Switching from TP2 to EVO

[w7excursion]

Epic....

[easyc]

Do they have a release date for the Epic yet?

[ChrisH09]

Originally Posted by easyc

Do they have a release date for the Epic yet?

Not as of yet they don't...probably late summer or early fall. All that has been released is the specs on the phone...looks to be good.

Here is a youtube video someone posted on the Samsung Epic.


Samsung Epic (Sprint)

[reigndropz]

Man you guys are great! Thanks for all the input! Unfortunately though, it doesnt look like I can get my hands on an EVO just yet. All the stores around me are sold-out and we all know Sprint is out of them too. That EPIC looks real nice too...Sprint has really dropped the ball on this one, again. The only thing thats keeping me with them is that I cant afford to break their contract and get the termination fee. Otherwise, I would switch to Verizon.

[sanjsrik]

This is from a former TP2 person who switched to Android. This is my take:

--if you're used to WM UI, the Android UI is easier but only after you get used to it.
--If you're used to getting applications from commercial companies offering trials. Not so much from the Android world.
--If you're looking for a single PIM (not like the one that claims to be free but charges $40 for the application to actually sync data), good luck with that.
--If you want to use the calendar to set up customized repeats (such as every other week or every few days rather than daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) on your device even though you can set that up in Google Calendar, you won't be able to do that on your device.

[houseman]

Just Do It....

[easyc]

I say wait it out for a better phone.

And Verizon is evil. My friend is trying desparately to get out of contract with them because shes had so many issues with her Eris and their customer service is horrible. But hey if that's what you want, pay the fee and have fun!

[Clem2]

Originally Posted by easyc

i went from a tp2 to an evo and back to a tp2. Yes, you will get used to a virtual keyboard, but the evo actually limited my typing speed so the physical keyboard is definitely a must for me. Also, it's nice to be able to charge the phone once a day or once every two days instead of 2-3 times a day with the evo. I use my phone for music as well and the tp2 beats the evo hands down. The stock music player in the evo doesn't know what 'random' means. It will randomize the same small group of songs and play those over and over regardless of how many you have.

My suggestion is you live in an area with 4g and absolutely must have the latest and greatest now, then go evo. If not, save your money and upgrade credit because better phones will be coming out.

agreed!

[Clem2]

I have a Sprint TP2 and bought an EVO 4g from best buy....... What an impressive phone! The large screen, the fast chipset, the front facing camera, the 8 mega pixel camera with the fabulous pictures! The awesome high def camcorder, nice big software keyboard, the easy to use andriod OS.... blah blah blah.

And as I start to use the phone I start finding out some of the other details. Like only 9 speed dials vs. 99 in winmo. The fact that you can't search contacts by company name, period. I don't think that you can even arrange them by last, first. It does not sync with outlook without exchange server, and if you do have that service I believe you need third party software to do it correctly. Basically, the whole contacts part of it totally sux. And you can forget me ever syncing my stuff with any google server. Gmail = donkey guts.

I don't want to sync with gmail or google, forget it, they both totally suck compared with outlook. Not to mention the security concerns with having personal info on their servers. I don't want to take 8 steps backward in this area. Outlook works great and it’s probably the most used client in the world, why would google cut themselves off from those users? It dosent make any sense. Kind of reminds me of apple, which by the way, the iphone syncs with outlook MUCH better than android.

How about the camera taking pics that are too large to mms, probably some setting somewhere that I couldn’t find, another thing I have to figure out how to fix.

The EVO, or android OS simply does not have anywhere near the detail that winmobile has in the areas that are most important to me. I don't think some people realize just how powerful winmobile actually is, or how powerful some of th the programs are that are written for it.

Oh, and I love the argument of "you don't need that option, or, just do it like this, It’s just as good!" This is the answer I seem to get all the time. I don’t want to do it how you do it, I want to do it how I want to do it, it will work better for me.

The EVO with android 2.1 locked up a few times on me to the point where I had to reboot/pull the battery a few times, so don't try saying that winmobile is the buggy one. All the phones I have or have had have been buggy, all of them. Including the Iphone, our family has 2, a 3g and a 3gs, both are buggy sometimes.

Battery life on the EVO was worse than the tp2, because I have the tweaks package put together by Goodthings2life. This is a perfect example on how tweak-able winmobile is.

And as far as it being a snappy phone........ With that processer winmobile would be snapping all over the place too. I can't wait to see it in action.

Yes the large screen makes the software keyboard better than the software kb on the tp2, WAY better. But the hardware kb on the tp2 still blows it away. No question. No hardware kb means that the software kb is taking up half of the screen.... there goes that big screen. And with my big hands it’s still not my choice. The slide out KB on the TP2 is better, period. I didn’t “get used to it”.

The EVO is a nice phone, it really is, but I took it back and picked up my TP2 for now. Hey........ the tp2 has suck parts too. But I'm syncing up with outlook, all of it, perfectly! I have all of my speed dials, all of the detailed tweaks via the registry, use of my entire screen via the slide out kb (which is probably bigger than what’s left over using the software kb on the EVO) etc, etc.

I want a phone that has a powerfull chipset, nice big screen, snappy processer, sync's COMPLETELY with outlook (correctly)………… So, I am going to wait and see what comes down the pike. Maybe that Samsung thing will be more to my liking (if they get the outlook sync thing working).

[BenC]

I put the company name in with the person's name. That way you can find everything fun. Also, the Bluetooth implementation lacks the versatility that I enjoy with the TP2.