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X vs. DINC vs. Fascinate

minicoop69

Oct 6, 2010, 12:11 PM
I am up for a new phone relatively soon and i was wondering which of these phones are the best. i currently have a Storm1. Which has the best feel, the best UI, and i guess overall useability. Any replies would be appreciated. I am leaning toward the DINC, but i am swaying.
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Menno

Oct 6, 2010, 12:30 PM
It depends on what you want out of a phone.

If you are into hacking/rooting go with the fascinate.

HTC sense is the best looking custom UI IMO, and that's a great phone (though you might need to get the extended battery)

Get the DroidX if you're main concern is Multimedia. 720P recording+Third Mic+HDMI out is really nice if you like taking video.
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minicoop69

Oct 6, 2010, 12:37 PM
why is the samsung a better phone for rooting?
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Menno

Oct 6, 2010, 12:46 PM
Totally unlocked bootloader, and since it's on every carrier, there is a huge community for it.
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minicoop69

Oct 6, 2010, 1:01 PM
which one would you prefer?
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Menno

Oct 6, 2010, 1:05 PM
Me? I have the original droid so none of them. If I was just switching over, I would choose the Samsung because I like rooting, and I like what they're trying to do with media content

But I would have the phone rooted asap.. of the three, Touchwiz is the ugliest UI to me
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minicoop69

Oct 6, 2010, 1:14 PM
if i were to root the fascinate could i put uncommon sense as the UI?
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Menno

Oct 6, 2010, 2:01 PM
It depends on if the people make that for the phone, but my answer is going to be a pretty certain No.

Sense only really works on HTC phones, and uncommon sense is for phones already running Sense.

For The Fascinate, you'll see stock android builds (CyanogenMod, ShadowRom, maybe BuglessBeast) as well as customizations of the Touchwiz theme.

You might get some stuff that looks like Sense, but it won't be sense (so uncommon sense is out) because sense is tied heavily into the hardware HTC uses
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minicoop69

Oct 6, 2010, 1:32 PM
Can anyone else weigh in on this topic?
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justmarried

Oct 6, 2010, 2:19 PM
I have the droid X. I like it a lot. If I didn't have the X I would get the fascinate. The screen on the fascinate is nice. U can't go wrong with either. Play with them before u decide.
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vzwinagent

Oct 6, 2010, 2:37 PM
I'm going to say you can't go wrong with any of them. I've had both the Incredible and the X and loved them both. They are honestly pretty much identical other than screen size and obviously Sense UI. The features and specs of the phones are about the same.

I haven't really used a Fascinate but I did finally see one in person a week or so ago. I really really liked what I saw. I liked the colorfulness of the UI and the iPhone look and sleekness of the phone a lot!
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CellStudent

Oct 6, 2010, 5:22 PM
And I'm coming from a Blackberry Storm1 as well. I have a few complaints, already well outlined here:

https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »

As for the TouchWiz interface, I don't care for it and would prefer stock Android, but I'm not interested in rooting, either.

I just installed the Home Switcher app from the marketplace and downloaded the ADW.Launcher UI which is very, very similar to the Sense UI used on HTC handsets.

LauncherPro is another good skin if you're up for shelling out $3 to get the full version. The free ADW is better then the free LauncherPro and ADW doesn't have enough shortcomings for me to consider upgrading to the paid LauncherPro.

The biggest adjustment I had to make was ge...
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