Droid 2 or Incredible?

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I responded to you saying that the review put the epic in a bad light. Since everyone tends to compare every smartphone now to the iphone it a given to compare to it. Maybe I don't get an iphone cause att is a pos in my area? Or how bout the fact that I don't wanna be locked to syncing to shitty itunes all the damn time. Maybe I like the ability to be able to multitask as much as I want. I've done much more to customize my phone in the last three days than I could ever do being locked to ios with out jailbreaking it .why don't you add something to this thread rather than pick 5 words and write some bullshit.

1) You will not skip a beat with iOS multitask.

2) Android isn't giving you full control of mutlitasking. Go read some WebOS forums and Symbian forums. That is true multitasking. If anything iOS and Android are now similar in multitasking. Either way, you're letting the OS choose what stays open and what closes. And the Android forums tell you to trust Android without a task manager and let it do it's own job (how Steve Jobsian... you won't let Apple decide what's best for you, but Google makes the best decisions... yeah sure)

3) If you really want to multitask as much as you want, then you can open apps as you want, and they stay open as long as you want until YOU, the user hits the exit button. Neither iOS nor Android offer this.

4) But I think it comes down to this. Both OSes try to analyze what you really need for multitasking. With iOS 4, I actually give the slight nudge to iOS for multitasking. It basically covers what you would need, and at least they offer push notifications. Which Android app even offers push notifications besides Google Voice/Gmail? I think Trillian does, but no developer really invokes the cloud messaging API crap.

 

[zerocool84]

1) You will not skip a beat with iOS multitask.

2) Android isn't giving you full control of mutlitasking. Go read some WebOS forums and Symbian forums. That is true multitasking. If anything iOS and Android are now similar in multitasking. Either way, you're letting the OS choose what stays open and what closes. And the Android forums tell you to trust Android without a task manager and let it do it's own job (how Steve Jobsian... you won't let Apple decide what's best for you, but Google makes the best decisions... yeah sure)

3) If you really want to multitask as much as you want, then you can open apps as you want, and they stay open as long as you want until YOU, the user hits the exit button. Neither iOS nor Android offer this.

4) But I think it comes down to this. Both OSes try to analyze what you really need for multitasking. With iOS 4, I actually give the slight nudge to iOS for multitasking. It basically covers what you would need, and at least they offer push notifications. Which Android app even offers push notifications besides Google Voice/Gmail? I think Trillian does, but no developer really invokes the cloud messaging API crap.

But there are still larger differences in iOS multitasking and Android. We've covered it many times and everyone knows the differences.

 

[tdawg]

After reading the engadget reviews of the Droid 2 and Fascinate, I'd say go for the Incredible or Droid X. Droid 2 reportedly has a poor camera and engadget experienced unusual signal issues. The Fascinate has been gimped by Verizon by making the default search engine, and only option, Bing rather than Google. Engadget also reports the phone is laggy and the touchwiz interface is far from ready.

 

[kaerflog]

After reading the engadget reviews of the Droid 2 and Fascinate, I'd say go for the Incredible or Droid X. Droid 2 reportedly has a poor camera and engadget experienced unusual signal issues. The Fascinate has been gimped by Verizon by making the default search engine, and only option, Bing rather than Google. Engadget also reports the phone is laggy and the touchwiz interface is far from ready.

That is such a trivial problem.
You can set a icon shortcut to a google bookmark and get there just as fast.

 

[zerocool84]

That is such a trivial problem.
You can set a icon shortcut to a google bookmark and get there just as fast.

If they changed the default search button to Bing it really sucks cus one of the best things about Android is the default Search button that goes straight to Google.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

wait a few months and dual core cell phones will be out that will make incrediable and droid 2 look like pocket calculators. dont wast ur upgrade!!

 

[zerocool84]

wait a few months and dual core cell phones will be out that will make incrediable and droid 2 look like pocket calculators. dont wast ur upgrade!!

Few months? You mean almost a year. Dual core phones will not be out in early 2011.

 

[jpeyton]

Engadget also reports the phone is laggy and the touchwiz interface is far from ready.

That *might* be true on the Verizon-gimped version, but the Captivate on AT&T is incredibly smooth, and TouchWiz is one of the best factory skins I've come across. I have a Droid X as well and I've compared the two.

 

[YoungGun21]

Few months? You mean almost a year. Dual core phones will not be out in early 2011.

Yes they will.

 

[Pollock]

I've had my Incredible since launch and am not really pleased. The battery issues are real. I think 2.2 has improved it, but I still make sure to plug it in whenever I get the opportunity. The screen is fine indoors but absolutely worthless in sunlight. Worthless.

I feel like build quality is acceptable, but this is also my first smart phone. Also, I frequently have performance issues, even with 2.2. Apps often enough become unresponsive for 20+ seconds or sluggish for no apparent reason. 3G coverage is disappointing, and even with good reception, will often take 30+ seconds to load directions with Maps or buffer a song. And the lag on scrolling is absolutely sad. How is scrolling not GPU accelerated?