Evo 3D --> EVO 4G LTE - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

What do you guys think about upgrading to the Evo 4G LTE from the Evo 3D? How many of you were Evo 3D owners? I can definitely see upgrading from a OG Evo. It is not a HUGE leap in terms of hardware and OS with a Evo 3D though. They will both be running ICS (if you arent already on your Evo 3D). I dont see anything I do or run that requires more power than what the Evo 3D has. I just dont know if I want to waste my upgrade in December on the 4G LTE and then have a much better option come out in like January-March. Obviously, the 4G LTE will perform better and have a much better camera. I wish we knew more about the HTC phone roadmap and what other options were coming.

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I'm staying on the 3D only because my area has great coverage in 4G WiMax. If I switch to the LTE, I would downgrade my speed for the next year and a half - two years (we are not even on the road map to upgrade here).
It is sad as well because with all of my credits, Best Buy was going to pay me $10 to take a LTE off their hands.

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Alpine- said:
What do you guys think about upgrading to the Evo 4G LTE from the Evo 3D? How many of you were Evo 3D owners? I can definitely see upgrading from a OG Evo. It is not a HUGE leap in terms of hardware and OS with a Evo 3D though. They will both be running ICS (if you arent already on your Evo 3D). I dont see anything I do or run that requires more power than what the Evo 3D has. I just dont know if I want to waste my upgrade in December on the 4G LTE and then have a much better option come out in like January-March. Obviously, the 4G LTE will perform better and have a much better camera. I wish we knew more about the HTC phone roadmap and what other options were coming.
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Can't tell if your serious or not....have you seen the thread I had over in the 3D section? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1571387
from EVO4G to EVO3D you got the following:
*jump from single core to dual core (S1 to S3)..
*3D camera and screen
*move to QHD screen resolution
*more RAM
*jump to Sense 3.0
*Adreno 200 to 220 GPU jump
From EVO3D to HTC 4G LTE:
*Jump from S3 45nm Cortex-A9(like) chip to S4 28nm Cortex-A15(like) chip with modem build into die,(battery saving improvement)* and BIG performance increase!
-Dual channel Memory tech bumped from single channel 333MHz to dual channel 500MHz
-slight GPU boost
*SLCD2 720p Screen- think its even 312ppi too(compared the 3D's i think 246ppi, and iPhone4s which has 326ppi)
*jump to Sense 4.0
*ImageSense Tech with dedicated image chip that allows the following:
-0.7sec to take a shot, w/ 0.2-seconds autofocus
-VideoPic stuff taking pictures while recording video or watching one
*bump from the old f/2.4 lens to f/2.0 which allows capturing 40% more light (compared to the f/2.4 on the iPhone 4S, f/2.65 on the Galaxy S II)
*LTE Device
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In terms of stock hardware and OS it IS a big leap from the 3D...no question

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I agree. But will it be the best for another year or will I have buyers remorse in February. I don't want to upgrade then see a new flagship in March.
Sent from my EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2

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Alpine- said:
I agree. But will it be the best for another year or will I have buyers remorse in February. I don't want to upgrade then see a new flagship in March.
Sent from my EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
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there will always be a new flagship every year around this time. If your an HTC guy then each year about this time is when the flagship will be out....If you debate Samsung, then the Fall is theirs given the history of their release in the US...
If you are not for upgrading every year then its up to you really...next year HTC flagship will best this one just like this one has the 3D...likely to include a quadcore SoC from Qualcomm this time and also include support for the 800MHz LTE and quite possibly the 2.6GHz LTE from Clearwire too, given the 800 will be set to be flipped on in later part of next year, and Clearwire has agreed to have 5k sites up by next June if i recall correctly too...There is a very very slight chance they dont include those bands but imho its minimal chance if if not in '13 they will in '14...imho
If you use the heck out of WiMax right now and are not in the first round of NetworkVision deployments then the decision might be to hold off to be honest...

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Alpine- said:
I agree. But will it be the best for another year or will I have buyers remorse in February. I don't want to upgrade then see a new flagship in March.
Sent from my EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
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you'll always remorse- But right now with quadcore problems not working with LTE- even the galaxy SIII here in America will be running the same CPU/GPU combo. So this is probably the longest period of time you want have to "remorse" over a new better phone coming out on sprint..

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Alpine- said:
I agree. But will it be the best for another year or will I have buyers remorse in February. I don't want to upgrade then see a new flagship in March.
Sent from my EVO 3D using Tapatalk 2
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Dude no phone you buy from now till the end of time will be the best phone out a year from when it came out. In the tech world it just doesn't work like that. Company A see's company B's release and then takes their phone and makes it just a little be better 2 months after company B releases it. And so on and so on and so on. Every couple months something new and a little bit better it released. Its a never ending cycle. So you will always have buyers remorse or you will never buy a phone.

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Keep in mind the sheer number of EVO products that have been released since the OG EVO and how many of those do you or anyone else actually remember besides the EVO 3D. This(EVO 4GLTE) is Sprints newest Flagship phone. It was specifically released for people who purchased an OG EVO and their contracts are now up. They will certainly release a minor update to this phone or a competing brands but don't expect another Flagship phone until 2 years from now so we can upgrade from this newest handset
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sgt. slaughter said:
...next year HTC flagship will best this one just like this one has the 3D...likely to include a quadcore SoC from Qualcomm this time and also include support for the 800MHz LTE and quite possibly the 2.6GHz LTE from Clearwire too, given the 800 will be set to be flipped on in later part of next year, and Clearwire has agreed to have 5k sites up by next June if i recall correctly too...There is a very very slight chance they dont include those bands but imho its minimal chance if if not in '13 they will in '14...imho
If you use the heck out of WiMax right now and are not in the first round of NetworkVision deployments then the decision might be to hold off to be honest...
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Exactly. Do you think there will be a new HTC phone in Jan-Feb (Q1) of 2013? I feel like its a minor enough upgrade that I can wait longer and get something slightly beefier in Q1. I just have no idea of the HTC hardware roadmap.

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No, I don't think there will be another HTC phone in January that is powerful.
Look at their past. June Release 2 years ago of EVO 4G, Spring Release after that for EVO Shift (barely better but keyboard), June Release 1 year ago EVO 3D, no other high end until now.
Based on past experience no there won't be another "HTC Flagship" device in January, likely next April we start to hear about the next May/June release phone as they do this each summer for 3 years straight now consistently.
I had the DERP ICS rom on my 3D, best ICS rom I found and even then it doesn't touch the responsiveness of my new LTE. It will be great for my wife though so I will still have both phones.
We have minimal wimax coverage in Indy so that was never an issue for me since we never really got it anyways. We are on the second deployment for late this year early spring LTE though so it was worth it to me as I travel a lot for work and the 3 major hubs I go to all are on first deployment for LTE and should have it soon.
YMMV

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indiscriminant said:
No, I don't think there will be another HTC phone in January that is powerful.
Look at their past. June Release 2 years ago of EVO 4G, Spring Release after that for EVO Shift (barely better but keyboard), June Release 1 year ago EVO 3D, no other high end until now.
Based on past experience no there won't be another "HTC Flagship" device in January, likely next April we start to hear about the next May/June release phone as they do this each summer for 3 years straight now consistently.
I had the DERP ICS rom on my 3D, best ICS rom I found and even then it doesn't touch the responsiveness of my new LTE. It will be great for my wife though so I will still have both phones.
We have minimal wimax coverage in Indy so that was never an issue for me since we never really got it anyways. We are on the second deployment for late this year early spring LTE though so it was worth it to me as I travel a lot for work and the 3 major hubs I go to all are on first deployment for LTE and should have it soon.
YMMV
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Let's not forget the EVO Design 4G. If they release another phone in January, it'll be a smaller variation... Maybe a One S Variant?

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Here are my thoughts as a person who has upgraded through all of the Evo variants.
The LTE is a substantial upgrade over my 3D BUT I live in one of the first LTE coverage areas.
If I had to give up Wimax and wait a while for LTE to roll out, I would not upgrade. I do use wifi, but that is not enough to overcome a lack of LTE or Wimax IMHO.
If I did not have Wimax coverage now, I would upgrade.

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eXplicit815 said:
Let's not forget the EVO Design 4G. If they release another phone in January, it'll be a smaller variation... Maybe a One S Variant?
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Although it carried the moniker of EVO I would put it in the category of the Shift. It really wasn't top phone at the time. Wouldn't consider it a flagship phone like the summer releases.
But yes I did not mention it.

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indiscriminant said:
Although it carried the moniker of EVO I would put it in the category of the Shift. It really wasn't top phone at the time. Wouldn't consider it a flagship phone like the summer releases.
But yes I did not mention it.
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Shift and design where just new.versions of the hero

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Youre talking DECEMBER though. New Nexus devices, Iphone 5s, and tons of other stuff will be out then. No way I would be thinking about a 6-7 month old phone at that point. I was throwing the Galaxy Nexus in my mix of deciding with S3 and EVO LTE and it was in last place in all my personal comparisons. Things get dated quick in the smartphone world, just how it is.

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This
Just this screen shot alone explains how much better this phone is:
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Stock with no changes!!!
Yes I did come from the 3D.......this new phone is lighter, bigger, faster....there is just no comparison.

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Quadrant on Evo 3D running the Team420 ICS ROM - 2227
on my LTE - 4764
I'm VERY glad I upgraded. The screen is so much nicer, the phone is larger but the phone is lighter, and it is just better all around. The camera is so slick.
Love it.

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If you exclude the 3D. The jump from EVO 4G to EVO 3D was not huge.
If exclude 3D and WinMAx. The jump between EVO 3D and EVO LTE is pretty huge IMHO.
It's so thin and perfect sized screen (and does not feel too big in your hand).
Blazing fast, much nicer buttons.
I didn't fumble on the keyboard on the EVO 4G. I constantly did on the 3D.
On the EVO LTE I no longer fumble again.
That tiny bit of width loss on the 3D was critical, I thought I'd get used to it and never did.
I could have lived with the 3D another year. But this device is really classy.
I gave my wife the 3D. And she was fumbling the keyboard. I feel so guilty. It's a brand new EVO 3D I just got replaced. That was it's biggest fault for me.
She has smaller fingers and she is coming from a Touch Pro2 with a stylus.