The battle of the Droids??!

[Shroomster]

GOOD CHOICE TOMATO......at least for your area; Sprint coverage is horrible in my house and families neighborhoods...least you have android still :-D


@Rain...yeah my wife (if you've read the rest of this thread) is the same way [at least about the keyboard and facebook] she LOVES the mTslide and it runs smooth on facebook. but yeah most everything now is in APP form. there are apps SOLELY FOR turning on or off the bluetooth or the speaker on the phone.

plus yeah a task killer is the most effective way of shutting down unwanted runnin apps; however if you can figure out how to turn the sync options on to sync only when you want it would keep most of them from running.

[eTiMaGo]

rent an orchestra and choir to play 'Hallelujah', tomato has finally picked a phone

good choice

[Altitude]

^^ I laughed, I cried. It's the feel good thread of the Summer!

[tomato]

Originally Posted by eTiMaGo

rent an orchestra and choir to play 'Hallelujah', tomato has finally picked a phone

good choice

aww, is that all? I was hoping for something like this ;)

Originally Posted by Altitude

^^ I laughed, I cried. It's the feel good thread of the Summer!

Really? awwww, thanks!

Originally Posted by MadMax

tomato

Let us know how you like it, my wife is due for a phone upgrade in August and that is the one she wants...

I have the HTC Hero and love it. I just wish the screen was a bit bigger as my eyes are starting to go bad due to age.

Cheers! M2

Will do. Your wife has good taste.

Actually, the size of the screen was a deciding factor for me too. You can zoom some of the apps but not all of them (that depends on the apps), and there isn't an option to increase the font size all across the board like you can do on a blackberry, so as a result, some things are really hard to see on a smaller screen.

If you already have Sprint then you know that where you get signal, it's very good. Also, I believe 4G is already lit up in TX, but you'll have to check which areas are getting it or not and when. Even if you don't get 4G, 3G on the EVO seems plenty fast to me. The device really flies, there is no lag whatsoever, even with multiple applications open. You already know how to use Sense, so you're ahead of me right there.

Give me a little bit of time, and I'll give you more feedback. I'll be back later and see if I can dig out the most useful reviews and videos on the EVO.

Right now, if you asked me if I would recommend the EVO to a friend, the answer is ** absolutely **

[Aothachos]

I just played with the droid evo, my cousin just got her's not too long ago, and wow am i impressed. The front camera is pretty damn good quality and the main camera is freaking sweet. The screen is huge and yet it fits perfectly in your hand like a phone should and in your pocket, and truthfully with sprints 4g network, it downloaded music pretty fast from MP3 Music Wizard app I got her.

But overall they did a test and the Motorola Droid is best when it comes to graphics and such, heres the report and video.....

http://www.gadgetsdna.com/motorola-d...credible/3789/

[Aothachos]

^^im actually cracking up at work right now Lmao awesome picture

[MadMax]

tomato

Thanks, the only regret is that I just got my Hero in December (it was a Christmas present from the wife and kids) and I won't get to upgrade for a while. I need the bigger screen and text more than they do!

Cheers! M2

[Rain]

You're gonna get me in trouble PK lol

[tomato]

Originally Posted by Rain

I still like Nokia better because of the functional Bluetooth. I hate how every other smartphone just lets you use it to connect with a headset and nothing else. I might just get an N900 (runs on Maemo)



or wait for the Orange N8

http://www.phonedog.com/2010/06/15/n...t-impressions/

[tomato]

Originally Posted by MadMax

tomato

Thanks, the only regret is that I just got my Hero in December (it was a Christmas present from the wife and kids) and I won't get to upgrade for a while. I need the bigger screen and text more than they do!

Cheers! M2

I feel your pain.

Look at it this way, by the time you're eligible for upgrade, your (new) phone will be way ahead of your wife's EVO.

one thing about the EVO: the battery isn't great (depending how you use it).

I get 10-12 hours right now, which is perfectly acceptable to me, but I am light user, mostly use the internet (couple of hours a day on and off?) a couple of apps here and then, a few photos, and of course, email, twitter, coming through all day.

I haven't loaded any music on it yet, still use my iPod for now.

I don't much talk on the phone at all, maybe an hour or two a month. For people who talk on the phone a lot, this isn't the right phone, unless you have a way to olug it in sometime during the day. If you use hotspot or 4g, forget it, better bring a spare battery along, too.

[tomato]

Originally Posted by joey666701

lol got the evo huh?? how do u like it so far??

I **truly ** loved the N1 (I think the N1 is one of the most underrated phones out there right now) but I'm warming up to the EVO a little more every day
(hard not to)

Figuring how to work Sense UI was a bit of a pain at first, but it also has some benefits.

Originally Posted by Shroomster

..least you have android still :-D

Word!
Woudn't have it any other way !! :D

[Aothachos]

Cell phone creators are just going to keep creating new and more new phones almost every 2-3 months with the android system, and eventually its going to over flood the market and it will be head on head android os vs iphone os.

[Altitude]

I was thinking my next purchase of a cell phone would be an Android. But after reading this I don't think I will.

I refuse to allow *any* manufacturer to dictate what can and cannot be installed on a device I purchase. Why do they feel so many consumers need to be protected from themselves (or in Apple's case protecting Apple's reputation)?

Say what you will about WinMo, but at least I have complete control over the device. It's a shame that WinMo 7 is going to be such a dumbed down OS (following the lead of Apple and Google) because I may just never buy another smart phone again if this trend continues.

[Gideon]

Originally Posted by Altitude

I was thinking my next purchase of a cell phone would be an Android. But after reading this I don't think I will.

Yeah I'm pretty annoyed by that, considering the application was not malicious and was just misrepresented in the App Market to increase the number of downloads.

Which I would agree is a no-no and removing it off of the App Market makes some sense, but reaching into people's handsets to take it away? That's a bit too far.

Seems sort of crazy for Google to do something like that when Apple has yet to do such a thing to any application. (This includes that tethering application that made it up briefly in 2008, users who bought/downloaded it still had the application, Apple just removed it from the app store permanently.)

[Kal-El]

Releasing July 15th.

Very similar specs to the HTC EVO, this will be on Verizon though.

Key features...

4.3" screen
1GHZ processor
8mp camera/HD video recording
8GB internal/16GB SD card


Drool.......







EVO and Droid X next to the puny iPhone...

[Yaris Hilton]

A company "reaching" into my device without my consent and removing an application I've installed really pisses me off. Amazon did that with a book they sold to Kindle users, then decided they didn't have the copyright to. Messed some people up who were in the middle of book reports and such.

I also don't like companies installing software without permission. Sony put out a whole lot of CDs that installed a rootkit on computers that played them. I haven't bought a CD from Sony in years.

[Altitude]

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[Kioshi]

i sense big brother....from Google...it's going to happen sooner or later.

Thanks for the article...I'm NOT getting an Android phone now :)

C'mon....Apple on Verizon or..import GSM phones~