Official Sprint HTC EVO 4G thread

[rtandon87]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Is this guy serious

I think serious but ignorant...

[Deimoss]

Originally Posted by rtandon87

I think serious but ignorant...

Care to elaborate, or are you just thread crapping?


You all Fandroids give me a good laugh everyday, thanks

[breakmyfootoff]

Please elaborate on why you think Android is less functional. I had WM phones for years, and Android does everything WM did and more. It seems to me that you haven't really used Android, because if you had, there is no way you could honestly say that it's "less functional".

[ajones7279]

Originally Posted by breakmyfootoff

Please elaborate on why you think Android is less functional. I had WM phones for years, and Android does everything WM did and more. It seems to me that you haven't really used Android, because if you had, there is no way you could honestly say that it's "less functional".

+1...

[brownhornet]

Doubt if youll get an actual answer

[mlin]

Originally Posted by breakmyfootoff

Please elaborate on why you think Android is less functional. I had WM phones for years, and Android does everything WM did and more. It seems to me that you haven't really used Android, because if you had, there is no way you could honestly say that it's "less functional".

Can you elaborate on the "...and more..." statement? They seem pretty equally functional to me as does a jailbroken iPhone and webOS for that matter. My wife has an android phone and I have played with it quite a bit, I'm not a huge fan but that's just my opinion...

[shortbus182]

Back to the matter at hand...any rumored release date?

[breakmyfootoff]

Originally Posted by mlin

Can you elaborate on the "...and more..." statement? They seem pretty equally functional to me as does a jailbroken iPhone and webOS for that matter. My wife has an android phone and I have played with it quite a bit, I'm not a huge fan but that's just my opinion...

The google voice recognition in the Android OS is unmatched. I surf the web with voice commands and rarely ever have to use the keyboard. The newest keyboards in Android all have speech to text functionality that works really really well and is awesome when you want to send a quick message on the road. The built in navigation is also quite amazing and also voice driven. Voice search applies to anything in the phone. You can search for pictures, programs, videos, websites and songs all by simply touching the voice search button. There's an app called iMusic that allows me to easily search and download songs straight to my phone for free, and music player called TuneWiki that automatically downloads album art for all songs stored in my phone as well as scrolling the lyrics for my songs karaoke style as they play. The Shazam music app works much better in Android than it ever did in WM There's are lots of little details that Android is capable of that I never had with Windows Mobile. I havent kept up with WM as much since I went to Android in November, but I'm pretty sure the voice recognition and specch to text is nowhere near like what Android has.

[Deimoss]

Originally Posted by breakmyfootoff

Please elaborate on why you think Android is less functional. I had WM phones for years, and Android does everything WM did and more. It seems to me that you haven't really used Android, because if you had, there is no way you could honestly say that it's "less functional".

careful making assumptions there mate, as a fact, I purchased an android device full retail, with HTC's sense overlay, and was thoroughly not impressed.

I have some personal experience with every device form OS factor you could think of.

To elaborate, the less functional comes in part from the different form factors and hardware specs that accompany sub par android handsets, i.e most not having a magnetic compass for real time map orientation and navigation (just as a little example)

that's just a small thing that sets, Android apart, being that the OS is free to license, you will see alot more "dumb" smartphones appearing, such as the 600mhz pay as you go, T-Mobile Android Pulse, cheap disposable android phones

another factor in which android sticks to mediocrity is its limitations and shortcoming now being seen in the under core of the Operating System such as the Nexus one only using 16-bit color capable of showing a maximum of
android -32 to 64 colors, while ..
iphone/ipod touch - shows 256 color intensities

http://gizmodo.com/5477320/the-nexus...display-secret

So as you can see, Android is less functional in that aspect, that you really have to research which hi end Android device you want, then make sure it's actually even better than competition from years and years ago, which apparently its not doing well in

-nexus signal issues pertain even after the update mandated to try to solve the issue problems. Forums are still reporting signal drops in well established areas

Only after using an Android phone did i formulate my opinion on it, i returned the device before the 30 days, there was no way that was "it" for phones, and im glad i did, or else I'd be in the underdog faction of phandroids, thank god for common sense and patience

[breakmyfootoff]

In all that condescending and pompous text you only made 3 points. "Some" Android handsets use cheaper components, "some" Android handsets have fewer colors, and one Android Handset has signal issues. I see that you work on the old theory of "If you can't dazzle them will brilliance, baffle them with bulls***". Also,if you check marketshare, you'll see that being a WM fanboy puts you in the underdog faction of fanboys considering they are pretty much the least favorite OS when it comes to smartphones.

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Doubt if youll get an actual answer

You were right.