Camera

The Incredible 2 sports an 8-megapixel camera with a dual-LED flash and gets the nice upgrade of 720p video capture. The camera interface has built-in face detection software, which registers when you're taking a portrait of somebody and adjusts the camera settings accordingly. This worked okay in a normally lit room, but in a darker office with lots of backlighting, the person I was shooting still came out kind of dark. Photos taken outdoors looked great with rich color and sharp details. My indoor shots looked good too, though without the flash they had a bit of a dark cast. The flash is powerful, but not too powerful. Unlike a few other phones we've seen, it didn't completely blow out the details in my shots.

The videos I shot outside with the Incredible looked pretty good. The camcorder handled fast-moving action well, though the sound was a little muddled.

The Incredible also sports a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for making video calls. With no 4G connectivity, however, you might not be using this feature much.

Performance