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Drop iPhone 4 for HTC Evo!?

JasonR said:
So I was really happy with my iPhone 4...until some friends got the Evo. WOW. Such an impressive phone with SO many features. Then he tells me he has an unlimited plan (unlimited data/texts/4g/minutes) for $110 a month! I end up paying $100 a month for unlimited data/texts and 450 minutes. I can sell my iPhone 32 GB, pay the ETF Fee, buy the Evo, and stick some money in my pocket.

The freedom and ease of use of the Droid OS is incredible. Makes the iPhone look archaic. I am NOT bashing the iPhone at all, I love it. But...it doesn't seem to make sense when looking at what the Evo/Sprint has to offer.
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1. why would you want to post this?
2. why not just do what you want without the approval of an iphone forum?
 
JasonR said:
So I was really happy with my iPhone 4...until some friends got the Evo. WOW. Such an impressive phone with SO many features. Then he tells me he has an unlimited plan (unlimited data/texts/4g/minutes) for $110 a month! I end up paying $100 a month for unlimited data/texts and 450 minutes. I can sell my iPhone 32 GB, pay the ETF Fee, buy the Evo, and stick some money in my pocket.

The freedom and ease of use of the Droid OS is incredible. Makes the iPhone look archaic. I am NOT bashing the iPhone at all, I love it. But...it doesn't seem to make sense when looking at what the Evo/Sprint has to offer.
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I too have played with and like the EVO. I am not sure I want to give up my iPhone 4 for it.

After a poster here referred another poster to this forum, I started reading up on Android. I suggest you take a look at this thread and comments coming from Android owners:

http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/163798-os-polish-apple-v-android.html
 
ratbatblue said:
here's what I recall liking about the Evo during the few days I had it:

1. haptic feedback
2. widgets
3. faster 3G
4. nice, big screen; more on-screen territory
5. customizations
6. actually liked the physical size

Here's where I found it lacking in comparison with the iPhone 3GS (at the time) and certainly now, with the 4:

1. iOS UI is more elegant: smoother, faster, more accurate scrolling and pinching (although HTC Sense wasn't too shabby).
2. The Display (but again...the Evo's screen looks good, too).
3. Customization has its price...Android menu system isn't as intuitive (not a huge minus, I must admit).
4. Maneuvering around the address book/contacts list was murder. I recall especially missing the ability to go from the A's to the Z's with the touch of a finger.
5. iPhone 4's unified email inbox wins....no contest. Android doesn't have one, and the best 3rd party app I found was second rate at best.
6. Evo battery life SUCKED.
7. Constantly killing apps to try and improve #6.
8. Did I mention that battery life thing?
9. I missed the integration with iTunes.
10. Wasn't crazy about 4G. Takes much too long to find a signal, then when it finds one, it is to the battery as a 70's muscle car to a gallon of gas. I just kept it turned OFF. Didn't need it anyway. Sprint's 3G, where I live, is considerably faster than AT&T's.

I found the apps stores to be a wash. Unlike many, many iPhone fans, I'm not starry-eyed over the App Store. I think that 250,000 apps, or half a million, or whatever the count is today, is a few hundred thousand too many. I found an equivalent on the Android Marketplace (Market? I forgot already) for everything I actually used on the iPhone. YMMV.

I liked the Evo. I think Sprint's combo plan for it is truly remarkable, and no one has it beat, certainly not AT& (cough) T. It's a good enough phone that I might've kept it, despite the fact that the iPhone 4 beats it on my own list, if I could have broken the AT&T umbilical chord. For reasons of my wife's, though, that turned out not to be possible.

Hope this helps.
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wait sorry, lemmi get this straight, you think that the iphone 3gs has a BETTER display than the EVO 4G?

32x480 vs 480x800. I'm astounded that you'd think the 3GS has a better display, i'd believe it if you said the 4 had a better display, but the 3GS? c'mon son.

All i had was a nexus one, and that thing looked miles better than my 3gs and my 3g. I'll agree with the touchscreen though, Android's touchscreen aren't up to snuff with that of Apple's.
 
JasonR said:
So I was really happy with my iPhone 4...until some friends got the Evo. WOW. Such an impressive phone with SO many features. Then he tells me he has an unlimited plan (unlimited data/texts/4g/minutes) for $110 a month! I end up paying $100 a month for unlimited data/texts and 450 minutes. I can sell my iPhone 32 GB, pay the ETF Fee, buy the Evo, and stick some money in my pocket.

The freedom and ease of use of the Droid OS is incredible. Makes the iPhone look archaic. I am NOT bashing the iPhone at all, I love it. But...it doesn't seem to make sense when looking at what the Evo/Sprint has to offer.
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BE WARNED. Android phones are released at a breakneck pace. What is hot and new right now will be old and busted 4 months from now. Even the HTC EVO has already been eclipsed by the Samsung EPIC. The EPIC will undoubtedly get upstaged by some new (probably dual core) Android phone coming out in early 2011.

Yes, Sprint (and T-mobile) give you a better value for your money in terms of pricing...but make sure that Sprint's coverage is good in your town. They are great in some cities and so-so in others.

As for the phones themselves....there are more similarities than difference. I would consider an Epic over the EVO. Go to the Sprint store and check them both out.
 
Unfortunately, in my area, Sprint's signal strength is crappy just about everywhere. And don't even think about 4G, most places around here. 3G, maybe. Not to mention I just don't find Android's interface particularly intuitive. I could learn it, and get used to it, but I don't enjoy using it like I do with iOS. But hey, if it fits your needs, go for it. Have you considered maybe taking this to an HTC, Sprint, or Android forum though? I'm not sure exactly why you felt the need to bring it up here. These discussions almost always turn into insecure macho-fests over whose device is better.
 
Tarzanman said:
BE WARNED. Android phones are released at a breakneck pace. What is hot and new right now will be old and busted 4 months from now. Even the HTC EVO has already been eclipsed by the Samsung EPIC. The EPIC will undoubtedly get upstaged by some new (probably dual core) Android phone coming out in early 2011.

Yes, Sprint (and T-mobile) give you a better value for your money in terms of pricing...but make sure that Sprint's coverage is good in your town. They are great in some cities and so-so in others.

As for the phones themselves....there are more similarities than difference. I would consider an Epic over the EVO. Go to the Sprint store and check them both out.
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EPIC 4G is not meant to be a higher end phone than the EVO. Its not the typical product lifecycle of how Apple release their products. I would consider the EPIC an alternative to those that do not like the EVO's 4.3 inch screen + no keyboard. EPIC resolves that issue.

For instance, I bought the Droid X, but the DX came out earlier than the Droid 2. However, the Droid 2 specification is lower end than the DX.

And so what if a newer phone comes out 4 months later? 4 months in tech years is an eternity. In fact, releasing an update to a phone once every year for a handset maker like Apple is out of the industry norm.

I think Steve Jobs should take notice. With multiple Android-based handsets being delivered at a 'breakneck' speed, I could see how others would leave iOS environment for something entirely new and fresh.

And to say that Android OS 2.2 is crap is nonsense. Those that follow smartphone industry closely would think otherwise.


As for the battery life issue with EVO. There are utilities you can download to mitigate battery life, additionally, there's extended batteries I believe, so you can easily replace the battery for a better one.
 
Tarzanman said:
BE WARNED. Android phones are released at a breakneck pace. What is hot and new right now will be old and busted 4 months from now. Even the HTC EVO has already been eclipsed by the Samsung EPIC. The EPIC will undoubtedly get upstaged by some new (probably dual core) Android phone coming out in early 2011.

Yes, Sprint (and T-mobile) give you a better value for your money in terms of pricing...but make sure that Sprint's coverage is good in your town. They are great in some cities and so-so in others.

As for the phones themselves....there are more similarities than difference. I would consider an Epic over the EVO. Go to the Sprint store and check them both out.
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You're exactly right. The evo is no longer the android flavor of the month anyways.
 
Tarzanman said:
BE WARNED. Android phones are released at a breakneck pace. What is hot and new right now will be old and busted 4 months from now. Even the HTC EVO has already been eclipsed by the Samsung EPIC. The EPIC will undoubtedly get upstaged by some new (probably dual core) Android phone coming out in early 2011.

Yes, Sprint (and T-mobile) give you a better value for your money in terms of pricing...but make sure that Sprint's coverage is good in your town. They are great in some cities and so-so in others.

As for the phones themselves....there are more similarities than difference. I would consider an Epic over the EVO. Go to the Sprint store and check them both out.
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Very true. Verzion going to be pushing out some serious android phones before the end of this year.
 
I've had Sprint for almost 8 years now and haven't had any reception problems. It all depends on where you live. As for the phones, I picked up an Epic during launch week and couldn't be happier with it. The Super AMOLED screen rocks and the performance is great. I don't even mind the TouchWiz interface.
 
after I got the iphone 4 a couple days after it was released i was dissapointed, its pretty much the same looking UI now for 3yrs+ and I am really getting tired of it. So i went out about a week after i got it and got the Evo, the Evo was great in the sprint store and looked awesome. I signed up and got going and went back to work with it. Played with it for about an hour before i decided i wanted to return it.

No better reception than my iphone 4 did
The screen was what really turned me off, there is no comparison..
The camera sucked big time
The phone felt "good" but felt very cheap for some reason..
Android was nice all around but it just has that unpolished feeling to it.
The screens were stuttering/choppy

Other than that what i came out of it was that the most perfect phone ever would be the iphone on that size screen. It was very easy to type on the evo and the screen size was :eek:
 
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