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The HTC Desire, Evo 4G and Droid Incredible’s battery life gets a lot of negative attention. Many owners said that their phone’s battery dies at 6 hours! HTC and Sprint are taking steps to improve observed battery life. HTC is developing a number of handset software optimizations that are expected to increase device operating times.

You can also try various setting that will help extend the battery life.

• Traditionally WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and display brightness all greatly impact battery performance.
• With Android 2.1 another feature that can kill your battery are the Live Wallpapers. If you’re using Live Wallpaper just turn if off.
• Adjust the Brightness of the display (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Brightness). By default it is set to auto adjust but you can manually adjust it down. Consider adjusting the display timeout (Menu | Settings | Sound & Display | Screen Timeout). The default value is 1 minute but you can reduce it to as low as 15 sec but 30 seconds.
• By default your HTC Incredible vibrates every time you press a key. Turn it off by un-checking the box ‘Vibrate when typing’. Menu | Settings | Language & Keyboards | Touch Input | Text Input | Vibrate when typing.
• If Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Email, App Updates, or many other things are constantly popping notifications, consider turning some of them off as notifications do impact battery performance; This is done in each app

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It is confirmed that HTC Droid Incredible will have Android 2.2 Froyo update OS. The release of the update is scheduled between late July and early August. The Android 2.2 Froyo update will be available over the air.

The update might be will be available probably any days during this week, but if you cannot wait any longer to taste the “Froyo”, you may install the leaked Android 2.2 version with Sense user interface on top of it. The leaked update almost works perfectly as if it is an official update. The new features you will get once you installed the update is 802.11n WiFi, 3G Mobile Hot Spot, HTC Widget: Email, HTC Widgets like, News, EAS Updates, 720p Video Recording, Amazon MP3, Skype, My Verizon and whole a lot more.

The Android 2.2 also improved in work around speed, that makes the device running this update will be snappier than the one running previous Android 2.1 Eclair. It was reported that this update even two to five times faster than the previous. Beside those new features above and the support of Flash 10.1, native internet tethering, application manager there are plenty more to find in this new 2.2 Froyo update.

Guys over AndroidForums made a findings and if it success it would make HTC Incredible more incredible. They found two application, 720p video recording app and 3G hotspot app that would boost Incredible to match EVO 4G.

Both applications are applicable in HTC Incredible because the phone has technically what it takes to do it. These applications made Incredible similar to HTC EVO 4G but with smaller screen. We think that there must be some secret arrangement between the carriers to amputate Incredible to make the EVO 4G looks a lot powerful.

Let’s hope and dream that the small Incredible enhanced with all great feature of the EVO 4G, but if we think about it, these apps could be Verizon’s make ups gift for the shortage supply of HTC Incredible.

Here video review of the HTC Droid Incredible Vs iPhone 3GS by the folks at technobuffalo. Two wonderful phones, which do you prefer?