I will have to admit that I have been a HTC WinMo fan boy for the last 6yrs. Wm was not perfect but, it got the job done. Custom roms were good but, they always had bugs. So when I got my EPIC an my first android phone I was blown away. The speed how well everything worked together. I was amazed how people complained about touchwiz. I don't see anything wrong with it. Maybe because I don't know of any better interface. It not as flashy as HTC sense but, it seems fast.
I hear alot of nitpicking here about the phone. They compare stock EPIC roms to Custom roms on other phone. Not realizing that everyone doesn't like the custom rom you love. I don't know of anything being perfect. But, some of the people that bought this phone were expecting more.
I love the phone. I just wanted to know what others think.
I'm amazed by it. Every time I get a spare second, I want to pick it up and play with it.
I really like the design of the phone more than the other Galaxy S variants. The soft touch back reminds me of the EVO, and the screen looks so good sitting there with the phone turned off. Which brings me to my next point:
This screen is so brilliant. I've not noticed any of the issues people complain about. It's gorgeous. HD movies look better on the Epic than any other phone I've seen (EVO and iPhone 4). I constantly want to change my wallpaper.
The speed of this phone is fantastic. It's faster on 2.1 than my EVO is with CM6 (Froyo). I never used sense on my EVO. I actually stuck with touchwiz for a while before I finally installed launcher PRO. Again, Launcher Pro AND Touchwiz are faster than anything I put on my EVO. Menus scroll with no lag at all. Apps open very fast and games are perfect. I didn't like that a lot of games ran slow on the EVO... and some were downright unplayable. I'm a big gamer, so this is important.
The keyboard is pretty convenient. I use swype for most things... like texting, emailing, etc. But I love the keyboard for when I need to type numbers, usernames\passwords, website URLs, etc. I also use it for games\emulators.
All in all, I'm very happy with this phone. It's not for everybody, but it is definitely for me. I've actually made a few iPhone 4 users jealous. They were never jealous of my EVO
I love love love this phone. its deff worth the move after being an iPhone user for 2.5 years. I love the freedom I have to make and customize the phone to my taste vs just having a glass screen with shortcuts all over it. every time I wake my phone I swear I get more and more amazed by the screen quality lol.. the phone is very fast and snappy. the only complaint I seem to suffer from is my battery life =/ .. other than that this is deff an iPhone killer in my eyes.
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I freakin love this phone. So quick and buttery smooth. And it hasn't even gotten froyo yet.
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I freakin love this phone. So quick and buttery smooth. And it hasn't even gotten froyo yet.
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yea once it gets froyo, this phone.is gonna be tooo nasty
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yea once it gets froyo, this phone.is gonna be tooo nasty
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Dude.. when froyo hits this.. its gonna look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy Massacre! This ishow the other phones will look...
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ehh.. it's ok
REally want to see an update for the phone. +1 for the camera and keyboard and 16GB Sd. I still like the Evo but we'll see if that changes.
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yea once it gets froyo, this phone.is gonna be tooo nasty
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Rofl man I can't wait.
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Rofl man I can't wait.
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Imagine when we get Gingerbread? Oh wait, we already did!!
I do love some of the necro'd memories. I was still a guest lurker during this post.
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It's takes a bit of getting used to coming from a g1 but I left.my sick on last night and my battery is at 95.. love this phone
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I forgot what a good battery was like... my G1 lived on the charger.
Lol the battery is amazing
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I am even starting to like touchwiz. I never thought I would like anything but vanilla android.
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that's something I don't think I will ever like that's why first app i downloaded was Launcher Pro
my poor daughter is gonna be so happy. shes inheriting my g1 and being that shes 10, she only turns her phone on when she needs it so she wont notice the battery life.
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I am even starting to like touchwiz. I never thought I would like anything but vanilla android.
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I agree! I love what Samsung has done to the UI. MUCH more useful IMO.
I agree about the battery being great on this phone. I'm also starting to enjoy the Touchwiz UI. Samsung has done a great job thus far. Only thing I can't wait for is Froyo 2.2.
Just tested out the atrix not a huge differnce bewteen the epic stock vs stock now I know it will be a lot better when devs get ahold of it but it was laggy because of blur made touchwiz look fast but still not a huge diffence against our epics
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Gotta be honest, that was hard to understand considering there were no commas nor periods.
It would be no surprise that the Atrix doesn't seem faster than the Epic. They both have hardware that the OS simply cannot tax. If there is a difference performance wise, it will be in games or stress programs. Even then, you probably won't see much of a difference in performance.
I think the only real world difference that would be substantial is if you are compiling on the phone(which I am sure there are developers that do, or would). Other than that, dual core or even a faster processor is going to be useless on these phone.
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Just tested out the atrix not a huge differnce bewteen the epic stock vs stock now I know it will be a lot better when devs get ahold of it but it was laggy because of blur made touchwiz look fast but still not a huge diffence against our epics
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C'mon man, use punctuation. .!?
It looks like a fun device, my friend has one pre ordered with the $500 dock. Gonna be fun to play with.
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C'mon man, use punctuation. .!?
It looks like a fun device, my friend has one pre ordered with the $500 dock. Gonna be fun to play with.
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Sorry for the bad punctuation
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Lololol. Not one dot or coma or ANYTHING! your my hero!
The dev has fixed a majority of the battery drain by fixing this issue of the launcher always running in the background,now it is at 0% cpu and 7-8mb of RAM being used...
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Thanks for the heads up. I really like playing with this launcher. I was actually able to convince a coworker I managed to hack the samsung focus wp7 rom onto my epic on april 1st. It worked right up until he saw the android market icon
Thanks for that man, i didnt know
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The dev has fixed a majority of the battery drain by fixing this issue of the launcher always running in the background,now it is at 0% cpu and 7-8mb of RAM being used...
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I've got some real nice HQ tiles,Ill post this weekend...
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That'd be nice. I found out he hasn't updated the free one in a while, even though the paid one is supposed to be donate only. Oh well, its still nice
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Oh,I didn't even notice that,that's a shame,I've been on the donate version since day one ,but I flash so much now I rarely use it atm.I really like the look of the tiles,I know android UI's are better in most aspects,but I like simple and clean...
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Oh,I didn't even notice that,that's a shame,I've been on the donate version since day one ,but I flash so much now I rarely use it atm.I really like the look of the tiles,I know android UI's are better in most aspects,but I like simple and clean...
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Ya, I don't want a wp7, but I keep coming back to launcher7.
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zanderman112 said:
Ya, I don't want a wp7, but I keep coming back to launcher7.
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I played w/ it for a little bit and felt that it wasn't very customizable and if THATS how WP7 is, boy is microsoft in for some pain.. hell, the iPhone is more customizable than WP7 appears to be (if this launcher closely mimics the customizability of WP7 very well)
just sayin'
Hey all. I've been looking to buy a new phone for a few weeks now, and have been leaning towards the Evo Shift. But my choice was the Epic months ago. So my question is; which would all of you prefer? Epic of Shift?
I've done much research, but I'd like to hear insight from some actual Epic users. I know the Epic offers Samsung's Super AMOLED display, and the shift doesn't. The Epic also has a bigger screen. But I believe the Shift has a faster processor? I've also heard that the sliding mechanism on the Epic can become loose fairly quickly with heavy use? Is this even true? I also know how the Epic doesn't have a fully functional Gingerbread build build yet. The Shift does, but there's only temp root at this time. I really do like Sense, but I've never tried Samsung's TouchWiz UI. Also, I know this is also a bigger phone, but is like, a brick? I definitely wouldn't want a phone to be pulling my pants down when it's in my pocket haha.
I'd really like to outweigh all the pros and cons before I go through with any purchase. Thanks!
Omg the epic wins on ALL fronts. CPU is faster, gpu is faster, keyboard is better, bigger screen, amoled over lcd (spliech!), its thinner, the cameras better, the speaker phone is louder and not tinny. The shift has absolutely nothing on the epic.
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My roommates boyfriend has one sonics had plenty of time to play with one. Not blowing smoke just in case. Also I forgot to mention, the Evo shift doesn't have gorilla glass
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Epic has superior hardware in every way, but shift has aosp, sense 3.0, stable miui and stable cm7, whereas we don't. So Shift has more ROMs and dev support + they have stock gb too.
Overall = EPIC ; Developement = Shift ....... personally , I think EPIC is WAY Better
Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
Be cool and get evo 3d or photon. If you don't have the top of the line flagship then you aren't crap and should be asshamed of yourself and move to a remote island with no cell service.
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moto_google said:
Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
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The shift is too
moto_google said:
Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
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Because I can't really deal with an all touch screen phone, so I want a full keyboard. That's why my choices are the Epic or Evo Shift.
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The shift is too
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When people see my end of life epic I get laughed at and told no self respecting cellphone user would be caught dead with an end of life flagship phone. They say you ain't crap unless you have evo 3d or photon.
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When people see my end of life epic I get laughed at and told no self respecting cellphone user would be caught dead with an end of life flagship phone. They say you ain't crap unless you have evo 3d or photon.
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I could care less what people would say about me because of what phone I have. A phone is a phone, and everyone has different opinions. I don't need a brand new, top of the line phone to make me happy. I just want somethin that works, and gets the job done with what I need it for
I have an Epic... and love it! It's fast as hell (running RandomROM EG22 "HAWK"), and I use it for work so it takes plenty of abuse. My wife has a shift stuck on 2.3.3, and it's a dog. Even she complains about how slow it is, but hopefully (someday) permanent root will be found and I can flash a different ROM to speed it up.
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I have an Epic... and love it! It's fast as hell (running RandomROM EG22 "HAWK"), and I use it for work so it takes plenty of abuse. My wife has a shift stuck on 2.3.3, and it's a dog. Even she complains about how slow it is, but hopefully (someday) permanent root will be found and I can flash a different ROM to speed it up.
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Yeah was gonna add no root for shift right now.
xjayman said:
Yeah was gonna add no root for shift right now.
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What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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Yeah they do. They have the. Newest Miui and CM7. You should check out qbking's videos. He has both phones in his growing arsenal and has videos on both. I had to stop the Shift Miui 1.8.19 (maybe wrong #) video before he started showing the features...I was getting pissed! Lol EDIT...Shift has Miui 1.9.2...my mistake!
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I could care less what people would say about me because of what phone I have. A phone is a phone, and everyone has different opinions. I don't need a brand new, top of the line phone to make me happy. I just want somethin that works, and gets the job done with what I need it for
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If a phone is a phone then you should be happy not getting the promotion and the raise and the not new trophy wife.
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What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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I mean a new shift with
2.3 update, only temp root right now
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Get the Epic hands down over shift yea they have more devs but we got Great devs are self the epic got better everything cpu gpu humming bird processor super amoled etc. etc. the evo camp got more devs there like the army but the Epic like the marines!! Support the troops USA!!
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I have an epic, and my brother has the shift.
My epic surpasses it in everyway. Better screen, battery life, and keyboard.
Plus, you might end up with a non rootable shift because most of them in stock are aleady on 2.3.
Epic hands down
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Avelnan said:
Phones are going to come to life someday. Take note: LG Optimus line. ASUS Transformer. And now the Nexus Prime.
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My Epic runs circles around the Shift regardless of what rom it's running
Forget dev support, no matter how far you push it a Shift will never be an Epic, so I'd say the Epic.
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My Epic runs circles around the Shift regardless of what rom it's running
Forget dev support, no matter how far you push it a Shift will never be an Epic, so I'd say the Epic.
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That's what I have been told as well.
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While I love my hardware keyboard and dont think I could live without it, I got my gf a galaxy s 3 for an early valentines day present. The phone is pretty sweet, love its snappiness and screen size... dont love the swype or software keyboard. Im also a fan of sense... Playing with it, rooting it and working with the custom rom just makes me want a new phone lol. I played with a photon q in a store.... but idk, theres not much in the way of roms and whatnot here, and im not sold on motorola. So to google I went, I found a concept phone called the htc one z. Basically a one with a keyboard, its sweet and aparently alot of ppl want it made, but this information is over a year old again. What are some of youse doing for new phones when and if the time will come? I thought about an evo lte... but.. again.. i want a keyboard lol.
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While I love my hardware keyboard and dont think I could live without it, I got my gf a galaxy s 3 for an early valentines day present. The phone is pretty sweet, love its snappiness and screen size... dont love the swype or software keyboard. Im also a fan of sense... Playing with it, rooting it and working with the custom rom just makes me want a new phone lol. I played with a photon q in a store.... but idk, theres not much in the way of roms and whatnot here, and im not sold on motorola. So to google I went, I found a concept phone called the htc one z. Basically a one with a keyboard, its sweet and aparently alot of ppl want it made, but this information is over a year old again. What are some of youse doing for new phones when and if the time will come? I thought about an evo lte... but.. again.. i want a keyboard lol.
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Evo lte here.
The screen size doesn't make me miss the keyboard.
It just took about a week for my muscle memory to forget the keyboard. Lol
My gf also has the s3 lol she won't let me root it though.
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This is the firs I've heard of the One Z. I'll have to google that. For now while my shift is down Im using a DX2 tethered to my shift for data. I can still use the bluetooth headset for calls. I was considering the Photon Q myself but between Vicodan's report and how tight Moto is with their bootloader, I doubt I'll do that. If I have to go virtual keyboard, EVO LTE will likely be what I'll do.
Personally, I like the look of the S3 most. And samsung's very dedicated dev support doesnt hurt either
Not a big fan of Touchwiz though. But we'll see.
I'm thinking of porting a sense rom to it once i have it, unless someone else beats me to the punch
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Personally, I like the look of the S3 most. And samsung's very dedicated dev support doesnt hurt either
Not a big fan of Touchwiz though. But we'll see.
I'm thinking of porting a sense rom to it once i have it, unless someone else beats me to the punch
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a sense rom would be pretty cool, just make sure to try for 3.6+ lol, and the one z is basicaly a HTC One, or EVO LTE with a keyboard. Its not a phone that was ever released however. I might plunge for a evo lte... i just dont like the photon q enough to keep the keyboard, and theres not much development going on with it to keep me entertained. I have until July for an upgrade now. So i have time to wait for something, I was hoping xmas would give sprint another android phone, but HTC hasnt released anything in a while, aside the butterfly which i dont think is coming state side. nor has sprint in general actually.
Boy I wish this was available. http://techietake.com/htc-one-z-a-smartphone-that-can-change-the-world-specs-and-features/
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Boy I wish this was available. http://techietake.com/htc-one-z-a-smartphone-that-can-change-the-world-specs-and-features/
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Yup. Made me drool a little.
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Anyone else noticed that website says this phone is made by Samsung
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This is the firs I've heard of the One Z. I'll have to google that. For now while my shift is down Im using a DX2 tethered to my shift for data. I can still use the bluetooth headset for calls. I was considering the Photon Q myself but between Vicodan's report and how tight Moto is with their bootloader, I doubt I'll do that. If I have to go virtual keyboard, EVO LTE will likely be what I'll do.
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If you ever want an s3 after getting the lte, all you have to do is complain about to sprint. Or so I've heard lol
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Anyone else noticed that website says this phone is made by Samsung
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Yea. I looked at several sites and it seems that this is just a dream someone cooked up and several people have put their own spin on it. I still wish it was real.
Chad The Pathfinder said:
Yea. I looked at several sites and it seems that this is just a dream someone cooked up and several people have put their own spin on it. I still wish it was real.
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Yeah I just noticed it said Samsung presents the HTC One Z lmao.
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Boy I wish this was available. http://techietake.com/htc-one-z-a-smartphone-that-can-change-the-world-specs-and-features/
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It would be really Kool if it was real.