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Well I am very interested in this phone but would like some honest opinions about it here are my questiones. Was the phone what you thought it would be? Is the dual core fast,any lag? and how issue battery life
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I love my 3d and it is speedy and all. But to be honest, if i were upgrading now i would get something else. There are better phones out now as tech moves so quickly. Not a bad phone dont get me wrong, just better ones are out there now
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I've had a lot of android phone and the evo 3d is the only one that's I've been so satisfied with since my droid 1
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Thanks for feedback I have 2 weeks to decide and it's either this phone or epic touch battery is an issue I would like a phone to last majority of the day also u would want a phone that I know will be updated to ics I know HTC already confirmed this with evo3d don't know about epic touch
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Evo3d and epic touch are the best 2 choices. I would say the 3d because its fast and made by htc. Gotta love sense.
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Evo 3d is the best phone sprint has hands down... And some of the best developers...
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Motorola photon....hands down....
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I have an Epic 4G, was going with the Touch BUT! I just bought me an Evo 3D from ebay. I think the masses believe in HTC. They are just better built and from what I see here, have more support. Mines in the mail baby, I'll be joining you all here soon.
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I really dig the Photon and the SGSII is nice as well. But for me, Sense is where it's at. Plus the Dev support is fantastic and exceeds that of the Sammy and MoPho in my opinion.
I had the opportunity to go Photon or Evo3D. Went Evo3D. No regrets. The community really ha made this phone a beast. Before root, I must admit I missed my Evo4G... Not anymore. 3D is neat, but ultimately a gimmick in my humble opinion. The dial cores are fast. I'm running Eternity on mine and it is buttery smooth. To the battery issue.... I chew through them. SIMPLE and CHEAP solution. Ebay up a set of 3 spare batteries and a battery charger for $20. Cha ching!
E3D'ed... Booyah!
Wow you guys are really convincing me to go with the evo3d
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Wow you guys are really convincing me to go with the evo3d
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Sarcasm? lol Play w/ it for a good long while and choose from there. I'm still thinking of trading in my Evo 3D for an Epic Touch 4G... but I have heard nothing but problems from peeps on these forums regarding said device. LOS; cheap build quality; software issues after root, etc. BUT I have also heard nothing but good things about the screen/camera/phone's fluidity.
I've played w/ the ET a couple of times... I've never had any issues w/ it at all while handling it and the fact that the phone FEELS so much smoother than the Evo 3D really makes me want to make the switch.
Anyway, the Photon beats them both for phone stability and build quality but the interface is very bogged down/laggy and the dev support is pretty damn scarce.
Make the right decision. :3
I figure the battery is the same as epic touch which is bad so I would go have look for quality and I know the evo3d has some weight to it which is fine with me epic touch looks like its poor quality any thoughts
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Really depends on what ur coming from. I mean its a bad ass phone for sure but I think I could have been just as happy sticking with my 4G EVO. I love my 3d don't get me wrong. It's fast and reliable for sure. The 3d feature is cool at first but i don't really find any real use for it. Definately love it but think about this too, LTE phones should be coming out one after another starting next year. Depending on what u got now maybe u should wait and see what's new in the first quarter.
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Some times it's just so damn hard to try and wait.
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Yea it can can be confusing choosing a phone would if you guys where in my shoes on upgrading my phone( hero) would you still pick the evo3d
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Yeah, because with the hero there might be alot of features u think are phone related and are really sense related.
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Yea it can can be confusing choosing a phone would if you guys where in my shoes on upgrading my phone( hero) would you still pick the evo3d
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If you've held out on upgrading this long, I'd go ahead and wait for Sprint to start releasing LTE devices next year. That would suck if you upgraded now, right before the end of the year and in 6 months LTE devices come out and Sprint's new LTE network starting to become operational, and you're stuck with a WiMAX phone for 2 years.
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Yea it can can be confusing choosing a phone would if you guys where in my shoes on upgrading my phone( hero) would you still pick the evo3d
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Yes!! 2 Evo 3D's here for almost 5 months. 100% satisfied. My wife upgraded from Hero to Evo Design 4G 2 weeks ago and that phone is awesome. Go play with all the phones and buy the one that blows your skirt up. Grandpa always said "never buy anything that doesn't excite you". Good luck!!
galaxy nexus, hands down
Well, I've been an Evo 3D fag, but i've been having problems with it and I don't really like it. First one went completley dead, and this one has random reboots and gps is fried.
I brought my e3d to sprint last night and they gave me an option of the E3d or Photon.
I decided to try the Photon ( mistake or good choice)?
The E3d is very buggy and just isn't very good quality. I heard the Photon gets great reception and such. The 3D was garbage and bars would jump to 5 then instantly drop to 1 all the time.
Hopefully I made a good choice. Or did I?
Good choice to my evo3d back after 7 days for the photon
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My son has the 3d. Great device, except that he doesn't get good reception. I love my Mopho. However don't expected as many roms here as the 3d. The ones we have are great though!
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Hello,
I purchased an EVO 3D as part of the First to Buy promotion last June as a Premier Gold after having a wonderful experience with my EVO 4G.
All I can say is after literally 5 different 3D's, 2 weeks ago I finally demanded a different Android Handset and too was offered the Photon.
I truly cannot be happier and as I already had a 16gb SD Card, the amount of Storage I have is staggering. It has been hard to get used to the Home Button not being at the far left, but I have gotten used to it.
Cheers,
JJ
Thanks for the replies, i do like the storage on it. I know there isnt much going on for development, but i'm not too worried about it. It doesn't make that much of a difference with the phone its just fun and addicting.
The E3D is just so buggy, the roms and phone itself.
I just got my photon today coming from a galaxy s2 i didnt have los but at work its like a dead spot and with my epic touch 4g i would lose all bars but with my photon i get full bars plus 4g wtf.!!!! Photon ftw.!!!
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Congrats on your choice. I just unlocked about 3-4 days ago and it was very easy. From what others have told me it is a very hard phone to brick. Reception is by far the best I have had on any phone. I think you will like it!
Welcome to the club. Most will tell you the photon doesn't need a rom. I'm one of those people. I'm satisfied just being rooted on stock. It's pretty much hits the nose in terms of what I want from a rom. Enjoy!
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I think you've made a very good choice. I recently just got the Photon in the last week coming from an Evo 4G. This phone has the best reception of any I've owned. Battery life is also excellent. Over all I am very pleased.
Like nyckid stated, the stock ROM is very good. I have yet to see a compelling reason to flash an alternative. Unlike with my Evo where I was flashing a new ROM or kernel every other day, lol.
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Welcome to the club. Most will tell you the photon doesn't need a rom. I'm one of those people. I'm satisfied just being rooted on stock. It's pretty much hits the nose in terms of what I want from a rom. Enjoy!
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Well said!
Im hella happy with my Photon. I traded my Samsung Galaxy S2 for it. It's just a different phone. If you've had 1 Samsung you've had them all.
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Awesome, I was kinda worried I made the wrong choice, but now im anxious for it to come :O. i can live with the stock rooted. Flashing is too addicting and on the e3d almost every rom is buggy to the point where you wanna throw the phone out the window
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Awesome, I was kinda worried I made the wrong choice, but now im anxious for it to come :O. i can live with the stock rooted. Flashing is too addicting and on the e3d almost every rom is buggy to the point where you wanna throw the phone out the window
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Funny, I had Evo, Rooted it only to put it back after 3 days. I Rooted Photon, but it back, rooted again for bettery battery life (I use ROM Toolbox Pro!) but for the most part, I like the Photon just like it is, Stock?
I also think you made a good choice. I've always owned Moto phones, except for one. The quality and reception are always great.
I'm a MoPho-er
Ive had the evo 4g,on launch day as well as evo 3d.and i must say the photon is the better phone...hands down!!!!
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Yeah, I too am getting a MoPho after having issues w my 3D..... It will be my first android without sense....
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Im hella happy with my Photon. I traded my Samsung Galaxy S2 for it. It's just a different phone. If you've had 1 Samsung you've had them all.
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Hey i traded my gs2 too lol. I was lucky enough with a guy on craigslist that barely got his phone and didnt like it and i barely got my gs2 maybe 2 weeks ago. So we traded and he added cash on top. Honestly this phone feels better in hand feels solid doesn't feel cheap in hand and the thing im super happy about it that it has superb signal. I've never owned a motorola phone but now i love em.!!! This phone is fast, no droped calls, great battery. Im in love with my mopho.!
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Welcome to the club. Most will tell you the photon doesn't need a rom. I'm one of those people. I'm satisfied just being rooted on stock. It's pretty much hits the nose in terms of what I want from a rom. Enjoy!
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To be rooted stock means you don't have to unlock the bootloader which means you keep 4g right? If so that's what I want to do.
And I just got my Photon today as a replacement for the 3D. So far so good.
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To be rooted stock means you don't have to unlock the bootloader which means you keep 4g right? If so that's what I want to do.
And I just got my Photon today as a replacement for the 3D. So far so good.
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That's what I will prob do anyway....even though I don't have 4g in my town....
I can't wait....I'm so sick of my broken 3VO
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sdc177 said:
To be rooted stock means you don't have to unlock the bootloader which means you keep 4g right? If so that's what I want to do.
And I just got my Photon today as a replacement for the 3D. So far so good.
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That is correct. Root is sort of like administrative access on a computer.Lets you install cool stuff you normally couldn't and make changes to your system, if you would like to. It wont break your 4g in other words.
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ByeBye, my close friends!!!
I will miss you soo much, and I will still be active in the Photon forums, but I leaving to switch to the SII... Most of you tell me that I'll find myself running back to the Photon, but due to my complications...I doubt that........ I don't wanna leave a good community and a great Motorola Device with the best call quality and radios out.... But, this is goodbye, for now at least....
Special shoutouts to Shabbypenguin, Lokifish Marz, Bandage, Yay 4 Juggs, QBKing77, KTT16, kennypow3rs, dsims7_2000, and all of those that started this community!!!
Good thanks to by buddy who has disappeared --- xTMFxOffshore...
My Very close friends are xTMFxOffshore & kennypow3rs. I will miss you both.
The names in bold are the people that started this community and ran the fourms, they have been here from day one, some of which have left us...
Adios, Amigos!!!
Will Miss You All!!!
And KTT16 --- We planned to work on a theme together this summer, but I don't think that will pan out.
Sad to see you go. The GSII is a good entertainment phone (I have one) and has a pretty big dev community. There also a number of big names on that device as well. I personally choose the MoPho over the GSII but can't harp on anybody that goes with it.
Wish you good luck!
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Peace brotha...enjoy your new phone. Still, hit me up if you need some help themeing. Im definitely not an expert, but can try to help..
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Personally, I think you (We) should have waited until Samsung Note but, I'm sure I will see you again my friend. Good Luck and you know where to find me!
EDIT: I take that back, Your SII is gay!!! that weak a** phone is for loosers and people that cannot make it in the real world. I would not even let my daughter get that punk a** phone! I bet the WiFi is the lower 'a' band and it dont have GPS and if it does, its a dudes voice. Instead of ICS, it has Veggi Soup!!!! (Deedscreen I could go at this all day but I have to work!!)
The SII is garbage.. at least Sprint's version. I hope it works out for you but I bet it wont take you half a day to see how subpar the radio in that phone is.
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Personally, I think you (We) should have waited until Samsung Note but, I'm sure I will see you again my friend. Good Luck and you know where to find me!
EDIT: I take that back, Your SII is gay!!! that weak a** phone is for loosers and people that cannot make it in the real world. I would not even let my daughter get that punk a** phone! I bet the WiFi is the lower 'a' band and it dont have GPS and if it does, its a dudes voice. Instead of ICS, it has Veggi Soup!!!! (Deedscreen I could go at this all day but I have to work!!)
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That's some funny ****. Lmao
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That's some funny ****. Lmao
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him having veggie soup vs ICS or the dude giving him directions?
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I'll see for myself... Anyways, I have backup phones and can return the SII if it sucks....
I miss my photon so much lol
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Cm9 ice has a working camera ....lol!
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kennypow3rs said:
I miss my photon so much lol
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I would specially miss it if my replacement was an iphone
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I miss my photon so much lol
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Come back to the dark side, we have cookies! And CM9 with camera. :-D
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im surprised deed did not hop on me about my comments. kennypow3rs, who cares! BUT, how's the new phones guys? give us the low down. (and don't be bias! Photon is not end of the world.)
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I would specially miss it if my replacement was an iphone
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Lmfao iPhone life is ok I can't complain. I need some ics in my life what's the status on the gsm unlock was that even real?
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Come back to the dark side, we have cookies! And CM9 with camera. :-D
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Dude even when cam wasn't working that rom was sick. I got an Evo view 4G so I'm some what in the android game.
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I along with my bud kennypow3rs both have the HTC Evo View 4G tablet on Honeycomb and we love it!
Well, I'm running Blazer Rom with a sick ICS System theme and ICS Roboto font and I f****** love this phone after only a few hours of use...
When I first felt it, I said "Oh hell no, this puppy is going back! It feels like a non-operating display phone..." I put the battery in and not bad at all!!!
This phone is sick. So far it blows my Photon away... I love Motorola, but I love my SII...
It feels fake, but in a good way!
I'll post back more soon.
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One more thing, I was scared ****less to flash a ROM on the Photon, but on the SII Epic Touch, I feel like I'm flashing a theme on the Photon!
I love this thing!
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One more thing, I was scared ****less to flash a ROM on the Photon, but on the SII Epic Touch, I feel like I'm flashing a theme on the Photon!
I love this thing!
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SII is for guys with small penis! women with small penis too! (I kill myself sometime!) if ICS is good, why did you flash it?
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I'm not even going to respond to that, but the point is --- So far, I love this phone...
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Just moved to dallas from Omaha never had lte. Got into dallas and boom so damn fast I love my phone /tablet all over again.
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Congrats lte is the shiznit
FJ pimped my pride
Beware of throttling or overages...... remember the warning!!!
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Where I live the LTE not support here yet
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Man that's awesome wish they had it here
Nope I keep my wifi going I'm too cheap to pay for something I feel I should get anyways.
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LTE is awesome, but DAMN it eats battery LIKE MAD!
The speed is jaw dropping. I got to use it in Baton Rouge last weekend. It was fun, i got to deflated my iphone fan friends with my big ass note. I played it straight though, as if it was just an android thing...nothing special..no..no its always like that. Stupid fun.
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It definitely is great. So great that I have been throttled every month so far. Damn you BIG TELCO.
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The speed is jaw dropping. I got to use it in Baton Rouge last weekend. It was fun, i got to deflated my iphone fan friends with my big ass note. I played it straight though, as if it was just an android thing...nothing special..no..no its always like that. Stupid fun.
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My friend "doesn't care" his 4S doesn't have LTE. Ha. Yet if he had it...it would be awesome because apple invented it.
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I went from 3g to LTE here in Houston and almost passed out at the speed difference.
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Welcome to Texas! Live in Fort Worth myself and love LTE.
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Caught LTE in Atlanta am with you what a diffence, enjoy it, can't wait till 2015 (when/if it shows up in my area)........
Welcome OP! I live in Dallas as well. I came from Sprint to AT&T for the Note. The speed improvements were jaw dropping. I'll never go back. It's like i'm rediscovering cellphones all over again! (read: my data was ****e with Sprint)
Sprint doesn't have data they have frustration.
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Welcome OP! I live in Dallas as well. I came from Sprint to AT&T for the Note. The speed improvements were jaw dropping. I'll never go back. It's like i'm rediscovering cellphones all over again! (read: my data was ****e with Sprint)
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I love my note and Att. Lte is amazing and TX is ok.
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They don't have LTE where I live either. My iphone4 feels like a toy now.
After only owning this phone I hated it, I'm on it too much .I use over 1.3gb on 3g and I cant stop looking at YouTube videos, want to know more and more about it by Googling ... For real tho I'm happy with this phone and is the best decision I made since the OG evo... Gs3 is about to come out and even tho I don't have it I don't feel like I need too , a lot people is trying to return their phone cause another is coming out... I been there before and sometimes we don't think it thru. I'm happy with my phone ans some of us don't realize how great it is .no phone is perfect.
Watch this evo owners
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?deskto...ture=youtube_gdata_player&v=8r1CZTLk-Gk&gl=US
And this for those that feel the phone is not good enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktoalz6PbXc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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What?
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What?
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You have to read it a few times to make sense of it.
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I'm trying to see how many people can actually realize we have an a amazing phone and deceploment is looking *slow*
But what they don't realize is that no phone is perfect nerve will, if you feel like the phone is not good enough then why get it in the first place , we all have 2 weeks to try it out and not fill up the xda board with complaints and complaints , I believe thus is a keeper for me
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I'm going to have to agree with the OP. I have the same problem. I can't put the thing down. The screen is very nice and vibrant. I even put Fast Five on it the other day and have watched it about 3 times with the beautiful 720p screen and Beats audio using my Skullcandy 50/50s. There are people out there who are truly disappointed in the phone, and that can be their opinion. This should be the EVO 4G LTE lover's thread.
I too can't put the thing down. Screen is beautiful.
ok I agree totally. I mean I was glued to my old Epic but the screen on this thing is so sharp I actually started to read books on it.
my buddy is waiting for the gs3 but I think the screen on this phone is the top selling point.
I'm typing this while watching the video from Conan. Doesn't get much better for me. I agree 100%. We always want more, so the issue is accepting what we have and not getting upset at what we don't. I'm making a stand against my ego and accepting this device as what I need and adjusting to it. This thing is awesome as is and any shortcomings are way better than the razor I had just a few years ago. And the support from this community will only unlock more of its potential for us.
Go android!!
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Im with you guys. Simply amazing device. Its eating up ALL MY FREE TIME! Great job HTC! ANDROID BABY!
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I am returning this pos for the gs3 with an amoled screen as soon as they are in stock. Samsung forever
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I am returning this pos for the gs3 with an amoled screen as soon as they are in stock. Samsung forever
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Lol, goodluck!
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I absolutely love this phone and can't put it down.... The only thing that would make me happier is if the new Sync Manager actually worked.
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Lol, goodluck!
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I get the feeling it was a joke.... But could have been serious...
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I agree with the rest of you, this phone is hard to put down, coming from an OG Evo to Evo3D to Photon I finally feel like I have a phone that meets my needs since the OG Evo. I would like to see how much data I have used after 30 days.
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can't put it down....and battery STILL lasts all day
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Something I want to add:
I am extremely anal about dead pixels. Not because I expect a display to be 'perfect' but because of my personal ocd issues. They bug the hell out of me. I had one on my Evo3D and it annoyed me EVERY time I turned it on.
On this phone I have a dead on at the top and then two stuck ones. I don't notice them. Unless I get half an inch away from the screen I don't even know they're there. That's how awesome the screen is. You simply can't tell pixels apart from your normal viewing distance. Hell I could probably have more dead pixels and not know it. You even might. The thing is, the only way you'll know is if you get extremely upclose, turn the brightness all the way up and search pixel by pixel.
That's the only "con" I have against this device and as you can see it isn't even a con. Hands down the best piece of hardware I've ever owned.
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I get the feeling it was a joke.... But could have been serious...
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ckoadiyn said:
I get the feeling it was a joke.... But could have been serious...
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Who cares never heard of that guy he is just a leech doesn't contribute to the community
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I went and got a replacement today, and I thought about the S3 before I committed to the replacement, I said I'm very happy with this phone.
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I get the feeling it was a joke.... But could have been serious...
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Yes serious. Radio in this is a joke. My og epic's data is way faster on 3g in the same areas as where I'm using this and sense really sucks. Non removable battery, you have to download programs just to access the internal storage what a joke. If your not tech savvy then yeah this phone is for you but a die hard Samsung is the only the way.