Official HTC EVO Review Thread

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Thanks guys!!

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by TheBundo

That's for sure. The Evo boots up in 1 minute, my TP2 can drag on for well over 5 minutes before Sense is running and it is fully responsive. Yet the processor on the Evo isn't even twice as fast. It's the Android, to be sure.

It's a combination of both, actually. Android does start faster, yes, but the snapdragon also speeds it up a ton.

[TheBundo]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

It's a combination of both, actually. Android does start faster, yes, but the snapdragon also speeds it up a ton.

Yeah, and also the fact that I has a load of start-up programs in the TP2, like Automatic Call Recording. I wouldn't mind slowing down my Evo's startup time some to get a working program that does that.

[bedoig]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

It's a combination of both, actually. Android does start faster, yes, but the snapdragon also speeds it up a ton.

Ya, the Scorpion/Cortex A8 core in the Snapdragon is much faster than the crappy old ARM11 core in the MSM7XXX's. Clock speed doesn't tell the whole story either (even though it is nearly double), with the new cores supporting newer ARM instruction sets.

[BRIVERS73]

Originally Posted by TheBundo

That said, the OS is selling me much more than the hardware. I love the TP2 hardware. It's the OS that is driving me crazy and costing me time. So whatever time is lost, in my case, by not having a keyboard, isn't nearly as much as the time lost to crashes, etc., on the TP2. But the first chance there is to get something similar, with a keyboard, I'll jump to that. And I know that everyone doesn't care about the keyboard. If you didn't before, I understand why you wouldn't now. For me, the on-screen keyboard on the Evo is just about as hard to use as on the TP2 with my big fingers. The extra .6 of an inch, divided by how many letters are in a row of letters on the keyboard, is miniscule. And it's less than .6 of an inch in parallel with an edge of the screen - the .6 is the diagonal increase. In portrait mode, the screen appears to be about 3/8ths of an inch wider, so divide 3/8ths of an inch by 10 (the number of keys accross the top "qwerty" row), and there is no appreciable difference from the TP2.

+1 on the software. Android has been great to me thus far...

[drksilenc]

is there any way to edit the browsers idenity

[bedoig]

Originally Posted by madoc

Thanks, very helpful. In one of the demo videos I saw on Engadget, the unit looked perilously low on battery and it was about 2:30- 3pm on the device. I assumed that they started out at about 8am or so, so that matches up with you.

Are you running friendstream? I've read that it tends to soak up more juice than the standard FB or Twitter apps.

I've still got a week or so until I get mine. I'll be throwing something up on connect-utb after I get a few days under my belt - will be focusing hard on battery life. Most reviews I've seen so far don't go into power details.

I do have friendstream on, but it's only set to update Twitter and Flickr every two hours (I don't use facebook). Wouldn't seem like 2 hour polling would be a big drain, but who knows.

Originally Posted by tokuzumi

What is your awake time %? You can find it under menu, settings, about phone, and status (I think). I'm using a vanilla android rom on my phone now, so I forget the exact location. It shouldn't be anywhere close to 100%. If it is, you have something preventing the phone from sleeping in standby.

The something preventing my phone from sleeping is me

I actually rebooted a couple hours ago so don't have a good sample. It's about 60-75% right now, but that's all attributable to my activity...uploading youtube videos, playing around, etc.

[jrock5]

Did anybody try the dolphin browser? It's supposed to work very well from what I read.

[xweaponx]

I hope the subjective opinions of this thread does not repeat in 10min when the next poster decides to share his opinion on a phone he/she may/may not have...

... otherwise I am going to need more popcorn.

[Spiderman313]

Originally Posted by elpres81

How does it feel in your pocket? The TP2 is too bulky for me when I have it in my pants.

What type of pants are you guys wearing, skinny jeans? Lmao!