All the reviews....

[ibegary]

All the reviews are making me nervous... thank god for a return policy.

Give me a chance to root and see if I can remove all this bloatware, bing crap.

Such a pretty device too....

 

[dmaustin]

ya no kidding huh?

I ordered a droid x almost 2 weeks ago and have been mulling over switching to the fascinate ever since. Apparently now I'll have to wait to receive my droid x and then bring it in and return it for the fascinate. Good thing it's coming tomorrow(they told me it would ship on the 13th).

I have no idea what to do. The fascinate looks great as far as specs go. It really just depends on how the custom roms are going to run on it, because there's no way I'm sticking with bing search and maps... EVERYONE has said it but it's just retarded!

Soo... the DX's bootloader is still locked. The Fascinate is "supposedly" completely unlocked. The DX is supposed to be getting Froyo anyday now right? And who knows when the Fascinate will get it... sometime this year huh?

I'm so tired of this stinky old Touch Pro 2 that I can't even check my twitter on anymore! I'm definately leaning towards trying the Fascinate. And I will DEFINATELY be rooting/hacking/overclocking to the fullest of it's capabilities. Sorry for going on.. I've had smartphones on my brain for the last week. At least most of ya'll understand what I'm going through.

 

[Epell]

Just one week? I have been thinking about Fascinate for months (ever since it was announced)
I knew Bing would be default search engine but I never thought it would be the only search engine.
Here I was, getting a bit antsy thinking Google might turn evil after the net neutrality deal, but MS is still the evil lord of technology.

 

[emplox]

First of all, the reviews (Gizmodo/Engadget/Droid Life) that were written about the Fascinate were all awful. Not a single one of them did the phone any justice, nor did they cover anything except how much they hated the fact that Bing was the only search engine and that TouchWiz has a lag issues and other problems. They never said anything about the hardware being superior to any other device vzw offers. There is no doubt that TouchWiz needs improving and that having only Bing is stupid. However this phone is awesome. The cpu/gpu/screen are all much better than the Droid X and the Droid 2 and the Droid Incredible. Once this thing is rooted and the ROMs start coming, it will be the king.

 

[Epell]

They never said anything about the hardware being superior to any other device vzw offers.

"The phone hardware is pretty good!" -Gizmodo
"In terms of raw specs, the Fascinate looks lustworthy no matter how you slice it." -Engadget
"It has an amazing screen and specs to put many phones to shame..." -DroidLife

I'm pretty sure you were trolling though.

 

[emplox]

Actually I wasn't. What you pasted is literally about all they wrote. They seem like they are trying to prove a point that they hate what they did with Bing, so you shouldn't buy the phone. I think Gizmodo went as far as saying if you want a Galaxy S phone you should switch carriers...

I just think the reviews were all terribly ignorant, and not really fair compared to some of the other reviews i've seen them do. I don't even know how you can compare this phone to a Droid Incredible at this point, it's far superior in every category with the exception that Sense UI is likely a bit better than TouchWiz.

This is one of my favorites:
"Camera: This actually started out in the “Good” section and as I continued through the review, it had to be moved. 5MP? Really? The picture quality of shots taken with the camera aren’t bad at all, but with the Incredible and Droid X both sporting 8MP beasts, you’ve got to come strong."

This guy is clearly clueless, and what he says makes no sense at all.

 

[eleazar123]

"The phone hardware is pretty good!" -Gizmodo
"In terms of raw specs, the Fascinate looks lustworthy no matter how you slice it." -Engadget
"It has an amazing screen and specs to put many phones to shame..." -DroidLife

I'm pretty sure you were trolling though.

"The phone hardware is pretty good!" -Gizmodo

lol, what a joke.

It's not trolling to say that the reviews aren't good. If he was trolling it would make more sense for him to be mocking the phone and saying it sucks. Instead he's saying the phone will likely be very popular even with all of the bad reviews.

Either way, imo the only good review is slash gear's b/c they gave a thorough in-depth review. Not a "lightning" review, not a quick overview, but a REAL review.

Now, let's get this back on topic.

I am not trusting any of the reviews at this point. I'll be picking up my fascinate tomorrow and I have high hopes and expectations.

 

[badmf222]

This is one of my favorites:
"Camera: This actually started out in the “Good” section and as I continued through the review, it had to be moved. 5MP? Really? The picture quality of shots taken with the camera aren’t bad at all, but with the Incredible and Droid X both sporting 8MP beasts, you’ve got to come strong."

This guy is clearly clueless, and what he says makes no sense at all.

I wonder if they said the same thing when they were giving glowing reviews to the iPhone 4. After all, it ONLY packs a 5mp camera as well. What a crock these people all are.

 

[dr154]

The cpu/gpu/screen are all much better than the Droid X. Once this thing is rooted and the ROMs start coming, it will be the king.

This phone is only better by its screen type & gpu, both phones straight out the box, the droid x performance a hella alot better then the fascinate in some good ol benchmark test such as quadrant, its true it performance better at gpu benchmark of course because of the updated gpu inside it; but IMO Droid X is still better.

 

[eleazar123]

This phone is only better by its screen type & gpu, both phones straight out the box, the droid x performance a hella alot better then the fascinate in some good ol benchmark test such as quadrant, its true it performance better at gpu benchmark of course because of the updated gpu inside it; but IMO Droid X is still better.

Not to be nit-picky, but the Hummingbird CPU is superior to the Droid X snapdragon.

Just throwin' that out there.

 

[vaxick]

This phone is only better by its screen type & gpu, both phones straight out the box, the droid x performance a hella alot better then the fascinate in some good ol benchmark test such as quadrant, its true it performance better at gpu benchmark of course because of the updated gpu inside it; but IMO Droid X is still better.

Galaxy S phones stumble during the I/O test in Quadrant. People created a patch for it and the phone scores well above anything else.

 

[ksizzle9]

Not to be nit-picky, but the Hummingbird CPU is superior to the Droid X snapdragon.

Just throwin' that out there.

Just throwin this out there, it has a OMAP which is also superior to the snapdragon. But yes once this ***** has some good custom roms it will b king, i playedneed for speed on it, OMG it was like better than my psp, no lie, can't wait, im on the way to the store to pick one up n less than a 2 hours, i couldn't even sleep last night im so stoked. Ill be keeping this one for awhile. The veibrant has a 1.6OC coming soon this phhone will b SWEET!!!!!


Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

 

[eleazar123]

i couldn't even sleep last night im so stoked.

lol, I'm with ya there. I just wish I didn't have to wait till after work.

 

[kbcarroll]

I don't post here much, but I bought into the BOGO fascinate deal yesterday. I have been a WM nerd for years and was waiting for some decent WP7 devices before I upgraded from my TP2. I'm stuck on verizon, and it looks like there are no noteworthy WP7 launch devices. I also work for verizon, so I get an upgrade every 10 months. Figured I'd take a chance withandroid for the next 10 months to try the whole shebang.

Being a geek, I took one look at the specs and was impressed.

First: This is XDA. What does all this bing/touchwiz nonsense mean to us? The FIRST thing I do with any smartphone I get is root! Aren't the CNET/Amazon review boards for the people who can't get over these tiny carrier-specific idiosyncracies?

I keep reading the reviews as well--and most importantly the reviews in the user-submitted sections. The phone is getting absolutely flamed by people who don't even own it yet feel the need to rank it at a "1" on all levels because of Bing. Seriously?

 

[spotmark]

I'm not worried about a thing. Once this phone is rooted, and I'm sure it won't take long, it's going to be a beast.

 

[ibegary]

I got my fascinate this morning and it is a thing of beauty.

Unfortunately, I can use it yet. Verizon billing system is having issues in the Midwest and cant activate me yet. Atleast that's what their telling me.

But i'm having fun moving the puzzle piece around, haven't seen the word "BING" yet.

 

[dr154]

Not to be nit-picky, but the Hummingbird CPU is superior to the Droid X snapdragon.

Just throwin' that out there.

Droid X doesn't even have a Snapdragon processor, its OMAP, there's a difference...

The point im making is that straight out of the box Droid X is clearly the winner of any phone out there but its ui, sure the samsumg probably have more result once its rooted, thats with any smartphone, kinda worry's me some of these people even come ova to xda...

 

[Jodiuh]

The Fascinate felt a whole lot snappier and smooth to me vs the DROID X/2. I'm having a tough time deciding which to go with.

 

[kbcarroll]

I work in a vzw call center. Droid x's everywhere. After playing with my fascinate, 2 coworkers are returning their X's for the fascinate. Rarely have I seen a device this well done.

Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

 

[Accused187]

I work in a vzw call center. Droid x's everywhere. After playing with my fascinate, 2 coworkers are returning their X's for the fascinate. Rarely have I seen a device this well done.

Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

+1, I too have returned my X for the Fascinate. My main gripe with the X was the hardware buttons (I just didn't like them personally). But after seeing the performance of the Fascinate I was sold (and it has haptic buttons .