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The Motorola i886. Its a nextel direct connect phone that i saw while looking at sprints phone shop online. However, i noticed it looks exactly like android, and when i looked at the guide, it has a notifications key, 3 homescreens, widgets, etc. Just curious, cause they never mention android when talking about the phone.
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Yes. It runs android 1.5 but without a touchscreen, it's so heavily modded it's barely recognizable as Android.
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Yes. It runs android 1.5 but without a touchscreen, it's so heavily modded it's barely recognizable as Android.
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Yeah, that's why I came here. I thought it was, but then I thought "Well maybe, moto took their experience with android and created a cheap look alike for it", so then I wasn't sure. Lol that's a weird look for android though. I'd rather have the i1 if I was using nextel.
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Wow android 1.5. That sucks. They were probably promised upgrades as well
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musclehead84 said:
Wow android 1.5. That sucks. They were probably promised upgrades as well
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I wonder if they have to pay the extra $10/month. Now that would be just plain mean.
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Wow android 1.5. That sucks. They were probably promised upgrades as well
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Actually no, there wasn't even an implied update, that was why I had to convince my friend (in construction) to get the hell away from Nextel's awful selection.
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Actually no, there wasn't even an implied update, that was why I had to convince my friend (in construction) to get the hell away from Nextel's awful selection.
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Well, by that act, you saved that persons soul. Lol seriously though, thanks for answering the question. I get curious easily.
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Actually no, there wasn't even an implied update, that was why I had to convince my friend (in construction) to get the hell away from Nextel's awful selection.
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tell them to get an epic and get the app called "tikl".. he can use that as walkie talkie LOL
daddymikey1975 said:
tell them to get an epic and get the app called "tikl".. he can use that as walkie talkie LOL
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But only if everyone else on the job site has Android/Apple to run tikl as well.
Related
http://www.androidcentral.com/officially-unofficial-android-22-upgrade-list
Our beloved Hero isn't on the list, but the MyTouch3G Slide is, perhaps that will mean an easy port eh?
Hmm. The Hero isn't in any of the categories... I guess the Evo buried the other Sprint Androids.
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Hmm. The Hero isn't in any of the categories... I guess the Evo buried the other Sprint Androids.
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Yeah the Hero is more than capable to run it. Kind of disappointing but not suprising, Want Froyo, buy a new phone. I wish Google had the power to say, want to sell an Android phone? Then push our updates to all android based phones you sell.
gunnyman said:
http://www.androidcentral.com/officially-unofficial-android-22-upgrade-list
Our beloved Hero isn't on the list, but the MyTouch3G Slide is, perhaps that will mean an easy port eh?
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It'll be a very simple port.
Yay MSM7K devices.
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It'll be a very simple port.
Yay MSM7K devices.
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So essentially the kernels are pretty much the same on MSM7K devices?
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So essentially the kernels are pretty much the same on MSM7K devices?
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Not the kernels, but the drivers inside of them are very similar if not the same.
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Not the kernels, but the drivers inside of them are very similar if not the same.
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gotcha. I do know that the the port of the Mytouch 3G Slide 2.1 is super smoove. So hopefully so will Froyo
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Not the kernels, but the drivers inside of them are very similar if not the same.
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Decad3nce - Will you move to Tennessee and be my best friend? We can go cow tipping and hunting and hacking together!
maybe we could hold the head guy of sprint hostage till he ports froyo to the hero???
cp0020 said:
maybe we could hold the head guy of sprint hostage till he ports froyo to the hero???
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Hmm that would go over real well with the public and government haha.
mrinehart93 said:
Hmm that would go over real well with the public and government haha.
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Maybe not but it would be funny.
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Hmm. The Hero isn't in any of the categories... I guess the Evo buried the other Sprint Androids.
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Yeah it's bull**** IMO. Im sick of the hero being treated like an ugly step child because of the almighty evo. It's bull**** we won't get a froyo update either.
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Yeah it's bull**** IMO. Im sick of the hero being treated like an ugly step child because of the almighty evo. It's bull**** we won't get a froyo update either.
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Welcome to the cycle - we have meetings every third Thursday of the month to beat our selves up for not having the most cutting edge hardware.
Yeah it's bull**** IMO. Im sick of the hero being treated like an ugly step child because of the almighty evo. It's bull**** we won't get a froyo update either.
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Welcome to the cycle - we have meetings every third Thursday of the month to beat our selves up for not having the most cutting edge hardware.
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Yeah and u missed the meeting last night...how dare u....hopefully u don't get kick out of the club. I'd hate to see u having to use a samsung moment
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Yeah and u missed the meeting last night...how dare u....hopefully u don't get kick out of the club. I'd hate to see u having to use a samsung moment
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Yeah I wouldn't wish that on anybody. *shudder*
hell the mytouch 3g is on the list that has all the same specs as our phone except it's tmobile.
Poor samsung behold 2 users
i was reading on another forum that sprint is going to be discontinuing the hero and the moment? is this true? if soo im really ticked considering these phones are less than 10 months old.
i just talked to my friend who works at radio shack and he confirms these phones will be discontinued and not carried for much longer. are there any sprint workers here that can confirm?
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yeah it sucks, i bought the damn phone for 500 bucks last october and its already outdated. hows that for some silly ****.
yea i remember staying up late waiting for updates at like 3 in the morning now its pretty empty. thank god to faithful commited devs that keep the hero intresting...... (sigh) i need an evo
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id think most users would be pissed right now. i think if they are doing this, it's just to get users to get a droid phone with 4g so we can pay that 'coolness' fee. no reason for you to take offense, this isn't geared towards our small amount of devs here, im talking about sprint/htc. even the damn 1st gen droid got 2.2 and it's about to be discontinued.
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yeah it sucks, i bought the damn phone for 500 bucks last october and its already outdated. hows that for some silly ****.
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im not talking about being outdated. YES in comparison to other droid phones "evo" it is outdated. but i do not agree with them stopping selling or carrying them yet.
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id think most users would be pissed right now. i think if they are doing this, it's just to get users to get a droid phone with 4g so we can pay that 'coolness' fee. no reason for you to take offense, this isn't geared towards our small amount of devs here, im talking about sprint/htc. even the damn 1st gen droid got 2.2 and it's about to be discontinued.
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I honestly... don't give two ****s. It's the progression of technology. To move with the times, you need to improve with the times. I think it's not bad to discontinue the Hero, but it certainly isn't good either. Hey soul sister, hey that mister mister on the radio, stereo......
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I honestly... don't give two ****s. It's the progression of technology. To move with the times, you need to improve with the times. I think it's not bad to discontinue the Hero, but it certainly isn't good either. Hey soul sister, hey that mister mister on the radio, stereo......
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i guess ill have no choice but to buy another evo or that god ugly epic then.
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i guess ill have no choice but to buy another evo or that god ugly epic then.
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why on gods green earth would you downgrade from the evo to the hero?
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i guess ill have no choice but to buy another evo or that god ugly epic then.
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I think the epic is actually pretty... pretty. Just my opinion. We built this city.... we built this city on rock and roll....
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why on gods green earth would you downgrade from the evo to the hero?
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lets see:
horrid battery life.
had to disable every feature to get through the day.
a little too big for my tastes.
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I think the epic is actually pretty... pretty. Just my opinion. We built this city.... we built this city on rock and roll....
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are you drunk? yeah it's pretty once you remove that god awful touchwiz from it.
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lets see:
horrid battery life.
had to disable every feature to get through the day.
a little too big for my tastes.
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Hey, I'll take your evo. The only reason I didn't get one is because my upgrade date isn't until April 2011. Remind, remind, remind me......
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Hey, I'll take your evo. The only reason I didn't get one is because my upgrade date isn't until April 2011. Remind, remind, remind me......
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already sold...i got twice what i paid for it. but i needed the cash too at the time. now that im going back to work i may give the evo another shot and buy an extended battery. i dunno yet?
Ah the Hero.. I forgot about even having one :/. I remember that phone being the phone I wanted for a whileeeee and then I finally got one only a month later to get the Evo.
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already sold...i got twice what i paid for it. but i needed the cash too at the time. now that im going back to work i may give the evo another shot and buy an extended battery. i dunno yet?
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Well, that's WHAT WHAT WHAT? TWICE what you paid? Every day we wake up, we choose love we choose light...... [You're probably getting fed up with the music quotes now]
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I think the epic is actually pretty... pretty. Just my opinion. We built this city.... we built this city on rock and roll....
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The epic is a sleek beautiful phone... in my opinion a lot nicer than the evo, i love the flush buttons at the bottom but i dont like touchwiz or samsung so i won't be getting one
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The epic is a sleek beautiful phone... in my opinion a lot nicer than the evo, i love the flush buttons at the bottom but i dont like touchwiz or samsung so i won't be getting one
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There's an Epic section on XDA. Doesn't matter which phone I get, I'd just be loading AOSP or CyanogenMod on it. But please, come down, from that cloud you're sitting on, I don't expect you to admit that you were wrong.....
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The epic is a sleek beautiful phone... in my opinion a lot nicer than the evo, i love the flush buttons at the bottom but i dont like touchwiz or samsung so i won't be getting one
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i agree 100%!
I didn't follow CES as much as I wanted to so I'm wondering in your opinions what is the most exciting phone coming in 2011? I just saw specs for the atrix and I'm impressed. I hate at&t but when it cones out on March I might have to go with it. I didn't see where sprint was getting anything. Anybody jumping on the attic in March? Thanks for the responses.
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sprint didnt really announce anything but there is a conference from Sprint at the begining of next month with another "industry first". so well see
Yea its a 1.2GHz triple core HTC Device running 2.4 and 2 1080 cameras that also works on sprints "industry first" 5 G network ......and YES u can F*ck iT.
Who cares about phones?
Sprint is getting David Blaine at this Febuary event... David Blaine !!! Lol
Maybe they got him cause only magic will get froyo on our phones.
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Yea its a 1.2GHz triple core HTC Device running 2.4 and 2 1080 cameras that also works on sprints "industry first" 5 G network ......and YES u can F*ck iT.
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5G, I'll expect a $50/mo data surcharge with a network that isn't available in my area.
Maybe sprint is gonna announce a fully functional froyo for the epic, a first for the galaxy s
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And yeah the atrix is pretty much what I expected the Nexus S to be. Gingerbread had no business being released on a rehashed galaxy s. They shoulda just pushed gingerbread to all n1 owners (which was the point of getting that phone in the first place.) And then got 2.4 out on the NS or whatever nexus it would've been if they would've waited. Perhaps a "Nexus Duo" or something since they didn't want a nexus 2
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Yea its a 1.2GHz triple core HTC Device running 2.4 and 2 1080 cameras that also works on sprints "industry first" 5 G network ......and YES u can F*ck iT.
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Lol
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And yeah the atrix is pretty much what I expected the Nexus S to be. Gingerbread had no business being released on a rehashed galaxy s. They shoulda just pushed gingerbread to all n1 owners (which was the point of getting that phone in the first place.) And then got 2.4 out on the NS or whatever nexus it would've been if they would've waited. Perhaps a "Nexus Duo" or something since they didn't want a nexus 2
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Yeah, the Nexus S is gonna be a complete and udderly waste of google's time with the outs of the dual core phones with HDMI and an actual SD card slot. Not sure what google was thinking with the Nexus S, but I'm thinking they didn't want developers ****ing with their hardware with those kind of restrictions.
Just read more.info on the atrix and I just told my wife we are going to at&t. I hate at&t.but damn I want that phone on March 1. Atone know what the price is for the.phone yet?
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I would never go to that crappy network, no matter how good the phone is. I think you'll regret it the first time you try to do a google search on it. Froyo or no froyo, ill take my way cheaper and more reliable network on sprint
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Just read more.info on the atrix and I just told my wife we are going to at&t. I hate at&t.but damn I want that phone on March 1. Atone know what the price is for the.phone yet?
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Most likely a lot lol. I dont think its worth a switch on march first though..i think you should hold off for a month or so while all the kinks get worked out, like a horribly locked bootloader.
Also, we be mad that the epic hasn't gotten official froyo yet....but according to a recent study, ATT has never updated ANY of its android phones...EVER lol
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Yeah, the Nexus S is gonna be a complete and udderly waste of google's time with the outs of the dual core phones with HDMI and an actual SD card slot. Not sure what google was thinking with the Nexus S, but I'm thinking they didn't want developers ****ing with their hardware with those kind of restrictions.
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Nah I think they just wanted to hop on the galaxy s train and sammy just felt like releasing the same thing with a few tradeoffs (no sd slot...but you get 2.3 lol)
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ATT has never updated ANY of its android phones...EVER lol
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ATT hasn't updated a single Android phone? At all?
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ATT hasn't updated a single Android phone? At all?
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Nope.
Sprint was next with 28% updated (which isn't really a lot considering we only have like 4 androidphones lol) and then verizon with like 31% and then tmo with something higher% lol
The article was on engadget
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Just read more.info on the atrix and I just told my wife we are going to at&t. I hate at&t.but damn I want that phone on March 1. Atone know what the price is for the.phone yet?
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Do you really want that 2GB data cap? I guess it's okay if you don't use much data, but if you ever do use more than 2GB, be prepared to pay for it.
Yeah I know at&t sucks bad and I will prolly hate it. I just couldn't believe the specs when I saw them. I do use alot of data. Way more than the.limit on at&t and I forgot about that so thanks for pointing that out. Wow I never knew they never updated an android phone. Well you guys ruined my dreams. Lol
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Yeah I know at&t sucks bad and I will prolly hate it. I just couldn't believe the specs when I saw them. I do use alot of data. Way more than the.limit on at&t and I forgot about that so thanks for pointing that out. Wow I never knew they never updated an android phone. Well you guys ruined my dreams. Lol
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Don't feel bad. AT&T has ruined a lot of dreams.
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Nope.
Sprint was next with 28% updated (which isn't really a lot considering we only have like 4 androidphones lol) and then verizon with like 31% and then tmo with something higher% lol
The article was on engadget
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I wasn't aware that the numbers were this low. I would think that this would be something that Google would be concerned with because eventually this could hurt the growth of Android. Marketing is a powerful thing and if Apple and Microsoft are in some way able to get into the heads of the masses. You know how powerful marketing can be even when it's just trying to spread FUD. The company that I work for has BB as the "corporate standard" but because we purchased several other companies in the past year that standard has been loosened a bit because of the high number of iPhone users at the other company. There are only two of us in the IT Department that have Android and with what I see going on I still don't feel comfortable pushing Android. The first time there was an issue I know that my CIO would use it as the reason why we shouldn't use Android and that would be the end of that.
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squshy 7 said:
Don't feel bad. AT&T has ruined a lot of dreams.
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Haha, so true. I remember when I was showing my friend my wireless tether feature. He was so impressed he did a jailbreak of his iphone4 to get it. Then he got a nice little bill the next month when he went over 2gb. Needless to say, his iphone is no longer jailbroken.
OK WTF... This EVO version of AT&T... Look what it will get...
HTC Sense 2.0 provides a custom user interface for enhanced social networking, navigation, and integration with connected services from HTCsense.com.
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So Sprint and HTC WTF!!!!
For full Specs... http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/htc-inspire.jsp
Well, it is a newer phone.. and new features are being worked on everyday... sometimes we just have to understand that the EVO isn't always gonna have everything when technology moves as fast as it does.
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OK WTF... This EVO version of AT&T... Look what it will get...
So Sprint and HTC WTF!!!!
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Are you serious? The evo been out for 8 friggin months and the htc inspire hasn't even been released yet and you getting mad at sprint? Damn you funny as hell, if anything att customers should be the one going wtf? Since after almost a year after the evo been in our hands they are only now getting a similar phone with slightly marginal specs.
Yes this is really the EVO2
klquicksall said:
Yes this is really the EVO2
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Nah, that's definitely not the EVO2, more like the EVO+. It's the same phone, just with a couple minor upgrades.
What a waste of good phone with such a horrible network...
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What a waste of good phone with such a horrible network...
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well a lot of people like dropped calls and horrible service.
I'm sorry... what part of this phone other than software is better than the EVO? Looks about the same to me (maybe more storage lol)
4g internal. Hopefully Sprint will come out with something better than the thunderbolt.
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4g internal. Hopefully Sprint will come out with something better than the thunderbolt.
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Of course they will, the inspire and the thunderbolt are the same phones in which both are basically a carbon copy of the evo which been out for 8 months with the exception of a few differences(mainly updated snapdragon and the newer version of sense). Anyway, sprint has too much riding on the evo name than to come out with an evo 2 with half assed specs.
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Nah, that's definitely not the EVO2, more like the EVO+. It's the same phone, just with a couple minor upgrades.
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I thought we were the HD2+!
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I'm sorry... what part of this phone other than software is better than the EVO? Looks about the same to me (maybe more storage lol)
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It's got a better processor (MSM8255 45nm vs the EVO's QSD8650 65nm), more internal memory, MUCH better screen (SLCD), and Sense 2.0.
It's a better device, no question.
It's a better phone to be sure, but not a huge upgrade from the EVO. Though it's always nice to have choice, I'm sure some AT & T users would prefer another Sense phone.
Call it the EVO 4gS
No front camera is a deal-breaker for me. No thanks!
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I haven't used my front camera once since I got this thing on launch day.
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I haven't used my front camera once since I got this thing on launch day.
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I use it to video chat on Tango with my wife, my sister, and my parents all the time. Plus soon Skype will be doing mobile to desktop video chat and it will really blow up. I'd never get a phone with no FFC these days.
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The only difference I saw was EVO can tether 8 devices and the other phone only five.
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I too have never used the FFC (bought the evo in august).
I don't even know if it works
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OK WTF... This EVO version of AT&T... Look what it will get...
So Sprint and HTC WTF!!!!
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It's internal memory is four times the size of the Evos, I'm sure that makes the new sense much easier to fit on there.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/ota-gingerbread-2-3-update-now-available-for-droid-x/
Motorola and Verizon have released the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA for their phones while HTC is still sitting on it.
So much for HTC being the leader int he cell phone game. Yeah they make better phones but whats the point if the competition is updating and providing faster service.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/ota-gingerbread-2-3-update-now-available-for-droid-x/
Motorola and Verizon have released the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA for their phones while HTC is still sitting on it.
So much for HTC being the leader int he cell phone game. Yeah they make better phones but whats the point if the competition is updating and providing faster service.
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You need to ***** at sprint HTC is waiting for sprint to let them update that is what HTC said its up to Sprint so everyone needs to flood Sprint with calls emails and demand update.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/ota-gingerbread-2-3-update-now-available-for-droid-x/
Motorola and Verizon have released the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA for their phones while HTC is still sitting on it.
So much for HTC being the leader int he cell phone game. Yeah they make better phones but whats the point if the competition is updating and providing faster service.
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Well bub, thats the price of a locked/signed bootloader & Moto Blek...
This is why we have XDA my friend.
There's also a difference from Eclair to Froyo from Froyo to Gingerbread.
Froyo actually offered something new from Eclair, Gingerbread does have some benefits but mostly nothing groundbreaking. The X and the Evo were updated to Froyo in about the same time frame of their release.
Didn't the Droid X2 already launch though?
Guess it makes sense, if that is true, that they'd start pushing the update. Isn't that the idea with the Evo? Wait for the successor to drop, then update the past device?
Either way, it'll be here soon enough.
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You need to ***** at sprint HTC is waiting for sprint to let them update that is what HTC said its up to Sprint so everyone needs to flood Sprint with calls emails and demand update.
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Pretty much, sprint isn't letting ANY of their phones offically get GB until they release the 3D with GB on it.
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Pretty much, sprint isn't letting ANY of their phones offically get GB until they release the 3D with GB on it.
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And you know this to be fact or purely speculating?
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And you know this to be fact or purely speculating?
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Think about it, its a marketing ploy. Want GB on sprint, buy the Evo 3d, then after they start selling it, oh by the way, the rest of you guys already signed up can get your update now. If they were to update our phones, what incentive would we have to get the 3d since we already would have GB??
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what incentive would we have to get the 3d since we already would have GB??
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I dunno. A superior piece of hardware?
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I dunno. A superior piece of hardware?
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Sure, for those of us who are into that, but for the casual user they dont even know about better hardware. They just know GB is the latest software and thats all they want.
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Sure, for those of us who are into that, but for the casual user they dont even know about better hardware. They just know GB is the latest software and thats all they want.
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I'd say it's the other way around. The casual user would want a better phone over OS tweaks that they may not even understand.
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I dunno. A superior piece of hardware?
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To the average consumer? No.
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To the average consumer? No.
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LOL. Let me call my wife and ask her what she thinks of Gingerbread. I'll assume she'll have no idea what I'm talking about and maybe bring up cookies.
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I'd say it's the other way around. The casual user would want a better phone over OS tweaks that they may not even understand.
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My brother knows about a better phone but he Hung onto his G1 till a great deal came, and it did with t-mobile free mt4g....
So some won't care of better hardware or even software....
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I'd say it's the other way around. The casual user would want a better phone over OS tweaks that they may not even understand.
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I agree. I don't think HTC makes better phones btw, motorola kills them in battery life, and I prefer phones made of metal.
I also would rather believe that people in general would want the newest phone over the newest software update. The "average consumer" probably has no idea what the latest iteration of Android is or how to even check for the ota for it lol.
Is it really that big of a deal? The majority of us have rooted phones running custom ROMs anyway. There are handfuls of GB ROMs, both Sense and AOSP. We've had GB on AOSP ROMs (CM) for months now, while the Droid X didn't get GB ROMs until recently.
I know sometimes it's just to ***** and complain about something for the sake of *****ing and complaining, but seriously, is there any need to say that HTC isn't the "leader of the cell phone game" anymore just because of one simple software update?
Also,
Unlocked bootloader >>>>>>> OTA GB update
Holy speculation based thread we have here batman!
Sprint "holding back updates to all phones" comments are silly.
Also, who cares? With HTC phones I can run Cyanogen and have had Gingerbread for what three months now?
With Motorola I can say I have root...which is meaningless.
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Pretty much, sprint isn't letting ANY of their phones offically get GB until they release the 3D with GB on it.
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Money hungry corporate whores
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mattykinsx said:
Holy speculation based thread we have here batman!
Sprint "holding back updates to all phones" comments are silly.
Also, who cares? With HTC phones I can run Cyanogen and have had Gingerbread for what three months now?
With Motorola I can say I have root...which is meaningless.
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Lol I wrote HTC they said its up to Sprint .