[JohnMcD348]

Well, yes, slider is important for her. She's 42 now and when she first picked a smartphone, she just wanted a basic texting, email, do whatever phone and got the Palm. After seeing what I was able to do with my Tp2 and now with my Arrive, she's really noticed the difference in screen size and functionality of the keyboard between my slider and her little keys at the bottom of hers. I was mainly looking at the Epic since it was a 4* screen compared 3.6 on the Evo. I love HTC devices and have pretty much been exclusive to them myself ever since my first HP iPAQ PDA many years ago and moved through a couple of them before moving on to the Dell Axim before going smartphone. The only one I ever had issues with was my TP2. I read through many of the posts on the thread comparing the Evo and Epic. It was beginning to be fille dwith too many fan boys for one device or the other to really help me make a choice.

I really appreciate the input on this. I'll probably look closer at the Evo now than the Epic