Smartphone buyer’s guide: the best phones for AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and more!
It's true, picking a smartphone is incredibly difficult these days. Gone is the time when your options were limited and your choices simply between the lesser-of-evils
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: carrier-lineups, cell-phone, don, droidincredible, gadget, process, stress, verizon, vzw, webos, windowsphone7
Droid Incredible update starts rolling out, packs fixes and V CAST Apps
As expected , Droid Incredible users are now starting to receive an over the air update that packs a number of fixes and additions. The biggest of those additions, of course, is the V CAST Apps store, which will let you purchase apps and bill them straight to your Verizon account. Otherwise, you can expect to get an updated Slacker application, a Flash update with some security improvements, some Visual Voice Mail fixes, and the ability to email attachments larger than 5MB.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, Attachments, droidincredible, engadget, flash, slacker, softwareupdate, vzw
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
Motorola Droid 2 falls to $150, makes room for $200 Droid 2 Global
There's been a lot of speculation about what'll happen to ye olde Droid 2 when the GSM-enhanced Droid 2 Global finally busts loose, but it looks like we might now have the answer: it gets a lower price tag. The original model has now fallen to $149.99 on contract on Verizon's site, and evidence from the carrier's internal systems (see after the break for that) suggests it'll be hanging around at that price until at least the tail end of January. Meanwhile, that same internal screenshot is also showing the Droid X holding steady at $199.99 until December 30, so we wouldn't count on getting any sweet deals -- or a dual-mode version of the 4.3-inch beast -- at any point in 2010.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, beast, break, droid 2, droid 2 global, droid2, droid2global, droidincredible, holding-steady, screenshot, sweet, tag, until-at-least, verizon-wireless
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
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
Android 2.2 upgrade for Droid X may already be trickling out, other Droids shortly?
We've already gathered that Verizon, Moto, and HTC all seem to be pretty well committed to bumping most of their Droid models to Froyo (as well they should), but things are starting to get real -- really real. First off, we've been fed a shot of a tipster's Droid X that has apparently already been blessed with 2.2 over the air; the baseband version is a tick older than the one in a shot leaked over on My Droid Life , but it's anyone's guess how Motorola is staging this and what the final gold binary really contains. We've also seen a 2.2 ROM for the Droid Incredible leak recently ( and the Droid before that ), so uncorroborated rumors we're seeing that three of the four retail Droids will be getting 2.2 by the 15th of next month aren't necessarily crazy
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: droid, droidincredible, droidx, entry, froyo, incredible, motorola, positive, think-positive, update, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless
Droid Incredible now getting big OTA update with 720p recording?
That rumored software update for HTC's Droid Incredible is apparently now hitting some devices, and it's a doozy -- it's impressive enough, in fact, that it darn near gives you a new phone (short of Froyo , anyway).
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 720p, droidincredible, Ota, software-update, update, verizon, verizon-related, verizonwireless
Sprint lines up Epic 4G against the competition, likes its chances
In case you needed any more evidence that Samsung's Epic 4G for Sprint is probably going to be awesome, you might take a gander at the competitive analysis they've prepared against the iPhone 4 , Droid Incredible , and Droid X as an ego-boosting checklist for reps prepping to sell the phone in the coming weeks. The DLNA support trumpeted, but HDMI's notably missing -- something its EVO 4G sibling has -- and it'll be up to customers to decide whether 4-inch Super AMOLED is better than 4.3-inch LCD. Unsurprisingly, the Epic will "feature" the same $10 data surcharge that the EVO has, something that we're guessing is going to end up being phased in over Sprint's entire smartphone lineup over time -- you know, kind of like those delivery service "fuel surcharges" that end up becoming permanent after a while.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: analysis, competitive, data-surcharge, droidincredible, epic4g, fuel, fuel-surcharges, notably-missing, qwerty, samsung, sell-the-phone, sibling, slider, the-competitive
HTC promises fix for Droid Incredible’s ne’er-to-forget browser
In case you missed the recent excitement, a "feature" of HTC's Droid Incredible was found whereby the Sense UI bookmarking widget would take random screenshots of your web browsing experience and put them in a folder that's nigh impossible to delete, even after resetting to factory settings. Looks like the company knows about the issue, acknowledging it in a statement and promising a fix "in the near future." It also suggests a different reset to fix the mess, which apparently is to select "Format Phone Storage" from the "SD Card and Phone Storage" settings menu
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: book mark, browsing, card, different-reset, droid incredible, droidincredible, entry, format-phone, Glitch, menu, private, senseui, storage, your-browsing