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Just got the epic, tad disappointed

Came from a Droid 1 to the Epic today. I liked my droid, but the verizon bill was the biggest ripoff on the face of earth. Lately I've been hearing good things about Sprint, and I also wanted the evo... after some reviewing today, I decided that Epic was the better choice for me because of keyboard (I sometimes use the keyboard, maybe not enough to justify tho) better performance, and better battery life. I was aware it didn't come with 2.2...
Well now that I'm playing around with this thing, I miss all the features of the 2.2! BT voice dial, JIT, flash, 2.2 specific apps... I miss all of them!
It's very upsetting to know that samsung will probably not release the 2.2 for these phones until 2.3 is almost released on the Nexus One and all =/
also, I hear everyone praising the AMOLED screen, but I see all these grainy dots on it, it's brigther, but looks more pixalated, it's hard to tell, it's easy to tell on white.
Has anyone done the switch to EVO or to Epic from the EVO? what are your thoughts? it's def snappier compared to my gf's evo running 2.2... and the screen size diff isn't that big

razorseal said:
Came from a Droid 1 to the Epic today. I liked my droid, but the verizon bill was the biggest ripoff on the face of earth. Lately I've been hearing good things about Sprint, and I also wanted the evo... after some reviewing today, I decided that Epic was the better choice for me because of keyboard (I sometimes use the keyboard, maybe not enough to justify tho) better performance, and better battery life. I was aware it didn't come with 2.2...
Well now that I'm playing around with this thing, I miss all the features of the 2.2! BT voice dial, JIT, flash, 2.2 specific apps... I miss all of them!
It's very upsetting to know that samsung will probably not release the 2.2 for these phones until 2.3 is almost released on the Nexus One and all =/
also, I hear everyone praising the AMOLED screen, but I see all these grainy dots on it, it's brigther, but looks more pixalated, it's hard to tell, it's easy to tell on white.
Has anyone done the switch to EVO or to Epic from the EVO? what are your thoughts? it's def snappier compared to my gf's evo running 2.2... and the screen size diff isn't that big
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I had a evo. I had it oc to 1.11ghz and running cynagon 6 rc1. I switched to the epic and never looked back. My epic when stock is almost as good as my evo in the state it was. My epic is now oc to 1.2ghz and I'm running the ee rom. Its even close to my evo. Once we get cynagon or 2.2 the epic will blow the evo out the water.
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Yeah, I have to root this thing still, I haven't done the adb thing, so I would need step by step instructions on that, down to where I download adb to my comp (no idea how it works)
That being said, I wasn't a huge fan of CM on my droid, but if that's the only thing we'll have with epic and 2.2, i'll gladly use it.

razorseal said:
Yeah, I have to root this thing still, I haven't done the adb thing, so I would need step by step instructions on that, down to where I download adb to my comp (no idea how it works)
That being said, I wasn't a huge fan of CM on my droid, but if that's the only thing we'll have with epic and 2.2, i'll gladly use it.
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easiest way that I found:
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/epi...and-linux/?action=thankyoupostlist;msg=101129

I have to be honest here. I think some people talk about Froyo like it is this amazing leap forward in technology and it is like a night and day difference from 2.1 out there.
I have an Epic 4G and love the thing! I had a chance to play with a friend's G2 last weekend and, when looking at the 2.2 froyo Android, all I could think of was "Really? Seriously? This is making people decide NOT to get an Epic 4G? Are you fricken kidding me?"
First off, Froyo should be out on the Epic within a month of this posting. Second, the things you are talking about are almost non-issues! You can't voice dial over blue tooth? Wow...I voice dial all the time by holding the phone for all of about 15 seconds to tell it "dial 1-800-dont-be-lame" and then drop it on the seat as it runs the call over BT. Flash...installed already and you don't need root to do it. JIT? Really? 2.2 specific apps? Like what?
Don't take this wrong, and it is NOT meant to be an insult (though it might sound like one a bit) but you almost sound like those zealots who argue that the book is ALWAYS better than the movie even if the movie kicks butt.
The Epic is an awesome movie...

ExploreMN said:
I have to be honest here. I think some people talk about Froyo like it is this amazing leap forward in technology and it is like a night and day difference from 2.1 out there.
I have an Epic 4G and love the thing! I had a chance to play with a friend's G2 last weekend and, when looking at the 2.2 froyo Android, all I could think of was "Really? Seriously? This is making people decide NOT to get an Epic 4G? Are you fricken kidding me?"
First off, Froyo should be out on the Epic within a month of this posting. Second, the things you are talking about are almost non-issues! You can't voice dial over blue tooth? Wow...I voice dial all the time by holding the phone for all of about 15 seconds to tell it "dial 1-800-dont-be-lame" and then drop it on the seat as it runs the call over BT. Flash...installed already and you don't need root to do it. JIT? Really? 2.2 specific apps? Like what?
Don't take this wrong, and it is NOT meant to be an insult (though it might sound like one a bit) but you almost sound like those zealots who argue that the book is ALWAYS better than the movie even if the movie kicks butt.
The Epic is an awesome movie...
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How do u have flash? Skyfire is not real flash if that's what ur referring to. Also in cali u can get a ticket if u voice dial the way u mentioned above. 2.2 has many advantages over 2.1 no need to argue that 2.2 is not a big deal.That being said the epic will get it soon, and even without 2.2 it is a beast. However if the op is used to 2.2 apps and some of the feautures I understand his concern, no need to start calling the op nmes because his opinion of the phone does not agree with urs.
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ExploreMN said:
I have to be honest here. I think some people talk about Froyo like it is this amazing leap forward in technology and it is like a night and day difference from 2.1 out there.
I have an Epic 4G and love the thing! I had a chance to play with a friend's G2 last weekend and, when looking at the 2.2 froyo Android, all I could think of was "Really? Seriously? This is making people decide NOT to get an Epic 4G? Are you fricken kidding me?"
First off, Froyo should be out on the Epic within a month of this posting. Second, the things you are talking about are almost non-issues! You can't voice dial over blue tooth? Wow...I voice dial all the time by holding the phone for all of about 15 seconds to tell it "dial 1-800-dont-be-lame" and then drop it on the seat as it runs the call over BT. Flash...installed already and you don't need root to do it. JIT? Really? 2.2 specific apps? Like what?
Don't take this wrong, and it is NOT meant to be an insult (though it might sound like one a bit) but you almost sound like those zealots who argue that the book is ALWAYS better than the movie even if the movie kicks butt.
The Epic is an awesome movie...
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The difference between eclair and froyo are night and day. There is so much more you can do with froyo then you can with eclair and 3yr performance gain is well worth it. Once the epic gets froyo it will put the rest to shame. I had both the epic and evo on launch day. The epic out the box put the evo to shame. The only reason the evo is a tad bit better is cause of froyo.
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Grainy dots? I'm going to assume u got this directly at sprint store and they put the crappy ass screen protector on it. Change that to realook screen protector and ur screen will look as it was intended to
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hehehe23 said:
Grainy dots? I'm going to assume u got this directly at sprint store and they put the crappy ass screen protector on it. Change that to realook screen protector and ur screen will look as it was intended to
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I don't even use a screen protector. That's what insurance is for
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mysteryemotionz said:
I don't even use a screen protector. That's what insurance is for
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Insurance doesn't cover small screen scratches. They are considered cosmetic. Also u have a deductible to pay too.
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ravizzle said:
Insurance doesn't cover small screen scratches. They are considered cosmetic. Also u have a deductible to pay too.
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$100 deductible and a crack in the screen they will
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Guys, don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the phone and doubt I'll be going to the evo within my 30 days, but from what i've been reading the november date is for the european galaxy phones? (haven't done enough research on that yet, just the thread here about it)
that being said, unless you had a 2.2 and used it regularly, you wouldn't know I guess ExploreMN. one nice feature was the auto update and update all feature on the 2.2. the app2sd is a nice feature too. believe it or not, the V8 JIT browser is faster, you can run a sun spider test and see the dif in numbers if you want. If it comes out in a month, I could care less really. I might not even bother rooting then, since i'll have to wait for a rooted 2.2 etc etc...
as far as the grainy dots go, if you can compare it next to another phone like droid, evo, iphone (any other smart phone) and look at the white on the super amoled, you can see what I'm talking about. honestly my eyes are already getting used to it though. I dunno, it's hard to tell, but it's there if you look. colors are def more vibrant though, grainy dots or not... lol
I'm really just disappointed about the 2.2 issue, and I hope it does come out november like engadget said.
oh, also, the speaker volume (phone ring and notifications) seems really low on this thing, I made sure it was on high... anyone else have anything to say about that?
I have the black tie thing, so no deductable here either

razorseal said:
Guys, don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the phone and doubt I'll be going to the evo within my 30 days, but from what i've been reading the november date is for the european galaxy phones? (haven't done enough research on that yet, just the thread here about it)
that being said, unless you had a 2.2 and used it regularly, you wouldn't know I guess ExploreMN. one nice feature was the auto update and update all feature on the 2.2. the app2sd is a nice feature too. believe it or not, the V8 JIT browser is faster, you can run a sun spider test and see the dif in numbers if you want. If it comes out in a month, I could care less really. I might not even bother rooting then, since i'll have to wait for a rooted 2.2 etc etc...
as far as the grainy dots go, if you can compare it next to another phone like droid, evo, iphone (any other smart phone) and look at the white on the super amoled, you can see what I'm talking about. honestly my eyes are already getting used to it though. I dunno, it's hard to tell, but it's there if you look. colors are def more vibrant though, grainy dots or not... lol
I'm really just disappointed about the 2.2 issue, and I hope it does come out november like engadget said.
oh, also, the speaker volume (phone ring and notifications) seems really low on this thing, I made sure it was on high... anyone else have anything to say about that?
I have the black tie thing, so no deductable here either
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First thing I did was compare the screen to my evo. I'll take the samoled any day. I never seen these dis you speak of. Maybe you got a bad phone. Take it back compare it to another epic then replace it.
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mysteryemotionz said:
$100 deductible and a crack in the screen they will
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That's true. For me is rather pay 5 bucks for a screen protecter
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no it's not the phone... I looked at the att one few months ago and realized that, so it's def not the phone. I think i'm actually the only one that sees this, had to point it out to my gf and she barely saw it. maybe she was just agreeing with me lol...
looking side by side to the evo though, the colors are def more 'vibrant'

ravizzle said:
That's true. For me is rather pay 5 bucks for a screen protecter
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I hated using swype with thr protector. I like these feel of my finger sliding across the glass
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Yea samoled gets tiny dots on all white screen. Ur not the only one who sees it. I personaly only notice it when I look super super su0per carefully. It doesn't bother me at all, but I understand it may be a prob for some ppl who notice it.
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mysteryemotionz said:
I hated using swype with thr protector. I like these feel of my finger sliding across the glass
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That's true glass feels the best! Well if ur careful then ur phone will be fine. Gorilla glass ftw!!!
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ravizzle said:
Yea samoled gets tiny dots on all white screen. Ur not the only one who sees it. I personaly only notice it when I look super super su0per carefully. It doesn't bother me at all, but I understand it may be a prob for some ppl who notice it.
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ok, at least I know i'm not the only one lol...
you gotta look pretty close to see it, but i have pretty good eyes, so they pop out alot easier.

oh, for the guy who said 2.2 is junk
sun spider on epic - 16758ms
droid 1.0ghz 2.2 - 8331ms

Favorite Thing about epic 4g

I can list ten things I like about the epic 4g but One thing I love in particular is the sound quality for music playback...the sound is so full and lively that it sounds as good or better that dedicated music players. For reference purposes I am using my shure e500pth headphones (which would definitely reveal sound processing flaws on phones with terrible dac converters such as the evo, i know because i had a evo and compared it to the epic and quickly switched to the epic). I also use poweramp (the paid version of course) due to its excellent eq and flexibility for shaping the sound to your liking). Let me know your favorite thing about the epic

Porn looks great on the Super AMOLED screen.

^^^ see, this guy knows whats up ^^^
A month later and it's still the display.. I still open it up all the time just to marvel at how black the blacks are..
watching movies, looking at pictures.. anything visual is made better because the display is just THAT awesome. I'm not really in the market for a TV yet, but whenever AMOLED screens start showing up in decent sized TV's at an affordable price, I'm all over that!!

MaxPatlick said:
I'm not really in the market for a TV yet, but whenever AMOLED screens start showing up in decent sized TV's at an affordable price, I'm all over that!!
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And the good news is OLED technology is super-cheap to manufacture, benefits mightily of economies-of-scale.
So, after the first ones come out and the manufacturers/dealers finish raping the early-adopters for their entire life's savings, the prices will come down, WAY down, on nice, super-thin, lightweight, giant wall-mountable sets.
Imagine a 65" screen that you take anywhere with you, unroll, tape to the wall, plug the thin, flexible cable into the electronics box, and watch HD anywhere you go.
Yes, Homer, that day is just around the corner.

dwallersv said:
Porn looks great on the Super AMOLED screen.
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Haha hell yeah man.
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Definitely the screen. Its gorgeous. So, so, so gorgeous.

My favorite things is when im showing someone a pic or a vid the first thing they do is say "damn what is this a hd screen? what phone is this?" and then they turn the phone around and look at it from every angle haha.. never fails. samoled FTW

I agree with a lot of poeple and say the display.
Although its something that I have been used to for over a year
Considering my laptop has the $400 optional Dreamcolor display (16million colors vs desktop version 1billion colors)
But the deep blacks are amazing on the samoled.
Its like a mini hdtv lol.
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For me its the response of the cpu, the epic is fast.
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I'm going to have to say its the 4g...It rocks and I'm so glad I'm in a 4g market both at home and 35 miles alway in Boston. I cancel my home internet and now only use my Epic with hotspot.

I have to say the screen too, Every time a girl looks at it with my aquarium live wallpaper, they love it. (Good Ice Breaker)
Everytime I see another display, i might as well rub sand in my eyes.

The fast CPU and the hard keyboard.
Edit: The so-called 4G dl speeds are phenomenal! I DL Trinity rom (132 Mb) file in about 8 minutes.

2 things...
Speed and apps. I overclocked my Pre but still not close to what the Epic can do. I still have 2.1 on my phone and will wait til the official 2.2.1 comes out to upgrade which will make it even faster.
Once again, come from the Pre which their catalog has 4700 apps to date, the app catalog for Android blows WebOS away.
I am on the outskirts of Denver so we don't have 4G available but it will be coming. All-in-all, I am very happy with my upgrade.

Current EVO 3d owner thinking about switch to gs2

Hello.
I figured this would be a good place to get a few opinions. I currently own a EVO 3d and while it is a great phone, I feel like it wasn't that big of an upgrade. My main problems right now are green tint on my pictures, dust under the screen, ssometimes laggy performance. Battery life is decent where I can get 14 hours after moderate use with screen on time around 4 hours.
Any issues like this with the galaxy 2? Any that Yall have that u hate but can live with?
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Hey,
hmm no I don't have any issues like that
some complain about battery life ... with normal using i can easly overlife 2days (normal using for me 15-30min calling; 20sms ;10mins of surfing; and email via pushmail daily)
I'm pretty used to listen music at work sometimes the full 8hours xD
And after 8 hours of music at full volume i still have arround 75% akku.
I never got any signs of dust under the screen.
I'm pretty amazed by my SGS2 and 100% satisfied
It's always blazing fast TW is pretty nice (my very own opinion (i'm no big sense fan))
And in my opinion this phone is very tough even if its only "plastic"
And my Pictures are pretty nice i Heard of a Red spot if you have a white background in the picture (in the middle of the picture) but i didn't recognized it till now^^.

alexilaih0 said:
Hey,
hmm no I don't have any issues like that
some complain about battery life ... with normal using i can easly overlife 2days (normal using for me 15-30min calling; 20sms ;10mins of surfing; and email via pushmail daily)
I'm pretty used to listen music at work sometimes the full 8hours xD
And after 8 hours of music at full volume i still have arround 75% akku.
I never got any signs of dust under the screen.
I'm pretty amazed by my SGS2 and 100% satisfied
It's always blazing fast TW is pretty nice (my very own opinion (i'm no big sense fan))
And in my opinion this phone is very tough even if its only "plastic"
And my Pictures are pretty nice i Heard of a Red spot if you have a white background in the picture (in the middle of the picture) but i didn't recognized it till now^^.
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Well my 30 day window expired in 3 days. I'm tempted to either take it back and wait it out or keep it and try to sell the EVO and just get the "within" when it releases.
But this is my 3rd EVO 3d and all had dust under the screen, sub par performance. I like sense but I've had LPP on it since the first day. The lock screen is pretty awesome. My og EVO was great. Plus this thing says 4.3 inch screen but with them making it taller, it actually feels like the screen is smaller....i want my wider screen back...
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May you should just go to an Shop where you can get youre Hands on an SGS2 ;-)
And i swear you just will throw the Evo3d in the garbage and buy the SGS2
I was a HTC fanboy to before but then i saw the SGS2 ha dmy hands on it and yeah buyed it
with best regards

alexilaih0 said:
May you should just go to an Shop where you can get youre Hands on an SGS2 ;-)
And i swear you just will throw the Evo3d in the garbage and buy the SGS2
I was a HTC fanboy to before but then i saw the SGS2 ha dmy hands on it and yeah buyed it
with best regards
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That's the problem, its not in the u.s yet so i can't go see it for myself
The screen resolution is that big of a deal to me, I mean its a 4.3 inch screen. Not like its a 50 inch.
I just wish there was a definite date on the within coming to sprint.
How's the gps?? My EVO is hit and miss...sometimes locks, sometimes it doesn't
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As a long term HTC user and lover I can't stress enough how much you should make the jump. Samsung really stepped up their game after the original SGS debacle, creating what in my eyes is the true successor to the Nexus One in the 'revolutionary device' bracket.
Regards.

lynxboy said:
As a long term HTC user and lover I can't stress enough how much you should make the jump. Samsung really stepped up their game after the original SGS debacle, creating what in my eyes is the true successor to the Nexus One in the 'revolutionary device' bracket.
Regards.
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This. I came from the N1 as well and the difference in pretty much every way is night and day. I haven't had a hands on with the Evo but I watched plenty of videos and it is pretty nice. But having used the S2 I don't think there's anything currently on the market that could tear me away right now.

My roomate just upgraded from a evo to a evo 3d and i like it. He's stock not root or any fancy and he's phone fast. Definitely faster than he's old evo the only complaint its the camera quality. Old evo Camera much better. Anyway I don't have any of your problems with my sgs2. No problem with battery no lag at all. Btw I hate lag that's one thing I hate on phones lol... Anyway. I like the evo 3d soooooooo.
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ajftl said:
My roomate just upgraded from a evo to a evo 3d and i like it. He's stock not root or any fancy and he's phone fast. Definitely faster than he's old evo the only complaint its the camera quality. Old evo Camera much better. Anyway I don't have any of your problems with my sgs2. No problem with battery no lag at all. Btw I hate lag that's one thing I hate on phones lol... Anyway. I like the evo 3d soooooooo.
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If you're looking for the most lag-free Android phone then it's the SGS2.

[Review] Samsung Conquer 4G

Picked this phone up for the wife last night, finally converted her from her blackberry curve....yuck. Pretty good phone, screen obvoiusly not my epic but perfect for her. Very snappy, first thing i noticed was when you pull the notification menu down, there are no toggles there which i though sucks since im so used to it. havent tested out the camera yet, it is super thin, damn near just the size of our screens, so if you could take off the keyboard.
The back of the phone looks exactly like the leaked pictures of the "Epic Touch 4G" and it is a really nice addition, good grip, looks good, and wont scratch.
She is in love already, ill post up here after a couple days on the battery.

i thought it looked like a good little phone. as for the buttons on the top of the dock most of them are replicated with the power widget

I would like to add, Notification Toggle in the Market is a great app to add the switches in the pull down.
I wanted to check this phone out for my daighter, I bought her an LG Optimus S and she wants to upgrade. Thanks for the insight
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Any reason you choose this over a cheaper phone like the nexus S 4g? It has a better screen, better camera, and faster or similiar performance.
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InfDaMarvel said:
Any reason you choose this over a cheaper phone like the nexus S 4g? It has a better screen, better camera, and faster or similiar performance.
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Shots fired!!!!
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yeah right.. like a WOMAN deserves a nexus phone... pshaw

It's kinda funny, I've come to figure out that the toggle controls in the notification bar have almost become a must have for me in a phone. I can't explain it, I just like/want that feature that much. Granted I'm picking up the GS2, so its all good

InfDaMarvel said:
Any reason you choose this over a cheaper phone like the nexus S 4g? It has a better screen, better camera, and faster or similiar performance.
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Hey...I agree it tried...
"That one feels bigger like your phone, i dont like it"
Im married, I choose my battles wisely, not to mention at least she will get to play with this one before i do since there is -Zero- community for it at the moment, the Nexus i would have probably "had to take with me to work so i can make sure everything is working correctly" he he he he.
Also, i wanted to make sure that she had a lesser of a screen for better juice, the girl is a facebook nut, and im sure will have a million things constantly updating, i already got yelled at for lowering her screen timeout to 30 seconds from a min.
I'm still trying to convince her that i really need to keep my dirtbike since its a great workout.....ill let her pick the phone.

Lol women. Atleast she has a phone she likes.
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InfDaMarvel said:
Lol women. Atleast she has a phone she likes.
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They never happens haha
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SRobby said:
Hey...I agree it tried...
"That one feels bigger like your phone, i dont like it"
Im married, I choose my battles wisely, not to mention at least she will get to play with this one before i do since there is -Zero- community for it at the moment, the Nexus i would have probably "had to take with me to work so i can make sure everything is working correctly" he he he he.
Also, i wanted to make sure that she had a lesser of a screen for better juice, the girl is a facebook nut, and im sure will have a million things constantly updating, i already got yelled at for lowering her screen timeout to 30 seconds from a min.
I'm still trying to convince her that i really need to keep my dirtbike since its a great workout.....ill let her pick the phone.
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Does it have a samoled cause that plus inverted face book sound perfect for her
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no amoled scren, looks like just a lcd.
But i knew she would be a heavy user, she could kill my phone in about 6 hours.
She said she was playing with it allday and nver put it on a charger.
Off Charger 7:02 AM 100% - On Charger 11:47 PM 37% Battery Left.
Exactly what i wanted for her. She is still loving it but now she starting to understand what i meant by
"It's android, you can customize everything" I think shes beating me now.

JohnnyEpic said:
I would like to add, Notification Toggle in the Market is a great app to add the switches in the pull down.
I wanted to check this phone out for my daighter, I bought her an LG Optimus S and she wants to upgrade. Thanks for the insight
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I bought my gf a LG Optimus T. They have CM7 on there and the phone rocks with that done to it. It also gets great battery life with some custom kernel and OC. Might want to look into that before you upgrade her phone for her.

I just looked at it 2 days ago. My wife has an optimus as well and that's the upgrade I was looking at for her.
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Aye. Got a Droid 2 Global for my wife, for that same LCD screen (and battery savings). Her phone is completely stock and her battery lasts 2x longer than my Epic.

SRobby said:
no amoled scren, looks like just a lcd.
But i knew she would be a heavy user, she could kill my phone in about 6 hours.
She said she was playing with it allday and nver put it on a charger.
Off Charger 7:02 AM 100% - On Charger 11:47 PM 37% Battery Left.
Exactly what i wanted for her. She is still loving it but now she starting to understand what i meant by
"It's android, you can customize everything" I think shes beating me now.
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Sorry to bump this thread everyone since it's back from August.
SRobby -- Thanks for your review/comments about the Conquer 4G. I've been thinking about upgrading to this one as well, and right now Sprint is offering it for free online with a new 2-yr contract. Since I'm on a budget and can't really afford a snazzy top of the line upgrade, FREE is pretty attractive right now.
Any updates on the Conquer's performance after your wife has been using it for a few months? Has she been noticing any issues?

Htc one first impressions/real world review thread

Ok so I FINALLY got my ONE today!! Happy to be one of the minority as not many people have this phone yet
After months of videos, articles, threads on xda and various articles the time is here.
These are my first impressions as I've had the phone for a good 12hours now. First time you take it out of the box is just WOW this thing is just quality...100% premium feeling and truly well crafted well done HTC. Its really light and it's quite tall (compared to my old desire hd).
When you turn it on you will be blown away/scared by how loud these speakers are, boomsound is not a joke people this is the real deal! Then listen to some music on this, it sounds awesome. There is even some bass in it which pleased me the most! Really, really loud I gurantee no need for dock or portable speakers.
The screen is mindblowing, especially when your coming from a device with 800x400 resolution like me. The difference is just incredible. Colours are vibrant and natural at the same time unlike the over saturated, way to contrast high colours on the AMOLED. Viewing angles are perfect and it's really bright, I had to turn it down because it stared burning my eyes :/ lol! Blacks are good and whites are good and not blue or yellow.
Sense 5 is just sexy as f***k <3 touchwiz has no comparison against this tbh! Everything looks sleek and very clean. No bloat and actually is better than stock...stock is just too plain imho. I don't like some things like the new way to move apps to your homescreen from the app drawer. The three dot menu but hopefully HTC fix that in an update, if not then I'm going to root this so that's cool. Blinkfeed is ok, I can see that it won't be liked by everyone. I'm already slightly bored of it! When HTC let us add sources I can see this being a success, I know I'd use it more if you liked the hundred plus widget selection of the past HTC sense versions then you may not like that a lot of the widgets are gone! I think this is a good thing I can see that HTC are trying to make you use blinkfeed as your homescreen and the app drawer as the traditional type home screen by alloowing you to make folders.
Regarding music, beats audio is classed as a gimmick and the headphones as overpriced. I agree on the second claim and used to think the same for beats audio before. But it seems as if they have actually made it good and optimised it. It makes the speakers and music played through headphones MUCH MUCH better.
The notification light has pleased me also. It bright and is seen very easily.
The phone has been lag free. A major step up from my single core desire hd super fast, can have like 20 apps open with no lag at all. Multitasking is soo good.
I've already got used to the button layout. Only messed up like twice hopefully the HTC logo thing becomes a real thing.
The phone came with like 45% battery, (5.00pm) after HEAVY HEAVY usage as I'm sure everyone does when they get a new toy it does on me at 1.30am. So 8hours of constant hammerage seems reallllyyy good so far!! Havent gone through a proper cycle of charged it fully yet so can't say anything else on the battery.
However, the phone does tend to get a bit warm every know and then. Not like ohh it's burning but just slightly warm which is expected with most of these quad core beasts.
I took a couple of random pics with the camera, looking good so far but that's on the phones screen and just random ish. Haven't tested front facing cam or video recording yet.
Last point for now (I know I'm forgetting a lot of things)... The phone is quite slippery seeing as I am the only numpty who would end up dropping his phone from ABOVE WAIST HEIGHT within a couple of hours of use. To my surprise not even a scratch, nothing to be seen on the phone. Almost had a mini heart attack but it proved that it's well built
Ohh and the power button is kinda flush so hard to find at times but I'm already getting used to it. The screen also seems to be very good at hiding fingerprints
That's all for now, time to fully charge this badboy and get some sleep myself.
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You lucky bastard lol
I want my one already!
Is the battery good with heavy usage?

Nice review, great mate and congratulations for The One, or we need to called it "The Only One"
Cheers
SkyDragon© El R5, Pura Gente Nueva

The phone has been lag free. A major step up from my single core desire hd super fast, can have like 20 apps open with no lag at all. Multitasking is soo good.
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How did you reach up to 20 apps? Don't tell me the multitasking window is now scrollable also? If yes that would be great! And yeah Congratulations for the first ever drop test of the HTC One You beat the reviewers to it

AttachedSilver said:
You lucky bastard lol
I want my one already!
Is the battery good with heavy usage?
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Hahaha trust me the wait is worth it well I got mine out the box with 45% battery at 5.00pm...after 8 and a half hours of non stop heavy use it died! I think that is amaizng...obviously need more time to be able to comment properly though. On the charger atm
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dragonesdenano said:
Nice review, great mate and congratulations for The One, or we need to called it "The Only One"
Cheers
SkyDragon© El R5, Pura Gente Nueva
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Haha thanks mate, yh one of the only ones with a one
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Riyal said:
How did you reach up to 20 apps? Don't tell me the multitasking window is now scrollable also? If yes that would be great! And yeah Congratulations for the first ever drop test of the HTC One You beat the reviewers to it
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No lool the multitasking can only show 9 apps...but im pretty sure I had A LOTT of apps opened at once with no lags. Yup, if only i had a camera set up! 1st drop test of htc one (uninentional) it almost gave me a heart attack man aha :/ only had it for 2 hours at that point
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Do a test on the video camera at 1080p and review it on a pc.. Every review that has actually done a video test has looked like the FPS still drops in the low 20's which has been pretty typical of every HTC phone I've seen, especially in low light.
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I too am coming from DHD. I just hope I'm as impressed as you. Congrats on your One

Do you like camera quality?

Good review can't stop playing even though had since Friday and being in the official HTC case with it stops it slipping for me.
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yvibes said:
The phone came with like 45% battery, (5.00pm) after HEAVY HEAVY usage as I'm sure everyone does when they get a new toy it does on me at 1.30am. So 8hours of constant hammerage
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Stopped reading after this. It was an overly enthusiastic story to begin with but this was the limit. Eight hours of "constant hammerage" with a 45% battery charge to begin with. Alrighty. And everybody just swallows this like it's the truth? Best phone ever. Best battery ever. Simply amazing. Will get the phone myself as well but these stories (20 apps open, really, how DO you know?!) are so useless, with all due respect :angel:

Pfeffernuss said:
Stopped reading after this. It was an overly enthusiastic story to begin with but this was the limit. Eight hours of "constant hammerage" with a 45% battery charge to begin with. Alrighty. And everybody just swallows this like it's the truth? Best phone ever. Best battery ever. Simply amazing. Will get the phone myself as well but these stories (20 apps open, really, how DO you know?!) are so useless, with all due respect :angel:
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Yep same. Funny though.
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recklesslife85 said:
Yep same. Funny though.
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I'm feeling sorry for your Xperia Z.

Your story has just made me more excited. !!
As soon as it comes to Dubai I'm gonna buy. An now I'm very sure its worth the wait.
Switching from galaxy ace to this , would be MIND=BLOWN!!
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Shouldn´t you let it charge full before you start using it?

omersak said:
I'm feeling sorry for your Xperia Z.
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I turned it on yesterday for the first time in a few days he's happy enough not being abused haha.

recklesslife85 said:
I turned it on yesterday for the first time in a few days he's happy enough not being abused haha.
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My jaw dropped when I saw the phone in retailers. I think my mouth broke in awe when I touched it for the first 10 seconds.

Livebyte said:
My jaw dropped when I saw the phone in retailers. I think my mouth broke in awe when I touched it for the first 10 seconds.
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The Z and One are beautiful phones. Two of the best built and looking phones ever created in my opinion.