[HTC Incredible S] Nece228:
Okay so resurrecting old discussions. I actually bought a phone in april 4, it was desire hd. The reason behind this was mostly because the carrier said they were not sure when theyre gonna get incredible s (out of stock things). So i had chance only to try desire hd, when i first holded it in my hand it felt heavy and easy to slip away, so not comfortable for me. But the big screen impression was really good, and because they said they dont know when they will ship incredible s, i said i wont wait, ill get desire hd today. After quite some time i own it, i can say how it feels. I said earlier that it wasnt that good ergonomically at first, well yes mostly because the phone wasnt narrow. When i holded it in my hands it always felt like it has intention to drop on the floor, so at first i always holded it with two hands. But after three or four weeks i got fully used to, now i can hold and use comfortably phone with one hand, it no longer feels like it wants to drop. I guess it just needs quite some time to get used to its unusual size, but after that its really great. Battery life for me is in my opinion really good, i can get two days with quite good usage, for me thats excellent. But thats mostly because i know how phone works, so i always know if some apps are leaking and if they do then yes battery life isnt good at all. You know with great power comes great responsibility, if you are dumb and buy this phone dont expect to work it perfectly, its a powerful machine and powerful machines requires some maintenance. Other things - camera is very good, imo best of all htc phones, (better than sensation) mostly because camera lens are bigger on desire hd. And bigger lens means better quality. Thats why old 3 mbpx nokia phones with ancient symbian shoots better photos than current ultra thin phones. By the way when phone is on table, the camera lens arent touching table. It feels like it could because the lens are out of the back, but it doesnt. Around the lens there is bevel which fully protects the lens from scratching when you drag phone on a table.

Also, i really like the look of it, the metal feels solid, the gray color with red accents is solid and gives you high quality feel. The screen quality is very good, altough it washes a little bit when you look at sides, but heck, who uses their phone from the side. Screen is much better than what those amoleds from samsung offer. Surely the colors on amoleds are more vibrant, but thats why its so bad. I work with computer graphics, i know those "one pixel accuracy" things and from the professional perspective amoled is very bad in color reproduction. Other professional designers i talk to fully agree with me. The fact that colors are shinier and prettier doesnt mean that the screen is better.

Now on the negative side, the bottom plastic covering cracks a little bit when you try to push it. Thats definitely not a big problem, but still kind of annoying for one of the most expensive phones.

Another is speaker. The speaker for me is loud enough, but the quality of the sound isnt best. Not saying its terrible but has some rooms for improvements.

A small problem sometimes when you hold your phone in landscape the volume down button presses because i hold phone touching it. Thats because the volume buttons are soft and doesnt give a feedback when you press it.

About incredible s

After about a few weeks i bought my desire hd, i went to supermarket and accidentally found incredible s, so i asked to let me try it. From the first sight it looked as solid as desire hd. At that time when i wasnt used to desire hd ergonomics the incredible s felt much better, it was sitting on my hand perfectly was more light and didnt want to slip out. At that time i was half regretting that i didnt wait for incredible s. The rubber back altough wasnt metal, was very good because it wasnt slippery at all. I found that the screen quality is much or less equally same except better viewing angles and perhaps higher brightness. The colors were as good saturated. And thats most important thing for me. The pixel density more or less felt same, the pixelation was visible on both. Also, it didnt crack when you pressed the back covering so thats a plus.

The one minus i found out is that camera is better on desire hd when shooting videos. look at this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsEk_Ucwoo

Ive seen those kinds of videos before, so ive checked the camera on that incredible s, and well yes, the framerate is really worse than on my desire hd.

Now when i own my desire hd almost half year, i can say that im not regretting at all. If i would have bought incredible s, im pretty sure i wouldnt regret too, both dont have any serious problems. Now when i got used to that big screen im not sure even if i want anything below 4.3 inches. Im liking both incredible s and desire hd designs, but i think desire hd looks a little bit better because its not just plain black, it has those really nice red tones. They are visible especially in bright sunlight.