The Droid smartphone lineup has been an incredibly successful one, making smartphone buyers happy as well as those shareholders who own stock in the wireless carriers who have offered the Droid line of mobile handsets over the years. The most recent iteration in that successful line of devices is the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE. That handset arrived on June 5 this year on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network in the United States, a system that independent reviewer RootMetrics tested as the fastest and most reliable 4G LTE network in the US. While HTC routinely makes handsets with huge displays and large bodies, that recipe was slightly changed the Droid Incredible 4G LTE.
While still providing a large 4.0 inch screen, designers working on the Droid Incredible 4G LTE were tasked to make a phone smaller than the large, bulky handsets which seem to be getting bigger every day. Small and lightweight in comparison to other 4G smartphones, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE measures 4.82 x 2.40 x 0.46 inches (122 x 61 x 12 mm) and weighs 4.66 ounces (132 g), and delivers the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system out-of-the-box.
Standard multitouch, capacitive gestures are used to operate the handset through the HTC Sense 4.0 UI Android overlay, and a screen resolution of 540 x 960 pixels is delivered to the Super LCD display. A protective layer of Corning Gorilla Glass delivers glare reduction as well as scratch and chip resistance, a light sensor offers automatic display brightness adjustment, and the built-in proximity sensor helps conserve battery life. Those battery conservation efforts helped that handset deliver roughly 20% better talk time than the standard 4G smartphone, at 9.57 hours. Standby time runs more than two weeks, at 18.6 days.
In the hardware package on board the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE, a Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon microchip set is built around a dual core 1.2 GHz Krait central processor. A totally separate Adreno 225 GPU handles all graphics requests, and 1.0 GB of RAM memory and 8.0 GB of built-in, user accessible data storage are present. There is also a microSD slot built-in, offering microSDHC support and accepting cards up to 32 GB in size. DLNA wireless video out is provided, and wired microHDMI video out is delivered through the built-in microUSB port.
The handset delivers Near Field Communications (NFC) support for wireless access applications like Google Wallet and Android Beam, and the rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder provides video capture at 1,080P HD resolution. That rear device provides simultaneous HD video and image capture, and a front facing chat cam is present as well. A YouTube video player has been pre-installed, the built-in music player supports all major audio file formats, and the full range Beats Audio sound package is on board. View the recently reduced price of the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE.
