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Looking to switch to Sprint- Shift vs Epic?

prosan98

Newbie
May 22, 2011
25
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There are lots of threads about this, but none of them are recent, and thus don't address these 2 phones running Gingerbread. From what I can gather through a lot of Googling, the upgrade hasn't been great for either phone. However, since it's so new to the Epic (just released about 10 days ago) I am wondering whether more bugs have been worked out with the Shift.

When I researched the 2 phones before the update, I was very, very torn between these 2 phones. People seem to love them either way- I think the Epic might be too big for me, but I do like the Amoled screen (I think). I doubt I would ever use video chat, so that's probably a non-issue.

I'm coming from a piece of crap Motorola Cliq that was abandoned by Motorola at Android 1.6, though I'm now running the voluntary upgrade to 2.1. I really still want a physical keyboard- I know, I know everyone swears I will get used to using touchscreen with or w/o swype, but I don't want to get used to it- I hate touchscreen.

So these are my choices- it makes me nervous that these phones are over a year old at this point. Am I going to regret buying either one of them in the near future (and keeping it at least a year, if not 2)?

Thank you for any insight you can offer!

eta: I probably wouldn't root, so that's not really an issue for me.
 

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