Who here has an EVO 4g?

[ManSnake]

I have to say that my phone is more powerful than my computer!!!

 

[FallenHero]

I do. As for your comment...not more powerful then mine, but I was commenting to some of my co-workers that I find it amazing that the phone I carry has more memory, ram, processor speed and functionality (sans gaming ATM) then my desktop from 10 years ago. Just simply amazing when you think how far and how quickly it came.

 

[Brian Stirling]

If we put the mobile performance of todays cell phones at 10 years behind the top desktops, and I think that's a decent guestimate, then 5 years from now I think it will be half that or 5 years. We will have dual core in phones real soon as the processors are already available. Also, Intel knows that a growing fraction of total processing is going mobile and they want that market to so they will push development. If they don't then Qualcom and others that now make uP's for phones may be tempted to step up to laptops and desktops and Intel doesn't what that so better to beat them now.

Ten years from now a smart phone will be much more powerful than todays high end gaming systems. I just hope we see some improvements in battery technology.


Brian

 

[tatteredpotato]

I do, and before my desktop got a RAM upgrade at work, it was faster to do things on my phone. Now that the desktop has more RAM (1.5GB vs 512MB for XP) the C2D 1.8GHz processor pulls it handily ahead.

 

[boomhower]

I do and I love it. I had a Hero and really liked the OS but the phone was to slow. Now with the EVO I have a phone that can take advantage of the powerful OS. With a cooked ROM and OC widget the battery life is very good as well. All in all a great phone.

 

[Brian Stirling]

I should have said that I got the Evo on 6/4 and mostly love it. I think Sprint is lagging a little in the build out of 4G and with spotty 4G the battery dies real quick if you have 4G enabled on the phone. I've also not been real impressed with the hotspot feature with regards to usability and battery effect.

I live in SLC and have been working in Dallas (Plano actually) and both have official 4G coverage with SLC going official on 6/28. I was in SLC for the weekend of 7/4 and found the 4G coverage to be mostly limited to the downtown area and even though the coverage map indicates my home should have good 4G coverage I seldom see even a single bar and often no 4G at all. So, even though SLC is officially 4G I would say the coverage is less than 25% of what it should be and with weak 4G the battery dies real quick.

Of course, for me, the real big hitter favoring the Evo is the 4.3 inch screen. 4G will be great when Sprint builds it out and hopefully Froyo and a software/firmware update will address performance and battery deficiencies.


Brian

 

[Morgot]

I do and I love it. I had a Hero and really liked the OS but the phone was to slow. Now with the EVO I have a phone that can take advantage of the powerful OS. With a cooked ROM and OC widget the battery life is very good as well. All in all a great phone.

What cooked rom are you using?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Ten years from now a smart phone will be much more powerful than todays high end gaming systems.
Brian

That to me seems really laughable but you never know

 

[Brian Stirling]

That to me seems really laughable but you never know

What is the relative power of todays high end smart phones compared to the gaming systems of 10 years ago? Which segment of the uP market is likely see the fastest growth in performance in the next 10 years?

The question practically answers itself!

I expect to be using my smart phone to view and edit AutoCAD drawings and act as a gaming system 10 years from now -- or make that 4 years from now! A while back I suggested that I'd like to see a next gen smart phone with multi-core uP, 2GB RAM and a 5 inch screen with 1920x1080 resolution and several folks laughed at that. Who needs 2GB of RAM and won't that eat up too much battery power. When you can take such a phone and wirelessly connect to a HDTV and gaming controls and have a complete gaming system you take with you everywhere the idea that a phone could need that power kind of goes away.


Brian

Brian

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Maybe someone should make Super PI for a phone or some other benchmarking app to get comparisons. That would be really cool

 

[Adul]

i have one.

 

[Pliablemoose]

i have one.

Odd, why would you buy one, they're marketed almost exclusively to males...

 

[Rottie]

I like EVO 4G but I was watching youtube videos by some of deaf fellow says EVO 4G is better than iPhone 4 but one deaf guy pointed out EVO 4G does not offer unlimited text message so I guess I will go with iPhone 4

 

[PUN]

I like EVO 4G but I was watching youtube videos by some of deaf fellow says EVO 4G is better than iPhone 4 but one deaf guy pointed out EVO 4G does not offer unlimited text message so I guess I will go with iPhone 4

Nice, you'll take an advice from a deaf guy on youtube rather than reading the FAQ from sprint. awesome!

 

[wirednuts]

anyone tethering these with their laptops? curious as to what real world download speeds youre getting.... and ping times!

 

[FallenHero]

I like EVO 4G but I was watching youtube videos by some of deaf fellow says EVO 4G is better than iPhone 4 but one deaf guy pointed out EVO 4G does not offer unlimited text message so I guess I will go with iPhone 4

/looks at plan from sprint
/looks at post
/looks at "unlimited SMS and MMS"
/taps sarcasm meter

 

[boomhower]

anyone tethering these with their laptops? curious as to what real world download speeds youre getting.... and ping times!

They are always the same as my download speeds on my phone, which obviously will vary greatly with location. Ping times suck.

 

[wirednuts]

could you be a little more specific? what typical speeds might one expect to see? i get 60KB/s - 110KB/s on sprint 3g... i hear this 4g should be like 6Mb or something? i cant imagine that happens often though... my ping times arent that bad either around 100ms usually. i know for serious gaming thats no good but everything else its pretty damn good.

 

[Rottie]

Nice, you'll take an advice from a deaf guy on youtube rather than reading the FAQ from sprint. awesome!

I dont take an advice from deaf people using youtube with their shitty evo 4g

 

[Rottie]

/looks at plan from sprint
/looks at post
/looks at "unlimited SMS and MMS"
/taps sarcasm meter

if I want a shitty evo 4g I would have to check with sprint relay website first before I buy it

 

[mooncancook]

I bought it for my wife and she's loving it. Just found out today we got a weak 4G signal in our home. We ran the speed test and the download speed was 2700-4000 kbps, way faster than the <500 kbsp 3G we got inside our home. This will awesome if we can get a consistent signal.

 

[apac]

Posting from my EVO 4G right now. Works great - screen is amazing, battery life is acceptable given the amount of power (I get 30 hours with light use), camera works well. Have I mentioned the screen?

I find myself using the phone for casual browsing over my laptop because it feels like reading a book.

 

[Rottie]

wait until you get used with EVO 4G after 6 months you get bored.

 

[Munky]

What is the relative power of todays high end smart phones compared to the gaming systems of 10 years ago? Which segment of the uP market is likely see the fastest growth in performance in the next 10 years?

The question practically answers itself!

I expect to be using my smart phone to view and edit AutoCAD drawings and act as a gaming system 10 years from now -- or make that 4 years from now! A while back I suggested that I'd like to see a next gen smart phone with multi-core uP, 2GB RAM and a 5 inch screen with 1920x1080 resolution and several folks laughed at that. Who needs 2GB of RAM and won't that eat up too much battery power. When you can take such a phone and wirelessly connect to a HDTV and gaming controls and have a complete gaming system you take with you everywhere the idea that a phone could need that power kind of goes away.


Brian

Brian

Not gonna happen. At least not in 10 years, more like 15-20. You realize that phones still use an in-order cpu? A 1ghz P3 or Athlon Tbird will run circles around whatever 1ghz cpu your phone has, guaranteed.

 

[FallenHero]

wait until you get used with EVO 4G after 6 months you get bored.

Official and confirmed.