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So what have you enjoyed most about your EVO so far?

1. Screen size
2. Browser speed
3. Cool kickstand
4. All the things I can do with this thing. I could literally spend the whole day using it. From browsing all of my favorite websites, to contacting my friends and colleagues on email and messaging, to playing some really cool games, to reading my books on Kindle, to studying the Bible, to browsing my photo album, to listening to Pandora, to seeing what the police are doing all over the world on my police scanner, to tuning in to virtually any radio station in the world (am and fm), to improving my memory with lots of brain-games, to finding the right pitch to tune my guitar, to watching tons of video on youtube and sprint tv, to observing the night sky and identifying the celestial objects, to playing chess with someone half a world away, to taking still as well as motion pictures and sharing them with anyone anywhere, to being guided via any of several nav programs to places I'm unfamiliar with, to getting flight information, to, well, you get the idea. Did I mention I make phone call with it too? :D

What a great device this is. So versatile and useful for both work and play.
 
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for me its as follows

LARGE SCREEN - seriously it is massive and beautiful. i honestly dont know how i ever lived on such a tiny screen of a phone. My blackberry tour has a very small screen ( in my opinion) now when i pick up any phone, i cant imagine how people function using it with such a tiny screen.

WIFI - ok ill admit, the evo is my First phone to have wifi. Yes im a little late to the game, but i could not appreciate it more. My tour did not have wifi but had sprints 3G service which wasnt bad..but when you at home, why rely on a 3G network which is pretty ok in speeds when you could enjoy a much faster connection via your router?

Android - from a Tmobile Sidekick 2-LX to a samsung instinct and then a blackberry tour, i have used several different OS'es in the past. but by far none of them were as open nor offered as much freedom as android does. IT simply makes your phone, yours..you can practically install anything you like on your phone without any restrictions..isnt that what a cell phone should be in the first place?

8MP Camera - yes i am one of those rare individuals who actually used their camera on their cell phones probably more than the average joe might think..from the Sidekick to the Blackberry, i was constantly shooting off quick picks of memorable moments with the cell phone camera, but NO phone has nearly had the EXCELLENT and vivid quality like the Evo does. the 8MP camera is greatly appreciated and i find myself using it ever more frequent than the older phones.

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Wimax (4G) - its no secret that one of the evos biggest selling points is that its Americas first 4G enabled mobile cell phone. and although i have yet to use this, i am deffinitly looking forward to it. Today i picked up a 4G signal while at a local target and i was excited, although i could not use 4G because obviously sprint is still testing 4G out here throughout New York. I frequently use my phone while on the train heading to work. and although youtube vids load kinda slow especially in High Quality, the thought of 4G while mobile looks promising..let alone to think the speeds of wifi anywhere via 4G is a mouth watering experience
 
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I left T-Mobile for this phone. Of course I've been scouting it for a while and never thought I'd go to CDMA network but I've been waiting for a Beast of a T-Mobile phone and it just didn't come in time.

I walked into Radio Shack wanting to take a peek and they had 1 left and it was destiny. I was looking for a Android phone I can grow with.(Knowing better hardware will be out eventually)

I have had a BB for the past 3 years so paying for unlimited Data I wanted like a much better multimedia phone that performs at the top level and the HTC Evo was it.

I enjoy

-The Internet (reading up on Tech news Daily)
-Sprint TV( watched a lot of the World Cup soccer)
-Slingbox HD at home
-Instant Access to Information
-Facebook Application
-The HUGE Screen(It's on the cusp of just too big) 4.3inch is perfect. Anything bigger is too big for me.
-Enjoy the APP Store(Plenty Free Apps)
-Customization and Flexibility of the Android OS/Widgets/HTC Sense/Live Backrounds
-Navigation/Map Software(just awesome)
-Google Apps Suite(keeps getting better)
-The Android/XDA/Forum COMMUNITY
-Spring Plan(Cheaper then what I had before with more features) Still waiting for WImax in Boston

I think I''ll be Android for a long time. THis phone i snot Perfect and other phones(Currently) do certain things better but overall this phone does a lot very well and that's why I went with it. I know the hardware will get better but for what I have in my EVO, I can grow with this phone and wait for whatever HTC/Google has in store in the future.
 
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I Have only had it a day now and have been super busy but so far:

Speech to Text: Use it for sms, searches emails etc and it works pretty damn good.
Wifi and 4g
Screen size
Google Voice integration.
Google Nav looks pretty great too but I need to actually use it while driving.

I like that it is Android based also for the apps but I need more time with it to check out all those features.
 
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One of my favorite things is google navigation. Simply speak a destination, google finds it, gps finds where you are, and you're off!

I haven't even uncovered much of what this phone can do, but I like it a lot more than my girlfriend's iphone, mainly due to the extra size of the screen. That little bit seems to make a HUGE difference when web-browsing and such.

This too is my first real smartphone, I had a Samsung Blackjack, but never used data on it. I also have to say that I enjoy not having all the dropped calls that I did with AT&T.
 
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Internet Browsing - Pinch and Zoom, font resizing, and the 4.3" screen has forever changed the way I browse the web on a phone.

ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) - HTC and Google has managed to intergrated this into almost all parts of the phone. I've used it for navigation, dialing phone numbers, texting, searches, adding events to calenders, etc... I don't know what I'd do without it.

WiMAX - Data speeds comparable to land lines? A revolutionary wireless hotspot service? Enough said...
 
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