HTC Droid Incredible, with a name like that, uses Android 2.1 platform, HTC Sense UI , 1 GHZ processor and an 8 megapixel camera, which makes HTC Droid Incredible a perfect smrtphone. Furthermore, over 30,000 widgets available in Android Market enrich HTC Droid Incredible’s function.
If you are acquainted with the HTC Android production line, you will find that HTC Droid Incredible’s Design style is similar with Nexus One、HTC Desire, all of which are straight board handsets with wide screen. Although being less fashion than HTC Legend, HTC Droid Incredible feels younger than HTC Nexus One, and suits to users from 25 to 40 years old. It’s worthy mentioning that HTC Droid Incredible uses all-in-one board design whose advantage is seamless joint of LCD, which looks very smooth and clean.
Design Details：Add Optical Mouse but Don’t Support Video Chat
HTC Droid Incredible’s Dimension is 117.6×58.4×11.9mm, which is a little thinner than Nexus One, HTC Desire. Due to few metal components, HTC Droid Incredible’s weight stays at 130g, which doesn’t feel heavy at the hands.
Medium size with the thickness shorter than 12 mm
The earpiece of HTC Droid Incredible has its own unique style——using the trapezoidal sunken slot design with dense red grids as HD2 which keeps the sonorous tone quality as HD 2 as well.
Eye-catching red grids earpiece
As same as most High-end smartphones, HTC Droid Incredible has a built-in ambient light sensor and a distance sensor near the earpiece. The former can adjust current light intensity of LCD and the latter can close the LCD backlight to save power when users are talking by phones. It’s noted that there are no front camera in HTC Droid Incredible, which makes the video chat unavailable.
Touch and Navigation Buttons under LCD
There are four basic function buttons under LCD, including Home Button, Menu Button, Back Button and Search Button. Different from Legend’s entity buttons, theses four function buttons use touch operation and increase touch control handfeel by shaking response function.
Using optical mouse feels better than trackball when you are accustomed to it.
HTC Google phones always dare to try in navigation buttons design. HTC Droid Incredible has made innovation which is the amiable light sensor that works the same as the optical mouse on the original basis after the first Android Google G1 using trackball operation. Although the UI is small, the accurate location promotes experience with single hand for the users who go to / off work in the rush hour.
Interfaces and Back Design: Simple and Practical, Individuality Cover is a light spot
The left side design of HTC Droid Incredible
The top design of HTC Droid Incredible
The bottom design of HTC Droid Incredible
Due to 11.9mm thickness, HTC Droid Incredible holds the simple principle. Power button and 3.5mm earphone interface is at the top, volume button and MicroUSB Data interface in the left side，none in the right side, and the Microphone port and battery cover button in the rear. Like many HTC Google phones, HTC Droid Incredible lacks shutter and HDMI interface.
Uneven Battery cover and red camera is the unique feature of HTC Droid Incredible
Comparable to the flat of front LCD panel, HTC Droid Incredible’s back design appears to be concave-convex, showing its individuation. The raised camera with red outer ring, looks like a big brimming eye, beside which are double LED flash light and independent loudspeaker and the HTC Logo.
Visual Experience: 3.7-inch OLED Touch Screen and Android 2.1 Platform
Outstanding display effect of 3.7-inch OLED Screen
HTC Droid Incredible is equipped with a 3.7-inch WVGA screen with resolution 480×800 pixel. What merits our attention is that HTC Droid Incredible adopts AMOLED material, which greatly surpasses traditional TFT screen in response speed, definition, visual angle, energy consumption and cost.
Android 2.1 Platform and Sense UI G2
All 7 pages can be shown by pressing the home button
As a flagship phone in the high-end market, HTC Droid Incredible not only uses Android 2.1 OS, but also HTC Sense UI G2. Except for the original function of supporting dynamic desktop, HTC Droid Incredible adds a widget named as “Friend Stream” to integrate with social contact website like FaceBook、Twitter to update messages published by friends and send them to the desktop, which works like the MOTO BLUR technology.
8 megapixel camera: Function Introduction
HTC Droid Incredible equips with a built-in 8 megapixel camera which supports automatic focusing function assisted with two LED flash lights. To become the most powerful phone in taking pictures, HTC Droid Incredible adds face tracking and touch focusing function on the basis of regulating options in white balance, ISO and image quality.
A built-in 8 megapixel camera
These are two photo examples took by HTC Droid Incredible.
Top Core Hardware：1GHz Dominated Frequency + QSD8650 Chipset
With the Android 2.1 platform, HTC Droid Incredible also shows great power in core hardware. HTC Droid Incredible has a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8650 processor with 512MB ROM and 512MB RAM.
HTC Droid Incredible is the second Android phone using QSD8650 chipset
QSD8650 chipset supports HSPA data with the transmission speed of down-link at 7.2Mbps, up link at 5.76Mbp, and supports HSPA and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO edition B as well as overall backward capability.
Abundant Built-in Google Application Service
Signing fixed agreement with network operator Verizon, HTC Droid Incredible supports CDMA2000 1xRTT/1xEVDO/1xEVDO Rev A (800/1900 MHz) network and WLAN. In addition, HTC Droid Incredible also support HTML browser and Flash Lite 4.0 widget , such as Google Maps、Google Talk、Gmail、YouTube、Google Calendar、Google Search. The apps in Android Market have broken through 30 thousand, which further meets the users’ download demands.
A built-in 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8650 processor
Prices
According the Verizon official website, prices for HTC Droid Incredible are 529.99 dollars; if you sign two years contract with network operator, prices are 299.99 dollars. But if you order in the Verizon official website, you will have 100 dollars discount. In another words, you only have to pay 199.99 dollars in the condition of signing two years contract and ordering in Verizon official website.
Summary
As the best looking Android smartphone in HTC serious, HTC Droid Incredible features a powerful processor, excellent Sense UI and a 3.7-inch WVGA OLED capacitive touch screen. HTC Droid Incredible indeed does a great job to live up to its name-incredible.
Advantages:
1. 3.7-inch WVGA OLED screen
2.1GHz Snapdragon Processor
3.Up to 40GB of storage
4.8 MP camera
5.Android 2.1 OS
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