Help with Incredible or X

[Charmed Juan]

The difference between the Dinc and the X is the screen. It's all about the screen.
Everything else is minor.
For me, I have big hands, Big thumbs. I have a hard time with the portrait keyboard on my Dinc. I plan on getting the X when it comes out.

 

[crwmlw#IM]

Heres where I stand

Ok here is where I stand. Im up for my annual upgrade November 4th of this year. I currently have the Eris which is way to slow for me. I can get a 3 week old Incredible for $370.00 from a friend and not extend my contract so if something new comes out, or Verizon will let me do an early upgrade to the Incredible for the $199 but as we know it wont ship until August 3rd, sign a new 2 year contract and cant upgrade again till August 2011. With the update the Incredible is supposed to get with 720p and wifi hotspot its appealing, plus verizon is supposed to be rolling out the lte soon. I really dont know what to do.

 

[willymakit]

The question wasn't about battery life, it was basically should they go ahead and get the X or get the Incredible and hope that it gets 720p. 720p will come to the Incredible eventually, rumor around the fire says that the next update is in the final stages of testing whatever that means. Now does that mean it will be here in the next month or by next January nobody knows. Personally when it comes to get the X or the Incredible the only thing you need to really worry about is the form factor. Battery life will be bad on either device with the stock battery. Stating what a blog says as fact is stupid especially considering how many blogs just rave over the new phone because they have it and fail to mention the "oh but this" scenarios. IE take the talking heads that reviewed the iPhone 4 before it came out but didn't mention anything about the obvious antenna issues....eck blogs.

Well said...

 

[Qazme]

I have to say I feel like high end cell phones are JUST starting to reach a point where they're passable as still cameras.. and by passable I mean roughly as good as your cheap $99 digital camera for STILLS. I bought an Incredible knowing all these 720p phones were coming out because I don't think the video features on phones are good for anything other than recording crazy stuff like this when it happens to be happening in front of you. They don't need to be 720p because even the ones that are aren't even matching your standard def video cameras in terms of overall quality. If there's one thing Apple got right with the iPhone 4, it's that megapixels aren't the only thing that matters in the camera. Similarly, resolution isn't the only thing that matters in video recording, especially when you're talking about a zoomless cell phone with a lens and sensor that are half the size of a pea.

To be honest, I'd much rather have 480p recording at a full 30FPS than 720P at 25. If we were talking about a real camera with real lenses and a real sensor, it might be a different story, but I don't think it's very wise to buy cell phones based on their video recording features. If you really want to record HD video, you're going to be disappointed no matter what you get. Buy the best PHONE you can, and think of the camera as a nice bonus for when you happen to witness something crazy happening.

If you ask me, the biggest reasons to get a Droid X are the big screen (if you want it) and Swype (which you do want, even if you don't know it yet.) THe incredible on the other hand is a better pick if you want a smaller, sleeker phone. Or Sense UI.

Very well said on everything except Swype. I agree I think everyone would want Swype but that isn't always fact. Some people can't stand it. But also that you can get Swype on any Android device...if you know where to look or are part of the beta

 

[rjdangerous]

Stellar Battery Life May Be Droid X's Best Feature - PCWorld

 

[Qazme]

Interesting. But I'll believe 8 hours of talk and 220 hours of standby when the phone hits the market and it out in the wild. Kind of like the 'astonishing battery life' the iPhone 4 has.....until real people started using it in real environments. Take it for what it's worth and with a grain of salt until people start using it. With all that being said I hope it's true because it will push HTC, Samsung etc to start building in good battery life!

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Interesting. But I'll believe 8 hours of talk and 220 hours of standby when the phone hits the market and it out in the wild. Kind of like the 'astonishing battery life' the iPhone 4 has.....until real people started using it in real environments. Take it for what it's worth and with a grain of salt until people start using it. With all that being said I hope it's true because it will push HTC, Samsung etc to start building in good battery life!

Exactly.....

There were some that said they got a full day on a battery with the Inc. before it was released......etc.

All these pre release blogs to me are basically ads for the device themselves.....

Some days I get a full charge from my inc....some days a few hrs...

Don't forget that they get these stock without third party apps, etc...that add to battery drain.

 

[nmyeti]

There were some that said they got a full day on a battery with the Inc. before it was released......etc.

I go through a full day on my Incredible with Gmail and Exchange both pushing to the phone (I get around 150 to 200 emails a day via exchange). Usually I can make it through Friday and Saturday on one charge (Saturday's email load is quite a bit less) so it can be done on an incredible with a stock battery as long as you don't have facebook/twitter, etc updating every 10 minutes.

There are two real battery killers that I run into. The first is web browsing. I'm not sure if it's the white background being so much less efficient for the AMOLED display or if it's a case of the browser using a ton of processing power, but my battery life when browsing is abysmal. That's my main complaint. The only other time that i can watch my battery drain quickly is when I have a low signal condition. This phone will eat a battery in just a few hours if you don't have a quality signal. It does a good job of holding onto a weak signal, but it does so at the expense of a lot of juice.

I?ve got another line I can use for an upgrade if I want to pick up a droid x. I think I?m going to let this all shake out between the X and the new Samsung and evaluate them both when they are available. If there is a compelling reason to upgrade, I can and will. However, I?m not going to ?pre-order? again anytime soon.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Yeah web kills the battery on mine.....

 

[MrBigFeathers]

Web browsing is definitely a killer. My battery (stock) literally drops about 1% a minute while web browsing.

 

[Qazme]

Web browsing doesn't hit mine too bad, I find playing games kills it much faster lol.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Must be that certain browsing that Steve says we all use our droids for.

 

[Qazme]

ROFL well then that's video not web browsing!