EarlyMon's Review of 3vo Pricing on the 3D Feature:
I've heard many object to the added cost of 3D for those that don't want it. Fair enough.
In consumer electronics we know this - on each successive generation of tech, the newer generation gets cheaper for the same thing, or adds more features for the same price, or a little of each.
If I never use the 3D why won't I, personally, feel ripped off?
Because my Evo was the most phone I could get for $200 on contract and $200 is my top on-contract price, even at gunpoint.
To replace my Evo, I expect to spend at most $200, period, and at the rates they soak me on the plan, no adjusting for inflation - it's $200 or the highway, tops.
If all that I only cared about was battery and lag and so forth and I were unhappy, I'd buy the upcoming Kingdom, save a few bucks, get all that, and take hit on the 4" screen downgrade because I saved a few bucks.
But - my Evo's not broken and I'm not going spend money to upgrade it some and downgrade it a little for less money than my magic 200 - because - it's not broken.
So, if upgrading, I'm doing as I do and seeing what 200 samolians will buy me. If they left out the 3D, would they have given me other stuff? Sure. Would I use that stuff? I don't know, I already don't use everything.
Improved display made by Sharp? Check. Dual core? Check. Big step up in memory? Check. Big step up in Sense? Check. Big step up in Android? Check. (By a few weeks for those of us who go with official updates only, like me.)
HTC ever getting their camera and video act completely together? Please? Oh, well, if not, it's a phone and I can play with what they fed me instead and I ate up.
That's just me - your mileage may vary, other great choices available, you're not out of the Android club if your purchasing decisions are different than mine.
Agree or tear it up - this review is just because I felt like writing a review and I don't have a phone yet.
This was not written to criticize anyone in any way, whatsoever.
Maybe I'm just curious if I'm alone in thinking this way.