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How much longer will you keep your EVO 4G?

Who is upgrading to the LTE and who is staying Old School?

  • Going to upgrade to the EVO LTE and not look back.

    Votes: 11 64.7%
  • Staying with the Original EVO, still kicking butt!

    Votes: 6 35.3%

  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
Don't rule out the photon 4g. With the Atrix 4g supposedly getting an OTA that'll unlock the bootloader, and Sprint announcing that they'd allow all future smartphones to be able to remove certain Sprint bloatware out the box (no rooting), the Photon 4G might just be the phone of choice for some former EVO owners that didn't buy the 3D.

I tested out the 3D in the store today. Definitely not my cup of tea with the 3D thing and looked like Sense 3.0 was a little watered down compared to how they showed it in the videos (e.g. you have to download skins that they were showing off in videos with different phone launchers, etc...).


Yeah I heard about the photon, but since I'm not too keen w/motorola as well as samsung it doesn't interest me much. But that could change since my friend has an atrix and it was interesting.
 
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I'm not going to lie, I was kind of disapointed with HTC and Sprint with what they did with this year's EVO. I can't stand the 3D. It just gives me a headache. Sense 3.0 is good but I don't really like that carousel on the homescreen. I love the scrolling wallpaper better. Theres no kickstand...I don't like the form facter. I love HTC and I love sense. I'm just really hoping that this is not going to be the way to go on future HTC phones. If it is, I'm going to have to go elsewhere. My plan is to keep the EVO until something major comes out later this year or just wait till I upgrade in summer 2012. I'm looking at next years EVO or the Galaxy S lll.
 
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Ever since new "upgrade" Google doesn't sync contacts. I own an Imac and when Sprint gets the new Iphone 5.....bye bye EVO 4G (yeah right!) Paying $10.00 a month for something I rarely get.

You will pay $10/month no matter what smart phone you have with Sprint. And with an Apple product you will be paying a lot more than that when they nickel and dime you every turn you make.
 
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Ever since new "upgrade" Google doesn't sync contacts. I own an Imac and when Sprint gets the new Iphone 5.....bye bye EVO 4G (yeah right!) Paying $10.00 a month for something I rarely get.

You will pay $10/month no matter what smart phone you have with Sprint. And with an Apple product you will be paying a lot more than that when they nickel and dime you every turn you make.

Yup. When the rumors about Sprint getting an iPhone came up...again...they were saying that it's likely Sprint will have a "different" data package and plan for the iPhone. And if there's one thing we can guarantee on that, the plan is NOT going to be less expensive than what you're currently paying to have an Android phone.
 
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I'll keep my device for a while. The longer I drag it out, the cheaper an upgrade will be. I like the Evo 3d and all, but really, in six months there will be something faster, and in a year quad core phones will be hitting the market. I went through this pissing contest with computers a few years ago. I won't do it again.
So, any device I like must have a few requirements before I buy now.

1. Stability. In terms of hardware and software. I'm thinking light leak and screen lift here.

2. Support. If I get a 3d or another 4g device, I had better actually be able to use it. Not as a con, or a wow factor, but actually have a need to use the feature.

3.Aftermarket accessory support. It took the Evo how long to get any decent cases? The Otterbox Defender pretty much sucked and so far the only case I found worth a damn is the Ballistic HC case and that too took quite a while to surface.
 
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I will be adding a tablet this summer to my collection. I believe this will satisfy my thirst for new technology. I plan on keeping my Evo for at least another year. I can't find any reason to get rid of it. And with root and sense 3.0 I basically have the latest and the greatest as far as roms go. I don't complain of battery life because I purchased some extra batteries, so all I do is swap out batteries if need be. My brother just got the 3d so I was able to play with it some. Its cool and everything, but I use my kickstand.
 
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It's amazing that this phone still has staying power. Unless, Sprint comes out with a super duper phone towards the end of the year, I'm holding on to my EVO. I'm willing to wait until the 2012 version of the EVO or dare I say Galaxy lll.

I have had way too many bad experiences with Samsung phones and hardware issues with them crapping out in less than a year. Also all the update issues theyve had would drive me insane.
 
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so what's the consensus on ranking the Android manufacturers based on past experiences in terms of build quality and update urgency?

1. HTC
2. Motorola
3. Samsung
4. LG

others?

???

I'd say that Samsung would get last because of their update urgency. LG builds decent enough phones, as far as quality is concerned, to maintain a 3 spot.

Other than that, I think that's pretty accurate.
 
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I'm with the evo for the long run. Rooted, and battery life is great if you run a custom kernel. Using the new Mikg rom, awesome.

I like how the iphone users are now getting android features in their 'superior' phone os. But, their phone is much 'cooler' I suppose.

I can't even imagine what phones will be doing by the time my contract is up...
 
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I'd say that Samsung would get last because of their update urgency. LG builds decent enough phones, as far as quality is concerned, to maintain a 3 spot.

Other than that, I think that's pretty accurate.
I went back and checked the specs on the Photon 4G and man I started drooling. 16 GB internal memory had me sold. I just have to wait until my phone craps out on me, and with the durability of my EVO that may not be for awhile. Maybe then the LTE network will be out and the LTE Photon 4G will be out. One can only hope.
 
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I went back and checked the specs on the Photon 4G and man I started drooling. 16 GB internal memory had me sold. I just have to wait until my phone craps out on me, and with the durability of my EVO that may not be for awhile. Maybe then the LTE network will be out and the LTE Photon 4G will be out. One can only hope.

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Motorola Photon 4G - Android Forums

I've been die-hard HTC for the past several years Mogul>Touch Pro>Evo 4G, but I've always been curious how Motorola smartphones would respond on Sprint's network, so I'm a little anxious to see how I feel about it once it's available. This is the first Motorola smartphone that's been released on Sprint, that I actually liked a lot just from the first announcement, preview videos, and initial specs alone. Basically, it took the components that I use and love the most in the EVO, added them into a Motorola phone, and also added the specs that I wanted from the start on the EVO.
 
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Motorola Photon 4G - Android Forums

I've been die-hard HTC for the past several years Mogul>Touch Pro>Evo 4G, but I've always been curious how Motorola smartphones would respond on Sprint's network, so I'm a little anxious to see how I feel about it once it's available. This is the first Motorola smartphone that's been released on Sprint, that I actually liked a lot just from the first announcement, preview videos, and initial specs alone. Basically, it took the components that I use and love the most in the EVO, added them into a Motorola phone, and also added the specs that I wanted from the start on the EVO.

Yeah that phone running Sense with LTE on sprint would be my dream phone. I did really like playing around on my girlfriends droid before I got my EVO. Motoblur doesn't feel as polished as Sense though IMO. I haven't played with the most recent version of Motoblur though so that may hav changed.
 
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My Evo 4G has been a work horse and I'll likely keep it long after htc no longer supports it because I know the developer community will still support it. Kinda like the g1 :)

Same here. I flashed Cyanogenmod 7 on after trying some sense based roms and messing with kernels and cpu settings. CM7 was like the best combination of all of that and tons of features I really got used to. It feels like I'm running a secret version of Android 2.5 and Andy Rubin's classified personal custom edition.

I'm planing on waiting until the Nexus Prime comes out or something significantly better than my phone. Right now the battery life is crazy good and everything from pinch zooming to scrolling and general behavior is smooth as hell and almost never hicups. I seriously can't kill the battery faster than a day and I'm on the bastard all the time.
 
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Yeah that phone running Sense with LTE on sprint would be my dream phone. I did really like playing around on my girlfriends droid before I got my EVO. Motoblur doesn't feel as polished as Sense though IMO. I haven't played with the most recent version of Motoblur though so that may hav changed.

Stock ui will never be an issue for me since I use launcher pro plus.
 
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