Just wondering if anyone has switched to the amaze from the evo3d. Tired of sprint where I live and am thinking about jumping to tmo. I dont know how hard the 3d will be to give up though, so if anyone has, do you miss it at all?
I just switched my service over and had the evo 3d on sprint. This phone is basically the same as the evo 3d so if you like the evo like I did you will also like the amaze. Sprint service has been terrible for a while so I made the switch and now I actually have service in the apartment. The network speed is also really fast compared to Sprint plus I am saving a lot. I couldn't get 1mbps on spring 3g and the wiimax is a joke. On t mobile I am getting nearly 10mbps even in my apartment.
I also had the 3d, I can tell you that this phone is a lot smoother and as for data speeds t Mobile smokes Sprint. Even on the rarities that I don't have full signal strength it is just rediculously faster than Sprint.
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how much do you guys miss the 3d function? I dont use it alot but when I do I love it. Been trying to hold out for tmo to get a 3d handset, but I'm about over sprint at this point.
With the quality of the pics you get with the amaze you'll be glad you switched. I only used the 3d function for the first couple of days so I personally don't miss it. The quality of the amazes cam is pretty outstanding.
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The savings, faster data speeds and better coverage for me trumps 3D. I may used it once or twice but I am not big on taking pics with the phone. I prefer my dedicated camera.
I had the Evo 4g for ten months and jumped the ship to T-mobile. I didn't like the changes that Sprint was and wasn't doing. The stores got to the point were no employee could help me, I go to pay my bill and they couldn't look the info up but when Shentel ran the show they could. Also the fact that they have the smallest/slowest nonexpanding 4g market was just plain sad. Sorry ending rant, this phone and carrier are both amazing.
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I use my Evo's at the fringe area of sprint's network. Yesterday I had the 3D and the 4G ( within a couple of min of each other) try to sync friend stream. The original Evo 4G did it with no problem. I ended up having to allow data roaming on the 3D so it could access the "ether".
BTW the wife's evo shift had 3G so wtf 3D ?
I'm wondering it this is a singular experience or the radio needs a tuning upgrade? Probably another point for having an unlocked boot loader. Hey if sprint pays the roaming ....
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I use my Evo's at the fringe area of sprint's network. Yesterday I had the 3D and the 4G ( within a couple of min of each other) try to sync friend stream. The original Evo 4G did it with no problem. I ended up having to allow data roaming on the 3D so it could access the "ether".
BTW the wife's evo shift had 3G so wtf 3D ?
I'm wondering it this is a singular experience or the radio needs a tuning upgrade? Probably another point for having an unlocked boot loader. Hey if sprint pays the roaming ....
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I'm noticing reduced 2G and 3G reception too...judging by the Sense "bars" at home I'm in a kinda fringe area....and on the 4G I would get 3...sometimes 4, more often 2 bars. On the 3D I get 0 to 2 bars, most often 1.
Though perhaps they changed those bars to reflect 3G instead of 2G....I know the 2G coverage around here better than 3G by a small bit. As far as usability/performance I have noticed no difference....except at work in the bathroom, noticeably lower speeds/threshold for roaming...potential deal breaker
But I imagine a radio update would be able to address this, perhaps it already has been...I'm not applying any OTA for now though.
But, yeah, slightly weaker 3G performance....but I can live with it.
It gets me thinking though, if we can't get this thing unlocked in the 30-day window and I take it back and wait for the SGS2, which will likely have the usual lackluster Samsung radios....will that be roughly the same as this? Cuz i can live with that, or will it be worse? Cuz I couldn't deal with reception less than this...not even by a hair, I'm already on cusp.....but, if it is the same or better then I have no concerns....
I've been trying to get this problem noticed by the community here but i think there may have been a bad batch of phones. I'll try to get mine replaced
Edit: download open signal on both devices and compare the dbm level on both phones
I live less than 10 miles from the Sprint headquarters and can't get 4G connection in my neighborhood. I certainly didn't expect this to be what all the hype was about.
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I use my Evo's at the fringe area of sprint's network. Yesterday I had the 3D and the 4G ( within a couple of min of each other) try to sync friend stream. The original Evo 4G did it with no problem. I ended up having to allow data roaming on the 3D so it could access the "ether".
BTW the wife's evo shift had 3G so wtf 3D ?
I'm wondering it this is a singular experience or the radio needs a tuning upgrade? Probably another point for having an unlocked boot loader. Hey if sprint pays the roaming ....
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I used to need an Airave, then I moved. I had full bars in my home on my EVO 4G and my wife did also on her Palm Pre. I called Sprint and told them I no longer needed the Access Point and to send a return kit. I picked the EVO 3D up two days later, and I now need to keep the Airave. My wife still enjoys full bars on the EVO I gave her, but I get 1 bar consistently, at home.
I also used to get 5 bars in my office with my EVO, I get 2 if I'm lucky with the 3D. Between the ****ty reception and the lag, its probably going back before the 30 days are up. I love the hell out of the phone otherwise, but it lags too much. Poor reception, though, thats a deal breaker for me.
I have both phones and I can tell you I get much better reception with the 3D than I do with the evo. On 4G I get 1 bar with the evo and 2 bars with the 3D. Im also noticing that on the 3D 4G stays on all the time on my evo it would switch drop the 4G connection all the time and I had to disable/enable 4G in order for it to connect again.
I've been noticing a LOT of roaming happening on my 3d lately, in comparison to my OG evo, it's a lot worse. Otherwise, I have an airrave at home, I wanna get something like that for work. I guess you have to make a tradeoff somewhere, amazing battery life with ****ty reception, or decent reception with horrible battery life. I take the 1st one.
Plus I'm finally finding 4g in my area
Noticing a lot of roaming on my 3D as well. Never saw it on my Evo.
I may be, at a cross roads in some twenty days.
At least Sprint will be able to verify my issue, since roaming is probably logged.
I'm sold on the Evo 3D but I don't know whether to move over from T-Mobile and go with it now (freedom from contracts), or to wait for the GSM version whenever it comes out?
Pricing aside (I know there are porting credits for new customers and other subsidies) I'd like to get some thoughts from people who use Sprint service with the device.
I'm not looking to start a flame war or anything, I just want to know what made you decide to go for it and whether a GSM version would have been more convincing?
If price has anything to do with you decision,I think Sprint is cheaper.
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I would go with sprint! they have great customer service, unlimited data, pretty good coverage, and you dont know when the evo 3d will work on t-mobile either. i would say sprint would be a good choice!
its really all relative to where you need it to work at. If your in a good tmobile area its great. hspa+ is crazy fast.
I just switched back to sprint (3 days ago) because of cost and too many dead zones with tmobile. I work at Chase so we get a hefty discount. But tmobile worked ok for me as long as I was in the inner city.
Now, I WILL say this. GSM hs(d)pa throughput hammers sprints 3G. Its always on, data speeds are crazy fast. The phone handles any network changes on the fly. Sprints 3G has been pretty bad lately. I averaged with poor service on tmobile (keep in mind I am in a hs(d)pa market), at least 2 megs down and with good service upwards of 7-8mbps. With sprint 3G im lucky if i get 500kbps.
Now to match apples with apples, Sprints 4G can be fast as hell too. with a good signal, i can get 8-11mbps. The problem is the building penetration of it due to the high frequency of wimax SUCKS. The other inherent problem is battery drain. Having the wimax radio on murders the battery. Where as tmobile phones the "4G" radios do comsume more power, but not to the effect of wimax handsets. A plus side to sprint is the data transfer isnt throttled when you hit 2gigs. You get full speed data no matter how much data you have used. (in most cases)
The other thing I dislike is if my phone loses the 4G signal, the wimax radio goes into a "sleep" state after so long, and you have to manually pull down the notification shade to tell it to scan for 4G networks again. Happens on all of the HTC Sprint 4G devices. I had the epic before (samsung) and 4G switching happened on the fly, sort of like tmobiles phones do.
I would go for it tho, if Sprint works in your area then to hell with it why wait?
Just be aware that Sprint is getting the Galaxy s2 within the next month or two...so Id defintely say wait a little bit to see both and see which one you like more.
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In my test with tmobile they got better 3g whenit works I do have more drop calls in tmobile and almost none on sprint, but if I would have to get tmobile I would definitely go with the sensation really nice phone evo 3d brother and the. Only thing is the it has less ram and no 3d which I could live with
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
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In my test with tmobile they got better 3g whenit works I do have more drop calls in tmobile and almost none on sprint, but if I would have to get tmobile I would definitely go with the sensation really nice phone evo 3d brother and the. Only thing is the it has less ram and no 3d which I could live with
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
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i agree, I would prefer the sensation over the 3d because its slimmer and doesnt have the extra screen layer, so it looks like the images jump right off the screen. not downing the the 3D at all, but i would have preferred the sensation. Im never going to use the 3D stuff
Has T-Mobile announced they're getting the 3D?
I assumed the Sensation was to be their version of it.
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Has T-Mobile announced they're getting the 3D?
I assumed the Sensation was to be their version of it.
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Official no
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
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Has T-Mobile announced they're getting the 3D?
I assumed the Sensation was to be their version of it.
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Ah, I meant T-Mobile USA. There is a European GSM EVO 3D model coming possibly in September or soon after. Part of the reason I am interested in waiting is that I do enjoy my current T-Mobile USA plan--no contract. I switch phones every few months and it's been a really long while since there's been a phone that's kept me interested long enough to want to sign a contract.
Here's a link to the Rogers version of the GSM model (850/1900/2100 3G bands) and the UK Amazon version of the GSM model (900/AWS 1700/2100 UMTS bands; Sept 12 due date).
I really appreciate all of the thoughts you guys (and gals?).
First time posting, been reading here for the last year.
Is it even worth it to upgrade to this while not able to get LTE? I'm in Chicago and I dont wanna be stuck with only the cdma 3g again until LTE is deployed here. Anyone know if the EVO LTE will connect to wimax?
I would wait for them to announce it for your city first. I was in chicago last summer and 4g wrked perfect everywhere
Unless your a phone whore(who isnt on XDA) and need to have the latest and greatest. Wait.
Might as well keep some type of 4g(wimax) and wait. Hell, who knows. Maybe by the time you get LTE, there will be something new and magical out. EVO 4G LTE Sandwich Maker(can only wish).
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Unless your a phone whore(who isnt on XDA) and need to have the latest and greatest. Wait.
Might as well keep some type of 4g(wimax) and wait. Hell, who knows. Maybe by the time you get LTE, there will be something new and magical out. EVO 4G LTE Sandwich Maker(can only wish).
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Unfortunately yes I'm a huge phone whore haha.
rocking an evo 3d now on the newest mean rom.
Had an upgrade since January first and it's been killing me waiting for a new phone, but I think I may hold off until the GS3 is announced and see what that has to offer. I'm kinda getting sick of sense and really like the stock ICS look and feel.
Wait for what? The phone is a beast period. LTE is just an added plus. I will be there release day. Was first with Wimax and will be first with LTE, but regardless, im on wifi 90% of the time, and this monster will pretty much be comparable with any phone released the rest of 2012 to me, so im all in.
Wait for LTE to be deployed in Chicago. Mainly just because Sprints 3g is absolutely horrid. Plus whenever our net goes down I love that I can just tether wimax and its plenty fast
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Wait for LTE to be deployed in Chicago. Mainly just because Sprints 3g is absolutely horrid. Plus whenever our net goes down I love that I can just tether wimax and its plenty fast
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Well you will probably find your answer a little closer to launch. I would think by then sprint would have firm dates to when major cities will be getting its LTE turned on.
I'm getting it and then patiently wait for LTE. I have Wimax in my area but I'm mostly on WiFi anyways.
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First time posting, been reading here for the last year.
Is it even worth it to upgrade to this while not able to get LTE? I'm in Chicago and I dont wanna be stuck with only the cdma 3g again until LTE is deployed here. Anyone know if the EVO LTE will connect to wimax?
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Chicago is in first round of NetworkVision deployments so LTE should reach the city sooner than others...DONE by October...but youll see improvements wayyy before then as, soon as the clusters are turned on you'll notice incredible 3G speeds hopefully. should be well over 1Mbps easy and sub 100pings...
read this:
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-schedule-details-for-sprints-chicago-market/
no wimax. forget it exists going forward.
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Chicago is in first round of NetworkVision deployments so LTE should reach the city sooner than others...DONE by October...but youll see improvements wayyy before then as, soon as the clusters are turned on you'll notice incredible 3G speeds hopefully. should be well over 1Mbps easy and sub 100pings...
read this:
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-schedule-details-for-sprints-chicago-market/
no wimax. forget it exists going forward.
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Cannot wait to forget about wimax... but for now its the only option
Slightly off topic but still somewhat relevant. I know that it took a long time to get Wimax working in CM on the OG EVO. Does anyone know if LTE will be just as difficult? It might not be an issue if the 3G speeds improve drastically with Network Vision. Here in Raleigh, NC 3G has been awful for several months now so I've been living off Wimax and wifi when possible. I'd hate to upgrade to this phone and be stuck on my current download speeds in CM9 (yes I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself lol).
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If you want high dev support, yeah. Remember, this is 2 years after the original Evo so most of those devs will use their upgrade on the Evo LTE. Also, this is supposed to be htc's device of the year. And did I mention it's the first LTE phone on sprint?
So yeah, this phone will have high dev support which is already a reason to get it. If you're still not impressed, remember that the specs on that thing make it a beast.
Worth it.
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Even without LTE support, this is as big of an upgrade as the EVO 4G was to ...uhh...the Hero?
Similar advantage points include but are not limited to:
-bigger screen (4.7in)
-higher resolution (720P)
-better display technology (SLCD2)
-better processor
-better camera
-better software
-true Beats audio support
-"HD Voice" EVRC-NW
-higher capacity battery
-Sprint LTE support (won't matter yet to those who won't have LTE in their area, but still)
It's well worth the investment, especially since WiMAX isn't being worked on anymore
Why would you NOT upgrade? Unless you use WiMAX and LTE won't be available in your area. Other than that, there is no logical reason to stick with the EVO 3D after yesterday's announcement. Even though the EVO 4G LTE isn't that great looking, it blows our phone out of the water in every single aspect of the word.
The EVO 4G to EVO 3D on the other hand, not THAT much of an upgrade.
-Camera quality subjective
-Battery life subjective
-Support is definitely not even close to where the EVO 4G was and here we are nearly a year later
-3D feature subjective
-Missing kickstand
Nothing on the EVO 4G LTE is subjective in terms of being just plain better than the EVO 3D, except maybe the battery life, which has yet to be benchmarked.
my main question is that by the time LTE reaches Chicago will there be something better? b/c I use wimax a fair amount
freeza said:
Even without LTE support, this is as big of an upgrade as the EVO 4G was to ...uhh...the Hero?
Similar advantage points include but are not limited to:
-bigger screen (4.7in)
-higher resolution (720P)
-better display technology (SLCD2)
-better processor
-better camera
-better software
-true Beats audio support
-"HD Voice" EVRC-NW
-higher capacity battery
-Sprint LTE support (won't matter yet to those who won't have LTE in their area, but still)
It's well worth the investment, especially since WiMAX isn't being worked on anymore
Why would you NOT upgrade? Unless you use WiMAX and LTE won't be available in your area. Other than that, there is no logical reason to stick with the EVO 3D after yesterday's announcement. Even though the EVO 4G LTE isn't that great looking, it blows our phone out of the water in every single aspect of the word.
The EVO 4G to EVO 3D on the other hand, not THAT much of an upgrade.
-Camera quality subjective
-Battery life subjective
-Support is definitely not even close to where the EVO 4G was and here we are nearly a year later
-3D feature subjective
-Missing kickstand
Nothing on the EVO 4G LTE is subjective in terms of being just plain better than the EVO 3D, except maybe the battery life, which has yet to be benchmarked.
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think I have said something close to this before? lol
my 3d does everything i need it to do, I would wait.
I have to say that the back side of the phone is a little ugly, but everything else looks great. Anyone have a decent comparison between the LTEvo and the Galaxy Nexus though? I was thinking of going with the Galaxy Nexus...but after the EVO 4G and 3D...I'm starting to develop some kind of EVO brand loyalty I guess.
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I have to say that the back side of the phone is a little ugly, but everything else looks great. Anyone have a decent comparison between the LTEvo and the Galaxy Nexus though? I was thinking of going with the Galaxy Nexus...but after the EVO 4G and 3D...I'm starting to develop some kind of EVO brand loyalty I guess.
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its on utube......not even close in quality and performance
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sgt. slaughter said:
Chicago is in first round of NetworkVision deployments so LTE should reach the city sooner than others...DONE by October...but youll see improvements wayyy before then as, soon as the clusters are turned on you'll notice incredible 3G speeds hopefully. should be well over 1Mbps easy and sub 100pings...
read this:
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-schedule-details-for-sprints-chicago-market/
no wimax. forget it exists going forward.
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I hate to rain on your parade, but I am in San Antonio (one of the first 4 cities), and I have checked the upgrade status, and almost all upgrades have been done here, yet I just ran speed test 5 times and the highest I got was 268kbps down. This is pretty much standard here. I think I got over 500kbps once. LTE may be awesome, but I think that the rumors of better 3g are far overblown.
Been a long time user of HTC devices going back to the Touch Pro and Touch Pro 2... Purchased the EVO and EVO 3D both on their original Sprint launch dates. Now with pre-orders taking place May 7th. I am trying to gauge whether to upgrade to the LTE or stay with the 3D or simply go with the LTE at Root. Obviously it is not too hard to make a choice, but if you decide to stay with a 3D will there be good Development support or is the Development support going to move onto the LTE?
Get it!
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I'm solely moving to the new evo because of the camera and the software behind sense 4. I say go for it.
Now that there is ICS coming about, development is about to sky rocket. I say way your pros and cons with it. Honestly, phones are getting to a point where rooting to me doesn't matter anymore.
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The biggest factor to me IMO is if your area will get LTE in the near future or not. For me, it looks like my area isn't slated for LTE until at least the end of 2013. And since my area has horrible 3g speeds (under 100kpbs 90% of the time), I won't be upgrading. I will actually be taking my account to verizon, even though I've been with sprint for over 10 years, verizon has working 3g and 4g in my area. I cannot wait over a year for 4g. If the 3g actually worked here, maybe it would be a different decision.
I'll most likely be moving to Verizon also. Dayton will probably get skipped on LTE like we did with Wimax, when Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland got it. I'm hardly getting 3g here anyway.
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My dad got the Evo LTE through the pre order, but decided because of the lack of 4G and the internal battery he is going to return it. I have been playing with it for the past few days, waiting for Sprint to send a return box. After running it through usage (although I could not use 3G) it seems like it would handle how I use it...the only thing holding me back is 3G/4G. I live in the suburbs of Chicago, and have amazing WiMax signal, but Sprints ****ty 3G (around .2 up, .01 down). So my question: Should I wait it out for LTE? Considering we got WiMax fairly fast, I believe that LTE should get to Chicago and the surrounding areas within a year...but I do not know if I can survive on 3G that long. How have you guys held up on only 3G? I own the 3D now, and actually use 4G a lot.
If you use 4g a lot then I suggest you then don't even bother considering this phone.
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My dad got the Evo LTE through the pre order, but decided because of the lack of 4G and the internal battery he is going to return it. I have been playing with it for the past few days, waiting for Sprint to send a return box. After running it through usage (although I could not use 3G) it seems like it would handle how I use it...the only thing holding me back is 3G/4G. I live in the suburbs of Chicago, and have amazing WiMax signal, but Sprints ****ty 3G (around .2 up, .01 down). So my question: Should I wait it out for LTE? Considering we got WiMax fairly fast, I believe that LTE should get to Chicago and the surrounding areas within a year...but I do not know if I can survive on 3G that long. How have you guys held up on only 3G? I own the 3D now, and actually use 4G a lot.
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This is a question only you can answer. I rarely use data on the run. I'm usually around WiFi, so I can easily handle it. I've been on 3g only for a long time, since I was constantly flashing ROMs on the OG EVO that were without 4G. So this is the same experience for me.
I'm near Chicago, and I too believe we'll get LTE pretty quick. I am excited about it, but this phone is totally worth a lack of 4G to me. It's incredible. The screen, processor, camera, and other things are really impressive. And it's gorgeous!
In the end, it's your personal needs that must decide whether it is worth it.
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I think Chicago is actually one of the first round cities to get LTE.
A great place to find out about Sprint's network is http://s4gru.com
A quick search returned this article:
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-schedule-details-for-sprints-chicago-market/
Thanks for that article! It looks like mine should be "deployed" around June. I'm actually typing this from the phone ya know what? I'm going for it.
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I'd start with removing the proxy in the ##3282# screen. That helped me with slightly better speeds. That aside, as others above have pointed out, lte is coming to chicago very soon.
I was in louisville this weekend. Did a speed test on 3g at 7am this morning. 2.4mb down and about 900kb up (bit, not bytes). Pretty impressive and does go to show just how badly the 3g data in the chicago area sucks.
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Thanks for that article! It looks like mine should be "deployed" around June. I'm actually typing this from the phone ya know what? I'm going for it.
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Seems like a fair bet to me. My wife loves it and I'm jealous. I have the GSII and love this phone. My upgrade is in 3-4 months and I'm not sure if I'm going to 1; keep my current phone and use my upgrade to make some cash, 2; use my upgrade to get the EVO LTE or, 3; use my upgrade to get the GSIII. We'll see I guess.
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