The HTC Droid Incredible arrived in late April of 2010, yet still ranks as one of the top 100 current best selling handsets on all of Amazon. That is quite an accomplishment when you consider the many hundreds of 3G and 4G mobile phones that have been released since then. Its successor, the HTC Droid Incredible 2 is priced starting at only one penny, and is still in the top 5 Amazon Wireless bestsellers, despite the onslaught of newer smartphone devices, another impressive feat for the line of ‘incredible’ smartphones.
Delivering Android’s Froyo operating system version 2.2 out-of-the-box, as well as the popular HTC Sense User Interface, a free over the air upgrade to the Gingerbread operating system has since been made available for the original Droid Incredible. Physically, the phone looks much like most smartphones on the market today, arriving as a slim, black slab, but owns a distinctive red back plate. Measuring 4.63 x 2.30 x 0.47 inches (117.5 x 58.5 x 11.9 mm) at a weight of 4.60 ounces (130 g), the handset is average in shape, size and weight when compared to all other smartphones.
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The capacitive, multitouch, AMOLED display is 3.70 inches, and delivers an overall resolution of 480 x 800 pixels at 252 pixels per inch. A built-in proximity sensor shuts the device off after long periods of inactivity, and the on board light sensor adjusts for the best possible display automatically. Corning Gorilla Glass provides a final layer of scratch resistance and glare reduction to that display.
The 1300 mAh battery delivers approximately 5.21 hours of talk time from a single battery charge, and roughly 6 days standby. As far as the hardware package on board the HTC Droid Incredible is concerned, the handset was one of the first to debut a 1.0 GHz processor. HTC chose a Qualcomm QSD8650 Snapdragon chip set to power the device, made up of a 1.0 GHz Scorpion central microprocessor and Adreno 200 graphics processing engine. 8 GB of storage is built in, and system memory is comprised of 512 MB of RAM / 512 MB of ROM. The on board microSD slot allows for storage expansion.
Also a ground-breaker in the camera arena, the HTC Droid Incredible is one of the first handsets to offer an 8.0 megapixel camcorder. That device comes equipped with dual LED flash, video light, autofocus and Geo-tagging features, and provides video capture at 720P HD resolution. An FM radio and YouTube video player are on board, and Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have also been pre-installed. Both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless connectivity options are present, and IMAP, POP3 and SMTP e-mail and SMS, MMS, threaded view and predictive text input messaging formats are supported.
While its rather challenging to find the original HTC Droid Incredible at retailers, the HTC Droid Incredible 2 is priced starting at only one penny!
