Verizon Fascinate

[droid_head]

2Gb memory would be welcome compared to my Crapberry Drizzle's (Storm) non-existent memory.

 

[supersaki]

It's not an attack at all, nor was it directed at you (EDIT: fixed who I quoted to eliminate confusion), I just think some people are getting confused on internal memory vs RAM vs sdcard. I just wanted to put it into perspective that if 2GB is considered too small, then my Droid is an embarrassment! Yes, more would be desirable, but not an issue for me. And yes, you are correct about the FFC. I cannot find myself using it at all. I don't want to hold up my phone in front of me seeing my ugly mug! Not to mention video chat would really only be able to be utilized over wifi....at least until LTE rolls out. I really am looking forward to this phone now that the Droid X has been eliminated from my options.

Same boat as you.

2gig is more than enough for any app you can imagine, unless you plan on downloading all ~100k apps in the market. If it's for music/video, then the SD card should cover it.

Are people wanting to put their entire movie collection on their phone these days?

 

[legacy]

I need 2.2 on it so it can do remote lock/wipe. Then it can be my next work phone. Oh, and it being rooted so I can remove Samsung's crap overlays would be nice too.

 

[F34R]

Seems like this phone is going to make my jump back to Verizon. Can't wait.. the release should be somewhere near my Alltel contract being up so that helps too.

Fascinate for me please.

 

[ckochinsky125]

It looks like an (choking on the word) iPhone.

Thats sad samsung needs to come up with a different design it is terrible how nearly identical it is to looking like an iphone. They should have just called it the samsung sphone as much as they made it to resemble the iphone

 

[fegriffith]

Does the Fascinate have HDMI Out?

 

[NKT]

Does the Fascinate have HDMI Out?

No. Only port on it is a micro-usb.

 

[fegriffith]

No. Only port on it is a micro-usb.

Thank you for the response...so there's no possibility it could work like the HTC Incredible (which uses the micro usb port with a special cable).

 

[NKT]

Thank you for the response...so there's no possibility it could work like the HTC Incredible (which uses the micro usb port with a special cable).

Not sure.

 

[hanano17]

Thank you for the response...so there's no possibility it could work like the HTC Incredible (which uses the micro usb port with a special cable).

You can use the headphone jack as a video out

 

[09lexus]

iv played with the new fascinate and the phone is amazingly thin and the screen is so bright and vibrant with color. and launch on it should be sometime from mid august to sept 1st. the 4inch display is a nice middle ground from the incredible and the obnoxiously large 4.3 on the x. im pretty excited for this phone to come out.

 

[ghdtpdna]

iv played with the new fascinate and the phone is amazingly thin and the screen is so bright and vibrant with color. and launch on it should be sometime from mid august to sept 1st. the 4inch display is a nice middle ground from the incredible and the obnoxiously large 4.3 on the x. im pretty excited for this phone to come out.

It comes down to your preference. Fascinate is better for photo, video but it you do a lot of reading X's LCD is definitely preferable. I actually would have like it better if Fascinate had 4.3 inch or even larger.

 

[suXor]

FYI, on the memory....

Some devices are supporting 4 different memory types in Android. Unfortunately, Android isn't designed to effectively really use it.

- Internal main memory (ROM'ish): OS, Installed applications (2.1 and earlier)
- Internal RAM: Memory for running processes/applications
- Internal User Memory: This is the multi-GB of storage. No applications can be installed to this and it uses a unique \path\ that developers don't develop against. Therefore, it is only useful for user storage when placed in mass storage mode
- External User Memory: this is microSD, \sd-card\. Here the OS and develoeprs know what to do.

So based on this, the cost of adding internal storage for the user has been reduced by shifting to larger pre-installed microSD cards that all parties can use.
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[substring]

I am waiting for the Fascinate as the Droid X does not look like a high end device to me (even though it is a very good device). I use my phone mostly for Twitter, Facebook and web browsing. So better graphic works for me.

I saw one of the youtube video that it has geotagging which is very sweet.

Now, may I ask if the Fascinate has a front facing camera like the HTC EVO? And what is the resolution? If it does, I can replace my webcam with the Fascinate on my conference calls.

 

[ghdtpdna]

I am waiting for the Fascinate as the Droid X does not look like a high end device to me (even though it is a very good device). I use my phone mostly for Twitter, Facebook and web browsing. So better graphic works for me.

I saw one of the youtube video that it has geotagging which is very sweet.

Now, may I ask if the Fascinate has a front facing camera like the HTC EVO? And what is the resolution? If it does, I can replace my webcam with the Fascinate on my conference calls.

First, no it doesn't have a FFC.
How would having a better GPU help you with Twitter (lots of texts), Facebook (once again lots of texts and some pictures), web browsing (lots of texts, photos, videos). Where Fascinate shines is in 3D graphics, in 3D games.
Also, due to pentile display used in all AMOLED type screens, the actual resolution is pseudo-WVGA. Some may disagree and say it's fine for them, which is probably true but the fact remains that the screen does not fully display the advertised resolution.
With that said, I think Fascinate is a beautiful phone where X is very industrial looking phone with rugged design and physical buttons. X is all about functionality versus aesthetics.

 

[Itsteeteebaybe]

Can u video chat live such as through the tango app on the samsung fascinate bc I downloaded it on my boyfriends htc evo and I dont show up under his contacts to video chat nd he doesnt show up on mine...if it is possible to vidro chat how do I do it someone please help me

 

[nitsuj17]

Can u video chat live such as through the tango app on the samsung fascinate bc I downloaded it on my boyfriends htc evo and I dont show up under his contacts to video chat nd he doesnt show up on mine...if it is possible to vidro chat how do I do it someone please help me

We don't have a front facing camera....i think it is possible (i've never looked into it so i could be wrong) to use the regular camera.to have a 1 way chat....but that's kind of pointless imo