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Got the Evo a week ago to try. Epic FTW

fishtaco254

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Aug 10, 2010
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Well I started my sprint service last week to try out the Evo before the Epic comes out and I am pretty unhappy with the Evo. I previously had an iPhone 3GS and I don't like apple anymore. I got the Evo and it's scrolling is slower than the iPhone and such and I notice the Epic looks much better.

Basically I am wondering where I can swap phones at? Can I just bring the Evo back to the sprint store and get an epic somewhere else like radio shack so I don't have to deal with a mail in rebate?
 
Well I started my sprint service last week to try out the Evo before the Epic comes out and I am pretty unhappy with the Evo. I previously had an iPhone 3GS and I don't like apple anymore. I got the Evo and it's scrolling is slower than the iPhone and such and I notice the Epic looks much better.

Basically I am wondering where I can swap phones at? Can I just bring the Evo back to the sprint store and get an epic somewhere else like radio shack so I don't have to deal with a mail in rebate?

The Evo is capped at 30FPS because HTC was too stupid/lazy to get it working at 60FPS with the HDMI-out support. Even after the FPS was uncapped (via a hacked kernel), they denied the output was truly uncapped, saying that the kernel hack only fools benchmark tests. Meanwhile there are tons of youtube videos comparing side-by-side the fps difference, and it's night and day.

Good to hear the Epic doesn't have any issue like this. The smoothness of the UI as well as the responsiveness of the touchscreen go a long way in giving the impression that you've got a polished and powerful device. The Evo really fails (stock) in this regard.

I'd imagine you'd need to trade in your phone at the same place you got your evo. not sure though. sprint may let you get the epic elsewhere as long as you keep paying for your data plan.
 
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Yea good to know. The evo is garbage in my book because of this. I was just hoping to avoid the mail in rebate. And btw the evo battery life is so crappy and the phone heats up in my pocket on idle. Battery lasts 2 hours and i'm not stupid about what I have running. Basically nothing running, I kill all apps and have nothing pushing notifications.
 
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Yea good to know. The evo is garbage in my book because of this. I was just hoping to avoid the mail in rebate. And btw the evo battery life is so crappy and the phone heats up in my pocket on idle. Battery lasts 2 hours and i'm not stupid about what I have running. Basically nothing running, I kill all apps and have nothing pushing notifications.

rooting takes care of all the aforementioned complaints you seem to have.
 
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You can return the phone and pay a restocking fee of $35.00. The only way to avoid the fee is to cancel your contract completely.

The HTC uncap is not really an uncap. All it does is increase to refresh rate of the LCD so HTC was right. The 30fps was never uncapped.

i don't think there'll be a restocking fee since they're a new user. at least that's what the guy said to me when i got the evo because i asked him about the epic as well. he said he doesn't trust samsung but i'm still going give it a look

it just sucks because i'm just now getting used to the evo and have been putting stuff on it, now if i get the epic, i'll have to do it all over again. going be a pain
 
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i don't think there'll be a restocking fee since they're a new user. at least that's what the guy said to me when i got the evo because i asked him about the epic as well. he said he doesn't trust samsung but i'm still going give it a look

it just sucks because i'm just now getting used to the evo and have been putting stuff on it, now if i get the epic, i'll have to do it all over again. going be a pain

You need to read the policy again. There is a restocking fee on phone returns unless they are defective. New users can only avoid the restocking fee by canceling the contract completely.
 
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You need to read the policy again. There is a restocking fee on phone returns unless they are defective. New users can only avoid the restocking fee by canceling the contract completely.

then couldn't you just cancel then and sign up for another one and i'll have to look up that backup app thanks for mentioning that, it'll make things a little easier
 
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