nightdesignsGone missing, back soon Premium Member join:2002-05-31 AZ |
Mine Arrives TodayBeen waiting for this one. Ordered it Friday (instead of waiting in line). Arrives today. | |
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AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922 Premium Member join:2002-09-06 Houston, TX |
Come on, upgrade eligibilityOctober can't come soon enough. | |
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| thegeek Premium Member join:2008-02-21 right here |
thegeek
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2010-Jun-7 10:05 am
Re: Come on, upgrade eligibilityBy the time October comes around there will be a newer and better Android phone available.
Disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge of such a phone. It just seems like a no brainer that a newer and better Android phone would be available by then. | |
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| | AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922 Premium Member join:2002-09-06 Houston, TX 1 edit |
Re: Come on, upgrade eligibilityI'm actually going to try to upgrade in August, because they usually let me upgrade a couple months early.
Anyway, I'm not aware of any phones currently working through FCC approval, so it's probably going to be the Evo. | |
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kxrm
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2010-Jun-7 10:11 am
Re: Come on, upgrade eligibilityJust an FYI if you are already a sprint customer you can upgrade 2 months before your contract expires. Unless you are premiere, then it is 1 year. | |
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| | | | AmeritecTechChange we can believe in, 1922 Premium Member join:2002-09-06 Houston, TX |
Re: Come on, upgrade eligibilityYes I'm Premier, but I'm still going to give it a shot in August. | |
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said by thegeek:By the time October comes around there will be a newer and better Android phone available. Disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge of such a phone. It just seems like a no brainer that a newer and better Android phone would be available by then. But they probably won't be 4G. EVO's 3G is also uncapped. | |
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Re: Business Week says 320K soldThat's more than first Droid, which sold about 100K its first weekend. VZW did a great job boosting Android awareness and Sprint is benefiting as they hardly did TV ads to the mainstream.
Sprint didn't order enough from HTC obviously. If they ordered 500K, they probably could have nearly sold those first weekend, or first week. | |
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Re: Business Week says 320K soldWait, they're out of Evos? | |
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Re: Business Week says 320K soldsaid by iansltx:Wait, they're out of Evos? Depends on market. For the most part, it sold out with a few out there per market over wekend. But they are already restocking. | |
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Re: Business Week says 320K soldInteresting. Nice to see that Sprint is getting some upgrades and new customers for a change . Betcha their ARPU is going to go up a buck or so due to this phone...heck, maybe they'll even stop bleeding customers! | |
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| | | Geminimind Premium Member join:2003-12-20 Sacramento, CA |
Re: Business Week says 320K soldYeah go sprint! | |
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I'm one of the "new customers" though I have a SERO line with the company (under my parents' names). Sharing a new phone number isn't a huge deal and I didn't want to lose my SERO just yet . Plus the folks at the Sprint store said it'd be a lot easier to just do a new line, so that's what happened. | |
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| GlobalMindDomino Dude, POWER Systems Guy Premium Member join:2001-10-29 Indianapolis, IN |
to xenophon
And there would have been many more if they'd had more stock.
All of the stores I visited only had like 20. I am on several lists, we'll see which one comes up first. | |
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The Instinct held a sales record ?!That's just sad.
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kxrm
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2010-Jun-7 9:59 am
Got one and...Never looking back. I shopped around comparing the potential for iPhone v4/HD but alas it's at&t that keeps me not wanting an iPhone. Was on Windows Mobile and Android blows it out of the water in terms of workflow and usability. Definitely happy.
Also the reviews about the battery were over exaggerated.
The local sprint stored had people wrapped around it on Friday morning. I couldn't believe it. Ended up snatching excess stock at Radio Shack the day before release. There were no pre-sales left on the first round anywhere near me. Someone at my Radio Shack knew that the phone would be a hit. | |
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MSauk
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2010-Jun-7 11:08 am
Re: Got one and...I got one as well, awesome phone. Compared to my iphone 3g, it kills it.
Very fast, screen is awesome. Coming from a blackberry and iphone, the android system is so great. So many times I say, man that was cool. | |
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bnceo join:2007-10-11 Bel Air, MD
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bnceo
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2010-Jun-7 10:27 am
Needs FroyoSure the EVO's specs are nice. But honestly, the menu scrolling is SO slow for me. WebOS moves like butter. Maybe Froyo will make it faster, but until then, I want my 4G Palm phone and will wait for that.
However, I might get an EVO to have on another line and learn more about Android. | |
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kxrm
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2010-Jun-7 10:29 am
Re: Needs FroyoHow are the menu's slow for you? I haven't had any issue with them. | |
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bnceo
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2010-Jun-7 10:37 am
Re: Needs FroyoAfter using WebOS for the past year, I was just scrolling the apps menu and it was really choppy. It wasn't snappy how WebOS is.
Not to mention in order to really customize my Pre, I don't have to root. All I need is Konami code and Preware. Boom. | |
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2010-Jun-7 10:44 am
Re: Needs FroyoI don't have a EVO but a Incredible. I've tried the Pre & Pixi and those were much slower then the Moto Droid or HTC Incredible. Not sure it's slow for you either. | |
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Coming from a Pre I understand what you mean. Android has an awkward interface and Pre is much easier to use but EVO simply does much more than Pre. The 'more' on Evo outweighs the downsides.
I do wish Palm would get better hardware though. If they announced a larger screen with faster CPU, I might have considered staying, but only if it had the Android apps as well, which is not likely.
EVO will get Froyo this year. In the meantime, it's still the best Android phone out so far. | |
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Re: Needs FroyoOne thing to note is that the folks at XDA Developers have already hacked Froyo onto the Evo, see » forum.xda-developers.com ··· t=693992Choppy at the moment, but progress seems to be being made. | |
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Yea, I don't see how you experienced that unless the phone was doing something intensive in the background. My EVO's menus and windows move and pop and fade in and out without any stutter or delay. Even Leap works smoothly. | |
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Re: Needs FroyoSimilar experience to yours. Installing an app in the background chops up the phone's performance, but that's the only thing that does this. | |
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to bnceo
+1 for sticking with the Pre love here as well. The phone does everything that even the EVO would do for me, but at $40 a month cheaper ($10 a month EVO experience cost, plus the $30 Sprint is charging for tethering). Preware + Mobile Hotspot and I'm done. | |
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Re: Needs FroyoThere is 'free' tethering for EVO too now, and at 4G speeds if you have it. I did a hotspot to my PS3 and was able to stream Netflix HD. Had PC connected still getting 4Mbps while streaming on PS3. Can't do that with Pre.
Pre doesn't have cam with autofocus, so can't do barcode scanning apps. Pre doesn't have mic access so can't do song recognition apps. Pre's small screen was the clincher though... I just can't read it. EVO's large screen is what sold me.
I really like the Pre and it multitasks better than Android, but the EVO pluses far outweigh the minuses. Got try out the EVO at a store. | |
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Thaler
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2010-Jun-7 4:06 pm
Re: Needs Froyosaid by xenophon:There is 'free' tethering for EVO too now, and at 4G speeds if you have it. I did a hotspot to my PS3 and was able to stream Netflix HD. Had PC connected still getting 4Mbps while streaming on PS3. Can't do that with Pre. Hotspot functionality means bubkiss if you're only limited to the 5 (or whatever) 4G markets out there. I was at a convention this weekend and was able to use the 3G to keep me and my friends with an ISP for the weekend. Can't really do that without springing for the $40 a month ($10+30) to tether on the EVO. said by xenophon:Pre doesn't have cam with autofocus, so can't do barcode scanning apps. Pre doesn't have mic access so can't do song recognition apps. Pre's small screen was the clincher though... I just can't read it. EVO's large screen is what sold me. I've never been impressed with cell phone cameras (well, barring the experimental cameras-that-happen-to-be-phones), but I'd be willing to give the EVO a spin on that. Usually I always find myself settling on a pocket digi cam for zoom/focus/goodies that I can never get on a mobile platform. Second, there is mic access on the Pre (there are audio recording apps out there). Just need someone to write the song recognition code and good to go on that regard. Barcode scanning also seems to be a software coding issue, and not a hardware limitiation as well. These things sound nifty, but I don't find myself cinched to needing a mobile point-of-sale reader or audio listener. said by xenophon:I really like the Pre and it multitasks better than Android, but the EVO pluses far outweigh the minuses. Got try out the EVO at a store. I'll go try it out, but as for functionality, all the pluses I've heard about running on the EVO are far outweighed by the hardware cost plus additional monthly fee(s) to simply get the EVO to do what my phone does now. | |
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said by bnceo:Sure the EVO's specs are nice. But honestly, the menu scrolling is SO slow for me. WebOS moves like butter. Maybe Froyo will make it faster, but until then, I want my 4G Palm phone and will wait for that. As a fellow Pre user I sympathize with the sentiment, but I doubt we'll see another WebOS phone device, HP doesn't seem interested in producing it. Which is a shame for sure, the WebOS interface is so much better/intuitive than Android's IMHO. | |
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Interesting indeed...I am waiting for the first class action on this being that Sprint requires you to pay an extra $10 a month for the "advance data services (4G)" even when it is not available in the market you purchased and use the phone.
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The fact that there was no exact numbergiven really kills any actual excitement about this
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Koil Premium Member join:2002-09-10 Irmo, SC 1 edit |
Koil
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2010-Jun-7 11:07 am
Trying....to...be.........patientGot 2 coming for me and the wifey. I told her we couldn't afford the EVOs and that I ordered us the HTC Hero's instead. I think she'll be pleasantly surprised.
Moving from a Palm Centro to the EVO is going to be a pretty big jump for me, so I'm definitely excited.
Not sure what you guys are referring to re: Froyo, but I am sure I will be checking out all the options. Giggidy!
As far as the 4G uplift goes....I definitely hope they see the light here, and at least make it so that only those in that market would need to pay for it. Make it optional, as it is kinda sucky to make me pay for something I CAN'T use, due to THEIR system limitation. The only other perk of it is that it removes the 5GB cap for data, but you really gotta work at breaking 5GB, I think....but who knows, maybe this thing is a data whore. Hopefully, I will be able to tell you shortly.
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Cheese
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2010-Jun-7 1:09 pm
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JohnInSJ
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2010-Jun-7 4:16 pm
I sure hope they sold a lotAfter seeing the iPhone 4 "my god I would sell my kidney for one of those" phones, I sure hope Sprint sold a lot of EVOs over the weekend. My guess is they won't be selling a lot more.
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jay608
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2010-Jun-7 5:14 pm
EVOGot mine today.. 1 word.. SEXY!!!! | |
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Noah VailOh God please no. Premium Member join:2004-12-10 SouthAmerica |
Been Eligible for Upgrade Since DecemberI just haven't worked up the initiative to bump up my Touch Pro. If I chose today, I'd do the Touch Pro 2.
I ran Android on my TP for a while, but I found it wasn't as featured or configurable as the cooked WinMo ROMs.
With MS Apple-ing itself into Phone 7; I'll likely get into Android eventually. I'm hoping by the time I do, it'll be better supported in the development community.
Besides, there isn't anywhere else to go, with that great big DEAD END looming after WinMo 6.5.
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cableguy619 Premium Member join:2003-06-24 Chula Vista, CA |
Sexy Phone!But in a 3g only area the phone sucks bad... You cant email and send a text seriously at the same time??? Withou tthe 4g part the phone just becomes a pretty blackberry.. Other than that it is a nice phone | |
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2010-Jun-8 2:39 pm
Re: Sexy Phone!said by cableguy619:But in a 3g only area the phone sucks bad... You cant email and send a text seriously at the same time??? Withou tthe 4g part the phone just becomes a pretty blackberry.. Other than that it is a nice phone The mail or txt is long gone by the time I move from "messages" to "gmail" to send the second message. I don't see a problem with that. | |
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kg4icg
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2010-Jun-8 12:13 pm
There are 2 new 4g phones coming1 will be the Samsung Galaxy S and the other will be another HTC device possible running WinMo 7 and will be Clear branded. this was announced about 3 to 4 weeks ago before the June 4th date was announced for the Evo's release. | |
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AVDRespice, Adspice, Prospice Premium Member join:2003-02-06 Onion, NJ
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AVD
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2010-Jun-9 8:18 am
LIES LIES lies lies... mistake?» www.theregister.co.uk/20 ··· t_sales/quote: US operator Sprint has admitted inaccurately claiming that its HTC EVO 4G handset had outsold the Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct combined, by three times in a third of the time.
The operator claimed to have shifted three times as many EVOs in the first day as the combination of Pre and Instinct managed in their first three days after launch - impressive figures, but not actually true.
"We inadvertently erred in the comparison," the company coughed in a statement, instantly dropping analysts' expectations from 300,000 units to a rather-less-impressive 150,000 despite first day sales still being twice what the Pre managed and six times the Instinct's showing.
But even 150,000 sales isn't a disaster, and those are all customers who'll stick with Sprint if they want to maintain the speed that WiMAX promises.
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| GlobalMindDomino Dude, POWER Systems Guy Premium Member join:2001-10-29 Indianapolis, IN |
Re: LIES LIES lies lies... mistake?Well if the number was 150k in the first weekend then that's pretty comparable to the iPhone then, assuming that's the real accurate number.
I couldn't find one anywhere in South Florida to the stores I visited, but....I remembered the Citrix partnership we have and I know the Sprint account mgr for Citrix so my phone is on order should be here this week yet.
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