Am I a PPC/Android Device Snob?
 

today a friend tells me that he and his wife have recently gotten an evo (his) and an epic (hers). the first thing outta my mouth was "dude, she got the better phone, see if u can take the evo back and swap it for another epic". he explained that the evo was enough phone for him and he knew from his wifes epic that the epic seemed to be a better phone. I was like, ok kool....suit yourself. he proceeded to ask about some things both phones can do and what he could download from the market. I answered him, then suggested he & she visit ppcg & xda to get LOTS of info for ther phones. he said what are those, I explained its a forum with info from users of the same phone u have. he stated that nah....that's too much we'll think about it but really we just wanna use the phones.

I stepped away thinking that its like the person who buys a hummer or porche, just to drive 10 mins to work in normal traffic and now freeway or off road hazard. why not just buy a regular phone if ur not going to utilize even 20% of what the phone can do? is it him or am I thinking like a real snob here?

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Re: Am I a PPC/Android Device Snob?
 

People should buy and use whatever they want, its their money! I use what suits me and is functional and offers a bit of fun. I don't think its up to me to decide what anyone else should have. I don't care if someone is using an iphone, android, or Win Phone 7 or even 6.5. What difference does it make to me - or you?

I'm not a fanboy of any phone, I use what I want to use and I don't want anyone telling me what I should be using or should be buying. So, if I dont like it why should I be doing that to anyone else?

R

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I think the vast majority of non-techies aren't used to smartphones (yet)...but they hear about various things you can do so they get excited about it. But their level of excitement probably ends at geotagging photos or maybe tweeting from the top of the Empire State Building. The average person probably has little interest in going to XDA and spending too much of their lives (like we do) scouring forums for tips and tidbits to do things like overclock the phone and learn to tether for free.

Besides, for every 10 people that go from a flip phone to a smartphone, most will slowly start to realize some of the cool things you can do. Maybe one will actually get so into it they go to XDA and become a developer or at least an active community member. Think about it - we all started somewhere. Some of the names on here with more green bars than I can count were just getting started cooking ROMs for the XV6700 and that was only 4-5 years ago.

We've all been thinking, living, breathing smartphones for <insert length of time...for me it's about 5 years>; some in my family are still carrying RAZRs, though I think I've convinced them to get iPhones now on Verizon. They will use 1% of the features at first, but over time they will discover things that can be done, and this is the evolution of the industry and the market.

I find it is best not to poke fun at someone's $200+ (plus $2400 long term contract) purchase; they tend to get kind of pissy when you ridicule financial decisions. :)

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haus i feel that. That is so true in every way. Some of us that started out with a simple flip phone just want to make calls on the go, sometimes an sms. I for one started out with a flip phone cdma 8900 flip from about 7 years ago always wanted to see what the phone could do, and would googls "mods" for the phone lead me down the path I ended up in now. This site isn't for the faint of heart. 300+ million in this country and yet how many active members in this community or over at xda................ Too many simpletons.

Re: Am I a PPC/Android Device Snob?
 

ya'll sound like phone phonies. Who cares what other phone someone has as long as they like it. Personally, I prefer the EVO over the Epic but that is me.

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To each his own... but as for me I'm gonna stay up on the freshest lol. Yes I chose the Evo over the Epic for the form factor and the white version was just too beautiful for me to pass up. Every one has an option, theirs isnt always the one I'd chose.

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I think this thread is headed straight to the off topic section. LOL.
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plus 1,000,000!

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Fully agree... if it were on a ledge, I'd push it lol.

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Just curious, what makes epic better then evo? I guess if you NEED the physical qwerty keyboard, but other then that, I see evo winning in every other category.