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[Q] just coming from hd2

Just came from an hd2 I've got 30 days to decide if I wanna keep this EVO has anybody else came from an hd2 to an EVO and if so do you have any regrets

your not going to have any regrets whats so ever. OG evo is hands down one of the best phones that I have had in my position. It has been around long enough that there are plenty of roms to play with as well as a great community of people to bounce questions off of.
Have you rooted your evo yet?? that is when the fun really begins.

Evo 4g is probably one of the best phones out there, but i would recommend getting the Evo 3d , I own both and you will see more progress in the next 2 years with the 3d instead of the Evo 4G (lets face it is a year old and love the phone but for a newcomer the 3D will be a bttee choice)
Btw I own the Evo 4g since say one and the Evo 3D as well
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The only reason you might regret it, is if you were booting to WinMo, or WP7. You won't have that ability anymore, but I would say you will be just as happy with the level of development going on with the Evo.

I didn't come from an hd2 but I can tell you the EVO 4G is hands down THE best smartphone. After I got it my computer laid dormant for 6 months. And now that I've recently rooted the sky is the limit. Props to XDA and all the people that post, help, and reply. I've learned a ton in just a short time. Have fun with your EVO. I know I am.
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I didn't come from an hd2 but I can tell you the EVO 4G is hands down THE best smartphone. After I got it my computer laid dormant for 6 months. And now that I've recently rooted the sky is the limit. Props to XDA and all the people that post, help, and reply. I've learned a ton in just a short time. Have fun with your EVO. I know I am.
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Photon or Epic Touch

Hello everyone I need some help deciding if I should get the Photon 4G or the Epic Touch? I really want the Photon but I'm a little worried about the pentile display,the lag and random reboots I've been hearing about. I'm worried about the Epic Touch because of the weak reception, plasticky hardware, and I also don't know if the 4.5 in screen is just too big? What do you all think?
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To be honest, 4.3 in is probably the optimal size. that or 4 inches. I feel that 4.5 probably is a little too large. The superamoled screen is so much better than the photon's though. Speed wise, epic touch. Signal strength of every single radio, photon no doubt. The photon's radio is better than any sprint phones. Build quality, the photon is more sturdy and the touch is obviously thin and more plasticky. Both are great devices in my opinion.

Is the pentile noticeable on the Photon?
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Futuredev.tjb said:
Is the pentile noticeable on the Photon?
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Not unless you look for it.
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Cool. I'm not to sure about a 4.5in screen on the Epic Touch it seems to big.
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Photon is real laggy
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Is the lag a serious issue?
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Futuredev.tjb said:
Is the pentile noticeable on the Photon?
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Yep. It reaches out and smacks you right across the eyes, just like every other pentile display.

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Photon is real laggy
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No it's not. Honestly, I would have stuck with the Photon if the camera had not been so terrible compared to the GS2

I had this same debate also. I was going to get the Photon because of the radio strength but after playing with both in the Sprint store, the SGSII was just faster, brighter, more beautiful display, and I couldn't pass on it. I'm sure the Photon would've been a good choice signal wise from what I hear, but my Sprint service is not so great in my area anyway. Just not sure how much the Photon would've helped. Not to mention the development section here!

You have a 14 trial period take advantage of it. Check them out at a Sprint store and see what you like. Everyone is going to be different. I personally don't find the screen to too big. It is by far the smoothest Android device I have ever used.

I've had both phones.....
The screen on the photon is very good, the qhd resolution makes text and pictures crisper than on the epic touch. However, I love the vivid colors on the samoled+ display and I like the extra real estate so I do prefer the epic touch screen overall. Both phones way better than evo3d and the photon really isn't too far behind the epic touch.
The epic touch is significantly snappier than the photon for general usage and web browsing, I dont do any game so can't comment on that.
Radio, both are good for me, I live in Los Angeles so I have always gotten excellent reception with all my sprint phones. 3g and call performance has been equal. GPS has been much better on the photon. 4g performance noticeably better on photon as well. Wifi equal.
For my needs, I prefer the epic touch. I had the original epic 4g and that phone was a piece of ****. I feel Samsung did a much better job with the epic touch. Fwiw I haven't had LoS yet.
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No reason to get a photon unless its free.
Even my mom with an evo 4g finds the et4g better to hold. Mostly weight+thickness.
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I gave my wife my photon and got the epic touch.
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Which do you think is better? What are the pros and cons of both?
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I haven't used the Photon but I'd argue that 4.5 isn't too big at all. I first got the Epic Touch for my wife who's 5 foot nothing with tiny hands and she loves it. Then I upgraded from my Epic and love the extra screen space. Don't waste your money on a Photon. This phone is amazing! It's by far the fastest Android phone I've seen and the screen is so beautiful, I have a hard time switching to my Galaxy Tab 10.1.
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Futuredev.tjb said:
Which do you think is better? What are the pros and cons of both?
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Photon has a really good radio, I got reception in places I didn't use to. The pentile display was only noticeable when was looking for it. It was a solid device. The only lag I had with it was a couple second lag after unlocking the lock screen. Only con when I gave to my wife was that the development was slow but it scenes to have picked up now.
The topic touch ok the other hand has a better screen imo, I like how thin it is even with a case on it. I don't have any reception problems. No los yet (knock on wood). The only problem I've ever had with the epic touch is I can't use youtube on 3g. It works on wifi but not 3g, its been like that for me on stock and calks rom.
In the end its all about what YOU want in a phone. Do you want good reception with a webtop experience it do you want a nice screen with lots of mods to choose from? What ever one mets your needs should be the one you get. Obviously enough for me it was the epic touch. Good luck man.
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Photon's signal strength is better and its speaker is louder. Epic touch is faster and has a better screen(but lower Res) and camera. Remember though if you want to flash custom kernels with a regular cwm recovery on the Photon , unlocking the bootloader breaks 4g. I had both phones. The Photon is a great phone, but the Touch is even better. You can pick up the Photon for less though. My bro got one for 49 at BB, compared to the Touch for 199. Both are cheaper online.
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Epic 4G Touch all the way. No problems with LOS here, and I live next to the Everglades where usually it's 1-2 bars for ALL carriers, yet my texts are always nice and fast, but the 3G speeds are slow here, not in the more urban areas, but again, that's Sprint's fault lol.
I'm not a fan of big phones, but the difference in size of the photon and the Touch is a few mm, the display just takes up a larger part of the screen.
LoS is mostly on rooted devices, so if you plan on running stock like me, you won't have much problem as 9/10 times,a Touch with LoS is rooted and running something other than stock kernel.
And just incase you do get LoS, it's much better than a laggy, random rebooting phone, and there will eventually be a fix.
Plus, battery life is amazing.
And it's $100 at the Target Mobile Store last time I checked, so no brainer.
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Webtop. Nuff said. In a year y'all are gonna have huge mp3 players while I surf the web on my photon . 'Course I'll probably have the latest gadget by then.
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[Q] If you were to get a new SPRINT phone right now, what would you suggest?

Title says it all. I'm up for upgrade as of right now and I think it's about time to move to a different device.
What do you suggest?

The 2 best looking phones there IMO is the evolution 3d and the epic touch the evo design my cousin and her boyfriend have and they have lot of problems. But if I had to pick I would wait a little longer because the galaxy nexus is coming to sprint if you look on their main page
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If it had to be a now thing.. can't go wrong with the Samsung Galaxy S ll, Epic 4G Touch. However... I am in the same boat (new phone time!), but I am waiting to see what they announce this quarter and the future of LTE.
Dallas, Atlanta, Houston and San Antonio are slated to be the first to go LTE, so if you are in those areas it might behoove you to see what comes out. Right now the Galaxy Nexus and LG Viper are upcoming LTE phones.

I'm leaning toward the Epic 4G Touch as LTE means nothing to me. My area doesn't even have WiMAX (now it never will). And from what I read, the E4GT will get official ICS Q1 2012 anyway. That right there pretty much evens the playing field between the two phones.
Still interested in hearing your opinions though.

Levels the playing field?
What about the fact that Gnex is pure Google without the ugly Twiz UI? And will get regular updates thru Google ?
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scottspa74 said:
Levels the playing field?
What about the fact that Gnex is pure Google without the ugly Twiz UI? And will get regular updates thru Google ?
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Is that "feature" alone enough to justify a probable $100 price premium for the Gnex vs E4GT? For me, it's not.

I say if your not worried about lye e4gt is the way to go or u can join the apple fanboys and get a 4s lol
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Et4g over 3vo any day of the week and photon is a big disappointment had all 3 in my house et4g was the winner still have that crappy photon too lol it sux with its funky bootloader and borking stuff to unlock it the 3vo was a launch day and had crummy radios in it so it got traded for the photon which is a better all around phone than the 3vo just isn't great for flashaholics

BlackBerry torch
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IPhone 5
lol jk!
Anyways as of recent new phone I would pick gs2. But I'm holding off until Sprint lte hits my city.
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Epic touch 4G for sure
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wait for lte phone.

I've had so much success with the eVo og that I'd have to go with the eVo 3d.....

Galaxy S2 at the moment, although that new Nexus is coming.....

I've heard nothing but good things about the epic touch but I'm personally trying to hold out for the nexus

Epic 4G Touch has me scared now. All I read about the phone is poor signal and useless GPS. I'm not able to find any recent threads that confirm if this stuff has been fixed or not though. Can anyone help out? Maybe first-hand experience??

Wait for the Galaxy Nexus phone

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Wait for the Galaxy Nexus phone
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I might have to do that. It'll be more than $199 for sure, but hopefully it won't be a hunk of garbage like it sounds like the Epic 4G Touch is.

I moved to the photon. Only phone that has a kickstand now. And reception...I hazzzz it!
My only complaint is pentile display but its no biggie any more.
Rom dev is kinda slow but all quality stuff.
After my experience with a nexus s 4g I am gonna skip sanding as they seem to be having the same issues with the cdma radios on the big V
Good luck either way.
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I'd go with the Galaxy Nexus. Good battery life, nfc chip, and ICS without bloatware.
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EVO Design vs sg2

Anyone have both or have used both? I'm debating on which one to get. I can get a used sg2 for 200 or a evo design for 300. If I get the sg2 I'm flashing it to boost. But the design just came out and it's 300
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Are you sure the evo design cause thats been out a while the evo lte is the most recent release between the sg2 and evo design definitely the sg2. If you meant the evo 4g lte not sure boost is getting lte service anytime soon thought they were going wimax. Seems a waste to me just my 2 cents.

Evo design is mid tier, like the conquer. Gs2 hands down.

Evo design is single core, but it does GSM for outside the US. GS2 is a damn speed demon (I've owned one) and it's as fast as the newer quad core phones. It will chew up and spit out anything you throw at it. Not to mention it has an amazing camera.

My girl friend has the evo design don't get that phone.
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Evo Design is even worse than the Evo3D! Don't do it. You're saving a few bucks going with the GS2 and a few headaches too..
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Evo Design is a new 4g wimax phone for Boost. Epic Touch(GS2) is by far the better phone. I have mine flashed to boost and it works great!
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My wife has the design, and it's a decent phone-IF, you don't want to do a whole lot to it as there's not much of a community supporting it. Plus with the gs2 being $100 less, shoot it's a no-brainer!
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Yeah true. I'm planning on getting it flashed to boost. I have the Samsung transform ultra now and a epic 4g.
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S2 wins no doubt.

I've had both. I had the Evo Design for 3 weeks and decided to add another line for my daughter. Guess who got the Design and who got the SG2? Give you a hint....my daughter was pis** ed

I currently have both of these phones. Don't ask why, I just do. I got the Evo Design because it was free at the time when I started my contract and I didn't know a lot about phones at the time. The Evo is a good phone for a lower level device, it has a pretty nice and bright screen and I like HTC sense interface better than touchwizz. HOWEVER, I am a recruiter so I do alot of work on my phone on the go. The design could not keep up with the speed I needed as well as the screen size was crippling, but the touch excels in both of those categories by far. I got tired of the small screen and the lagginess of the evo, it felt outdated the second I got it so after two months I went to the sprint store looking for something better. I asked the guy what the best phone he had was and he took me straight to the epic 4g touch. I played with it and fell in love. The screen is huge compared to the design and the dual core processor makes it stupid fast compared to the design. The camera is better, the screen is bigger and more sharp, more applications are supported on it, the battery lasts longer and there is SO MUCH MORE developer support for the epic 4g touch as well. I don't think the design even has it's own section here. Hands down between the two mentioned, the epic 4g touch is a WAY better option for the money. If there are any other questions, feel free to ask.

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there is SO MUCH MORE developer support for the epic 4g touch as well I don't think the design even has it's own section here.
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I've been trying for so long to find reliable info on how to root the evo design, and can't come up with anything!
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j0hnnyth3f0x said:
I've been trying for so long to find reliable info on how to root the evo design, and can't come up with anything!
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I gave up, I saw that the HERO S is basically the same phone, but all of the threads I found on rooting were sketchy and complicated. Nothing like the "oneclicks" over here. My design stays off in a drawer unused. I use it every once in a while for giggles but that only lasts a few minutes until I have withdraws and start twitching for my touch.

Yeah, same story here...plus I don't understand sense for the life of me-locked bootloaders? S-off? It's all too confusing.
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Hands down sg2. I'm not a fan of touchwiz, but this has been the best phone I've ever had. I'm currently debating between the evo lte and the sg3.
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[Sprint] Comming from Evo 4G to SGS3? Get in here!

Sound off! Let's hope this community kicks as much butt as the OG did. Welcome.
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Used the evo since release!
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From 3d
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From 3d
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Nobody's perfect.
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I was on the evo 4g as well.
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4G, 3D, 4Glte....
Tried to stay faithful due to the Samsung Moment I had before leaving a sour taste in my mouth. It's funny how HTC is the one passing people off these days.

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Nobody's perfect.
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LOL! Coming from 4 different 3d's in less than 6 months. Wasn't going to give HTC another chance after that.

Had the 4g for two years, the lte for 29 days and this here galaxy s III for eleven days I believe.
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I remember when my Evo 4G was brand new almost 2 years ago. It was the thinnest phone I had used at that point. It was so fast and perfect at everything. Putting MIUI on it made it even better. I've had my GS3 for a week, and I can't believe how old my Evo 4G feels when I use it now.
Oh, well. On to bigger and better things.

I had the EVO 4G and the EVO 3D.
SGS3 is rooted a few days later from June 21. Now running Blazer rom and ICS Domination Theme.
Rom dev is kinda slow around here but this phone is not even a month old here in US. MYN is developing some Warm Roms for this phone.

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I had the EVO 4G and the EVO 3D.
SGS3 is rooted a few days later from June 21. Now running Blazer rom and ICS Domination Theme.
Rom dev is kinda slow around here but this phone is not even a month old here in US. MYN is developing some Warm Roms for this phone.
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can't wait for myn to start taking his work. His roms are always amazing.
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JuggZaPoppiN said:
can't wait for myn to start taking his work. His roms are always amazing.
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I have been trying my damnedest not to think about such things. Whole day is messed up now.

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I have been trying my damnedest not to think about such things. Whole day is messed up now.
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When you go into these forums there's no way you can avoid thinking about these things. It's quite addictive. Rooted my phone even before custom roms were available. Lol.

Got my OG back in March of 2010, loved that phone, by far the best I ever had (hell just look at my name) , flashed a new rom on it weekly. The first week after getting my SG3 I am like...what evo?

I had my evo for 2 years and I still can't part from it when I got my s3. I'm going to make it my mp3 for my car. Lol
Yeah I'm still running stock with root on the s3. Just waiting on myn and his team
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I've been debating the switch, but I love the Sense dialer, HTC widgets, and the keyboard that has directional arrows. Playing with the GS3 at the store didn't impress me that much. I know it has far better specs, but the UI didn't grab me.

Am I the only that is still passionate about their OG? Its separation anxiety. I just got my S3. Can I ask you guys since I am already here, any of you guys worried about flash counter? I had my S3 for less then 4 hours and I am itching at the fact that I did not root it yet.

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Used the evo since release!
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gangsterholla179 said:
Am I the only that is still passionate about their OG? Its separation anxiety. I just got my S3. Can I ask you guys since I am already here, any of you guys worried about flash counter? I had my S3 for less then 4 hours and I am itching at the fact that I did not root it yet.
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I too was worried on the 1st day, then was over it and rooted the next day. Threw on TB and Droidwall and froze a lot of the bloat. Ran really smooth. Personally, I knew I wasn't going to keep the phone stocked forever. Sooner or later, its going to get rooted. In regards to the what if I need to return, my personal experience returning rooted phone thru sprint rep over the phone is a whole lot ez'r than instore rep's.

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I've been debating the switch, but I love the Sense dialer, HTC widgets, and the keyboard that has directional arrows. Playing with the GS3 at the store didn't impress me that much. I know it has far better specs, but the UI didn't grab me.
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Don't let the launcher/dialer/widgets/keyboard keep you from a great phone. All those things are fixable; you can download third party apps to replace them. Check out the Go launcher/dialer/contacts/widgets/keyboard. There are plenty of options out there besides Go, but it's a good place to start. Seriously, the phone kicks so much butt.