Epic 4G vs. Evo Shift 4G. Which is the phone to get? Why?

[gTen]

Originally Posted by gdmatson

I liked this thread for the first 3 posts. People need to simmer down! That being said, I currently have a hero and want to upgrade. 1 issue I have with my hero is I can only play some videos. Should I expect the same from these phones? Is 1 better than the other or is it a matter of downloading something? I'm not interested in changing the phones programming. Thanks in advance for any factual help.

Originally Posted by austin420

im not sure about the evoshift, but the epic has supported every type of video ive thrown at tit so far which include avi, wav, mp4, mkv, h264, divx and others. the only problem ive had is it wont play anything better than stereo audio. if your video has 2 channel audio(stereo), it plays fine. if it is 6 channel (5.1) your ****ed.
i like that it even plays lossless audio files like .flac directly out of the box.

Originally Posted by yankees45us

The evo plays all those video formats or at least that's what the specs say. But I know that the epic definitely plays all those. My friends epic has played every file we put on it so far. I myself would prefer the epic over shift on specs alone. I guess we'll see when it becomes available.

The Epic comes with a NEON ARM chip that is capable of "hardware decode" for A LOT of formats..including Divx, Xvid and containers such as MKV and etc..

The EVO and my guess the shift can only play them if you use something like Rockplayer which does "software decode"..

The difference is when doing Hardware decode your CPU does minimum work thus improving battery life and better smoother playback..you can easily run H264 at High profile @ 5.1 on the Epic for example natively.

Software decode puts a lot of pressure on the CPU because it actually has to spend time decoding the data then rendering it and etc...it is much slower and inefficient..

As for the 2 channel audio, if you have headsets that support 5.1 then it will play 5.1 audio with video fine...

[gdmatson]

Thanks for the info guys!

[tt C6]

So... to keep track:


EVO Shift 4G:
FM Radio
Better/Faster Processor (can also be overclocked more than Epic)
Newer OS
Better support from both HTC and the Dev community

EPIC 4G:
Better Display and .4" larger
Better video processing


Thanks.
Please keep the info coming.


So far, I'm leaning Evo Shift.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by tt C6

So... to keep track:


EVO Shift 4G:
FM Radio
Better/Faster Processor (can also be overclocked more than Epic)
Newer OS
Better support from both HTC and the Dev community

EPIC 4G:
Better Display and .4" larger
Better video processing


Thanks.
Please keep the info coming.


So far, I'm leaning Evo Shift.

The processor in the Epic is actually better...as for overclocking..

I've seen posts of the 1.7ghz overclocking for 2nd snapdragon but the question is whether its real overclocking or not...The Epic has a potential to be overclocked to 2ghz if need be BUT what was noticed was once you reach over 1.3ghz for example..Android begins to loose track of timing..with clocked to 1.6ghz people had even 3,800 Quadrant scores..but the effect was not real overclocking..for us to achieve the real overclocking the entire kernel needs to be rewritten...which boils down whether the overclocking is real or is it coming at the expense of timing /

[austin420]

here is a spreadsheet showing the on paper specs of all 4g phones available as of now. notice the streaming options for the evo and epic are backwards. damn sprint and thier official docs. i think they need an editor.

[GirlGoneGeek]

Let's keep this thread going and be nice! Your opinions are your opinions, no need to get offended or be rude people. I'm creating an article out of this thread so remember what you say and how you act represents you to the fullest Now this thread will be public to the world so be nice!

[DarkLord]

I'm calling official "DL Shenanigans" on this thread and everyone that has participated in it. It's common knowledge that the original EVO 4g is the better android phone. I find this thread a total waste of time and think it should be closed down immediately.

[austin420]

dont make me get out the video, dl...

[DarkLord]

Originally Posted by austin420

dont make me get out the video, dl...

ima stab Mikee.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by DarkLord

I'm calling official "DL Shenanigans" on this thread and everyone that has participated in it. It's common knowledge that the original EVO 4g is the better android phone. I find this thread a total waste of time and think it should be closed down immediately.

I hear my Grandpa used an EVO back in his days :P