uh oh.. we have a war..

[Agent0Hibachi]

Originally Posted by eman

Man, that was one big paragraph!

If the Evo qualifies for 3rd place, then heck, I will be pretty happy with the bronze!

My bad lol that was long i was venting! But yea ill be happy when i get the EVO but man i want more people on Sprint... I hate hearing people rave about Verizon's phones an iphones an its like damn were out numbered... I want a bigger voice in this cell battle!!! Hopefully the Evo really does catch fire an blow everything out the water!

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by Agent0Hibachi

My bad lol that was long i was venting! But yea ill be happy when i get the EVO but man i want more people on Sprint... I hate hearing people rave about Verizon's phones an iphones an its like damn were out numbered... I want a bigger voice in this cell battle!!! Hopefully the Evo really does catch fire an blow everything out the water!

Yeah, that'd definitely be nice. To this day, I don't understand why more people don't have Sprint. Everywhere I've lived in the past 10 years of my life, Sprint's service area and 3G coverage (when applicable) have been better than Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mo (no competition there). Not only that, their data & voice plans are what, like 60% of the cost of the competition's?

I'm guessing it has to be the phone selection. If Sprint had the iPhone, I don't think AT&T would be doing very well. If Sprint had the enV dumb phone and the Droid, Verizon wouldn't be as great either. Sprint does have some good phones, but they don't have the "popular" ones. The Evo is going to be the first popular phone (IMO) that they've ever had. The Palm Pre could have been that device, but shitty advertising from Palm probably had something to do with that failure.

[acts]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

Yeah, that'd definitely be nice. To this day, I don't understand why more people don't have Sprint. Everywhere I've lived in the past 10 years of my life, Sprint's service area and 3G coverage (when applicable) have been better than Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mo (no competition there). Not only that, their data & voice plans are what, like 60% of the cost of the competition's?

I'm guessing it has to be the phone selection. If Sprint had the iPhone, I don't think AT&T would be doing very well. If Sprint had the enV dumb phone and the Droid, Verizon wouldn't be as great either. Sprint does have some good phones, but they don't have the "popular" ones. The Evo is going to be the first popular phone (IMO) that they've ever had. The Palm Pre could have been that device, but shitty advertising from Palm probably had something to do with that failure.

i also think sprint suffers from bad reputation from the past. i'd had sprint for quite a long time now, too and i honestly have nothing but good things to say about them.

[brownhornet]

Well i will say that there are some places where Sprint coverage lacks south of Atlanta.. but as others have said the main reason is reputation. That and the fact that customer service, even though it has drastically improved... absolutely SUCKS.

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Well i will say that there are some places where Sprint coverage lacks south of Atlanta.. but as others have said the main reason is reputation. That and the fact that customer service, even though it has drastically improved... absolutely SUCKS.

They don't have the greatest customer service in the world, no, but honestly, I'd rather pay a hell of a lot less per month and have "ok" customer service than pay out the ass and get "a little better than ok" customer service. My gf switched from Verizon to Sprint and she thought Verizon's CS was worse than Sprint's.

The only CS I've experienced that was absolutely fantastic was T-Mobile. But T-Mobile lacks a large network and a large 3G coverage map, so I cannot use them.

[p-slim]

Originally Posted by acts

i also think sprint suffers from bad reputation from the past. i'd had sprint for quite a long time now, too and i honestly have nothing but good things to say about them.

Sprints phone selection sucks, they get everything last. Last to get winmo 6.5 and last to get android 2.1. I like always having the latest and greatest and ive been using the nexus for 4 months now, by the time sprint gets a device as powerful (evo) I would've had the nexus for half a year (released January 5) that half a year you have to suffer with that tp2 sucks for you. I can't wait till the evo drops then everyone will finally know what they've been missing. Snapdragon on android is stupid fast.

[acts]

Originally Posted by p-slim

Sprints phone selection sucks, they get everything last. Last to get winmo 6.5 and last to get android 2.1. I like always having the latest and greatest and ive been using the nexus for 4 months now, by the time sprint gets a device as powerful (evo) I would've had the nexus for half a year (released January 5) that half a year you have to suffer with that tp2 sucks for you. I can't wait till the evo drops then everyone will finally know what they've been missing. Snapdragon on android is stupid fast.

you have a valid point. i guess i'm just not as passionate about having the latest and greatest like mostly everyone else on the site. i love technology, but i don't upgrade to every latest phone when i can carry on doing the things i want/need at the moment. in my defense, i'm probably saving a lot of money, or at least moreso than the person who goes out and gets the next phone. and i'll probably end up being on the same page as everyone else when the EVO comes out.

edit:
On another note, sprint needs to accidently "lose" an EVO 4G, and get some viral publicity to up one on the IPhone 4 that was "lost." Bring the focus back onto the EVO 4G.

[Pao]

Originally Posted by acts

edit:
On another note, sprint needs to accidently "lose" an EVO 4G, and get some viral publicity to up one on the IPhone 4 that was "lost." Bring the focus back onto the EVO 4G.

What's amazing is two competing tech sites both found "lost" phones in bars in completely different larger cities!!!

How amazing is fate?

[radar369]

I agree with everyone who's on sprint side...........I don't know why everybody else doesn't like sprint (except for phone selection)! Sprint did have a lot of stupid people working for them back in the day......but they still do now!

My point......sprint got smart (I guess) and instead of leaving them stupid they taught them to be at least a little smarter.....on top of new technology which makes it easier for them to work and do their jobs....on top of listening to the customers!

I remember back in 2001 when I would call and ask to speak to tech support...and would have to hold for an hour........LITERALLY!!!!!!! When I looked in my call log the duration of those calls would be like.......1:37:56, and I really didn't notice that till now! Now when I call I got someone in minutes....and if they don't know how to do something they will transfer you to someone who does!

Plus the fact that Sprint was the first to have their $69.99 everything plan and everyone else jumped on afterwards! I have the $69.99 plan and a discount from my job and I only pay about $55 a month for my service....and I can call ANYBODY.....even landlines for free!

All I'm saying is if people actually did their research they would know! Just like Cicatrize said.............if I can get a phone with a good....CHEAP plan but have poor customer service I could care less....I barely talk to them anyway! But if I gotta pay extra for this and that and have good customer service....well......see ya!

This phone is gonna put Sprint back on the map.......and a little side note from me:

HTC is releasing a BEAST with this phone...........so shouldn't that mean that the next phone HTC comes out with on Sprint should be....if not on par.....BETTER than the EVO?! It would be a shame to me if HTC came out with this....than something way below this.....like that rumored Touch Pro 3!!!!!!!