Comments on: HTC Incredible Review

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:49:55 +0000

I love this phone! The Incredible is by far the best phone I have ever had. It is such a pleasure to use and I couldn’t be happier with it. It is very reliable and the features are wonderful. In the past several years I went from an LG EnV and then to a Blackberry Storm. It was now time for my “new every two” with Verizon and I extensively researched my options and settled on the Incredible. I am SO glad I did! The bettery life does get better with use. I take it off the charger at 6am, then take it to work with me, where it entertains all of us at luch time, and I put it back on the charger at bedtime. Love it Love it Love it!!!!!!

By: Incredibly horrible

Incredibly horrible — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:34:14 +0000

This phone is shit. The only thing incredible about it is its’ name. Boy did that Verizon salesman sucker me on this one. Check around the web for more reviews about this phone. Bad battery life, sound quality. The salesman told me that this phone has the fastest processor. But it is the slowest phone I’ve ever owned. Preloaded with lots and lots of unremovable bloatware. Not too keen on the Android OS either. It’s just another one of Google’s never ending prototypes/beta test skunk works rush to market. This is the best they (HTC and Google) can do?

By: Jim Gilmore

Jim Gilmore — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:07:43 +0000

Piece of crap-junk. I’m on my second one, getting ready to take it back ( less than two month time period). Eats the battery in 1/2 day, even with a replacement 1750. Toggle is too sensitive, auto rotate stopped working after two weeks on original & the replacement. Phone sound is terrible. Pictures are great.

By: merfolk

merfolk — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:15:50 +0000

I just got a inc 2 days ago and it hasn’t gone above 2 bars of service i have a network extender and it doesn’t help at all. The caller coming through is partially garbled. I talked with a lvl 1 and a lvl 2 tech for verizon and all the say is we can replace it with another referbished inc. My other phone a EV Touch is good with full bars of service sitting right next to it and i’m less then 5ft from the network extender. I also tried to go stand at the base of the local verizon tower and still no more then 2 bars of service. Verizon can’t even tell if the phone is conecting to the network extender or their towers. This really pisses me off especially since this is a warrenty replacement for my omnia 2 that was having signal issues in questionable service areas. And this is 10 times worse then that phone. I am so pissed I almost feel bad for the verizon employee that I will talk to at the store tommarrow when I take it in and tell them where they can stick it and their service.

By: phonecards

phonecards — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:17:17 +0000

This the best review (most comprehensive) I have seen on Incredible. I received my Incredible on Monday (Verizon really loves me) and as a now former Storm user I am delighted. I will say that occassionally my home screen will start randomly scrolling so I may have to get another one. But, I think this is a solid phone with a wonderful display.

By: pay

pay — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:14:58 +0000

Awesome review! Almost too much information to process, but I loved how Rob did some details on the camera, and some of the small features. Usually the small things get overlooked on other reviews and some of the small things come together to make the phone great. Love the Incredible! I actually went and played with one today at the Verizon store and was impressed.

By: rpia

rpia — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:05:05 +0000

does anyone know if the Incredible can do video Skype? no one mentions this.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:12:32 +0000

i cant get my htc to upload videos to you tube

By: krhicks

krhicks — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:02:00 +0000

I just came home with my 3rd Incredible in the last two weeks. I really want to like and keep this phone. Any chance that its normal for the notification bar to try to wipe across the screen R to L then disappear when switching to camera from photo gallery?Also, screen fills with tiny red and green lines for a moment when switching to photo gallery. Sometimes only part of the screen flashes with the little green and red lines. rrrrrggghh I chose this phone for the camera hoping for improvement over my Bberry pics.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:23:17 +0000

This review mentioned “creeking”…any clue as to what that would be in cell phone terms?

By: steph

steph — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:06:52 +0000

I have a major issue with my Incredible right now. I’ve had the phone for 3 months and love it, but the battery has completely died. It got super hot and then died altogether. I called and they wanted to send me a refurbished phone – I said no way, my phone is brand new. I opted to have them just send me a new battery. The new battery worked for less than a day (also with overheating issues) and now the phone isn’t working again. My brand new phone is completely dead, and I am going to have to waste my time dealing with their call centers trying to get a new phone, and then be without a phone for ANOTHER week while they send me a replacement. I am so upset by the whole situation.

By: bree

bree — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:02:43 +0000

hey does anyone know if you can lock text messages with a code, if so please tell me, i really need to know, i have some nosey friends that love to read my texts

By: JoJo

JoJo — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:34:41 +0000

Does the Incredible have the same issues with locking up as the Eres? I have to reset my Eres at least once a day. They said it was because I had a lot of apps downloaded. What’s the use having 30,000 apps to choose from if it slows down your phone too much. Yes, I have task killer.

By: Aaron Cello

Aaron Cello — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:26:31 +0000

By: vnc

vnc — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:19:38 +0000

Alright Guys,

Love and hate aside. I will merely summarize my experience 1 month experience with HTC incredible:

I have been waiting to get the smart phone for some time. So when I heard about the latest and greatest droid in the market, I got one (finally).

Out of the box: the phone looked great. The display was really nice. Having multiple home screens was great (unlike iphone). The weather feature is interesting. The camera is awesome. And the free 2GB sd card also felt good. I like to store some documents etc.

The keypad is good with some kind of haptic feedback. The voice to text feature of keypad means you don’t need to use keypad if using standard english. It is that good.

The phone is blazing fast. Very responsive compared to both droid DOES and iphone. And verizon network is very fast as well.

Now the not so good stuff: The voice mail had some shrill. Then I realized that the voice quality was in general bad when calling. The phone heated up little when used. Iphone and Motorola droid(DOES) don’t seem to heatup. Heated up significantly when being charged and more if used when being charged.

I was somewhat surprised to find that there is no voice dial or speed dial feature in true sense. You had click in three places to ready the phone for voice dial or speed dial, which kind of defeat the purpose.

The phone is sleeker than iphone but is still pretty big compared to non-smartphones. Looked kind of frail so I had to put a sleeve on it and then it would not slide as well in my pocket. I bought the holder but hated using it. This is something for the all first time smart phone buyers to think about.

I went back to the store and they confirmed that the voice quality had issue. So I got a refurbished phone in exchange. I did not like paying for a new phone and getting a refurbished phone. The voice quality had improved but it still had bad quality when accessing voice mail for some reason. I blamed it on my imagination. The replacement phone somehow seemed to have lower bars. Almost always a single bar unlike the previous phone. The only place I got the full bar was on phoenix airport.

The battery life is very bad. I thought I used it very little and still had to charge frequently. On a busy day it would definitely die on me.

Anyway I still liked it. But then there was an issue of rebate. The replacement phone did not come in a new box and hence I was not able to claim the rebate. Calling customer service and visiting verizon store to explain the situation did not help. So I returned the phone.

Guess smartphones so far aren’t for me or the other way around.