I thought it was funny when so many people defended their HTC Thunderbolt and would deny that the Samsung Charge was going to be as good. Those same people were probably thinking I was just as funny to say that the Samsung Charge is going to be better than the Thunderbolt. The only thing the Thunderbolt has over the Charge is the RAM. But it is not a big enough difference to make a difference especially since the Charge doesn’t need it.
I have owned a HTC Incredible for about 9 months and have liked it, but there were a few things I did not like… especially being the battery life. Setting up the Charge today, I did not plug it in that much and it retained power the whole time. I did not charge the battery fully yet. And they never put that much power on the initial battery charge. Verizon will tell you that the 4G uses up the power on the Thunderbolt and will do the same on the Charge, but it simply isn’t true! The Thunderbolt has a bigger screen with more detail than the Incredible where the Samsung Charge uses a LED screen which uses less power. Although Verizon will want you to believe the screens are the same, they are not even close. Just look up the difference between LCD and LED televisions.
One of the items that I used to reduce the amount of power my Incredible used was the Power Control Bar. I placed this item on the main screen to use often and thought I would need to do it for my new Samsung Charge. I was pleasantly surprised to find they had it already in the notification drop down area. Not only does it have the same buttons, but also added is an Auto Rotate button. I turned off Auto Rotate on the Incredible because it would drive me crazy, but not I can choose when to turn it off much easier than going into the settings.
Back to the performance… One of the knocks on both the HTC and the Samsung phones is the lack of a dual core processor. It didn’t bother me as much after I viewed a video of someone playing Quake on both the Incredible and the Fascinate. What the video showed was an annoyingly pausing display on the HTC phone and very smooth play on the Samsung. The difference being the processor. I figured it may not be that much of a difference as a video could have been recorded differently. I had to see it with my own eyes and that is what I did. I played Tank Recon (Free version of coarse) on the Incredible almost every day. When you exploded the enemy tank, the playback would slow down dramatically and the controls were not that smooth. I played the same game on my new Samsung Droid Charge and almost got my highest score ever on the first time playing it. The total play of the game was so smooth. I played it so long that I was hoping to die in the game because I wanted to do something else! This just goes to show that not all 1 Ghz processors are the same as the Hummingbird is far superior to the Snapdragon.
What I did not like about the Samsung Droid Charge was the browser display. When you double tap the display it zoomed only a little. When you spread your fingers outward, the text did not fit in the screen where it was easy to read like my Incredible did. I fixed all 3 of those problems the first time I went into the browser display settings! The first was changing the Default Zoom to “Close.” The next item was changing the Text Encoding to “Unicode UTF – 8.” The third was checking off the Auto Fit to Screen. And Wha-La! My browser zoomed and displayed the text perfectly as my Incredible did.
To conclude, the Samsung Droid Charge lives up to the commercial in that it is your next phone! If you don’t have it, you will have wish you did!
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