Official HTC EVO Review Thread

[princem131]

Originally Posted by TheBundo

Are you using one of the supplied SD cards? Mine was formated to FAT, not FAT32, and FAT32 is what the Evo's own formating software uses. There is evidence they got the cards wrong.

I cant speak for TheBundo obviously, but I'm using a different 16GB Class 2 card that I had in my Hero.

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by robotphood

Say what you want but I haven't seen any device with as good of battery life as the iTurd. That includes multitasking every app and full push notifications. Anyway, back to the topic....

rooster94, where did you get your Evo and is a "day" 24 hours?

Are you serious? Search google for "iPhone 3GS battery life" and see what comes up. It's terrible, and it's known as one of the iPhone's biggest drawbacks.

I can get over 48 hours on my TP2 fairly easily.

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by Adrianh85

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I just played with the EVO and loved it!! just a responsive as my incredible! Can't wait to get mine on Friday

You have an Incredible and you're gonna get an Evo? daang

[Pao]

Originally Posted by TheBundo

At least we can swap out our batteries. I doubt the 4th gen iTurd will be able to do that

I actually thought that was one feature they were adding into the 4th gen. Not that I follow it closely mind you, just thought I had read that somewhere.

[p-slim]

Once sense is removed I doubt your phones will crash as much, but I believe everyone will find out themselves when custom roms are available. I'm not going to even get into with the op because he hasn't given one example how its supposedly more reliable (especially when everything takes longer) the only program he can't find is some weak media player which obviously plays some hardcore files. Then he brings up free tethering *smh* the evo is already rooted, why would you even think of paying $30? Maybe you don't want root access but then I can't help there. If I want to browse the web, android is faster. If I want apps, its not even fair to compare. I would like specifics of exactly the advantages your getting from the tp2 and I don't want to hear wifi tether.

[tspideyr]

Hi, I preordered my Evo and will be getting it friday. I'm a Sprint Diamond user and the first weeks with my phone I got about 4 hours of battery with no usage. This was caused by the phone searching for a EVDO Rev.A signal when it was not present. When the Rev.A antenna went up, I easily got about 20-30 hours of battery life with moderate usage. I'm pretty sure the battery on the EVO is going dead because the 4G antenna is ON, although not in use. If you turn it off, along with BT when not using it, it will last a normal battery life. I'll confirm this on friday

[brownhornet]

Originally Posted by robotphood

Say what you want but I haven't seen any device with as good of battery life as the iTurd. That includes multitasking every app and full push notifications. Anyway, back to the topic....

rooster94, where did you get your Evo and is a "day" 24 hours?

Man please... as a former 3gs owner I had to buy a mophie juicepack just to be able to make it through the day. The battery life on that thing is terrible I dont know where you got that from.

[BROOKNAM]

Originally Posted by timsmooth

Wow I did not expect this post to take off like this. Trust me I did not post this post so you could troll or flame me or for me to complain about the extra fee, I can go to sprints site for that. That said... I actually thought this thread would go unnoticed.

As of now My TP2 is more reliable than the EVO. Not to hurt any fan boys feelings or what not, but given the opp to have the TP2 with the snap dragon and same amount of ram I would jump on it instantly. Do not get me wrong I feel like Android is really growing up hopefully froyo is better than eclair, but right now I am just trading an apple for a brighter larger apple that is all. It is still an apple.

I cant tell you how tired I am of the evo erasing my sd card for no apparent reason. I also try to find comparable apps to take the place of my winmo apps, but usually they do not exist yet. I would donate to someone to create a divx/flv player for evo. Thankfully XDA and the guys here are on the job to make apps for this thing. Out the box flash is a nice addition to the evo courtesy of htc not google, but it is nothing compared to skyfire 1.0 on winmo, and the skyfire 2.0 for Android is barely passable.

Ok now what do I actually benefit from the EVO that I do not get from Winmo outside of hardware 720 8mpcam, snap drag, ram etc?.... Nothing actually I loose, because I loose apps like mobi tv and a great deal of flash compatibility on websites, and other apps are just reiterated between the 2 phones. Well I do get widgets, and that is cool. The TP2 tilted so that cancels out the evo kick stand. Now I love what HTC has done to this phone in regards to hardware horse power upgrades, and sense makes me feel like I am at home on Winmo, but the Evo is not worth the hype or the extra price tag. It is not the gigantic leap forward I expected, or maybe the hype made my expectations to high. Or maybe PPC geeks helped me make my TP2 just that good that it stands up to the EVO.

To be fair I have used only the evo exclusivly since I bought it, and I am not biased I just want to use the best phone I can, but I field tested it and the only thing I was blown away by was the google navigation. Google navigation is far more superior than Bing maps, but that is in my opinion. Other than that I was left saying man I should have brought my TP2 instead I would be listening to my media by now. I know the Andorid os is open, but from my perspective I feel like Win Mo is just as open as Android is because of the lack of Microsoft support, and the overwhelming support from the Win Mo community. If I had any other phone on the Sprint network the Evo would have been that gigantic leap, but from the Tp2 it is just a skip.

As it stands for me for now the EVO will just take the place of my Nokia N810 or my Ipod Touch, and I will use it as a back up phone if something ever happens to my TP2. More or less the evo will be my go to guy when I am on the crapper. However in the future I can see myself using Android after it grows up a little bit more. Maybe even with froyo who knows? For now the TP2 is much more reliable, and that is just how I feel. Maybe we will get 4g in my area one day to compel me to make the EVo my primary. The freaking screen on the evo does not even go into landscape while the phone is sideways yet. My TP2 does when it is tilted. This is just my feelings on the phone do not take it personal. Thanks

can u list some of the apps that u use on ur pro2 that ur not finding duplicates of on ur evo? i was worried about finding comparable apps on the evo myself. i use memmaid , battery monitor, bluff my call, tcpmp...along with many more. anyone else going from pro2 to the evo please feel free 2 answer if u have ur evo. thank you.

[hidaya]

Originally Posted by gmaine02

question can you record a video or take a pic while talking on the phone?

tp2 does not allow you to.

not sure why ur tp2 does not allow it as mine does have not done vid put do pics all the time.

[TheBundo]

Originally Posted by BROOKNAM

can u list some of the apps that u use on ur pro2 that ur not finding duplicates of on ur evo? i was worried about finding comparable apps on the evo myself. i use memmaid , battery monitor, bluff my call, tcpmp...along with many more. anyone else going from pro2 to the evo please feel free 2 answer if u have ur evo. thank you.

I love the Evo, but sure hope an auto call recorder that works surfaces soon. That's the only one I can think of that's missing so far.