HTC Droid Incredible 2 Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on July 3, 2011 11:44 PM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- HTC
- Verizon
- Droid Incredible 2
- Mobile
General Performance
In a world where dual-core smartphones are all the rage, the Incredible 2 actually performs surprisingly well. Actually using the phone is pretty quick. The UI is smoothly animated and although you can tell that you're not getting anywhere close to 60 fps (think 25 - 30 fps in most cases) the phone never feels slow. That's not to say that it feels fast, it just doesn't feel slow despite running last-year's hardware.
The benchmarks echo my user experience. In fact, our Sunspider results put the Incredible 2 at the top of the charts. Normal run to run variance makes the position of the top 10% of the phones insignificant, but the Incredible 2 runs through this javascript test very quickly.
BrowserMark paints a slightly more realistic picture as the Incredible 2 is fast, but clearly behind the Tegra 2 phones.
Flash performance is identical to other MSM8x55 phones. Only the newer MSM8260 and Tegra 2 based phones can deliver better performance here.
Testing Linpack under Android isn't super useful, it just shows us that single-threaded floating point performance hasn't really improved over the past year. Only the Sensation with its 1.2GHz clock speed gives us a real performance advantage here.
Its the Incredible 2's Adreno 205 GPU that shows its age the most in our performance tests:
Imagination's SGX 540, NVIDIA's Tegra 2 and of course Qualcomm's own Adreno 220 are much better performers here.
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Penti - Monday, July 4, 2011 - link
There are no units with Mango yet, and they don't even got their hands on development versions. That's really why. Nobody else does either so. I'm sure they'll jump on the band wagon when there is actual hardware and software to test, it's a gadget review-site after all. They did cover earlier WP just fine. As long as nothing happens there you won't see it in the news or via reviews any how.dtomilson - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - link
SO let me get this, ignorance is bliss? Awesome. Anandtech has become boring you're so wrong. There are many sites out there that cover mobile phones that have covered Mango. I am a developer for WP7 and find it funny how android phones are covered so much here but they are actually all the same and still disgustingly slow. Dualcore and 1GB of RAM does not make a turtle fast.Anandtech will suffer the failure as other tech blogs have. Let the ignorant stick together and die together.
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NJoy - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - link
Finally, you got the review up and i can express some of my feling about htc of late. I've been their supporter for last 6 years, each of my phones over that period been made by HTC and i enjoyed each of them. however, when my upgrade was due last august, i got stuck trying to figure what to figure what to go for - nothing really seemed to be a worthy upgrade. and what HTC had been doing for the next 6 months was just respinning old hardware in different shapes. i was still patient and decided to wait for Sensation , but it was taking forever, so i ended up getting SGS2 that first week of may. And i don't regret it, especially after comparing them side by side - Samsung is faster, lighter , smoother and got much better in-call sound quality. It's just better.You also conveniently miss out the fact that sensation is dual A8, whilst tegra and exynos are based on A9
Locked bootloader is another dealbreaker even if i don't need to root it atm.
Result is that HTC lost another faithful customer and i am sure i am not the only one.
NJoy - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - link
Ha, how did i mess this up? it was supposed to be in sensation review commentsHxx - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - link
You really can't go wrong with the DIncr 2. It's fast, slim, nice screen, goood battery life, excellent price (150 i think after rebate). I played with all 3g and 4g phones currently at verizon and this one was the one i liked the most. The global function is a nice plus although I know i;m never prolly gonna use it.Vepsa - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - link
After washing my Droid R2D2 I picked up a Droid Incredible 2 Friday. I really missed Sense (I know, I'm odd) and the phone just feels faster than my R2D2 ever was, even when overclocked. As for the locked bootloader, that is being worked on ;)alent1234 - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - link
they have radio chips that will do CDMA and GSM/UMTS/HSPA and whatever so it's not a big deal to make virtually the same phone for AT&T and VZW.but i bought my Inspire for $20 from Costco a few months ago and $199 is a huge rip off for this phone. at that price might as well get an iphone 4
sitharien - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - link
Show us Sprint customers some review love, Anand! =)