Droid vs Incredible

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Wes H

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I'm due for an upgrade. Being a software developer (Java) by trade, I would like to get a phone running the Android OS. I don't know if I'll ever actually write something for it, but it would be nice to have the ability if I decide to.

Anyway, I used someone else's Droid and the QWERTY slide out keypad worked well for me. However, the Droid touch screen seemed too sensitive for me to easily control without hitting the wrong buttons. Granted my test was short, so perhaps the touch QWERTY was something I could get use to.

I waited an extra month from when I was eligible for an upgrade to see the Incredible come out as I think it has double the processing power of the Droid. I expected the same touch keyboard as was on the Droid with the some feel, but it seemed less "touchy" and perhaps something I could actually control.

I know that the Droid was on the latest OS (v2.2 I think?). I expect the Incredible comes from the factory with the same OS since it's a new phone as well.

Should both keyboards have worked the same? Maybe the Incredible has better touch sensitivity than the Droid?
 
The Droid has one of the best touch layers of any Android phone. It has been shown to be a league above the Nexus One in touch accuracy, precision, and sensitivity. I wouldn't be surprised if it beat the Incredible in this respect.

That said, get the Incredible. It has twice the RAM, nearly twice the processing power, and touch keyboard input is really the way of the future. The Incredible's screen is also better proportioned IMO since the 854x480 of the Droid can end up being too narrow and tall.

However the screen of the Droid is actually better. The Incredible only wins in contrast and brightness, but the Droid's screen features better color accuracy and a higher true resolution (the Incredible's effective resolution is something like 600x350 due to the cheap Pentile display technology it uses).

I would still get the Incredible nine times out of ten for the much better hardware.
 
I would get the Incredible. I hate the way the Droid looks, and I really like the Sense UI that HTC uses on the Incredible.
 
If you do decide to write anything stock android would be easyest to work with if you plan on writing ROMS, Theme, ect. If you plan on just making an APP then either will work although I think Droid will get 2.2 before the Incredible due to HTC sense.
 
No. The Nexus One's capacitive layer has been shown to be worse than the Droid's and significantly worse than the iPhone's (in regards to multitouch ability especially). The layer Motorola implemented has generally been regarded to be superior to HTC's implementations. I have no idea what testing you're referring to.
 
Vs.

http://www.esphoneblog.com/2010/04/...htc-incrediblevs-motorola-droid-vs-nexus-one/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/nexus-ones-multitouch-confused-more-easily-than-droids/

If you're ever used the Droid/Milestone, there are no problems with its capacitive screen for the purposes of tap-typing, browsing, et cetera.

If you've ever used the Nexus One, multi-touch on it is a craptastic experience.

The MOTO test itself mentions that their test can be adversely affected by the polling rate of the hardware, among other factors. Which doesn't mean a thing for actual use, nor an excuse for the shoddy multitouch displayed above. I can understand the relevance of their test for resistive screens, where they are a measure of handwriting recognition performance. In the capacitive world it's just not nearly as relevant when most of what you're doing involves tapping and short-sliding.
 
Right, because touch tests aren't a good example of touch tests. The multi touch bug on the N1 is software based; known and expected to be fixed.
 
Have you used the Nexus One or Droid yourself? Because in case you're unaware, in our capacitive worlds most touch gestures are registered via short-sliding, multitouch dragging, and tapping. Handwriting recognition was only a measure of competence with resistive, Windows Mobile-era screens. ;)

Google's not going to fix it. And it's Synaptics at fault, not the software.

http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/is-multitouch-broken-on-the-nexus-one/


So simply between the low-resolution (effective) Pentile technology, crappy sunlight legibility, inaccurate colors, and crappy multitouch the Incredible's screen is overall way inferior to the Droid's. That said I'd still pick it nine times out of ten for the better internals and greater app memory. And it's better-looking, though it's just not as solidly built.
 
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