thePITman;413783 wrote:I don't have a smart phone yet, but for what it's worth - I've done a healthy amount of research and hands-on testing with all the top smart phones, and the HTC Droid Incredible is what I'm going with... (if I get a smart phone at all)... I love the 6 customizable home pages (or is it 7?), fluidity of the scrolling, threaded text messaging (although it still confuses me a bit), ease of internet browsing with accurate touch screen, weather widgets, and much more. I know many of this you can get in other phones, as well, but I just thought it was all integrated the best on the Droid Incredible. And that's all just the functionality. I hear and read the specs are top-of-the-line, for the most part, too!
Internet tethering is another option I'm looking forward to. It's a month-by-month charge w/ Verizon (no contract), so I can pick and choose when I want to turn it on and turn it off.
Why the Incredible over the X? I can't tell you the few differences between the two, but seems like the X is a bit better.
Also, you don't need to pay for tethering. I think that plan has a 2 gig limit, and you can do it for free with PDAnet or free if you are rooted (wireless tether!!!!). Technically, yes you should pay, but my philosophy is they should charge a flat rate whether you tether or d/l on your droid. I'm averaging maybe 500megs a month on data, so no way I feel I should pay if I ran a few gigs of tethering one month.
Plus, keep your eye out for Sweeterhome launcher, which should be releasing to the public within a month probably. I have technically just 1 home screen, but menu buttons that launch over 14 others from that. My rooted phone pretty much makes the IPhone look like a complete POS.
One thing that I am not sure of, though, is the tethering. I see it has "No" for the Incredible. Verizon is telling me I can tether with it, but I'll have to use a USB cable. Is the X's tethering wireless? (That's what I really want.)
