zerocool84
Lifer
Of course everything is preference. Some people love the iPhone, some people love Blackberry. I remember when people were complaining about the iPhone being huge when it first came out.
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Is it just me or does the Evo 4G look inferior to the Iphone 4?
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Of course everything is preference. Some people love the iPhone, some people love Blackberry. I remember when people were complaining about the iPhone being huge when it first came out.
Maybe we should talk about how big the droid X is? 🙂
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010...n-off-alongside-iphone-evo-4g-and-droid-eris/
zerocool84
Lifer
Too much damn bezel on that thing. The Evo has a big screen but they didn't put as much bezel like on that massive behemoth.
Look at how much extra beef there is on the bottom and top of that sucker compared even to the Evo even the sides of the Droid X has a lot of bezel as well.
notposting
Diamond Member
Too much damn bezel on that thing. The Evo has a big screen but they didn't put as much bezel like on that massive behemoth.
Look at how much extra beef there is on the bottom and top of that sucker compared even to the Evo even the sides of the Droid X has a lot of bezel as well.
Any reports on the durability of the EVO yet though? Seems like the Incredible isn't, at least not when someone drops it 3 feet. Not saying the Moto will be more durable...but for durability they usually are.
zerocool84
Lifer
On Engadget someone did some tests of the screen and it was pretty durable but it hasn't been out long enough to really know so I'm sure this and the next month we'll see how it really is as more and more quirks of the phone will be found out.
Some of us have been dealing with this for years
That may help, but it doesn't seem like it is the searching for the network that kills the battery...it is just being on 4g.
zerocool84
Lifer
Yea you pretty much need to be actively charging the phone while using 4G it seems.
Considering I watched some Netflix episodes of South Park on 3G, tethered to my laptop, this weekend, I usually don't even bother to turn 4G on. Sprint's 3G network has always been pretty good in terms of throughput for me.
4G does use a lot of battery though. If there's one thing that I really dont like about this phone, its been that I've spent the last week figuring out the things that drain the battery the most and how to best manage them so that I get through a full typical day. It's definitely not the Apple experience in that regard.
But the 4.3" screen and flexibility of Android keeps me happy. Being out of town this weekend, I got by very well with Gmail, Yelp, Google Maps, and the OpenTable apps. The integration between the 3 via the OS was nice. Email myself a Yelp link? I can open it directly in the Yelp app and not have it kick to the browser. Need directions? That link can go right to Google Maps w/ turn by turn navigation. My wife's iPhone didn't even come out for any of that.
I don't mean to come off as a fanboy. The Evo does have serious drawbacks in terms of battery life. But it hasn't gone dead on me in the middle of the day when I needed it, because I'm mindful to top it up when I have a chance. Yeah, it kind of sucks to have to think of that, but I'm still really, really happy with it.
4G does use a lot of battery though. If there's one thing that I really dont like about this phone, its been that I've spent the last week figuring out the things that drain the battery the most and how to best manage them so that I get through a full typical day. It's definitely not the Apple experience in that regard.
But the 4.3" screen and flexibility of Android keeps me happy. Being out of town this weekend, I got by very well with Gmail, Yelp, Google Maps, and the OpenTable apps. The integration between the 3 via the OS was nice. Email myself a Yelp link? I can open it directly in the Yelp app and not have it kick to the browser. Need directions? That link can go right to Google Maps w/ turn by turn navigation. My wife's iPhone didn't even come out for any of that.
I don't mean to come off as a fanboy. The Evo does have serious drawbacks in terms of battery life. But it hasn't gone dead on me in the middle of the day when I needed it, because I'm mindful to top it up when I have a chance. Yeah, it kind of sucks to have to think of that, but I'm still really, really happy with it.
Dude, the glass on the iPhone 4 is not sapphire crystal. If it were the phone would cost in the thousands.
yh125d
Diamond Member
From wiki
"One application of synthetic sapphire is sapphire glass. Here glass is a layman term which refers not to the amorphous state, but to the transparency. Sapphire is not only highly transparent to wavelengths of light between 170 nm to 5.3 μm (the human eye can discern wavelengths from about 380 nm to 750 nm[26]), but it is also five times stronger than glass and ranks a 9 on the Mohs Scale, and much tougher than tempered glass although not as much as synthetic stabilized zirconium oxide (such as yttria-stabilized zirconia). Along with zirconia and aluminium oxynitride, synthetic sapphire is used for shatter resistant windows in armored vehicles and various military body armor suits, in association with composites. Sapphire "glass" (although being crystalline) is made from pure sapphire boules by slicing off and polishing thin wafers. Sapphire glass windows are used in high pressure chambers for spectroscopy, crystals in high quality watches, and windows in grocery store barcode scanners since the material's exceptional hardness and toughness makes it very resistant to scratching.[24]"
I dropped my phone from my bed this morning... roughly a 3' drop.
back case popped off a bit but there were no ill effects to speak of. phone was on and being used to check email at the time.
Pliablemoose
Lifer
Because MJinZ spent the last 6 months bitching about Apple products till he finally admitted he had Apple envy.
Zebo
Elite Member
Unless you use your phone a lot without AC outlets nearby.
Zebo
Elite Member
Dude you are wrong. Aluminum Oxide is fairly cheap http://www.skinforlife.com/store/pr..._id=5&osCsid=fd550ab5a9281c409bb008832ebe6f4f
zerocool84
Lifer
Like has been said before, that's for 4G. They are 2 phones for 2 different type of people. Even with multitasking on both of them they are still very different phones.
theeedude
Lifer
Android devices are evolving really fast, it's sort of hard to just say, I gotta have this one NOW and lock yourself in for 2 years, because you just know in a couple months they are going to have something more awesome coming down the road and you'll feel some buyers remorse. With iPhone you sort of know they are going to use the same basic design for at least a couple years maybe with some speed bump here and there. Maybe Android devices will pass you by technologically in the meantime, but at least for iPhone you will have the latest and greatest design for a while.
mooncancook
Platinum Member
Except that everyone having the same phone gets really boring. Don't know about other ppl, but I'm tired of seeing the same iPhone everywhere. Well at least now there will be 2 colors.
This is very true.
At least people with iphones know they don't have to worry about upgrade for another yeard.
This is also very true.
This is the main reason why I refuse to have an iphone as my main phone.
I do have one to mess around and when I travel oversea but in the US, I refuse to get service for it.
Everywhere you look, everyone has a damm iphone.
Using the shit out of any smartphone is going to drain the battery. Shit, on my ipod touch, if I played a game on the metro to and from work and maybe during a bathroom break, my battery was half done. If it were a phone, I'd have to charge it every day, just like my Evo.
It's splitting hairs, nothing more. The iphone is sexier, definitely, but either device will make you happy. Android still has some OS advantages that make me like it better. For one, having a Yelp link to a restaurant in my inbox, clicking it, Yelp App picking it up and opening it, and then launching the Google Maps Navi app from Yelp is something you're not going to do in the iPhone OS - unless that's changed in 4.
It's a slick experience compared to opening the email, copying the link or name, going to Yelp, pasting it, getting the address, copy, paste into maps, and even then you don't have turn by turn navigation unless you paid for a 3rd party app.
That is where the "sandboxed" design of iOS misses out. Apps don't really talk to each other. It's not seamless. It's just my opinion, but I've been a pretty loyal buyer of Apple products, and my wife is even more so. But we've never gotten by with just her iPhone on a weekend getaway, whereas we didn't need my laptop at all with my Evo this time.
Did running turn by turn navi eat some battery? Sure did, but I didn't need (or have) a car charger. The battery still got me through the rest of the day, too, with push email on and some light camera usage.
Apple can market the shit out of anything and make people think they've invented something new and magical. I give them a lot of credit for bringing the smartphone to the masses and really having a great, non-techie UI that works. Android is bringing capabilities that aren't found elsewhere, though.
It's splitting hairs, nothing more. The iphone is sexier, definitely, but either device will make you happy. Android still has some OS advantages that make me like it better. For one, having a Yelp link to a restaurant in my inbox, clicking it, Yelp App picking it up and opening it, and then launching the Google Maps Navi app from Yelp is something you're not going to do in the iPhone OS - unless that's changed in 4.
It's a slick experience compared to opening the email, copying the link or name, going to Yelp, pasting it, getting the address, copy, paste into maps, and even then you don't have turn by turn navigation unless you paid for a 3rd party app.
That is where the "sandboxed" design of iOS misses out. Apps don't really talk to each other. It's not seamless. It's just my opinion, but I've been a pretty loyal buyer of Apple products, and my wife is even more so. But we've never gotten by with just her iPhone on a weekend getaway, whereas we didn't need my laptop at all with my Evo this time.
Did running turn by turn navi eat some battery? Sure did, but I didn't need (or have) a car charger. The battery still got me through the rest of the day, too, with push email on and some light camera usage.
Apple can market the shit out of anything and make people think they've invented something new and magical. I give them a lot of credit for bringing the smartphone to the masses and really having a great, non-techie UI that works. Android is bringing capabilities that aren't found elsewhere, though.
"In an Apple video, Jonathan Ive, the company's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, says the new glass housing is "comparable in strength to sapphire crystal."
No where in the promotional materials did they state that its actually sapphire crystal. They said it was strong, that was all.
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