The battle of the Droids??!

[Rain]

I am in love with the Evo's functional Bluetooth. Wireless sync and file transfers ftw

[Vioz]

I really want a evo now, im stuck with the moto droid on verizon, to cancel my contract is 320$ per line and i have 2 lines :( to get with sprint, should've went with them in the beggining cheaper rates and good service in my area and the evo is sick

[tomato]

Originally Posted by Vioz

I really want a evo now, im stuck with the moto droid on verizon, to cancel my contract is 320$ per line and i have 2 lines :( to get with sprint, should've went with them in the beggining cheaper rates and good service in my area and the evo is sick

don't do it!!

VZW is getting the Droid X, and after that there will be more Droids!!

There is *nothing* wrong with the Moto Droid. The EVO is faster, bigger, yes, but also has some issues. Yesterday we got an OTA update that bricked some phones. http://www.androidcentral.com/hows-y...ng-post-update

Mine wasn't as messed up as others, but some native widgets stopped working and had to be reinstalled. Annoying. (I guess there is a price to pay for wanting to be cutting edge ) but OK, overall I still think it's a great phone but not one worth paying close to $700 ETF (plus don't forget, Sprint will charge you a $35 activation fee, too)

Imagine the kind of computer you can get for that kind of money these days. (or even an Apple iPad which is quite the cool toy, despite its shortcomings)

Hang on!!

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by Vioz

I really want a evo now, im stuck with the moto droid on verizon, to cancel my contract is 320$ per line and i have 2 lines :( to get with sprint, should've went with them in the beggining cheaper rates and good service in my area and the evo is sick

Yeah, as Tomato said, don't leave Verizon just to get the EVO. On July 15th, the Droid X will be released and it is almost the same phone as far as size/specs go. Plus, you may be able to upgrade from your Droid early thus saving you many hundreds of dollars. And Motorola build quality is arguably better.

[tomato]

Sooooooo ... this is probably a good time for a little EVO feedback

EVO is working out OK. Still warming up to Sense's widgets and stuff (read, I still don't know how to use Sense ;). Sometimes, I just prefer to launch the applications myself, the old Vanilla Android way, rather than use Sense's widgets, to be honest.

My unit had a couple of little issues. I have the light leakage peeps mentioned in the geek forums (when you are in a dark environment, you can clearly see a bit of light come out from under the "home" and "back" keys) but I don't have the problem with the screen coming out.

I intend to put the EVO in a tough-case as soon as one becomes available on otterbox.com or case-mate.com anyway, so I think that'll keep the unit sealed and extra-protected and the light leakage will become a non-issue.

I've installed a bunch of conservative apps, a lot of Google stuff mostly, nothing to write home about, and a couple of games, paper toss,a version of pacman, labyrinth lite. I still have 100 MB worth of space. So far, I found what I needed in the free app market.

I put a ZAGG screen protector on the phone. http://www.zagg.com/ It looked a little funky for the first day or so, but now that it's cured, it looks great and there are fewer fingerprints on the screen now.

Small things I noticed and could do without:

Phone has a hard time deciding if it wants to turn on, at times. Once, I had to remove the battery from the unit and put it back, and then the phone was fine after that. Will have to watch that.

We got an OTA update yesterday, and the phone was buggy afterwards. Some native widgets refused to load properly, displayed error messages despite repeated reboots. I fixed it by deleting the widget and reinstalling it. This morning, another widget was acting up, again, deleted the widget and reinstalled it. Seems to have fixed it for now.

Other than that, no issue with the phone. Haven't yet experienced 4G speeds, but at times 3G seems to be plenty fast if you can believe that.

For the locals: I get good coverage with Sprint, in the East Bay, in San Francisco, OK on BART but no signal on MUNI underground. I believe the Sprint network is much more solid than T-Mo's and AT&T's right now (I know TMo is trying to catch up with HSPA+ so don't discount them entirely), otherwise, Sprint in SF is comparable to VZW in terms of network coverage.

Battery lasts me an entire day, generally, but I'm a light user (couple of hours of internet, emails pushed through all day, tweets / FB updates every couple of hours). I don't talk much on the phone.

I find that use the camera much more than I did the N1's (probably because it's easier to see the screen outside in day light). The only thing I don't like about the camera is that it gives a blue hue in the shade but you can probably change that in the settings if you have time to do it when you take the shot.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the phone. Well done, HTC!

PS. I have shown my phone to a few of the guys who work at the Apple store the other day, and they *really* like it. I think it's the screen size that makes everybody go "wow" or maybe they know a good thing when they see one ?

[tomato]

@ Vioz. I'm happy overall with the phone, but I STILL WOULDN'T PAY UPWARDS OF $650 ETF and various other fees to get it!!!

I was not on contract with anyone when I jumped ship, and I would *most definitely* have kept my N1 if I could have had signal during my commute :/ (which is when I use the phone the most). The N1 is pretty much the equivalent to the Moto Droid so I meant what I said earlier.

[Kioshi]

why won't Verizon put front cameras on THEIR versions of these smartphones?
They have Skype, I want to utilize the video call feature on Skype w/ Verizon's phone...

The Droid X should have added the front facing camera~
Or....is Verizon waiting for their 4G launch..then after that?

[Vioz]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

why won't Verizon put front cameras on THEIR versions of these smartphones?
They have Skype, I want to utilize the video call feature on Skype w/ Verizon's phone...

The Droid X should have added the front facing camera~
Or....is Verizon waiting for their 4G launch..then after that?

That was one of the main reasons i liked it because of the front facing camera, and was kind of pissed when i found out the droid x didn't have one.

So im going to wait actually around december, they said the new Android 3.0 is coming out around mid-october and they are only available to phones with a minimum system requirement of 1ghz proccessor, and 512 mb ram or suttim like that, so basically evo's, droid 2.0, droid x is going to get the update, but that also means and a small rumor going around that the first 2.0 processor is going to come out around then and hopefully motorola or htc come out with a nice phone with a front facing camera and 2.0 processor and so much i can't wait til christmas



oh yea im eligible for an upgrade in november 2011 :(

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by Vioz

That was one of the main reasons i liked it because of the front facing camera, and was kind of pissed when i found out the droid x didn't have one.

So im going to wait actually around december, they said the new Android 3.0 is coming out around mid-october and they are only available to phones with a minimum system requirement of 1ghz proccessor, and 512 mb ram or suttim like that, so basically evo's, droid 2.0, droid x is going to get the update, but that also means and a small rumor going around that the first 2.0 processor is going to come out around then and hopefully motorola or htc come out with a nice phone with a front facing camera and 2.0 processor and so much i can't wait til christmas


oh yea im eligible for an upgrade in november 2011 :(

I use to own a samsung Omnia, from last year...it too had a front facing camera..but it was covered up by Verizon. All the covers for it had a hole in the front for its purpose...

I'll wait a year...see what comes during the CES show.
My contract expires next year as well...

[tomato]

There is always a new device right around the corner. If you don't like the offerings, just wait, something better is bound to come out sooner or later.

[tomato]

This morning I decided to photograph my commute, took about 15 - 20 pics between the house and work, and emailed them. Had the phone on for maybe an hour, doing that. Killed task when not using the phone with Task Killer. By the time I got to work about an hour later, battery was like 50% drained. (EVO, stock)

Gonna be shopping for a spare battery I think. Still gonna keep the phone, but will have to buy : car charger, spare battery.

How do you peeps make the most out of your battery?

[tomato]

Originally Posted by PK198105

custom rom, download Autokiller, it will keep ur phone in check. switch gps and bt off if ur not using it, set brightness to 1/4. minimize animations and disable live wallpapers

Yeah, i don't think I can root my phone. They had it rooted for a while in the beginning shortly after release, then Sprint and HTC issued an update that killed the process. I'm sure it's a matter of time before someone finds another hack/

what's BT?

Do you use the Pro version of Task Killer?

(I found part of the problem after I posted. I had the radio running in the background all morning. It $!@#$ auto-launches !!) But still, I 've already noticed that the camera sucks the battery dry.

[Shroomster]

BT=bluetooth, Verizon customers really don't know what it is, except for that it lets them use an earpiece or a car speaker system to talk through....no offense.

Verizon locks down BT and other sharing to 'safe guard' their customers.

and Pk, Gps only runs when you want it to, unless some app runs in background using it? I'm getting about 2-days or so out of my MT3g....

[Rain]

Originally Posted by Shroomster

BT=bluetooth, Verizon customers really don't know what it is, except for that it lets them use an earpiece or a car speaker system to talk through....no offense.

Verizon locks down BT and other sharing to 'safe guard' their customers.

LOL and that's why I'll never be a Verizon customer because I like syncing over BT and been doing it since my first smartphone had it in 2003

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Question.. is there a simpler way to close an application?
Aside from going to the applications manager which takes forever to load? Do I have to get an APP for that?

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by PK198105

not always Shroom, there is a bug with google maps it sometimes "forgets" to quit properly and GPS pings away like crazy. You will notice this when your phone starts to heat up. And don't forget if you select Allow Google to know your position the phone will periodically ping its location to update the google service. AutoKiller is a great app btw , you can set your memory thresholds as well as kill any process that slows your phone down or drains the batt. I would suggest to download system monitor this will show you which app and device is eating your battery

thanks for the info!

[tomato]

Backing out is enough only for some applications, but most of the time, you have to use the task killer as well. Some apps auto-launch which is annoying as hell.

[Rain]

Which ones auto launch? I didn't even notice that...

[tomato]

I can't answer that, I don't know what apps you're running or what phone you have.

The best way to see what's running IMO is to download Task Killer (I have the free version) or wait until PK logs in and he'll tell you what he uses. PK really knows his way around an Android phone or ask the guys with Moto Droid's and similar phones. I'm just getting started w this technology