Droid Charge: Newest member of Verizon 4G LTE stable of phones

Summary: The Drioid Charge is the first phone made by Samsung for the Verizon Droid line, and has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen that may be the best I've ever seen on a phone. Take this tour around the Charge.

By James Kendrick for Mobile News | April 27, 2011 -- 11:21 GMT (04:21 PDT)

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Today the UPS guy dropped off the latest phone in the Verizon Droid line of Android handsets-- the Droid Charge. The Charge is the first phone made by Samsung bearing the Droid moniker, and has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen that may be the best I've ever seen on a phone. That includes the famous Retina Display on the iPhone 4.

Unfortunately the Verizon 4G (LTE) network is in the middle of a nationwide outage, so I haven't been able to do much with the Droid Charge due to a lack of connectivity. These brief observations will have to tide you over for now, along with a tour of the Charge presented in photos. The photos include some shots showing the Charge side-by-side with the other Verizon 4G phone, the HTC Thunderbolt.

Check out the Droid Charge photo gallery


	Image Gallery: Droid Charge 4G and 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display

Likes:

Light weight due to the plastic construction
Beautiful display
Fast operation

Dislikes:

Four control buttons too close to bottom edge of phone
Back of phone is slippery

Topics: Verizon, Hardware, Mobility, Wi-Fi

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RE: Droid Charge: Newest member of Verizon 4G LTE stable of phones

LTE aside, how is the phone? Should this be on my list for an upgrade?

jahmekan

27 April, 2011 13:12

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RE: Droid Charge: Newest member of Verizon 4G LTE stable of phones

@jahmekan The phone so far is pretty sweet, but I can't get any data connectivity at all right now which limits how I can test it. I'm also concerned about battery life using 4G and need to test that too. Bad timing on Verizon to go down today. :)

JamesKendrick
27 April, 2011 13:54

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RE: Droid Charge: Newest member of Verizon 4G LTE stable of phones

Wait a month for the price to drop significantly. Not very future proof for gamers as it has a chip that came out last August.

gwlaw99

27 April, 2011 15:15

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RE: Droid Charge: Newest member of Verizon 4G LTE stable of phones

Any word if this phone has the same SD card and freezing/restart issues as the other Android phones seem to be having?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9736
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2500

yourhums

28 April, 2011 08:22

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