My GPS issues were never resolved on the Epic for over a year. Froyo fixed nothing. It made other things worse on the Epic. Those are facts.
Now for some personal opinion...
I just got a Motorola Photon 4g. It's light years better in every way from my old Epic. The construction is solid. The software worked properly straight out of the box. It got it's first update just weeks after it's release. And that update actually fixed an issue without messing up anything else.
The Epic feels like plastic junk in my hand. A key snapped off last week from the physical keyboard simply from sliding it open. The micro usb port got loose on that Epic within weeks of owning it to the point that I had to use my old LG Rumor 2 charger to charge the Epic because the Epic would no longer hold the Epic's charger cord long enough to charge. As far as that phone that I owned, I can say that the hardware was crap. That was my second Epic. My first Epic was destroyed from within by a botched Froyo update that they pulled after some of us unlucky Epic owners found that the update created major problems. They made us wait months for the final "fixed" version of the Froyo OTA update. After that first Epic got the second Froyo update, the screen stared to flicker. Then the screen became unresponsive to touch such that the phone was rendered useless.
I decided since there was even a possibility that the Nexus Prime might get produced by Samsung, I would take a pass for now. I got the Motorola Photon 4g after that key snapped off of my Epic for no reason last week and I couldn't be happier.
I can say that I've become biased against Samsung over the past year, for good reasons. I wasted $249 on a crappy Samsung product that caused me to waste my time to try to get my problems fixed on it. This is my experience of Samsung from 2010 to 2011.
Oh, and Epic owners are still waiting for Gingerbread. I'm not sure they'll get it soon or that it will fix anything on the Epic. And Android is moving to Ice Cream anyway. My Photon shipped with Gingerbread and I have confidence that I'll see Honeycomb and Ice Cream.
I sincerely hope that Samsung has gotten it's act together for the Nexus Prime if they are producing it. I'm not banking on it.
I will only get it if its LTE. No LTE then I will pass and get the Vigor or Bionic. Or may just wait until next year to see what drops.
There's no way...no WAY in hell this thing isn't a 4G phone. I just don't see it happening.
There's no way...no WAY in hell this thing isn't a 4G phone. I just don't see it happening.
There's no such thing as certainty. Verizon told us when Bionic would come out, and it sure didn't happen that way. But add me to the list of people who think it's 98% sure it'll have LTE, not least because of Chief's observation that they couldn't possibly follow the LTE Charge w/non-LTE Prime.I'm picking up what you're throwing down but until I see facts, this is all speculation. I dont make decisions based upon assumptions.
Some reasons I can see them NOT doing LTE is battery life, limited LTE network coverage (especially on at&T) and (unless the new, built in, tiny LTE modem thing is available) I don't think Samsung or Google would want to push a fatter phone when slim phones seem all the rage.
.....Well, she dropped our GT 10.1 (with a Belkin case, no SP) from the bed onto our wood floor. Screen completely shattered. That guy is supposedly sporting Gorilla Glass, but I'm skeptical. I'm just a bit worried about Sammy phones at this point. I hate cases and will never use a screen protector, especially on what is supposed to be a huge phone.
Gorilla Glass protects against scratching, not cracking. For example, if you drop a phone with Gorilla Glass from about 4 feet, it may or may not break. But it won't scratch. I don't know if that makes sense to you. There are just different forces at work. Scratches are different from blunt trauma and will cause different results.
I think, but I'm not sure, that all Sammy high-end phones have Gorilla Glass. I think all of the major manufacturers do nowadays.
I don't think that's true. You're right that scratching and shattering are different forces, but I'm pretty sure advanced phone glass designs are meant to protect against both..
Not to drag this out, but I can't believe there's anything that is both scratch proof AND break/shatter proof. Although I can't scratch a diamond with a steel awl, I can definitely break the thing with a steel hammer. Diamond is supremely hard and has the ability to scratch all other minerals. It is, however, quite fragile and can be split along a number of directions within the crystal with comparative ease.
I don't think Gorilla Glass claims to be shatter-proof. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong (preferably with a link), but I've never seen that anywhere.
Well, I picked up a Bionic to replace my OG Droid (love everything about it, even Blur!, cept the screen of course). My plan was to get the Prime with my wife's upgrade and swap with her (she's already said the Bionic is too big for her, and I said the Prime is even bigger so it should be cool). Anyway, my biggest concern is with Samsungs build qualities. Both my wife and I have dropped our Droids countless times (usually on concrete) and neither screens have a scratch. Neither of us use cases or screen protectors either. Well, she dropped our GT 10.1 (with a Belkin case, no SP) from the bed onto our wood floor. Screen completely shattered. That guy is supposedly sporting Gorilla Glass, but I'm skeptical. I'm just a bit worried about Sammy phones at this point. I hate cases and will never use a screen protector, especially on what is supposed to be a huge phone.
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