone is getting better over time.1. Battery life. While disabling a couple of apps that were fetching my Yahoo mail (I am testing various methods to find the best solution) the battery life is still very very underwhelming. I do see difference in battery drain since I shutdown some apps, but I turned on last night around midnite, played for about 20 minutes, and went to bed. It is 5pm and I have the 9% warning already.
Agreed. Its probably some sort of a political game between Yahoo and Google. I don't understand why Google or HTC doesn't build in good support for Yahoo somehow.2. Lack of Yahoo support. I understand the phone is made by Google. But c'mon...the Yahoo support is terrible. If just one thing worked nicely I wouldn't complain that much. But email is terrible....my sent mails don't sync to Yahoo.com. K-9 doesn't offer Push at all on the Incredible. It says it does, however it doesn't work. ROID is a waste of time and money, and probably contributes to the poor battery life. If Yahoo made an app for the Droid Inc, it would make life soooo much better.
I haven't noticed any problems with reception on the Incredible. Bars don't mean anything. Either put the phone in debug mode or look in Settings, About phone, Network. Compare that to other phones. I am VERY happy with Verizon coverage. AT&T is the worst. AT&T has no 3G outside of major cities and even where it says they do... they don't. In the 2yrs I've had them, zero improvement.3. 3G service. I know the VZW signal is amazing in my home iwth every other phone I had...but my Inc only holds 1 or 2 bars. If that.
-82dB.. that's bad right?
I use K9 Mail. Great mail client. 3G or WIFI, does not matter the connection type.
Actually, at -82dB you should be able to do pretty much anything you want to. That's not a bad signal at all. On the past few phones I've had, I don't get nervous til the signal drops under -90dB... and it should be perfectly usable at that point. To give a comparison: if you're really close, like measured in feet, to a tower ("full signal")... you're still only looking at about -60dB.-82dB.. that's bad right?
Not to open a can of worms, but... I'm not sure I understand this. And I should, because I own a website/email hosting company serving over 2500 clients.Yahoo doesn't allow connection using IMAP over Wifi.
Now you won't get any argument from me on this. There is no advantage to using POP anymore. If you have a choice between IMAP and POP, always go the IMAP route. I've got a post somewhere explaining the differences, which I won't bore you with here.IMAP is much better than POP.
A mailserver either supports IMAP or it doesn't. It doesn't matter whether you're connecting via 3G, 1X, DSL, cable, or 56K dialup. The server has no idea of how you're connecting. As far as it's concerned... you're connected.
guys, my lamborghini gets too low mpg and it doesn't come with a cassette player. I know i've only had it for two days, but it just isn't doing it for me. I will be returning it and getting a used 1975 fiat 500 with 140,000 miles.
I have no issues with my yahoo mail. Why not check out google mail and calendar. I find it superior to yahoo's offerings. My entire family's calendars are linked together and we can always see what everyone is doing.
As for battery life, yes it is shorter than my Storm, but it still lasts through the whole day without issue. The 2150 mAh battery will be here soon enough to address this issue.
Hope your luck is better with whatever phone you decide to take.
I don't know whose fault this is, but the HTC mail program doesn't work with yahoo's imap server when wifi is on.
In soviet russia, pop3 mail pushes you.
In google land, imap mail gets pushed to you.
Yahoo doesn't allow connection using IMAP over Wifi. IMAP is much better than POP.
We are on the VZW family plan. I am out of contract and my wife's line is out of contract on the 3rd of July. We were both ready to move on from our Blackberries and excited to get the Incredible.
Since we received them on the 27th, we both like the phone and are impressed with how it works and how fast it is, etc...but the cons are outweighing the pros at this point.
We both use Yahoo. We previously enjoyed instant email delivery with 2-way read/unread sync, sent items 1-way sync, and full PIM sync thru the Blackberry desktop manager. After 2 years of abuse I was getting about 2 days of use out of my Blackberry.
Sadly...Yahoo integrations sucks with the Incredible. Even if I can live with delayed email delivery, there is still no way to sync the rest of my PIM data.
There are 3 negatives that I can see about this phone, and unfortunately they are outweighing the many positives.
1. Battery life. While disabling a couple of apps that were fetching my Yahoo mail (I am testing various methods to find the best solution) the battery life is still very very underwhelming. I do see difference in battery drain since I shutdown some apps, but I turned on last night around midnite, played for about 20 minutes, and went to bed. It is 5pm and I have the 9% warning already.
2. Lack of Yahoo support. I understand the phone is made by Google. But c'mon...the Yahoo support is terrible. If just one thing worked nicely I wouldn't complain that much. But email is terrible....my sent mails don't sync to Yahoo.com. K-9 doesn't offer Push at all on the Incredible. It says it does, however it doesn't work. ROID is a waste of time and money, and probably contributes to the poor battery life. If Yahoo made an app for the Droid Inc, it would make life soooo much better.
3. 3G service. I know the VZW signal is amazing in my home iwth every other phone I had...but my Inc only holds 1 or 2 bars. If that.
In summation, I really like this phone...I think the screen is amazing, the touch works very close if not equal to the iPhone, I love the apps. But I can't deal with the negatives I posted above.
So we are planning on returning our new Droid Incredibles and waiting for the new iPhone in June and switching to AT&T.
i just feel that the Android OS overall is still in it's infancy...and I just don't have the patience to watch it grow up.
Well, I'm in the "city" and I am running -99, so I have to keep wifi on, which messes up my email and drains my battery. I'm not happy.
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