Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1 (Post 2145972)

i was a samsung hater and i even posted my views about it in my wp7 thread but after talking with gten he made me give them a chance and that was for original epic and i loved that phone and still do but i sold mine but friday im getting another for 50$ but new touch is just amazing and is even better than "old" epic and as far as shift goes reception was great and i liked seeing sense again since its been awhile (tp2) since i used it but phone is way too small and not much development going on imo. i guess for a daily driver its fine but i like to tweak my devices and it just wasnt there for me.

Originally Posted by aedon (Post 2145961)

@eric

Well I knew you would say that lol.

But the truth is.. I havnt seen a single thing on from the wp7 that I find appealing..

I mean ya.. the keyboard as almost exact and I do really like the phone from physical appeal.

The issue is that I havnt found anything appealing about the device when I used it at my sprint store..
I have grown really acustomed to all the flashy apps and mods. I mean I made my keyboard and messaging skins on windows mobile.. It feels like home...

Its just that all the videos I have seen over the arrive.. well any windows 7 phone for that matter.. Theres just no appeal to me because of its simplicity.
I love the HTC sence interface.. the vedios I watched had mentioned that Microsoft said that HTC had to use the overly generalized and simplified home screen..
That and I just bought a 16gb sd card and the arrive doesnt hold card >.>

I dont like that at all
And I havnt really been able to find anything on the mango you keep talking about.
If you can give me some better insight I might reconcider.

@darren
Thanks for the input but you really havnt told me anything about the phone.
I was looking for some insight and description rather then "I hate it" lol

Could you at least tell me why?

As far as the photon and the touch, could you just run through a few things you like/hate about them?
I know I can go watch an untold amount of youtube videos, but truth is that they arnt always telling the full story or dont really go off personal experience.

Thanks


Overall to anyone else
Ive grown to like HTC, they are veeeery good quality phones in my opinion.
Samsung on the otherhand... I personally think they are reminisant of the roman empier in that they have their sights set waaaay to vastly in the electronics department. They make way too many thing so to give full attension to just phones.

Ive had alot of samsungs, and my brother still uses samsungs.
And Im fed up with them. My brothers phone is leterally garbage. it has android 2.1 and since he bought it it has been screwy.

Now im not saying all samsung phones are crap, Ive just had nothing but bad experiences with them.


And I read up on the fact that Sprint will be getting iphones. Im not to thrilled about the idea of having an iphone.. I mean it seems like everyone I know has one and I just cant really tolerate them..
But who knows.. maybe by the time It is released I'll find something about the i5 I like.

Does anyone have any info on that?

thanks

Originally Posted by eric12341 (Post 2146002)

well as for the SD card situation the arrive can take them but it requires some surgery to be performed. a couple of members @steveo70 and @dtrush have performed this operation and have had success. as for mango it brings tons of new functionality and improvements to wp7, built in Facebook chat,built in Facebook news feed in the people hub,group mms, IE9, Bing vision,Bing audio (like shazam), improved keyboard,improved battery life, full control over which apps can run in the background and which can't,DLNA,Zune smartDJ. really can't get a feel for how a device is by just watching a video

Originally Posted by Riley (Post 2146005)

my wife has the evo shift and she is not a fan. Of course she hates the screen keyboard and refuses to use the slide out.....woman.... jk

truthfully its not a bad device. As much as I've heard the gpu is better due to the higher processor, the evo is definitely quicker in most situations. But all in all the shift is not too shabby, but there's got to be some new stuff coming out that's better. good luck bro.

Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1 (Post 2146004)

my friend owns a sprint store and im there now and shift is like tp2/epic 4g next on sprints list of dead phones so there making room i guess but its next to die. looks like iphony is coming in oct. though. lol

Originally Posted by aedon (Post 2146009)

Thanks for the insight.
What would you say are the downsides to the phone istelf?
Ive seen alot of complaints about the gingerbread update.. have you seen anything buggy about the phone after the update?

Originally Posted by Riley (Post 2146014)

actually the gb update for the shift didn't appear to break anything as far as I can see. best feature is the hibernate feature which allows you to power down and power up in under 15 seconds. like I said not a bad device, just doesnt feel as quick as my Evo but that could be because I'm rooted with custom roms. I think for modders like us its a solid device.

btw, moving this to phone comparison so others can chime in with their take.

Originally Posted by elesbb (Post 2146001)

thats exactly how i feel , i need something to hack ;P i am a ppcgeek ya know :D proud of it too !