After having waited for months for new news surrounding the HTC Bravo for Verizon, I find myself terribly disappointed to be presented with the HTC Incredible as it's 'US variant.'
For those who do not know, the Bravo has very similar appearance/specs to the Nexus One, but has an optical trackball as well as physical home, etc buttons (versus the on-screen capactive 'buttons' of the Nexus/Eris/Incredible.) The benefit of this is the fact that some have issues with the Nexus buttons, and also it is supposedly slow when browsing to go back multiple pages with the capactive buttons.
The Incredible does not have the sleek look of the Nexus or Bravo. In fact, the front has a very similar appearance to an iPhone (and that is NOT a good thing, I never liked how the iPhone looked.) Everyone is complaining about how the back looks and I agree with that too. The capactive buttons are a serious disappointment to me as well.
The HTC Bravo had me sold. Since that appears like it will never happen, I guess I will have to play with an Incredible and see if i am willing to carry around a phone that I find dead ugly just so I can have an optical trackball. I never liked regular trackballs, which was the main reason I preferred the Bravo over the Nexus One. Now it's a toss up between ugly with trackpad, or kinda good looking but with a trackball.
For those who do not know, the Bravo has very similar appearance/specs to the Nexus One, but has an optical trackball as well as physical home, etc buttons (versus the on-screen capactive 'buttons' of the Nexus/Eris/Incredible.) The benefit of this is the fact that some have issues with the Nexus buttons, and also it is supposedly slow when browsing to go back multiple pages with the capactive buttons.
The Incredible does not have the sleek look of the Nexus or Bravo. In fact, the front has a very similar appearance to an iPhone (and that is NOT a good thing, I never liked how the iPhone looked.) Everyone is complaining about how the back looks and I agree with that too. The capactive buttons are a serious disappointment to me as well.
The HTC Bravo had me sold. Since that appears like it will never happen, I guess I will have to play with an Incredible and see if i am willing to carry around a phone that I find dead ugly just so I can have an optical trackball. I never liked regular trackballs, which was the main reason I preferred the Bravo over the Nexus One. Now it's a toss up between ugly with trackpad, or kinda good looking but with a trackball.