Gadgetory

hi this is dieter bohn for the verge and you're looking at the droid incredible 4G LTE by HTC a new LTE phone on Verizon for 149 99 it bears a small resemblance to the One X series but it is much smaller and has just slightly different internals this is a droid incredible through and through down to the custom back which has got all those angular designs and that ribbed thing for grip there so it's a easy to hold in the hand and actually doesn't feel too bad because it has a 4-inch screen on the inside there is a micro SD card slot for memory expansion if you like that in addition to a removable battery the camera is an 8 megapixel shooter and it does seem to have the HTC Sense stuff it's very fast and very high quality I'm actually quite happy with the camera in my testing here you can see if i zoom in it's doing pretty well and relatively low light of course we have android 4.0 here and HTC Sense customizations on top of that so that means you're going to have the multi-tasking menu and all of HTC's crazy widgets I found that it's relatively fast performance is pretty decent I don't have a whole lot of complaints it's a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 processor so it's really not all that far off from the rest of the One X series here you can see I'm taking a look at the standard browser not the Chrome browser and although it does a fairly decent job of keeping up with my swipes and zooms it's not quite as good as chrome in this case and it which was a bit faster of course LTE on verizon is second to none it is ridiculously fast which makes it all the more strange that verizon is being incredibly aggressive about asking you to turn Wi-Fi on all the time there is a persistent notification in the notification area for Wi-Fi that lets you know you should turn it on and even when it is on the notification is still there and I'd like to thank myself pretty good at sense and pretty good at understanding Android but I can't seem to make that notification go away and I'm not really sure what the intention is here Wi-Fi is a pretty standard smartphone feature these days you'd think that they wouldn't need to throw it up in your face all the time other software complaints there is a bunch of a verizon software added on top of here this is verizon video which i also was not able to get to work it it says it needs to be upgraded but then the Play Store thinks it has the most recent version that could be because our review unit is technically not out yet so we'll see if that works tomorrow although I did have more success with HTC's watch hat for renting video at 149 99 on contract it's pretty difficult to recommend the droid incredible 4G LTE it only has a qhd screen which by today's standards is relatively low resolution and compared to the galaxy s3 it's not that good of a deal but if you really want a 4 inch screen and a relatively small phone the droid incredible 4G LTE isn't a bad bet