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What do you think of the epic so far?

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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b1indsided said:
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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surveysays said:
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...
http://sickpigs.com/wp-content/potd/doughboy.jpg
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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.

surveysays said:
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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b1indsided said:
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.

Motorola atrix

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.

ttieder said:
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.

Sorry for the bad punctuation
heathmcabee said:
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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ttieder said:
Sorry for the bad punctuation
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Lololol. Not one dot or coma or ANYTHING! your my hero!

Photon 4g

Ive hated motorola since I had the abomination that was the rokr. theyre phones have always screwed me over sooner or later on the software side, but this phone is calling to me.. its nice.. idk I think there's something wrong with me. I wouldnt get it over the gs2... but id definitely consider it. What do you guys think?

Hey I dont like motorola also!! But the photon looks like it kicks ass. i would consider it but my upgrades not till may and they're gonna have a better phone by then...
Sywped from mah Supasonic!

I'm getting it I never want another Samsung phone unless the dev community is past amazing
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I would not get it. The community is so anti development!!!!

jamice4u said:
I would not get it. The community is so anti development!!!!
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Moto dont have good dev community?
I was thinking that droids get alot of roms and cyanogens.Its probably just for their latest locked down phones.Have Atrix been rooted yet?
i dont like moto eather but Atrix was nice and screen on it almost as nice as my s amoled

To me, it just seems pretty basic. Not really feature packed.

hayabusa1300cc said:
To me, it just seems pretty basic. Not really feature packed.
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That statement right there means you need to go into a store and play with one. It has a ton of features built in.
@OP: I share your exact same sentiment. I'm waiting for the within, and I hate motorola, but this phone is definitely enticing me. I feel like I'm under some sort of spell lol. The webtop alone is enough for me to consider it. It would be so nice to just throw it on the dock when I get home and fire up netflix or hulu. And have all my texts come through my tv. Ugh...its so tempting.
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squshy 7 said:
That statement right there means you need to go into a store and play with one. It has a ton of features built in.
@OP: I share your exact same sentiment. I'm waiting for the within, and I hate motorola, but this phone is definitely enticing me. I feel like I'm under some sort of spell lol. The webtop alone is enough for me to consider it. It would be so nice to just throw it on the dock when I get home and fire up netflix or hulu. And have all my texts come through my tv. Ugh...its so tempting.
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EXACTLY!!! The features on the photon are killer! WORLD PHONE?? GSM? The more I think about it lol
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Feels laggy, specially for being a dual core processor device. Screen is pretty good, nothing to write home about though sadly. Just using it for half hour made me appreciate my nexus way more, I wouldn't grtbit unless iI knew dev community was huge and custom roms were outout
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The only interesting thing for me is has a sim slot, but nothing else to brag about.
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There isn't that's the thing lol other than the docking features and a few other things there's really nothing amazing about it.. but it still appeals to be for some huge reason. When the time comes to upgrade I'm gonna play with the photon first, then the within.
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Will continue to wait it out for the GS2

Honestly were at the point there's nothing huge about any phone that comes out
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afive720 said:
Feels laggy, specially for being a dual core processor device. Screen is pretty good, nothing to write home about though sadly. Just using it for half hour made me appreciate my nexus way more, I wouldn't grtbit unless iI knew dev community was huge and custom roms were outout
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They say it is Moto Blur that causes the Motorola devices to be laggy. Which is 100% true. Look at the Atrix

Korey_Nicholson said:
They say it is Moto Blur that causes the Motorola devices to be laggy. Which is 100% true. Look at the Atrix
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Yea it's the ui install another launcher and you'll see
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MOTO has always had horrible UI's. That was true even for their basic flip phones. I had the MOTO KRKZR years ago with Sprint... and the lag was awful.

Samsung trying to buy webOS from hp

What your guy think of this?
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Killasmoke said:
What your guy think of this?
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Sounds like a rumor without any sources.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/samsung-may-buy-webos-recruits-former-hp-exec/
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http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/08/29/samsung-may-buy-webos/
then I saw this, which is a bit older... weird
http://www.webosroundup.com/2011/08/samsung-stamps-down-rumors-about-a-buy-of-hps-psg-boo/
edit: ahhh beat me to it

nikon120 said:
Sounds like a rumor without any sources.
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I seen it on cnbc business channel same place I seen that Steve jobs was resigning & I was the first to post it here on xda before!
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anyone with experience with webOS? to me it seems like the poor man's android...what app options are there? flash support?

theyd be great with webOS
samsung is still throwing BADA devices out....so imagine webOS

The Os, at least the version that shipped on my pre, is the best mobile is i've used. Nothing else can give you true multitasking. But the lack of hardware support, which led to a lack of app support, made for a very frustrating experience. I missed it for a few months after i got the epic. Now I can't imagine not having the app support.
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I would love android to have a more webOS feel to it. While it always lacked the proper hardware and dev support. The os is solid.
From cellblock D

The only reason they are buying web os is the same reason google bought motorola mobile. They are just trying to gain patent ground against apple and all the lawsuits.
I don't think you will see any samsung phones with web os because of this purchase.

WebOS had a nice feel, but was not as stable as android in my exp. The lack of decent apps was a problem also. My pre was a horrible phone and I haven't really missed it or webos since getting my epic.
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webOs is honestly the best mobile OS I've ever used. It's so fun to just flick the apps away and has by far the best multitasking you'll ever see. They just needed better hardware and more apps. Otherwise, the funnest OS I've ever used.
Hell I even read somewhere that HP tried putting webOS on the iPad, and that it ran way faster than it ever did on the touchpad or any other HP/Palm device.

Buggy Cupcake 1.5 ROM

Enyo said:
I finally found a cupcake 1.5 SDK And actually, it boots. I'm shocked.
Its slow as fu**. The launcher is so old (if anyone knew of the gray launcher that you have to slide up (it was ditched in 2.1))
Even though, its old, I'm still going to release it. Its a look in the past and play around. I used jts GPS fix kernel and yea, GPS does not work (well its on 1.5 so nothing works anyway, remember the G1)
Ill release it soon. Its fun, slow, market is so old (black and white old) and won't update to the newest market.
I know its not necessary, but I wanted to port all versions of android to the fascinate. Who needs new? Why not flash back in time 2 years ago, cupcake was the biggest hit and phones like the moment (that had a arm v6 processor) were treated like dual core phones we have today. The G1 Also was high end back then with its
"Fastest processor (456MHz) in a mobile phone"
-Engadget
Or the moment had the
"Fastest phone ever" -Sprints Slogan.
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Wow cupcake, brings me back to my Droid Eris days lol. I'll look forward to a release. Thnx
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not sure if serious or trolling hard

I keep seeing all these teenage girls with Droids now and they're like, "what's the bfd? iphone and android have like, the same apps?" I just wish all these new adopters could see this version of Android and the app selection. They'd really appreciate how far the platform has come. I'm still blown away by gingerbread and i had crazy high expectations for ICS and it still blew me away. I will probably flash this just for nostalgia's sake. Thanks enyo!
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Man, this board has sunk so far.

JoshDB said:
not sure if serious or trolling hard
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X2
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JoshDB said:
not sure if serious or trolling hard
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Not sure if serious or chuck testa
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times_infinity said:
Not sure if serious or chuck testa
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lold
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times_infinity said:
Not sure if serious or chuck testa
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LOL, That was great

release some donut love and it will bring me back to my htc magic days.