Official HTC EVO Review Thread

loving mine

[codeman05]

This is my first Android phone and 5th HTC device with sprint.

Now 12 hours after picking it up... I'm totally blown away. Particularly with the stock ROM. Every WM phone I've had I though pretty well sucked out of the box, and it took more than a few custom roms to make it work as it should....not the case with android.

I was very concerned about the lack of a Hardware keyboard, but so far this has not been an issue at all. Battery life has been better than I expected as well. I still need to fine tune some things, but I think 24+ hrs is easily possible (used to about 8-12 hrs on my TP1).

I work with a bunch of apple fan boys and after letting them play with the Evo for a few minutes, they were more than a little bummed, and I think atleast one is going to make a move to Sprint. I thought that was pretty funny myself.

Thanks to all those here that have helped with getting used to Android, the Evo, and the loooong wait (well worth it).

[tokuzumi]

Originally Posted by OR78

This for sure is not a phone for petite hands. But I'm sure you can handle it. LOL

Lovin this thing for sure!!

Only thing I haven't figured out is, is it possible to make notifications(i.e. text messages, or emails) vibrate and ring at the same time? Haven't found this yet. Not lookin like you can.

For text messages, go to the messaging app, hit menu, settings, then check the box for vibrate. Also the same for the gmail email app. Menu, settings, vibrate. No master control, unfortunately. There may be a market app, but I don't know.

[nutzy19]

Im sorry for this but get your flame sticks ready. Ive used the new EVO for a full day now and all I can say is wow. Everything Ive tried to do with this phone has been a not only good...but WONDERFUL experience. We spend weeks , if not months waiting for a ROM release that will blow out socks off and yet never really seems too. This phone blew my socks off... I appreciate all thet that chefs have done and the ROMs have been great but its time to move on. Technology has left WM6XX in the dust and it will never get better, just different. To all considering a switch , DO IT . You wont be dissapointed.

[QMeli907]

In before the lock

[karate134]

That's awesome. But remember the age of the TP2 vs. Evo. If the evo doesn't knock your socks off, then there's a problem. I would hope Sprint's biggest new phone for awhile is better than all others they have.

[boredandtattooed]

hows this a rant even??

rants are usually a gripe or complaint, your praising..

you can suck on Androids teet some more over here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=181

**can you tell im bitter about having to give up my pre-order lol**

[TWO515TY]

I think it's more like the majority (pretty much all) commonly available WM phones all suffer from the same problem: weak hardware. If I could get a WM phone with a snapdragon, I'd be straight. WM is still quite a formidable OS, it's just limited by the hardware it runs on. With the exception of the HD2 and LG Fathom, what else is there really that has a snapdragon and runs WM? And regardless of that, I'm on Sprint and can't get either of those phones!!! If WM's hardware selection was more up to date and accessible to the majority of users, I think people would enjoy it a lot more.

[eyeballz]

WM6 is a dog for resources and processes. To see this just run xandroid on a touch pro2 and you can see it is amazing ....now imagine that same xandroid with 3d acceleration and polished drivers.

With that said....android is a fantastic OS .....it is thriving right now and eventually 2.2 with blow your socks off all over again on any android or makeshift device with its speed enhancements.

Congrats on the evo.....

I see a "shadow" or "droid 2" in my future.

Cant wait to see an evo run on verizon though...Soon enough soon enough.

[dumpringz]

Wirelessly posted (Sprint TP2 6.5 stock: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

To chime in ... the text input sucks. I miss the keyboard of the tp2 no lie .. the phone is pretty damn amazing otherwise but I got a need for speed when it comes to text input .. i used to type 100mph .. now its a slow 40 .. ppl say give it time but I might have to give this sucker back unless I find a better k.b in the market