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I like android and all but it just gets old just like if I had the iPhone for awhile it would get old too. I'm tired of all the new phones coming out being android because its all the same with a little hardware change. If I'm going to get a new device I don't want it to be a android cause the evo is a great phone and there no need to upgrade it to something that really doesn't do much more besides have a nicer screen or a faster processer. So does anyone know if any new OS coming to the market soon to keep things fresh?
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We need consolidation not expansion.
Already too many platforms.
WebOS maybe?
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WebOS maybe?
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(Jeopardy?)
What is....a two year old platform that fell flat on its face?
Had a palm pre if they could get the hardware right it would be a good os if they placed that os in something like the evos hardware it would have been a success. But it still needs far better apps and someone to restrict the crap they put in there market. Anyways I'm tired of that os too.
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I herd Motorola is coming out with something new possibly
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touchjon said:
Anyways I'm tired of that os too.
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Sounds like you have a really short attention span.
A.d.d. perhaps?
Without the release of new OSes, you could always jump from OS to OS with each upgrade to switch it up a bit, Android > WP7 > WebOS > iPhone (where available) etc... By the time you make the rounds, years will have passed and the OS may be much different from what you remember.
On another note, there was rumor that Motorola was working on their own OS, we'll see if that comes to fruition, and Nokia has a new OS, Meego, that is linux based and supposed to be pretty smooth. Since we don't see many Nokias here, I am not sure if we will see Meego (though I do believe it has been ported to the HD2- along with every other OS).
Honeycomb is a pretty big changeup
I'm digging it so far
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Honeycomb is a pretty big changeup
I'm digging it so far
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On your xoom? I don't think we'll see that version of HC on our mobile phones...
I'd love to see a pretty solid Meego phone come out in the near future, it seems like the next best thing to Android.
Also, I wouldn't touch any proprietary Motorola OS with a ten-foot pole....
If palm/HP partnered with HTC and started making manly 4" phones and not little black Easter eggs webOS would bend android over and make it beg for mercy.
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If palm/HP partnered with HTC and started making manly 4" phones and not little black Easter eggs webOS would bend android over and make it beg for mercy.
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...AND have the same (or hell, any) dev interest.
My wife had the pre and the pixi. I didn't like webos. Won't be trying it again any time soon.
Can you please explain what features your missing that android or ios don't have?
Would you be pleased if they made another platform exactly like android or ios and just called it something else.... like "Humpty-Dumpty"? That's be something new I suppose...
Or you can just try Wp7.
In all reality though, there are more than likely no more os's coming out for phones at least for a while. Between android, ios, and wp7 there is really no reason...
I like both phone, both has crazy specs, I have the evo now and love it. What I love about the evo is that there is so many roms to choose from. My main concern is which phone is easier to develop for and do you think Samsung development community would be as big as HTC development community. Not to mention that I love the cm roms and there roms is still in experimental stage for Samsung. I really answering my own question for the evo3d but that screen on the galaxy s2 is calling me.
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I like both phone, both has crazy specs, I have the evo now and love it. What I love about the evo is that there is some many roms to choose from. My main concern is which phone is easier to develop for and do you thing Samsung development community would be as big as HTC development community. Not to mention that I love the cm roms and there roms is still in experimental stage for Samsung. I really answering my own question for the evo3d but that screen on the galaxy s2 is calling me.
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I sold my EVO and bought an Epic back in December... big mistake for someone that likes to dev and tweak his phone. The Epic hardware is awesome, but the dev support is very lacking. Yeah, I could overclock my Epic and score 2400+ on Quadrant and it took great HD Video compared to the EVO. The screen was also beautiful. I traded the Epic for an EVO because I missed being able to dev. If you're the type of person that always wants to be on the cutting edge with the newest version of Android, then stay with what the DEVs are using (probably EVO3D). If you're someone that runs the same ROM for months at a time (i.e. not a flashaholic) then the Samsung S II may be best for you. It depends on what you're looking for and what you're looking to do with your phone.
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Yup Evo 3D, even tho it might have lock bootloader like the thunderbolt, it will have more support from developers, and good ones too, virus is coming alone and myns wants too, I believe mik is coming and of course others
http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...custom-roms-look/&category=classic&postPage=1
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I wonder how long it will take them to crack the bootloader if it is indeed locked. I hope not too long. But its what ever. After running Virus' Kindom Port, ill be fine with stock un-rooted for a lil while
My only concern is developing for the EVO 3D as they have some new files that are going to be or may be difficult to work on. Only time will tell. I'm going to the EVO 3D because I love Sense and I can tell you right now the galaxy wont have that.
My favorite roms are myns for sense and cm7 for latest android roms. So I guess ill stay with HTC
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I checked out both phones at Google IO. The galaxy S2 was so thin and the screen was amazing. Both phones were super snappy.
The only turnoffs for me on the galaxy s2 was the plasticky cover and the weight. Anyone who's owned a Samsung phone knows what i'm talking about with the plasticky feeling phones. But the weight of the S2 blew me away. I can't remember a lighter smartphone. It felt like a toy. It was basically "too light." I'm sure for many, that phrase doesn't even make sense, but for me, I like phones that feel solid and have some substance to them. For some, when they throw this phone in their pocket, they won't even know its there.
I have to hand it to Samsung though. The S2 is an impressive engineering accomplishment. Its the highest performance phone I've seen announced, and its so damn thin and light.
I'm personally a fan of sense, or at least having the option of sense, and I doubt that would ever fully translate to a Samsung product no matter what developers are working on it.
I really love the slab form of the GSII, if they release a HTC slab phone (like the Sensation) on Sprint, that would really be the phone I'd want. Evo 2?
HTC has better radios and gps, Samsung sucks!
the s2 does seem intriguing...also i hate that instead of hdmi out, the use usb and then give you a converter cable w/ an additional power source on it. plus, for some unknown reason, it seems we could be waiting a while before it actually hits the market in the states for some reason eventhough it is already in europe (gsm version). also, i hopped on to the evo 3d thread a while ago and the dev's were introducing themselves...there were LOADS of great dev's coming on board. With the specs and dev's on board, the 3d will have some spectacular features!
I am intrigued by the GS2 and the new version of Touchwiz... I HATE HATE HATE touchwiz, but the new version looks ok so far.
One thing that will keep me from considering the GS2 is if it has a physical keyboard. I don't know why Sprint has to be the one that gets that...
I'm going with the EVO 3D. The specs look awesome.
Neither, its all about the Nexus 3
^that not going to be out for a while
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Neither, its all about the Nexus 3
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Amen to that!! All about the Nexus3 in Dec. A Tegra3 Quadcore?? Rediculous!! Worth the wait IMO!!
The Evo can defiantly hold up til then.
well my wife is due for an upgrade on august which i would the get the evo3d and give my evo to my wife. then my 18 month upgrade for my line would be in jan which then ill get the nexus 3 everybody is happy
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Amen to that!! All about the Nexus3 in Dec. A Tegra3 Quadcore?? Rediculous!! Worth the wait IMO!!
The Evo can defiantly hold up til then.
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Lol if you believe that's coming to sprint in December I got some land for sale....its in the middle of the ocean too. Lmao!!!!!
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Evo 3d all the way!!
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Lol if you believe that's coming to sprint in December I got some land for sale....its in the middle of the ocean too. Lmao!!!!!
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I highly doubt the Nexus3 will launch on Sprint. I could care less which carrier it lands on tbh. It's still worth waiting for!! Jaja
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I highly doubt the Nexus3 will launch on Sprint. I could care less which carrier it lands on tbh. It's still worth waiting for!! Jaja
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I think it will launch on sprint, google and sprint are getting really tight now. First with google voice and now with the nfc payment system.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/24/google-and-sprint-team-up-to-take-your-digital-dollars-with-new/
Am I the only super excited about the new Ice Cream Sandwich update android is releasing can't wait to see what these great developers are gonna do next! What are your expectation if any with this update?
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Most of us are excited, as there are already leaks of some apps, such as the music, talk, google+, ect. I personally know some dev teams who are going to be working on it, so I foresee good things.
Me I've been reading things online and everything looks great I'm a cautious rooter and flashers like to do my research before I just start putting stuff on my EVO but I'm super excited! I love Google + so I always looking forward to them making navigation easy so I can get more of my friends into it!
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It s coming I can feel it
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It s coming I can feel it
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That's what she said
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Lol yea I can't wait for this update,looks good and that nexus prime,can't wait!
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Right now, I hardly see a good fast sense port coming to ICS unless we port it from other phones, but idk about how that will work. As far as AOSP comes along, once CM8 comes, imma slap that on my supersonic as fast as possible.
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Me I've been reading things online and everything looks great I'm a cautious rooter and flashers like to do my research before I just start putting stuff on my EVO but I'm super excited! I love Google + so I always looking forward to them making navigation easy so I can get more of my friends into it!
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I've had google plus since day one, when it was in beta stages, and I haven't used it still.
I love Google + I'm so over twitter and facebook
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Right now, I hardly see a good fast sense port coming to ICS unless we port it from other phones, but idk about how that will work. As far as AOSP comes along, once CM8 comes, imma slap that on my supersonic as fast as possible.
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Apparently, they are "skipping" 8, next iteration is going to be CM9, from what I heard.
And from how ICS looks, I might skip CM, forget about Sense, and actually run a pure AOSP for once.
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Apparently, they are "skipping" 8, next iteration is going to be CM9, from what I heard.
And from how ICS looks, I might skip CM, forget about Sense, and actually run a pure AOSP for once.
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Most likely will be the only good running thing...
Does anyone know if it will have full hardware acceleration
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yes? Someone called me?.... good things come to those who wait.
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yes? Someone called me?.... good things come to those who wait.
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Lol he's legitimately the ice cream man since 2007
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IceCreaMan said:
yes? Someone called me?.... good things come to those who wait.
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Why don't you come around my block anymore?
teh roxxorz said:
Why don't you come around my block anymore?
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Cause you smoked all of Big Worms product!
My knocked up EVO
teh roxxorz said:
Why don't you come around my block anymore?
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Ya mang and Carlos ain't to happy neither about his missing pipe esa. Better go get some fried plantains to make it up to him Holmes.
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So you love sitting around empty space playing with your circles not doing anything? Lol
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I WAS super-excited until the 4S came out.
I was looking for news everyday as I am ready to replace the Evo.
The game changer for me is Siri. I use the phone a lot while I am driving and voice actions, vlingo, etc, etc, don't work great. (Voice is fuxored on Gingerbread 2.3.3.)
Until the 4S, I could compare Android to iPhone spec for spec, and find Android winning favorably. But a big AMOLED screen does me no good when a smaller phone do hands-free magically.
Before the 4S, the most exciting thing to me would have been interface improvements. After? I want to see what Android is offering to match Siri.
Google had plenty of time to see Siri in the App Store then Apple's acquisition of it. They are not RIM, so they don't have the excuse of having their heads in the sand.
Except for leaks of what seem to be fake pics or videos and some leaking of apks, Google has been tight-lipped about anything new in Android. So it should be pretty exciting. I don't expect ICS to have AI--how ironic, Android without a brain--but I do expect them to announce significant improvements in voice recognition. In some ways, the iPhone was playing catch up with visual interface features like the notification bar, so Android is in the lead in that department. I like the busy interface of Honeycomb, not on the tablets but on the smart phones.
I have NO idea new features Google will be revealing. We know about NFC and Google Wallet but as far as basic phone features go, that field is wide open. Four more days!
300$ is a bit to much for me.
Having trouble with AOSP? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
I'm sure everyone has read this. Thought I would share. I've played around on an HP Touchpad and I really like WebOS from what I've saw so far.
http://mobile.pcmag.com/device2/art.../www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397447,00.asp
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I'm sure everyone has read this. Thought I would share. I've played around on an HP Touchpad and I really like WebOS from what I've saw so far.
http://mobile.pcmag.com/device2/art.../www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397447,00.asp
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No one likes that crappy OS.....open sourced or not, is not going to matter!
It would be nice to have it integrated into android. Webos has some cool features that would look good on android. With it being open source i see people porting things over
I think that if some really good devs get their hands on the source code they might make it what it was intended to be all along. I think that webOS never experienced its full capacity because it didn't attract the pockets of major investors, but that can change.
Never underestimate anyone... or even more, Anything...
I hope its ported. Just another reason to feed my addiction to flashing roms haha
Let's go Mountaineers. Beat the hell out of Pitt.
so, a guy has cobbled together a pretty pre-pre-pre-alpha monstrosity and slapped it into the evo 3d.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2...r-htcs-evo-3d-a-proof-of-concept-for-the-time
i'm switching to verizon once the nexus is released, so my evo will turn into more of a toy/media device, and i think i'd really love to play around with webos on a huge evo screen.
am i alone on this one? or is anybody else out there plotting and scheming about how to shoehorn it into our previous evos?
I personally enjoy webos. If it only had the support that Android or ios has (apps wise) then I believe it can be a real competitor in the near future. Would be dope if the Evo gets a port
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Would be very interesting. There are quite a few very nice functional and visual to WebOS, be great to just get certain parts of it, I don't really want a full port(besides to play around with), but just some of its features and effects would be nice to integrate into a ROM. Def with ICS.
I personally love web os it has many great features but I'm confused when palm owned it I thought it was open source I remember hearing Ruby talk about how great that was. Why did HP close it in the first place. I mean I might be wrong so please if I am school me
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I personally love web os it has many great features but I'm confused when palm owned it I thought it was open source I remember hearing Ruby talk about how great that was. Why did HP close it in the first place. I mean I might be wrong so please if I am school me
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I don't remember really. In my limited time using the touchpad (i refuse to buy one for myself since it's been dumped) I've loved it. It's really simple to use and has some cool features. I'd like to see it running on this huge EVO screen also!
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No one likes that crappy OS.....open sourced or not, is not going to matter!
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Wat? I'm going to venture a guess here that you've never used it. It's far from crappy. The failure was the devices it was placed on and their prices. WebOS wasn't the problem.
So, now that my beloved Shift 4G is pretty much dead in the ground, how do the other current Shift owners feel about the Samsung Epic 4G Touch and the Iphone 4S? I am thinking about upgrading.
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So, now that my beloved Shift 4G is pretty much dead in the ground, how do the other current Shift owners feel about the Samsung Epic 4G Touch and the Iphone 4S? I am thinking about upgrading.
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Those phones are downgrades...
And... The shift isn't anywhere near "dead in the ground"... We just had at least 3 new roms released in the last month... Sounds real dead to me...
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I personally don't think any phone is truly EOL until developer support stops. I'm sure there will be sense 4.0 roms out sooner or later for the Shift. That said, having used to E4GT I find it very underwhelming. The S2 line as a whole wasn't as awe inspiring as it should have been... Not to mention samsung build quality sucks. As for the iPhone... Its an iPhone. A good phone if your willing to bend over for Apple, personally would never move from an Android to an iPhone, too much of a backward leap. Probably should wait for the EVO One, I think that's supposed to drop in June sometime
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He ^ said everything that I was too lazy to say... Samsuck is just not good... Unless you like loss of signal and random airplane mode... iFail's are just that, a locked down, half smartphone made for the non tech savvy and soccer moms... But it has siri... FAIL!!!!
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So, now that my beloved Shift 4G is pretty much dead in the ground, how do the other current Shift owners feel about the Samsung Epic 4G Touch and the Iphone 4S? I am thinking about upgrading.
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Both of those devices, the SamSUCK ,and the ITurd are just truly GARBAGE. I have had to repair both, and have owned several SamSUCK devices ( DARK DAYS) . No thank you, both are a huge downgrade. Also just because a device goes EOL, does not mean it is dead. Look at the original Sprint HERO. It's still has a strong following. The EVO4G same thing. The Touch Pro2, I can go on. IMO hold on to the Shift till HTC steps up, and gives us something we want.
At least wait for the htc one x to come to sprint. Because then we should have sense 4.0 out for us and it gives more time for u to pick a new phone
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For the love of Gawd do not get the iphone 4s, drob is right it's a complete fail. "We added android notifications, ota updates, and voice search (siri)", all things android has had for a long time! There's a app called everfriends on the market that does the same stuff as siri.
Now the title of this thread really cracks me up. "No ICS or Sense 4" but you think you can get that on a iphone 4s? *smh*
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE my Shift and I LOVE Android.
But, if the damn phone keeps failing, and I can't get a replacement from Sprint, what's the point of holding on?
What I love the most about Android is QWERTY, removable battery, and removable memory. I HATE Apple and Steve Jobs. But, if HTC is only going to build Iphone clones for now on, why not just go with the real thing?
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He ^ said everything that I was too lazy to say... Samsuck is just not good... Unless you like loss of signal and random airplane mode... iFail's are just that, a locked down, half smartphone made for the non tech savvy and soccer moms... But it has siri... FAIL!!!!
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I love this man, (in a perfectly straight way) for all he and everyone else does. I DISAGREE. Samsung makes GREAT products. Not better than my shift but nice. Don't diss my shift. I'll find you....
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tt c6 said:
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE my Shift and I LOVE Android.
But, if the damn phone keeps failing, and I can't get a replacement from Sprint, what's the point of holding on?
What I love the most about Android is QWERTY, removable battery, and removable memory. I HATE Apple and Steve Jobs. But, if HTC is only going to build Iphone clones for now on, why not just go with the real thing?
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If you really want a iphone then go get one no here can stop you from that..Have fun with that..
tt c6 said:
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE my Shift and I LOVE Android.
But, if the damn phone keeps failing, and I can't get a replacement from Sprint, what's the point of holding on?
What I love the most about Android is QWERTY, removable battery, and removable memory. I HATE Apple and Steve Jobs. But, if HTC is only going to build Iphone clones for now on, why not just go with the real thing?
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Well if that works for you than do it. You'll be back, they all come back. Takes some a little longer than others. But they all come back .
TEAM MiK
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Once you go use the Android OS you will always hold regrets when using an iPhone. At LEAST use a windows phone 7 device . Even then though.... Wait for the EVO One buddy. (or buy a cheap EVO 3d unopened on Craigslist. That's what I did to tide Me over when I moved from the shift to the og EVO)
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Both of those devices, the SamSUCK ,and the ITurd are just truly GARBAGE. I have had to repair both, and have owned several SamSUCK devices ( DARK DAYS) . No thank you, both are a huge downgrade. Also just because a device goes EOL, does not mean it is dead. Look at the original Sprint HERO. It's still has a strong following. The EVO4G same thing. The Touch Pro2, I can go on. IMO hold on to the Shift till HTC steps up, and gives us something we want.
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Xdandroid is still in development for many devices released before or with android. In some places development never dies. I know I will be happy with the shift until a quadcore slider comes out. May be a long and happy wait lol.
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I love this man, (in a perfectly straight way) for all he and everyone else does. I DISAGREE. Samsung makes GREAT products. Not better than my shift but nice. Don't diss my shift. I'll find you....
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Except the NS4G. Owned 3 of those, and they all SUCKED. Dropping calls all the time, no 4g reception where I can connect fine with my Shift, and random switching to 1x in what is a solid 3g region.
The only Samsung I ever owned was the original Instinct and I thought that was the ish! After that, I upgraded to a HTC HERO, and no sooner, the SHIFT!!! I am not eligible for an upgrade 'til Nov. So plenty of time to see what's out there...
i think i might get an evo lte. also, i haven't experienced failures. i had a new screen put on after a 7 foot fall onto carpet made 15% of the touchscreen not work (which was weird), but nothing but a good phone for the last 1.25 years.
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Both of those devices, the SamSUCK ,and the ITurd are just truly GARBAGE.
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Lmao thanks for the laugh!
Just an update:
I got the Photon Q LTE and I am LOVING it.
I think I'll like the Q myself. I've looked through the Photon Q forums and haven't seen a sense 4.0 port yet though.
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I think I'll like the Q myself. I've looked through the Photon Q forums and haven't seen a sense 4.0 port yet though.
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I like the Motorola Photon Q also. One of the issues I have with it though, is that it is a Motorola .