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I used the shift for a few days and went back to the epic. CONS: the lack of signal when cupping the phone, slow screen scrolling with finger, when double tapping to zoom it rarely zoomed to where I tapped, inability to rotate n maintain page position either when flipping or sliding out keyboard, tiny a$$ screen, enter button not being able to select links (y have a dpad?), volume rocker location & just overall turtle experience. PROS: amazing physical keyboard with inputs that don't skip(unlike epic) .. I'm not knocking it, the device just isn't for me ... had I not used the epic(even tho I hate the keyboard issue) then maybe ida been ok
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Re: Pros and Cons of Evo Shift
I got a shift about 2 weeks ago, I just returned it yesterday and went back to my Mogul. For me...
Pro's: Size of phone/screen size is just right Keyboard is really nice, has cool shortcut buttons like the , and .com Sense is a reallu cool UI Market makes it simple to get apps Cons Volume rocker is in the worst, most annoying place possible. I hated hitting that thing every time the keyboard was opened or closed. Battery life sucked, hard. Android lauching things in the background is the dumbest OS decision I'v ever seen. Lets take a device that has limited CPU and battery power and randomly launch apps in the background. What a boneheaded decision. Screen is WAY to reflective, and way to glare-y Phone unlocks by itself when the keyboard is slid out, defeating the purpose of a lock screen. Dropping signal when holding the phone Quote:
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Re: Pros and Cons of Evo Shift
I'm going to keep my shift, but I see Android as a stepping stone for me until WP7 matures to the point where it is available for CDMA and competes with iOS and Android for the particular set of applications I need to do my job (nowhere near that yet, so I'm doing my best to get comfortable with Android).
As a business/Exchange user, there are just too many holes in Android for this to be a viable long-term solution. It reminds me of using Linux on the desktop. It's partway there and there is some cool free stuff available, but for me it just doesn't cut it in a production environment. I think it's funny that I've read a few battery life complaints here and the folks at Android Central seem to think this phone has the best battery life of any phone on the planet. Weird. As for OP's concerns, I'll post my thoughts after using this device for a couple of weeks now. 1. Having to download apps...yes. I've had to pay $20 for a decent Exchange mail client (tried them all and Touchdown is really the best in terms of functionality, though I like the interfaces of some of the others better). I had to pay a dollar (it's now more) for a voice dialer that confirms before calling, since the built-in dialer would always call the wrong person. This isn't a lot of money, but this stuff was built into WM and it's practically criminal in my opinion that it's not built into Android. 2. Volume buttons. I've gotten used to them and I almost never hit them anymore. Same with the hardware keyboard in general, which I actually like more than the TP2 keyboard now (!). 3. Signal strength...just don't hold your phone and you'll be OK. LOL. 4 and 5. I use bluetooth pretty much constantly. My issue here is that the prox sensor is DISABLED when bluetooth is in use, which is just plain stupid. There's no reason to disable the prox sensor as there was on the EVO because the sensor is in a better location on the Shift and is not as prone to accidental coverage. As for the sync issues, I use Exchange. Since I'm migrating to Exchange 2010, Touchdown syncs email, contacts, tasks, calendar, and notes, and I'm pretty happy with that. I wish the stock email client did it as well as Touchdown, but Google will push Gmail forever since they want to read everybody's email and insert advertisements. I very much miss the ability to swipe left/right to see different email accounts. I have two jobs and I need separate emails for each. Having to use Touchdown for Exchange and the built-in client for IMAP is a total PITA. I like to harp on this phone mostly because I had much higher expectations for Android at this point. This is squarely on Google IMHO. HTC has built pretty impressive hardware in the Shift. But the OS is just lacking. I may have said this before somewhere but to me buying an Android phone is kind of like buying a really nice car but having to buy your own engine and maybe steering wheel to get it working. On WM most of this stuff just worked out of the box. That said, the Shift is a pretty cool device. I like that it is small, yet feels very solid without being heavy. For the things it does well, it does *very* well (like browsing, and apps that are designed to do a specific task or two).
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I myself love android and would never go back to wm. But wp7 looks promising. Even though wm was unstable it was secure. I also miss all the tweaking you could do for it when it came to enterprise solutions. I'm looking forward to wp7 getting better. Only problem I see is unlocking it and being able to wifi tether. Hopefully they'll figure it out. Lets see how far they get in the next months, especially since android is making some more improvements including some world phones. Looking forward to dual core world android phones. I miss the features from my tp2.
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Re: Pros and Cons of Evo Shift
Did you install HTC Sync on your Windows 7 machine so you can get the drivers you need? You can get the download from htc directly.
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tp 2 is sero 30 dollar plan compatible.. have been using it for 14 months. it would be a great upgrade for you.. pulled my mogul out last week to give to a friend, did not realize how far the tp 2 had come.. beers
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