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LTE Keyboard phone to replace Epic
I'm eligible to get an upgrade from my Epic 4G in July 1. Sprint should be rolling out LTE in my area before then - and I'd like to get an LTE phone.
Today, Galaxy Nexus is available - with the EVO 4G LTE available shortly. And it's not clear when the Galaxy S3 will be available on Sprint. But none of these phones have a keyboard. Not sure if I should get the Nexus or EVO, wait for the S3, or keep on waiting to see if there will be a Sprint LTE phone with a keyboard... Suggestions??? |
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with how thin the phones are now, I really haven't had much problems just buying a phone case with a keyboard on it
these are for iphone, but you can find one for other sizes with enough looking Amazon.com: Buletooth Wireless Rubberized Hard Shell Slider QWERTY Keyboard Case for iPhone 4: Cell Phones & Accessories Amazon.com: Dobi Design Apple iPhone 4 Bluetooth Keyboard Case with Stand: Computers & Accessories edit: forgot to mention but should be obvious... phones that are curved on the back have a hard time with these cases... |
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Samsung promised it will hit the US early summer, but as for KB phones for sprint..no news yet :(
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Well, the Epic goes EOL in July so maybe there's hope that a successor is gonna be announced soon.
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Speak of the devil!! lol..an LG keyboard phone
LG's LS860 Cayenne gets a visit from the unsteady hand of Mr. Blurrycam -- Engadget And it looks like a nice 5 row keyboard too! would have preferred a quad core but 1.2ghz dual core is better then 1ghz single core :/ |
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I was just saying it was dual-core like the LG because you were implying Sprint might get a quad-core phone which I don't see happening any time soon, I know the krait outperforms the 1st gen dual-core snapdragon. I'm just glad I'm on GSM and will probably get an international SGS3 for the exynos. I didn't know people still used keyboard phones :) |
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No LG for me. Next!
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wouldnt that require the keyboard to connect via bluetooth which would drain the battery??
everyone says just use swype but one that shit is not accurate completely and when using on screen keyboard it takes away screen real estate. |
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But then again bluetooth route might work too. Now that we have bluetooth 4.0 which has low power mode that consumes half the power and much lower latency. Other low power technologies you can use is NFC. Since new phones are charged by wireless like the SGS3 you can charge both phone battery and kb battery at same time Maybe best of all is ZigBee which effectively you won't need a battery: ZigBee Low Power System-on-Chip 802.15.4 Wireless Mesh Networks | Dust Networks It gets enough power just from you pressing the button using harvesting methods. The only issue is you won't have backlighting on the keyboard but if they use a paint that glows in the dark for the letters that would be enough for most people. Quote:
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so much *sigh* in this.
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Do they make any of those cases for the larger Sprint phones they have out now? I love the enormous screens, but I need a friggin' keyboard.
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thread makes me sad... and the forum makes me sad.
I might be forced to get a non-kb phone. |
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New QWERTY phone from Motorola:
New Motorola slider for Sprint surfaces with Android 4.0, many mysteries - Engadget hopefully it is a good one, and now that google owns Motorola they won't lock bootloaders. |
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When the Epic 4G came out - it had the latest and greatest features PLUS the keyboard.
It really looks like QWERTY is being shifted to second tier status - and even if a QWERTY LTE phone comes out - it probably won't have the same level of technology as the top tier phones (like the EVO 4G LTE or Galaxy S3). While I'd prefer a QWERTY phone - leaning very strongly towards getting a GS3 when I'm eligible for the renewal rebate on July 1... |
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My Epic died recently so I switched back to my TP2 until the replacement Epic comes in. I really really miss using this phone. The guts inside are abysmally slow by today's standards, but the outer shell is second-to-none. It's the last serious, professional top-of-the-line phone produced by HTC in their heyday, as far as I'm concerned. The Epic was a cheap wannabe replacement that was a little faster and could run Android, but fell short in other areas. HTC was the market leader in qwerty sliders for many years, but I have precisely zero interest in any phone HTC has produced since the TP2 (except perhaps the mytouch 3g slide which is tmobile only and has an inferior 4-row keyboard). If I wanted a slab-phone, I would certainly choose Samsung over HTC simply because Samsung's screens are so much better. We may never have any modern phone produced by any company that can match the TP2 shell design. Not because of any technical limitation, but because of mass-market appeal and internal company politics and other BS. HTC is out of the slider business, and no one else seems to want to pick up the slack. It's a shame, but I will most likely end up with a GS3 and a bastardized bluetooth kb attachment in the near future. |
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Seems like the only current option to staying somewhere near the leading edge for another two year contract period (starting November). I LOVE my Epic and would keep it longer. My only complaint is the comparative lack of ram and rom memory. Lately I've been getting notifications about deleting programs from my internal storage to permit more memory availability -- and I don't have that many apps installed. Everything else continues to be aces. |
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a quick google got me to this: How to Partition an SD Card and Install Darktremor Apps2SD on Android Smart Phone? Which part do you not understand? |
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my complaints with the epic are battery and speed. It takes me forever to get the camera app open. Also, no matter what "battery mods" I've done or turned on/off data, I never haver gotten more than a few hours out of the phone. At least not consistently. There might have been a couple days where I went the whole day without charging it, but then the next day under the sames conditions, I get 2hrs.
The other day, I drove the kid to school and me to work with my phone in my pocket. My ipad was streaming a podcast to my stereo, at the screen on for most of the drive with maps up tracking my route, etc... when I got to work, the epic had gone from 100% to 58% my iPad had gone from 96% to 90%. |
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For the best available camera solution, revaaron, try Camera ZOOM FX at the Play store. It's 40% off this week and, for a couple of bucks, it turns the Epic camera into a winner.
I'm fine on battery life. What rom are you using? I've been on Sleeper EL30 since it came out and I can get a full day's use and be at 50-60% remaining when I go to bed. People on The People's Rom (FC09)report similar battery joy. Both these roms have something built in that pushes the Epic into deep sleep mode when you're not actively using it. (Also, if your battery-life issue is recent, Sprint's network reconstruction has been making data connectivity wiggy area by area and causing battery drain...) |
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I've been using fc09 since it came out. I've had the same exact battery issue the entire time I've had this phone with any ROM. To get through a full day shooting a festival, I go through 4 batteries.
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This will be my last time on this forum...
Picked up a Galaxy S3 today - and (at least so far) don't regret the move. I was concerned about losing the QWERTY keyboard - but with the larger display, the on-screen keyboard - even when in portrait mode - is large enough that I haven't had any problems using it instead of a keyboard. Even got a $60 credit for turning in my Epic 4G - so the new S3 only cost me $140... |
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I was about to load cm9 today, but then I found out the microphone from the headphone jack they replaced friday doesn't work. So I have to bring it back tomorrow. If they can get it working, I will load AOKP tomorrow I guess. I hope it picks roam more than cm9 did.
Nothing in the almost 2 years that I've had the Epic has really ever done anything to help with the terrible battery life. Well, there are only 2 tricks that have made the battery last at all 1) turn the phone to airplane mode and don't touch it 2) turn the phone off There is a 3rd trick, but that involves leaving it plugged in 24-7 to a charger. I must say that there has been one singular battery change in the past 4 months that is awesome. I do a radio show monday nights. I get out of my car at 6pm and am in a huge cement building from 6pm to 1am. The phone used to die at around 10:30pm. Now, at 1am, I still haven't gotten the battery warning message. Last week, I didn't even charge it from 5pm (when I took it off the charger at work) and 6pm (when I got to the station) and it still had 20$-ish when I left the station. |
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sprint's service is terrible everywhere I am so roaming more = not searching for sprint and just sticking with verizon which works just fine.
my airwave at home is horrible. no reason to have it since I have to reboot it 2-3 times a day if I want to be able to connect to it. Then it uses my wired network. Move around some files = choppy phone calls. |
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Roam Control | Making Android phones usable since 2010 There might be a free alternative to this app as well. Quote:
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Loaded AOKP and went down town to the fireworks (my son's first fireworks). Had to drop baby momma and baby off, park back at my house and meet up with them again. over 30 minutes of running around cause sprint's network wouldn't connect a call or send a SMS.
anyhow, GPS doesn't connect and wireless works terrible. |
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But for the GPS issue, have you tried to run GPS Status? Was your battery life any better though? |
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