Droid Incredible takes a stable bite out of Gingerbread (video)
Android 2.3, get your Android 2.3! A Gingerbread ROM for the Droid Incredible that's been cooking on xda-developers for a couple of weeks is finally looking ready for mass consumption. It hit version 4 overnight, fixing a few niggling issues and enabling the 8 megapixel camera, which leaves only its video recording and GPS functions on the to-do list
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: camera, developers, droid, droid incredible, entry, gingerbread, niggling, responsiveness, verizon, video, wedodroid
Droid Incredible getting V CAST Apps next week, whether you like it or not
Verizon has just announced that its lovely HTC Droid Incredible will be getting a fresh software update pushed over-the-air starting next week, and among the "software enhancements" will be the automatic installation of the carrier's V CAST Apps app store. Since this doesn't mean the Android Market is going away, we suppose it's not the end of the world -- and Verizon is quick to note that V CAST Apps supports carrier billing -- but the benefit of having two app stores on a phone is still anyone's guess.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: automatic, cast, developers, droid incredible, droidincredible, engadget, full-statement, reminder, update, vcastapps
HTC Desire HD ROM ported to Droid Incredible, Desire
You've already seen it ported to the HTC HD2 , and it looks like the recently-leaked HTC Desire HD ROM has now also made its way to two more likely candidates for a port: the Droid Incredible and original Desire. As you might expect, there are a few issues that you'll likely want to consider before diving right in -- there's no camera support yet on either phone, for instance -- but it does look like it otherwise reasonably stable for a beta, and it does bring some of the boot speed improvements seen on the Desire HD itself .
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: desirehd, details, droid incredible, htc, htc-desire, htc-incredible, htcincredible, rom, support, video
SLCD-equipped Droid Incredible filtering into retail
Those incoming Droid Incredibles with SLCD displays swapped in for those ultra-scarce AMOLED units are starting to make cameos on store shelves around the country, it seems, which means the supply constraints that have held it back for most of this year should start to evaporate. Of course, the Droid Incredible has been around long enough now so that demand is going to start to diminish naturally anyhow -- so... you know, six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: droid incredible, droidincredible, engadget, incredibles, painful, seems-the-new, shelves, slcd, store, Supply, verizon, virtue
Red and white official Droid Incredible backs shipping for $25
They're not showing up on Verizon's site at this point, but you can apparently score first-party replacement battery covers for your Droid Incredible -- not just in the original black, but also in decidedly louder red and white varieties. If you've got a buddy flaunting a white EVO , we can't think of anything better than fire engine red to get him to quiet down a bit -- only problem is you'll be asked to shell out a stiff $24.99 for the privilege. Word is they're available in stores now.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: battery, battery-cover, batterycover, droid incredible, engadget, engine, htc, incredible, mobile, privilege, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, vzw
HTC Droid Incredible update to Froyo rolling out far and wide, manual install available
Yeah, the Droid Incredible update was technically already deployed , but you know how these things work: they're usually long, painful phased rollouts designed to limit the damage if something catastrophic happens in the over-the-air push.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: already-been, barrage, droid incredible, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, froyo, incredible, mobile, phone, update, upgrade, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless
The revolving door: Froyo for Droid Incredible coming tomorrow, Froyo for EVO 4G gets rooted
The rich landscape of Android versioning just got a bit richer, with word of an official Froyo update for the Droid Incredible being launched tomorrow (based on the screencap pictured above), while the EVO 4G's recent Froyo software just got rooted. If you're crazily impatient, an Android 2.2 ROM for the Incredible just leaked out into the wild, and can be installed with a bit of work, but from the official-looking-ness of this leak from Droid Life , a painless official update is not far off
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: droid incredible, droid-life, entry, freedom, froyo, htc-sense, inevitably, landscape, revolving-door, root, sense, sprint
HTC Droid Incredible finally returns to stock, not a moment too soon
If the rumors of an August 18th Android 2.2 update prove true, we'd say Verizon Wireless couldn't have picked a better time to get HTC's Droid Incredible back in stock.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: droid, droid incredible, handset, htc, htc-incredible, htcdroidincredible, hurry, instock, rumors, shipping, smartphone, stock, tag, verizon
Froyo code for HTC EVO 4G, Droid Incredible goes open source
You know the drill : if you're rolling custom firmwares for your Android-powered devices, you've got to release the GPL portions of those binaries for all of our prying eyes to see. It's a drill HTC is well-acquainted with at this point, and once again, they've come swooping in with a couple that should pique the particular interest of the North American hacking community: kernel source for the Android 2.2 releases for Verizon's Droid Incredible and Sprint's EVO 4G . Of course, finding a frickin' Droid Incredible is another matter altogether..
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: another-matter, droid incredible, droidincredible, entry, evo, firmwares, frickin, half, htc, mobile, prying, release-the-gpl, result
Droid Incredible OTA update said to be bringing mobile hotspot, 720p recording
Well, it looks like Droid Incredible owners might soon be rewarded with more than a $25 gift card -- Droid Life is reporting that the phone is set to get an OTA update that will add some of the most oft-requested features.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 3ghotspot, animation, boot-animation, card, droid incredible, gift, mobilehotspot, result, sequence, software-update, verizon, video