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Originally Posted by gTen
Without 3d, sense, and undervolted vs cdma iphone I guarantee you evo 3d will win in battery life...mostly due to the help of the large battery...
The market is not magic..there is always a driving factor which justifies things as they are...
Things like insurance, contracts, undercutting play a big role in the price..for example..lets say I took 10 million iphone 4s and sold them 200$ no contract..your telling me the price will not budge? Its a game of supply and demand...
Fact of the matter is..give it a week or 2 and evo 3d will be selling for 175$ somewhere on contract, while another place it will be selling 100$ on contract..Apple on purpose makes sure carriers do not drop the price too much...
For one the retail price of an iphone 4 is like 600$-650$..Apple forces the carriers to cough up money per month to them similar to blackberry to give the device cheaper on contract being 200$...
This is why Apple products retain their value...
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I am not so sure the Evo3D would win, even with that big ass battery unless you also turn off auto-sync; but if you do all of that 1st you have to root the phone and flash a uv kernel as well as a senseless ROM, and you're not using 4G nor 3D which begs the question of why you even bought the phone since now the only thing it has to offer you is 1080p playback over an Evo4G. If we're talking practical usage then the iPhone4 wins hands down.
The factors are what they are, but the point is that if I bought an iPhone 4 3rd party for $400 10 months ago (I could have gotten a few at that price) I could make the same back now or even make more because I bet you anything I could resell it for $450 to the right person. No other phone on the market can do that, so maybe the Apple model isn't so bad after all to the consumer.
My point isn't to go back and forth on how can you strip down your phone's software to take away every reason people are buying it to compete in battery power with a phone that came out a year ago nor the economic science theory of why said year old phone is still worth as much/more than the comparison. My point is that in practical real use the iPhone 4 does kill the Evo3D in battery life and does kill it in market value, reasons and endless tweaks notwithstanding.
iOS is just so much more efficient than Android and especially Sense in resources and battery usage and always will be.
Having said all that I'd still rather have the Evo3D over the iPhone4, and I'd probably take an SGS2 or a Sensation over an iPhone5 because with the battery life loss comes so many more features that I like including the ability to flash custom ROMs, custom kernels, custom themes, and the market value thing actually works in my favor because I can pick up a Sensation for $350 right now which i STILL cannot find an iPhone4 at that price, lol.