According to a few members on XDA with reliable sources, the Epic's preorders will start tomorrow. This is not official so do not take this as fact! Sprint Samsung Epic 4g Pre-Orders - xda-developers
Welcome to the forum! It's certainly been a week of surprises. FWIW - I would tend to think of this as an Evo alternative rather than an Evo competitor, as I'm just a user. Most people will probably agree with your wording, tho. The Epic's touted as a great phone - I know I'm intrigued and looking forward to it.
Should be interesting....Sprint has been pretty consistent with not doing preorders in the past.... I myself would also consider the epic another Android phone...I thought I remembered reading several advantages/features that the Evo has that the epic does not.....the only real advantage of the epic being the slide keyboard for those that like it...and the hummingbird processor. As I have stated before....after the Samsung instinct and a few horrible Samsung tv.s I will never own another Samsung product.
I'm still reeling in shocked that Sprint's going to have 2 super-phones to compete with against the fabled Droid line on Verizon.
Lol, I completely agree after the instinct was shitty as hell and they claimed it was an iphone killer. No good updates to the operating system the internet browser was horrible the sprint tv was unwatchable, they promised an app market and never delivered. Samsung will never get another penny from me I'm glad I dropped my instinct in the water last month and got the EVO.
LOL jcheney10, after a year of the Instinct embarrassment one of my goals in life was to see how well the Instinct skipped across water. I even went so far as to fore go the $25 that Radio Shack would give me to recycle just for the pleasure. My only wish now was that I didn't video record that "epic" moment with my Evo. P.S. it didn't even skip well across the water!
lets remember it was sprint touting it as an iphone killer, not samsung. It was no different than any other icon touchscreen feature phone. The Moment is actually a pretty decent phone, and I'm passing along my evo to go back to it as I wait for the Epic. I haven't used HDMI yet, and outside of sense cleaning things up a bit, I can't think of any real advantages outside of a slightly slimmer phone and .3 inches of real estae. At least advantages that matter to me. After owning a Hero and Evo, I've realize I don't care for the onscreen keyboard, swype or no swype.
Too bad the Evo port is hard capped at 24fps. The Epic can also link up with DLNA servers, opps just exposed yet another way that the Epic > Evo.
So what were the pros of each device over the other? EVO Larger Screen Larger camera (both) Allows more devices on "Hotspot" Made by HTC (matter of opinion) Epic Super AMOLED screen Physical Keyboard Hummingbird Processor Made by Samsung (again opinion) 6-axis motion sensor No 30fps cap DLNA Anything else folks want to add to either?
The EPIC can do it out the USB port w/ an adapter. This is of course in addition to DLNA. 2 ways to get the goodness on your TV
DLNA is a software thing, so hopefully it can come to the other devices. I know there is Twonky and iMediaShare that offer that ability.
Never DLNA is propitiatory technology licensed out to other software by the creator of said technology (Samsung) the chances of HTC or Motorola ever using it on their cellphones... ZERO!
I understand that the video quality on the EVO is not as good as the new Samsung Galaxies. Not sure if that is a seperate issue from the 30fps cap. Epic runs 24-bit color in all modes, while EVO runs in 16-bit depending on what you're doing.
I went to show off the kickstand for my evo .... played a movie trailer n it was sooo choppy n ugly. I never once found a video that had good quality with evo. I looked and looked. waste of screen size imo lol. but I'm maybe the only 1 . . .
If you're referring to this: Droid X DLNA app Notice it vanished after a complaint by Samsung, it did have a client but good luck with future updates. You do realize it doesn't exist anymore right? And you will NOT get future updates right?
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a non-profit collaborative trade organization Digital Living Network Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I haven't heard anything about it being pulled from the Droid X (I don't mean ported over to the original Droid like your link was). Would love to see something if you have information... either way I don't care, I don't use DNLA, nor do I watch videos on these things that I need on my TV. For that I just use my regular Blu-ray player.
You need to pay attention to more than one post. He was responding to me saying the Epic doesn't have HDMI. And eazail....really? Through what port? Does it magically sprout one when you put a micro hdmi plug near it? It has DLNA, and unless you have other DLNA equipment to send the signal to, you're pretty much dead in the water.
