Incredible

Sixteen comments, fifteen from a HackerNews thread around the phone's 2010 launch (one StackExchange answer about recording audio via a male-male cable into Audacity is only tangentially related). Overall reception skews positive on performance and software, negative on button design and specific bugs. PERFORMANCE & DISPLAY: The day-one owner review calls it 'the most pleasant experience' among all smartphones used, 'never used a more responsive phone — that includes the iPhone.' When a user asked whether web scrolling was jerky like other Android devices, the reply was: 'silky smooth it is. Upgraded sensor over the Nexus One. Better multitouch, better responsiveness in general, lower battery drain.' HTC SENSE UI: One buyer planned to flash stock Android but reversed course ('next time if I don't get an HTC, I might flash it and put Sense on it'). A quoted review snippet claims Sense is 'in many ways... superior to what Apple and Palm are offering.' Another day-one buyer 'loves' the Facebook integration with SenseUI. HARDWARE BUTTONS (main complaint): The four touch-sensitive front buttons are 'prone to accidental presses' with 'no feedback of any sort' per one user; another pleads 'please, please don't make them touch-sensitive.' Defenders counter that haptic feedback exists and the buttons light up in the dark, though they concede physical buttons still win in some scenarios. SOFTWARE BUGS: A consultant who set one up for a client found it merely 'OK... nothing super impressive' — an older Blackberry 'was able to play video about as quickly' — and reports the bundled mail app (different from Droid's) 'silently bombs on self-signed SSLs' during POP/IMAP setup, failing after hitting 'Next' on server config. A quoted Engadget note says Flash Lite 'had lots of trouble getting videos to play on many of the sites we visited (Engadget included)'; a commenter concludes 'consider the job unfinished' for Flash on such devices. ERGONOMICS & INTEGRATION: A 2-day owner reports it 'feels nice in the hand, great Google integration, sweet camera,' though 'many functions take one more step/button-press than on the iPhone.' CAVEAT: Several comments are meta-discussion about the source article using wrong photos (an HTC Supersonic and a Windows Mobile HTC HD2) rather than substantive phone feedback.

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