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what's going on everyone jon rettinger free technobuffalo here there are a lot of fantastic smartphones on a variety of different platforms on pretty much every major carrier however to really stand out I think ahead of the pack that's sort of leading this rivalry we've got the iphone 3gs by Apple on AT&T and we have the HTC built droid incredible on verizon wireless's network so we're going to put these two guys head to head and let you guys make determinations which one's better for you there's so much to cover they're gonna have to be a multi-part video in this part we're going to cover browser and app speed tech century UI navigation scrolling notification and apps that's a lot to cover but we've already started going through at the hands on let's go over some of the geeky geeky specs so you know about the differences between these two first the iphone 3gs was actually announced i believe back in june of 2009 so almost about a year old hardware the incredible was just announced actually April fifteenth and is coming to verizon wireless on the twenty-ninth this one is a cdma and this one is running on a more global standard GSM the dimensions here of the droid incredible it's 4.6 three inches by two point three five point four seven ways four point six ounces the iphone 4.5 x 2.4 x point 48 and weighs 4.76 so the iphones a bit a bit heavier the droid incredible has a resolution of for a by 800 and the iphone has resolution of 320 x 480 certainly the incredible has a higher resolution screen iphones got 3.5 inch diagonal capacitive touchscreen whereas the incredible has a 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen the big difference is 0 or what you're going to see when you flip some of these things over looking at a 3 megapixel camera on the back with no flash as opposed to an 8 megapixel sensor on the back with dual-led flash design decide it's going to come down to personal preference this one is supposedly race car inspired more a sleek and smooth it looks like these little bumps or ridges add some heft to the device but actually they don't these may have seen during my unboxing alright so now that we've served gone over some of the specs and the last one that I wanted to talk about was battery life we're looking at about a hundred and forty six hours of standby time on the incredible and about 300 standby time on the iphone total hours talktime on the iphone and about five hours of top time on the incredible so you're probably going to get a bit better battery life with the iphone so enough of these specs let's go ahead and show you some stuff there's a lot to talk about i use a mobile web quite a bit i rely on it for work and I rely on it for really most of my web browser because I'm sure a lot of you guys to do as well so I want to show you the web browser spirit will compare speeds both of these are connected to the same Wi-Fi network so will be a fair test we're going to load up TechnoBuffalo or rather a refresh it's a site that's been put on both devices this will be a test of a site that you visit on a regular basis so here it is here I'll go to browser on the incredible thanks we're going to go ahead and try and refresh both at least close to the same time which is actually harder than you think it would be so I hit the iphone just a little bit later actually than I did on the incredible we'll see if that still translates to a faster speed through credible looks like it's just finished up or still loading rather now it's done and the iphone is just finishing up but since i hit them a little bit later it probably was pretty close to being the same let's go ahead and load up another webpage here that should give a better sense of speed will load a site like sabbath engadget com and we'll see what this feeds are on these sites and they've been loaded on both devices as well so we saw the incredible load it much faster this pulled up the mobile site whereas the iphone pulls up the full version and I will tell you that during browser speeds I really did get pretty reasonable speaker persons for each let me go ahead and stop this we're going to launch the full version of both at least you can get a better sense and those are hit a pretty much the same time and in really every page in every test that I've loaded the incredible does seem to come in at a little bit faster when they're using the same Wi-Fi network certainly when you're using verizon VS AT&T it's going to depend on your location you can see the green bar on the incredible much farther ahead now so they finished up at almost the same time there is a speed difference with the incredible it's not incredibly different but there's definitely one there so let me show you something else with these phones that I think is very important let's go to a site like flash calm I which is of course run by Adobe so you go to flash calm or any site that has flash content on it on the iphone or any of the I platform so the ipod touch or the ipad you're going to be greeted with to do this experience you need flash player and that's been a big sticking point with a lot of people with the iphone however if you go to flash calm on a device like incredible you're going to be greeted with a very different experience because incredible does have full flash support when you go and you can play flash games you can access website with flash based content the first thing that I thought it was while i can watch hulu on here you can actually not watch hulu on your mobile phone well it does have flash who doesn't allow it unfortunately you can see the contents are at the buffer up and stuff starts moving around it's a bit choppy but you can see there is flash contents and all of its glory playing and loading a mobile device to difference between the two here not bad actually let's go ahead and get out here go back a web page here we'll go back to technobuffalo and let me show you how the navigation works on the browsers up for each I'm go ahead and go back so one of the nice things about incredible is it does shift with complete multi-touch and pinch to zoom similar to what we seen on the iphone so you can zoom in relatively fast as well zoom into it article you want you can double tap and you can off to that page same thing here at the iphone pinch-to-zoom before you want double tap to zoom in if you want to do a lot of fast scrolling often times you see a checkerboard pattern at the bottom of a page because the processor hasn't caught up to where you are so let's see how the scrolling actually works like to see if we get that checkerboard pattern will go to the top and we'll scroll down the FAFSA weekend I actually saw it right there on the iphone it shows it very quickly but you do see a little bit of that checkerboard let's see if that happens here on the nexus one and go tog not the nexus one rather incredible actually you don't see that I'm incredible at all the Snapdragon processor can more than keep up with the fast web scrolling something to keep in mind there are a few other sort of cool tweaks that you can get with the incredible browser if you go ahead hit menu your tabs for example or windows is that column you can serve scroll through and see multiple windows here you just get a sort of a rudimentary list so that's browsing it's a very similar experience however from a browser standpoint having flash and having the option to view flash content one of the biggest deal to me it's certainly nice to have an art time that I appreciate it so from a browser standpoint the edge definitely has to go to Android and incredible really does a fantastic job now one thing that I do need to mention is incredible is running Android 2.1 of HTC's Sense on top of it sense sort of a skin on top of Android and that skin is what's giving you the flash capabilities not all Android devices with 2.1 can run flash content something to keep in mind let's check the speed of some general apps that you may use on a regular basis open just calendar and browser and you know see how quickly they go so again open up calendar on each year got them both ready to go and we'll see how quickly things open certainly different applications but just a sense of how fast things go or slow they go so I missed there on the iPhone track one more time so a little bit slower on the iphone not by much but definitely a little bit try that one more time so there you go speeds on each you're actually very quick they load relatively fast well go ahead and watch for example the marketplace on each whole launch the app store and entering market will talk about apsa later a little bit later and now they are different applications they both sort of load it up relatively quickly sort of loading more dynamic content this one was already queued up that's one of the feature you might be might want to notice is the androids actually running the marketplace in the background since it does support multi task and it came up right away the iphone for example does not support multitasking right now but it will sometime the next few months when iphone OS four point out comes out so we're going to have to do sort of a retest but for right now multitasking is not supported on the iphone so next let's go over to text entry certainly both these don't have physical keyboards so relying just on the screens for inputting text the iphone 3.5 inch screen and the incredibles 3.7 inch screen is the extra point two inches is going to matter as far as keyword real estate well let's see i'm going to go and open up notes and open up a new node application and we can see how typing actually works on this so like most touchscreen only phones get two ways to type you get portrait and if you rotate it you get landscape i think that the iphone has probably one of the best auto correction features and it works very well so let's test this in portrait and landscape and in full disclaimer i do want to let you guys know that i am an iphone user so i am a bit more familiar with the iphones keyboard then i will be with androids but i'll do my sort of usual test of typing and all right this is a test so this is a test not a problem try it landscape so I misspelled a few words but did see that it works and I tried to hit spacebar twice end up hitting the sea key to get a period so there's a little bit small keyboard Fatima's accurate punctuation not so much so let's try typing here on the incredible will go to messages I'll type a new message debt to compose alright so let's try typing the same thing this is a test and of course you get the portrait and landscapes as well so we'll try the same thing this is a test so misspelled it but the autocorrect and Android is actually almost as good as what's found on the iphone if not as good so the androids autocorrect is really fantastic and worked very well now they keep what you're seeing is not the stock android keyboard get you get on the nexus one or any other android 2.1 device this is actually HTC's own keyboard so i can go ahead and type it that way if i want to go ahead and switch over to landscape let's try this one more time so made a little bit of mistake there but having really not use this for very long i can see myself getting used to it very quickly however there's one other way to import text that i can't do on the iphone that little icon right there let you go ahead and talk and talk some text into it let's try this again this is a test of the keyboard i'll show you how that works this is a test of the keyboard so I spoke it and it typed right in it this is a test of the keyboard kind of a cool way for attacking quick tech messages your emails it actually works really well so as far as typing keyboard to keep what I think they're both pretty even auto correction features I think they're pretty close to even however have being able to talk another text come in gives the incredible a definite edge here so we will close out of this close out of this let's go over and move on to user interface this is a sort of an interface overview of iphone OS 3-pointers that that can do and android 2.1 with sense on the incredible there's not much you can do with user interface or customization here I you're limited to just rows of icons and certainly what four-point-oh comes out you'd be able to have folders and then we do a little bit more customization like changing backgrounds and multitasking but for right now this is what you're limited to you can sort of view other icons you can see what's there you can move them around if you want to sort of just hold them and do a little jiggly dance the dragon where you want but pretty much interface is limited to an icon tray here on the incredible and with HTC Sense on top of it you get a bit more options a lot of cool features are widget based and we'll cover sort of more of these widgets in part 2 of this video but let me show you some features that you get with HTC incredible so I feature here called bleep which you take your two fingers and do a little pinch to zoom like you do on a website or a picture and you're taken to a jump screen I'll take it all your home screens they actually can have seven home screens here on the incredible each one of these you can jump to see whichever one you want and we have four active here I can jump right to that one I'll take me right there you can tends to zoom right out I can jump back to my main home screen if I want to activate that screen without doing the pinch to zoom think you just hit home and it'll take me there as well there are a ton of witnessing customized here so you have got a contacts widget over there I've got a weather widget over there and there's a ton of choices if you tap that down that you can see many many different widgets that you have available and again I'll cover these in upcoming videos so you get a lot more functionality with the home screens then you do on the iphone if you want to the icon array you can sort of still sort of have those or if you like the way this is set up on the iPhone you can set up your icon to just be lined up on any screen you want I do like the multiple home screens you can have one screen for your email one screen for your social messaging feed one screen for all your contacts and favorites and having seven really makes it a nice option so from a UI standpoint a customization clearly you have to give it to the incredible right now notifications are sort of interesting on android on the iphone notifications are generally a push-up settle or they're push notifications that will show up and you can choose to ignore them or go to them you also get mail notifications down below notifications here on Android platform done by a task bar top you can sort of pull down that window the application could show up right there you can sort of make that go away it's about a tie here depends on your personal preferences and what notifications you like you know you can see them on different screens I like sort of seeing a number of messages i have show up right there some people might prefer the android pull down or the individual notifications on the applications personal preference I'm not going to give this one to either because really it's six or half dozen let's go ahead and talk very quickly about applications because both these devices have pretty robust app stores certainly the iphones app store has significantly about more however the android marketplace has many more that are free and that's even growing by the day so you go ahead and download these things pretty regularly and go ahead and find what you want hit download and you can just go ahead and download it you can view them by ABS game different categories again this one's going to be personal preference to the particular app that you want that's only on one platform you're going to prefer one over the other if they're sort of cross platforms and you know you're going to be happy with either so when you put these two things head to head and you know we're comparing here almost your old hardware versus hardware that's not even out yet actually it doesn't come out for another few days as a filming of this video it's very clear which one is moderate and which one offers a bit more that definitely has to go with the android and credibly or the droid incredible you get just much more options and a lot more customization as well as navigation options the iphone i'm stuck with just my finger on this i can still use my finger or i can use the optical trackpad here to control things as well so they're just many more options more customization options the including a flash is a huge deal not personally for me but for a lot of people flash is a must-have so you get that on a device like the incredible back to buy verizon's network so when you put these two things at the head at least in this round it's gotta go with the incredible so do you agree disagree am I just completely off base here I'd really like to hear what you guys have to say about these two devices are you excited about one of them are you holding off for iphone OS four point oh or an iphone 4g before you make a decision are you ready to jump into android pick up and incredible I know you guys for all your tech news be sure to check out technobuffalo where you can create your own sub blog and actually monetize and make some money and interact with users in our built and social network and for exclusive content to be sure to give me a follow on twitter at twitter.com / john for lakers i'll see you in the next video bye bye