Comments on: DROID Charge Hands-on and First Impressions

By: MSimoneau4

MSimoneau4 — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:48:00 +0000

I LOVE my Thunderbolt! My son has the iPhone 4 and my phone is definitely much faster than his….however, he does have greater battery life than mine!

By: Granted

Granted — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:10:00 +0000

Yeah I’m interested I need more phones to test let the game I’m making on. What email address can I reach you at, and how much you think you will charge? Well just tell me in. an email after you give me the address. Hope you’ll haggle a little. I’ll check back here in a couple of hours so let me know soon please.

By: ramifications

ramifications — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:55:00 +0000

It’s the first US phone with SuperAMOLED Plus. So yes, it’s a pretty big deal! I haven’t seen one in person, but I hear the screen is amazing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:57:00 +0000

thanks for informative response! gonna check it out in store and see what i decide

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:38:00 +0000

Is it SuperAMOLED Plus or just SuperAMOLED? Because if it is the latter that is a fairly big deal. Do you have a Fascinate to compare the screen to?

And speaking of that seeing how quickly Samsung updated the Galaxy S lineup overseas (got Froyo out pretty quick and was the first non Nexus phone to get Gingerbread) I’d say the issue lies with the carriers (specifically Verizon and their search deal with Microsoft) and not Samsung.

I hate Samsung’s plastic builds and Touchwiz is an iOS ripoff but I have gotten over blaming them for the update situation in the US.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:40:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:26:00 +0000

You’re right, the motorola charm and Droid Charge are on equal levels.
By your stupid logic the charm is better than the iPhone because it runs android.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:21:00 +0000

lol its not that bad. craigslist and trading and having other people on my account with upgrades. its not as hard or expensive as you would think. to change phones all you have to do is dial *228 from the phone you wanna use… 30 secs later its up and running.

By: Stephen D

Stephen D — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:58:00 +0000

The more I see it, the more the design grows on me. It actually looks really awesome. Better than the black/silver rectangles that every other phone is. It has LTE support, which the Inc2 doesn’t, and it has a better screen and hardware than the TBolt.

By: Stephen D

Stephen D — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:55:00 +0000

I hate the puzzle unlock, but TW has a built in lockscreen type chooser, and there are mods that give you 6 lockscreens to choose from. And it can probably be ported to the Charge very easily. That’s one of the little things that make TW a pretty decent skin in all reality.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:46:00 +0000

I thought about upgrading to it from the Bolt (got mine on launch day so can’t return), but other than the S.AMOLED+ panel, I really can’t justify it.

I’m also more partial to FWVGA screens as compared to WVGA ones. Really miss those 54 vertical pixels. Aside from more text message / email, or webpage view I use Launcher Pro on the D1 and DX with 5 rows and More Icons (4×1), so icons overlap on the WVGA screen on the Bolt. (I switched to SPB Shell) So upgrading from One WVGA to another don’t make much *sense* to me.

The battery issue I think will remain; 100 more mAh won’t help and from my experience with my Nexus S, the battery savings on S.AMOLED panels don’t exist.

Also the 1Ghz CPU is unnamed, so can’t be sure if it’ll be faster than the 2nd gen Snapdragon / Scorpion (MSM8655) on the Bolt. My experience wight the same apps is that it’s been faster than even the NS on Gingerbread, and run circles around my DX.

The charge is also missing 256mb of RAM (768 vs 512mb on the Charge). Pretty sure this is part of the reason why it’s faster than the NS and DX on app launching and switching.

Internal memory is also much lower on the Charge (8 vs 2GB on the Charge). But at least it’s coming with the 32GB SD like the Bolt.

The Charge will have Swype pre-installed tho, so you won’t need to grab the beta. Also 2 more LTE Hotspot capability. But so far I’ve used up to 7 max at a time, and that was at an Engadget show, usually I only Hotspot 3 or 4 at most. Battery life is horrible as is already at 3.5 hours, with the Hotspot on I can barely make 2 hours. (bought the ext 2750 but that didn’t last a workday anyway, ended up with 2 extra reguar ones to last a full 10 hours)

By: Pcman

Pcman — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:30:00 +0000

Well i had the opportunity to play with this phone @ ces and trust me it looks even better in person. Just go to Big red tomorow and check it out and see if you have the same opinion of it.

By: FortitudineVincimus

FortitudineVincimus — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:20:00 +0000

how do you switch so quick? how do you keep them all up to date with settings you like and such. 1 must have a lot of disposable income to buy at full retail and not on a contract. Sounds like a total PITA.

By: Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:08:00 +0000

I second this, my wife is taking my X (she has my OG droid) and since she has an upgrade, I’m considering getting this or the Tbolt. I wanted to wait for the bionic, but can’t wait on a possible mid summer release.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:02:00 +0000

Droid-Life: please please please determine for good whether TouchWiz can be disabled leaving you with a stock-like device as has been hinted here:

http://androidandme.com/2011/04/phones/exclusive-hands-on-with-the-samsung-droid-charge/

The folks at that other blog don’t seem too keen on letting us know whether the final version of the Charge has this most excellent feature. I’m hoping DL will not leave us hanging.

Thanks!