Tested both phones for a few hours. The main points:
1. Compared side by side, the display on the Rezound makes the Razr look like a dim, pixelated and over saturated mess. Stunningly so.
2. Rezound is far more comfortable and usable with one hand.
3. Rezound runs a lot cooler
4. N64Oid and hi def Flash tests are good to show what the chipset can really do for power. Rezound plays both more smoothly than the Razr.
5. The camera on the Rezound is almost the same level better as comparing the displays. No contest. Razr is weak in comparison for speed and picture quality.
6. Per some VZW folks and supported by the Mobiletechreview review, the 4G on the Rezound is more stable and picks signal up better in weaker areas.
7. Speaker quality is about the same and ditto for 3.5mm sound quality (I do not like Beats, since the Klipsch S4 buds are a lot better for sound quality).
8. Phone call quality seemed fine, but not as good IMO as the Razr or my Droid 3. Still good.
IMO, the Rezound is a better device, but battery life is not a known ATM.
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Tested both phones for a few hours. The main points:
1. Compared side by side, the display on the Rezound makes the Razr look like a dim, pixelated and over saturated mess. Stunningly so.
2. Rezound is far more comfortable and usable with one hand.
3. Rezound runs a lot cooler
4. N64Oid and hi def Flash tests are good to show what the chipset can really do for power. Rezound plays both more smoothly than the Razr.
5. The camera on the Rezound is almost the same level better as comparing the displays. No contest. Razr is weak in comparison for speed and picture quality.
6. Per some VZW folks and supported by the Mobiletechreview review, the 4G on the Rezound is more stable and picks signal up better in weaker areas.
7. Speaker quality is about the same and ditto for 3.5mm sound quality (I do not like Beats, since the Klipsch S4 buds are a lot better for sound quality).
8. Phone call quality seemed fine, but not as good IMO as the Razr or my Droid 3. Still good.
IMO, the Rezound is a better device, but battery life is not a known ATM.
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obviously 3. for the win
The Razr is another interim phone until they release their HD model. The display on the Rezound is reason enough to skip the Razr. The camera on the Rezound is icing on the cake.
Razr has a battery that can not be removed. A bit disappointed in moto on this phone, but they were trying to get the thinnest smartphone to date, and they did it. It just came with sacrifices that a lot of us won't accept over a few millimeters in width.
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I know others have asked this question and i debated tagging my question/comments on an existing thread or starting a new one. I played with the two phones side by side at a verizon store and had these observations. THe question is mostly along the lines of did I miss something signnificantly that tweaking settings would fix. Kind of wish I could post this i nboth razr and resound forums to get feedback from both side but somehow I don't think i should post it twice here.
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The comparison is not complete; and the verizon anchors to the display definitely spoil the experience of holding the phones. On the other hand the phones were side by side so i'll make these comments:
The rezound actually seemed a bit dimmer on max brightness (partly because max brightness is a bit low (compared to other lcds) and the razr having higher contrast - which is not brightness but increases the visiblity.
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The razr is definitely snappier (esp with things like maps and browser).
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The razr default browser is annoying (cannot pinch or tap zoom on mobile sites; have to go into settings and change text size).
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Both seemed to lock fast on gps
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My impression was that the rezound felt better in the hand with the previously mentioned caveat; the razr was a little uncomfortable due to width/sharp edge.
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The razr sound was better but max volume a bit low; the rezound sound was a bit harsh (esp phone calls).
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I had a pair of kliptch s4 headphones and both phones sounded equally well with the s4 (but the rezound could go a bit louder and maintain good fidelity)
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I cannot comment on reception (this is a verizon store wwith good reception )
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I cannot comment on battery life
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The razr was definitely better built (overall finish was tighter)
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Which do I prefer - not sure yet - I think the rezound fits better in the hand and I think sense helps in daily usage (esp the browser and cut past between windows) - I kind of prefer the razr display and I suspect strongly it is easier to use in very bright light (out doors sunny day).
The rezound can be louder but the quality of sound on the razr is definitely better - esp in the high tones.
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That's my 2ct (first impression) after using both phones side by side for about 45 minutes.
The razr gave zero thought to ergonomics. The rezound feels fantastic in hand and has a better display. To me? It's not even close. Rezound all the way.
The Razr display doesn't seem to even compare since it has pentile.
http://www.phonearena.com/image.php?m=Reviews.Images&f=name&id=103453popup=1
I think I'll be picking up a Rezound fairly soon.
you owe it to yourself to get the RAZR. the re:Zound has pink buttons.
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Sprint HTC EVO 3D vs Verizon Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx
My Opinion
After 8 months with my EVO 3D I have decided to switch to a different network. Verizon, despite the bump in cost was the one I chose because they do have one of the best networks (at least in my area) and Sprint has the worst network (at least for me). So, before turning in my Sprint account I stopped by a Verizon store and picked up the RAZR Maxx, based mostly on the battery life and praise from a friend who owns a Droid RAZR. So I have both phones. Lets do a side by side! If I can get a third device of some kinds for pictures I will add them as well. Pardon my clumsiness if this thread is horribly written, I am a coder not a documentarian.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love my EVO 3D and if I could take it with me I would. Sadly I can’t so I figure I have both phones in front of me let’s do a comparison review. This review will not include data transfer rates as Sprint only has 3G in my area and Verizon’s 4G LTE network blankets the area. I also will try to not use many specific specs for the comparison as anyone can go look up the size of the RAZR and the size of the 3D, I will focus more on the feel.
Size and Screen
EVO 3D
The general shape and size of the EVO 3D is awesome. It fits well in the palm of the hand and has a decent weight. The screen is a 4.3” qHD and looks gorgeous to me. It is bright and the colors pop but when you put it next to the Maxx they don’t pop as much and are a bit faded. The 3D feature is a neat novelty. I enjoy watching 3D movies on the phone and playing the 3D games is interesting, but buying all these things that are only 3D makes this mostly a novelty. The touchscreen is responsive.
RAZR Maxx
The RAZR is a much flatter device but makes up for this in length and width. It is a bit awkward to hold while talking, but not so much as to be uncomfortable. I tend to use Bluetooth headsets exclusively. It feels a tough lighter than the EVO 3D which is nice if you do tend to hold your phone. This one also has a 4.3” screen but it is Super AMOLED. It is a bit brighter than the qHD on the EVO 3D but overall is too close for my own naked eyes. The touchscreen is responsive.
Winner: Both
Camera
EVO 3D
The EVO 3D sports a pair of 5mp cameras on the back for 3D capture. It does this well, but warning if you are not used to looking at a 3D picture taken with this device then your eyes might go into shock. Once you are used to it then it is not so bad. The front camera is ok as are most. 2D pictures are crisp and the colors are decent. The shutter time is a bit slow for my tastes.
RAZR Maxx
The RAZR sports a single 8mp camera on the back. The quality of the pictures is very nice. Colors are brighter than the EVO 3D and it maintains the crispness of the photo. What really wowed me with the camera are both the night time picture taking and the shutter speed. At night with the flash pictures maintain crispness unlike every other phone camera I have used. The shutter speed is amazing as well. It is not quite as fast as the iPhone but it is dang close. Another nice bonus is Image Stabilization.
Winner: Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx
Internal Hardware and Ports
EVO 3D
The EVO has a Micro USB port for charging and video output with an adapter. Its Bluetooth works as expected with decent range to my Plantronics Voyager Pro. It is version 3 + HS providing 24 Mbit/s throughput. I haven’t tried that feature so I am not sure how accurate that spec is. The processor is a dual core 1.2 Ghz Snapdragon. It performs well and I will demonstrate stock ROM performance with benchmarks below. The battery is a bit lack luster on this phone. I feel I have to keep a charger on me at all times and keep it plugged up in the car all the time to keep charge.
RAZR Maxx
The RAZR also has a Micro USB, but includes a dedicated Micro HDMI port (yay) for use with video output and webtop features. I haven’t tried the webtop feature but it looks awesome and I am purchasing the HD dock soon to give it a spin. It sports Bluetooth 4.0 and functions as well as the EVO’s Bluetooth. The RAZR contains a TI OMAP 1.2 Ghz processor, benchmarks below. Battery… amazing. I have been abusing my phone for over 4 hours this morning and I am still sporting 80%. Imagine when it gets optimized with some crazy awesome ROM.
Winner: Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx
OS
EVO 3D
The EVO is running Android 2.3.4 with HTC Sense 3.0. For this I am going to talk about Sense a little. I love Sense, I find it to be awesome in every way except space on the phone. I may be a bit biased towards HTC (view my sig) but I like the stuff they put on and the Sprint stuff is excessive but not as bad as Verizon.
RAZR Maxx
The RAZR is running Android 2.3.6 with the Motorola interface (if it is still called Blur). There is a lot of bloatware on the phone from Motorola and Verizon. It is still snappy and responsive but having a dozen apps you do not need but cannot remove is annoying.
Winner: HTC EVO 3D
Benchmarks
I tried to get screen shots but Eclipse is being a pain and I am at work so I don’t have time to troubleshoot it. But here are the actual results. Note on Quadrant that I started the tests at the same time and the EVO was done by the time the RAZR made it through the first 5 CPU tests. As you can see the EVO slammed the RAZR on the CPU test in Quadrant.
Smartbench 2012
EVO 3D..................1638
RAZR Maxx..............2746
Quadrant Standard Edition
......................................EVO 3D...............RAZR Maxx
Overall:............................2590....................2071
CPU:................................4731....................1904
Memory:...........................2269....................2646
I/O:.................................3326....................3196
2D:...................................517......................505
3D:..................................2109....................2103
Antutu Benchmark
......................................EVO 3D...............RAZR Maxx
RAM:................................1059....................841
CPU Integer:......................1677...................1696
CPU float-point:..................717....................1346
2D Graphics:.......................290.....................301
3D Graphics:......................1223...................1241
Database IO:......................240.....................475
Total Score:......................5495...................6185
Quadrant and Antutu are almost mirrors of themselves. Not sure which one is more accurate. All in all my opinion of the phones is similar. The both have ups and downs. Ones is mostly network related and some minor hardware deficiences and the other is software bloated. So hopefully this will help someone decide ( I have seen the questions more than once )
nice review but you didn't compare incoming & outgoing voice quality? they are phones after all!
iolinux333 said:
nice review but you didn't compare incoming & outgoing voice quality? they are phones after all!
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It's Motorola... The service always have been great
Tapatalkin'!
Oh Nice ! Personnally, they are both very good, the power for power is useless...
The Design of Razr is so.....beautiful ! But Evo is better for dev and custom rom...
Yeah, so, I have an upgrade in a 3 weeks, and I really want to get rid of this godforsaken DX2. So, non-biased in any sense, which is the best phone of the two, overall. I'm 15, and I live on my phone. I really want whichever one is best for battery, music, and display
btw- I know the s3 has a bigger battery, but from what I've heard, it doesn't matter much, since the display is so huge
Thanks guys!
I am also on a DX2 and waiting to upgrade soon. It has some good roms but I really want 4g now. Anyway if your just looking to compare screen, battery, and music between the DINC 4g and SGS3 then both are going to excel. DINC 4g has beats audio, which is a plus and really does enhance the music, but also just adds some DPS (digital sound processing) perks. My brother has a rezound too and compared with my DX2, which has more than acceptable sound quality, the rezound is better but not by leaps and bounds. I would suspect, but only speculating that the SGS3 will also have very good sound, even compared to the beats audio. Displays are both great, but remember SGS3 is larger at 4.8 in at 1280x720 and the DINC 4g display is smaller at 4 in with 960x540. Pixel density SGS3 at 306 ppi and DINC 4g 275 ppi. SO really both screens are going to look great one super amoled and the other super LCD. Battery life also comparable, especially with more efficient LTE radios build onto the SOC, and like you said battery capacity to screen size ratio is similar.
Im still debating both. Might want to consider if roms and rooting are your cup o tea. Then youll want to consider that both will see a lot of dev support. The SGS3 because it is a beast of a phone, but does have a locked bootloader and DINC 4g because of its legacy and unlockable bootloader. So after all that really down to a matter aesthetics probably.
I have both in my hands now testing for my company. I've pretty much ignored the HTC and now just getting to it as I haven't been able to put the GS3 down. I'll be moving to the GS3 from my Razr Maxx, and I love that phone.
The Incredible LTE has the advantage of the superior camera (not as good as the One series, but better than the GS3 camera esp, in low light). Also sometimes the Incredible LTE feels more comfortable to hold because of the size, but the smaller screen is bothering me since I'm used to the bigger phones now. Although the phone is smaller, it's noticeably thicker than the GS3, so I would handle both in the store before you made your decision to see if you're alright with it. Both phones feel "plasticky" but still solid and not cheap feeling.
The Incredible LTE has Beats integration, but DOES NOT come up with the Beats headphones like the Rezound did. I think there are some DSP apps that can make any ICS phone sound as good if not better than the Beats integration anyway. Not sure if the Incredible LTE comes with apt-X support which is actually more important to me than Beats integration (apt-X does come on the GS3 so if you get bluetooth headphones/speakers/receiver w/ apt-X tech then it will sound way better)
I HATE that they did away with the menu button and went with a recent button instead on the HTC. I NEVER use the recent button as I have other apps I prefer to get to that with. I use Menu a lot more and the fact that it's missing is really bothering me (although I'll be looking to remap the recent to menu function next). Lots of apps haven't gone to the new way google wants apps to use menu so you get this ugly bar at the bottom of the screen with just the menu button by itself. Not sure if that remap hack i thought i saw will fix this.
I know, there are a lot of threads about that and I read them! They are all outdated, they were written when razr had GB and nexus was on ICS.
What about now? RAZR has ICS and Nexus has JB.
I may have the opportunity to sell my RAZR (it has scratches, I hate my dog -.-" ) for 300€ and buy a new Nexus for the same price.
Do you think this is a good idea?
I'd say yes. The nexus screen looks much crisper and better, especially white text and things like that. Also for me the big selling point of the razr was the 8mp camera, but I find the Nexus takes better pics, mostly because I find the razr to have dull colors in the pics
Thanks! Someone else?
Depends on what matters to you…
The razr is a great phone, best radio, best sound quality, bright display, nearly indestructible and completely reliable. Sports a nice set of helpful extra functionality. Display is lower resolution and pentile, thus not as crisp as the nexus, still consider it much better (see below).
The nexus has the latest android version, and is open to custom roms. The display is higher resolution, but very dim, awful at low brightness (smudgy), and colours are completely off (yellow tint and gamma is a mess). The latter can be corrected to some degree with custom kernels. No SD card and only mtp. Battery life is short, but can be remedied by swapping batteries. Build quality is ok, but nowhere compared to the razr.
To put it simple, for me the razr is a great tool, the nexus a fun toy.
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Actually just received a Galaxy Nexus myself yesterday, and thus far, I pretty much agree with both of the above posts. Build quality-wise, the RAZR feels more solid, obviously much slimmer in the hand, and is lighter than the Nexus without feeling cheap. However I am surprised by the Nexus' build quality, it's not anywhere near as plasticky feeling as some previous Samsung phone's I've felt...there's no hollow creakiness to it when you hold it and it feels hefty. The only disappointment comes when you pry off the battery cover...it's one incredibly cheap cover.
The RAZR has considerably better sound quality, the speaker is much louder...in fact I believe the RAZR has one of the loudest loudspeakers period out of any phone out there. The Nexus on the other hand is much, much quieter...I'd say too quiet for the most part. I use speakerphone mode a lot for calls so this matters to me and is almost a deal breaker on the Nexus.
The Nexus does have a sharper screen, but I find the RAZR's screen gives more of that eye popping and color saturated AMOLED look, which you either love or hate. I find both screens are horrible at rendering white, and both look very yellowish if you use Auto-brightness. I thought the Nexus' 720 display sharpness would be night and day different to my eyes, but it's really not in day to day usage. More and more though I'm starting to realize I don't much care for AMOLED screens and would probably want a regular LCD for my next phone, the whites bother me quite a bit and I do get bothered by the heavy blue or green tint they pick up as you view the screen at off angles.
I haven't taken pics yet with the Nexus, but just from what I saw in the camera app, the camera seems to be much better at auto-focusing. I find the RAZR's focusing to be difficult to work with, and the picture quality is not that great.
Jelly Bean is indeed more fluid and smooth, but you'll still run into the occasional stutter here and there. More annoyingly is I'm already running into apps that won't work right on it. So expect to go through your usual headache period of apps not working, until developers catch up to updating their apps for Jelly Bean.
On the development front, there's a tremendous difference, the Nexus is indeed a developer's phone and it shows in its developer forum. I'm amazed at just how comprehensive the Nexus toolkit is that lets you bust open the phone effortlessly compared to any other phone...totally an all in one stop for rooting, bootloader unlocking, custom recovery, etc. The amount of available ROMs is also insane and make's the RAZR's totally a laughable joke in this regard.
In the end I'd agree with the sentiment that the RAZR makes a better day to day phone, while the Nexus makes for a better side toy to mess around with and install new stuff on.
Hey guys. Sorry for the hijack. This is really interesting as I am thinking of a gnex myself. Or a sgs3 if i can afford it.
Thanks for the thoughts.
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I've reconsidered! I'll keep my razr. It's a great phone after all and jelly bean is not enough to justify the change. Thanks to all of you!
I'm going to compare the rezound and incredible 4G in 5 different categories. I hope this guide is helpful for people trying to decide between the two devices.
Software (Stock):
Rezound 3/5
The Rezound's ships with ICS and sens 3.6, which is less than impressive. It has beats audio, but only in the stock HTC music app.
Incredible 5/5
The Incredible ships with ICS and sense 4.0, thats about as good as it gets. Beats audio in all apps.
Hardware (Besides Screen and Battery):
Rezound 4/5 Antutu Benchmark: 6150
The Rezound has a snapdragon S3 duel core CPU clocked at 1512mhz. You can overclock a rooted device. Even though it is clocked higher than the Incredible and has a higher benchmark score, it isnt as fast and responsive. It also lacks NFC and imagesense, both of which are included with the incredible. The rezound included Beats by Dr Dre earbuds, which are very nice.
Incredible 5/5 Antutu Benchmark: 5705
The Incredible has a duel core snapdragon S4 CPU clocked at 1200mhz, there is currently no root, so no overclocking. It is as responsive and fast as the galaxy S3 an it outperforms the rezound by far.
Battery:
Rezound 3/5
The rezound has a 1400mAh battery. The battery life on the Rezound is bad. It has such a great screen that it uses the battery ridiculously fast. If you cant charge your phone at some point in the middle of the day, get the incredible.
Incredible 5/5
The incredible has a 1700mAh battery. The OEM battery easily lasts an entire day. I use the extended (2150mAh) battery and with extremely heavy use, i still have 60% at the end of the day.
Screen:
Rezound 5/5, 4.3 in, 720x1280 SuperLCD, 342PPI.
This screen is beautiful, one of the best displays on any phone.
Incredible 4/5, 4.0in, 540x960 SuperLCD, 275PPI.
Although the pixel density and resolution are much lower, you actually dont see much of a difference.
Development:
Rezound 3/5
The rezound has root, S-OFF and many different ROMS, including AOSP. But AOSP isnt perfect, and jellybean will never make it to this device. And most ROMs are based off of the stock incredible ROM, so the incredible will work better with sense 4.
Incredible 1/5
There is nothing because HTC wont allow you to unlock this device. But S-OFF is almost here so it gets a 1.
Total:
Rezound: 18/25
Incredible: 20/25
Bottom Line:
No matter what ROM you use, the rezound isnt as fast as the incredible, but they're close.
It comes down to deciding between battery life or screen size.
Has anyone here done a detailed comparison of the Droid Inc 4G vs the Rezound comparing the following :
1. Battery Life - the previous compares this -Droid Inc
2. 4G performance /radio
3. Performance on ICS/ Sense 4.0- the previous post compares this - Droid Inc
4. Camera
5. Voice/sound quality
6. GPS performance
I have a rezound, rooted with a custom ROM, but I am still not happy with battery life. I am considering the Droid Inc 4G, or maybe the Droid Razr M. I don't want one of the gargantua phones like Galaxy SIII, Htc one, etc.. So anyone do a detailed comparison?
Jperiod
davidetkin511 said:
I'm going to compare the rezound and incredible 4G in 5 different categories. I hope this guide is helpful for people trying to decide between the two devices.
Software (Stock):
Rezound 3/5
The Rezound's ships with ICS and sens 3.6, which is less than impressive. It has beats audio, but only in the stock HTC music app.
Incredible 5/5
The Incredible ships with ICS and sense 4.0, thats about as good as it gets. Beats audio in all apps.
Hardware (Besides Screen and Battery):
Rezound 4/5 Antutu Benchmark: 6150
The Rezound has a snapdragon S3 duel core CPU clocked at 1512mhz. You can overclock a rooted device. Even though it is clocked higher than the Incredible and has a higher benchmark score, it isnt as fast and responsive. It also lacks NFC and imagesense, both of which are included with the incredible. The rezound included Beats by Dr Dre earbuds, which are very nice.
Incredible 5/5 Antutu Benchmark: 5705
The Incredible has a duel core snapdragon S4 CPU clocked at 1200mhz, there is currently no root, so no overclocking. It is as responsive and fast as the galaxy S3 an it outperforms the rezound by far.
Battery:
Rezound 3/5
The rezound has a 1400mAh battery. The battery life on the Rezound is bad. It has such a great screen that it uses the battery ridiculously fast. If you cant charge your phone at some point in the middle of the day, get the incredible.
Incredible 5/5
The incredible has a 1700mAh battery. The OEM battery easily lasts an entire day. I use the extended (2150mAh) battery and with extremely heavy use, i still have 60% at the end of the day.
Screen:
Rezound 5/5, 4.3 in, 720x1280 SuperLCD, 342PPI.
This screen is beautiful, one of the best displays on any phone.
Incredible 4/5, 4.0in, 540x960 SuperLCD, 275PPI.
Although the pixel density and resolution are much lower, you actually dont see much of a difference.
Development:
Rezound 3/5
The rezound has root, S-OFF and many different ROMS, including AOSP. But AOSP isnt perfect, and jellybean will never make it to this device. And most ROMs are based off of the stock incredible ROM, so the incredible will work better with sense 4.
Incredible 1/5
There is nothing because HTC wont allow you to unlock this device. But S-OFF is almost here so it gets a 1.
Total:
Rezound: 18/25
Incredible: 20/25
Bottom Line:
No matter what ROM you use, the rezound isnt as fast as the incredible, but they're close.
It comes down to deciding between battery life or screen size.
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Incredible got root and unlock thanks to me and captainrewind so you can try custom roms now
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jperiod said:
Has anyone here done a detailed comparison of the Droid Inc 4G vs the Rezound comparing the following :
1. Battery Life - the previous compares this -Droid Inc
2. 4G performance /radio
3. Performance on ICS/ Sense 4.0- the previous post compares this - Droid Inc
4. Camera
5. Voice/sound quality
6. GPS performance
Jperiod
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Interesting post on the comparison! I wondered how the Inc compared. It was the first Smartphone I really wanted but it was out of stock when I tried to get one, so I switched to Sprint to get the EVO 4G (1st gen). Dumb move on my part. Cell coverage was awful in my area with Sprint. Dropped calls were routine so I switched our account back over to VZ and choked down the ETF with Sprint. Never look back, right?
I hope my response to Jperiod isn't considered 'hijacking' the thread. It's not my intent. I might be able to offer insights on the DINC 4G compared to the Rezound. I currently have both.
1 - Battery life of DINC 4G is amazing compared to the Rezound (stock batt vs stock batt); I use a 2700 mAh in my Rezound and I keep a portable rechargeable USB pack with me at all times, just in case.
2 - 4G radios are equivalent in my area of use; i.e. I've noticed no difference latching on and staying connected to 4G at high speeds nearly all the time
3 - I personally like the ICS implementation on the Rezound better than the DINC 4G, especially the email interface and also the 7 screen view doesn't turn solid grey on the Rezound versus the DINC 4G which has the opaque darker grey background. (When you hit the Home icon if you're already on your Home screen, you view all 7 screens in a 'zoomed out' mode, the background of each of the 7 screens is what I'm referring to - I'm just not sure what to call this viewing mode. Maybe 'tile mode'?)
4 - The camera on the DINC 4G is sub-par compared to the Thunderbolt and Rezound. I threw the TBolt in this comment as it's still one of the best camera phones out on the market. I've gotten some great pics from the TBolt and Rezound which is equally as good. The DINC 4G has difficulties in high light (sunny days) and low light. It's ok on an overcast day or in a well lit indoor environment. Sunny days in the shade will result in disappointing photos. That's one of the biggest issues I found on the DINC 4G.
5 - Voice quality on both phones is equivalent as far as I can tell. Audio via Bluetooth works well on both. Audio on my JBL OnStage with a cable works equally well on both.
6 - GPS performance is also equivalent as far as I can tell. I have no complaints with either.
None of this is scientific in any way. I don't really put a lot of bearing on things like Quadrant Scores because I personally think these gizmos are very much a personal preference and pocketbook issue, not a score issue.
The Rezound has been out a while and is in some circles, considered a dinosaur but it's a rock solid performer when you're lucky enough to have a fully functional, no issue unit out of the box. I bought mine off a person in Wisconsin and it was rooted with S-OFF and stock ICS ROM. Just the way I wanted it. Blemish free, near mint with several cases.
Oh yeah, speaking of cases... The DINC 4G is an orphan phone when it comes to options for cases but there are many for the Rezound and most are available at rock bottom prices if you know where to look.
Hope this is helpful. Thanks OP for starting this thread! There are a lot of people out there looking for a comparison of the two models.
Nyobie said:
Interesting post on the comparison! I wondered how the Inc compared. It was the first Smartphone I really wanted but it was out of stock when I tried to get one, so I switched to Sprint to get the EVO 4G (1st gen). Dumb move on my part. Cell coverage was awful in my area with Sprint. Dropped calls were routine so I switched our account back over to VZ and choked down the ETF with Sprint. Never look back, right?
I hope my response to Jperiod isn't considered 'hijacking' the thread. It's not my intent. I might be able to offer insights on the DINC 4G compared to the Rezound. I currently have both.
1 - Battery life of DINC 4G is amazing compared to the Rezound (stock batt vs stock batt); I use a 2700 mAh in my Rezound and I keep a portable rechargeable USB pack with me at all times, just in case.
2 - 4G radios are equivalent in my area of use; i.e. I've noticed no difference latching on and staying connected to 4G at high speeds nearly all the time
3 - I personally like the ICS implementation on the Rezound better than the DINC 4G, especially the email interface and also the 7 screen view doesn't turn solid grey on the Rezound versus the DINC 4G which has the opaque darker grey background. (When you hit the Home icon if you're already on your Home screen, you view all 7 screens in a 'zoomed out' mode, the background of each of the 7 screens is what I'm referring to - I'm just not sure what to call this viewing mode. Maybe 'tile mode'?)
4 - The camera on the DINC 4G is sub-par compared to the Thunderbolt and Rezound. I threw the TBolt in this comment as it's still one of the best camera phones out on the market. I've gotten some great pics from the TBolt and Rezound which is equally as good. The DINC 4G has difficulties in high light (sunny days) and low light. It's ok on an overcast day or in a well lit indoor environment. Sunny days in the shade will result in disappointing photos. That's one of the biggest issues I found on the DINC 4G.
5 - Voice quality on both phones is equivalent as far as I can tell. Audio via Bluetooth works well on both. Audio on my JBL OnStage with a cable works equally well on both.
6 - GPS performance is also equivalent as far as I can tell. I have no complaints with either.
None of this is scientific in any way. I don't really put a lot of bearing on things like Quadrant Scores because I personally think these gizmos are very much a personal preference and pocketbook issue, not a score issue.
The Rezound has been out a while and is in some circles, considered a dinosaur but it's a rock solid performer when you're lucky enough to have a fully functional, no issue unit out of the box. I bought mine off a person in Wisconsin and it was rooted with S-OFF and stock ICS ROM. Just the way I wanted it. Blemish free, near mint with several cases.
Oh yeah, speaking of cases... The DINC 4G is an orphan phone when it comes to options for cases but there are many for the Rezound and most are available at rock bottom prices if you know where to look.
Hope this is helpful. Thanks OP for starting this thread! There are a lot of people out there looking for a comparison of the two models.
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Very helpful. Thanks
Jperiod
Hopefully we can get jellybean:thumbup:
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Dkesler76 said:
Hopefully we can get jellybean:thumbup:
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These less my to believe that we will get it in the not so distant future
http://androidcommunity.com/htc-evo...ean-update-today-according-to-leaks-20121115/
http://m.cnet.com/news/-/57549924
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