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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

What is Droid Incredible and EVO 4G?

Today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a new version of iphone, although it had been leaked by Gizmo in April. Video chat is the new feature not leaked before. On the other smart phone camp, Android, there are some also hot products released recently. One is Droid Incredible on Verizon network. Last Friday, when I visited Palo Alto Verizon store, it was told to be sold out. If you order that day, you may get it in late June. It should be mentioned that Droid Incredible and Droid, released around holiday season last year, are quite different. For example, Droid Incredible has no physical keyboard while Droid has. Moreover, Droid is manufactured by Motorola, and Droid Incredible is manufactured by HTC. Droid Incredible is more like Nexus One than Droid.

The other is Sprint EVO 4G, which uses Springt 4G network, the first 4G wireless network in US. Interestingly, both EVO and Droid Incredible are manufactured by HTC, who also manufactures Nexus One and the very first Android phone G1. It should be mentioned that HTC is not Foxconn, which manufactures iphone, although both HTC and Foxconn are companies in Taiwan.

I also heard that right now the number of sold Android phones is larger than the number of sold iphone number, which is not surprising since there are many versions of Android phones on the market, while there are one or two versions of iphone on the market.