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I live in South FLA Ft Lauderdale area. I will be getting a new Epic from sprint tomorrow so there will be no cosmetic damage. I am looking for an even exchange for the HTC EVO. I am still a fan of the epic but realized I like the bigger screen of the EVO and dont need the keyboard. If interested please let me know. Thanks.
I bet you can find that trade, maybe post on craigslist and the epic forum too
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Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
Lol i REALLY think you should reconsider. I have both an epic and and evo and even with cyonogen mod the evo doesnt compare. Youll gain .3 inches and lose amoled for that fugly lcd riddled with backlight bleed and that infamous patch. Youll be downgrading hardware a whole generation... sorry man im sure you dont care but i dont want you do something you WILL regret. Run a search other people here have done it and admit they shot themselves in the foot.
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Lol i REALLY think you should reconsider. I have both an epic and and evo and even with cyonogen mod the evo doesnt compare. Youll gain .3 inches and lose amoled for that fugly lcd riddled with backlight bleed and that infamous patch. Youll be downgrading hardware a whole generation... sorry man im sure you dont care but i dont want you do something you WILL regret. Run a search other people here have done it and admit they shot themselves in the foot.
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there are plenty that have and loved the change to evo.. and consider it an upgrade in usability.
my sis has an epic. her battery died, so she had to borrow my evo to take a few pics of her daughter...
15 mins after using my phone...
she says as she hands my phone back, "wow, your phone is so easy to use."
things just work better and together...
ex: I can talk on my phone and take a picture at the same time.
there are much more choices in the development community...much bigger than epic.
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Lol i REALLY think you should reconsider. I have both an epic and and evo and even with cyonogen mod the evo doesnt compare. Youll gain .3 inches and lose amoled for that fugly lcd riddled with backlight bleed and that infamous patch. Youll be downgrading hardware a whole generation... sorry man im sure you dont care but i dont want you do something you WILL regret. Run a search other people here have done it and admit they shot themselves in the foot.
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That's YOUR opinion. I traded my evo for an epic and switched back to the evo. I think the Evo is a better device or at least, more suitable for my needs. The Epic has too many software issues.
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i dont think anybody would ever do that trade lol
I have a motorola QA4 I will trade ya
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That's YOUR opinion. I traded my evo for an epic and switched back to the evo. I think the Evo is a better device or at least, more suitable for my needs. The Epic has too many software issues.
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See thats also YOUR opinion. Also your epic might of been ****e cuz as far as im concerned that evo i have is collecting dust and there isnt anything i need it for. Maybe to show people at work who dont know any better how outdated it is. People still think the evo is the be all end all of phones. Here let me show you this shiny epic in my pocket lol
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See thats also YOUR opinion. Also your epic might of been ****e cuz as far as im concerned that evo i have is collecting dust and there isnt anything i need it for. Maybe to show people at work who dont know any better how outdated it is. People still think the evo is the be all end all of phones. Here let me show you this shiny epic in my pocket lol
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That's a lot of anger there... Didn't Epic have radio issues?
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That's a lot of anger there... Didn't Epic have radio issues?
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GPS issues, very little development, 4G constantly disconnects, amongst others.
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I believe they're both great phones, it really just boils down to what you want out of your phone.
Good luck with your search!
Yea epic just had their upgrade pulled because of about of issues....
My wifes epic can't take pictures in low light, freezes phone in certain camera modes, no good asop roms, no gingerbread...
Sorry evo has way way more development to make it exactly how you want it.
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Yea epic just had their upgrade pulled because of about of issues....
My wifes epic can't take pictures in low light, freezes phone in certain camera modes, no good asop roms, no gingerbread...
Sorry evo has way way more development to make it exactly how you want it.
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The Epic does have an "awesome" slide out keyboard though, but it skips keys when you're typing.
hardware wise... epic has the specs to kick ass... and that is where it stops!
EVO.. everything else is better.. and works together...
oem support
sprint support
dev support (hands down kills epic 20 times over)
example of everything works together...
Epic..can you take pics and talk on phone at the same time? does that not sound something it should do?
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The Epic does have an "awesome" slide out keyboard though, but it skips keys when you're typing.
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Yes it does. Bothers the crap out of me.
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Ill trade u my white evo......I need a change.......
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I believe they're both great phones, it really just boils down to what you want out of your phone.
Good luck with your search!
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Yeah, like GPS, the choice to use my camera with less than 15% battery left, and other basic functions. I wanted 'em. So I traded my Epic for an Evo. LOL.
Ive hated motorola since I had the abomination that was the rokr. theyre phones have always screwed me over sooner or later on the software side, but this phone is calling to me.. its nice.. idk I think there's something wrong with me. I wouldnt get it over the gs2... but id definitely consider it. What do you guys think?
Hey I dont like motorola also!! But the photon looks like it kicks ass. i would consider it but my upgrades not till may and they're gonna have a better phone by then...
Sywped from mah Supasonic!
I'm getting it I never want another Samsung phone unless the dev community is past amazing
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I would not get it. The community is so anti development!!!!
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I would not get it. The community is so anti development!!!!
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Moto dont have good dev community?
I was thinking that droids get alot of roms and cyanogens.Its probably just for their latest locked down phones.Have Atrix been rooted yet?
i dont like moto eather but Atrix was nice and screen on it almost as nice as my s amoled
To me, it just seems pretty basic. Not really feature packed.
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To me, it just seems pretty basic. Not really feature packed.
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That statement right there means you need to go into a store and play with one. It has a ton of features built in.
@OP: I share your exact same sentiment. I'm waiting for the within, and I hate motorola, but this phone is definitely enticing me. I feel like I'm under some sort of spell lol. The webtop alone is enough for me to consider it. It would be so nice to just throw it on the dock when I get home and fire up netflix or hulu. And have all my texts come through my tv. Ugh...its so tempting.
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That statement right there means you need to go into a store and play with one. It has a ton of features built in.
@OP: I share your exact same sentiment. I'm waiting for the within, and I hate motorola, but this phone is definitely enticing me. I feel like I'm under some sort of spell lol. The webtop alone is enough for me to consider it. It would be so nice to just throw it on the dock when I get home and fire up netflix or hulu. And have all my texts come through my tv. Ugh...its so tempting.
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EXACTLY!!! The features on the photon are killer! WORLD PHONE?? GSM? The more I think about it lol
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Feels laggy, specially for being a dual core processor device. Screen is pretty good, nothing to write home about though sadly. Just using it for half hour made me appreciate my nexus way more, I wouldn't grtbit unless iI knew dev community was huge and custom roms were outout
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The only interesting thing for me is has a sim slot, but nothing else to brag about.
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There isn't that's the thing lol other than the docking features and a few other things there's really nothing amazing about it.. but it still appeals to be for some huge reason. When the time comes to upgrade I'm gonna play with the photon first, then the within.
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Will continue to wait it out for the GS2
Honestly were at the point there's nothing huge about any phone that comes out
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Feels laggy, specially for being a dual core processor device. Screen is pretty good, nothing to write home about though sadly. Just using it for half hour made me appreciate my nexus way more, I wouldn't grtbit unless iI knew dev community was huge and custom roms were outout
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They say it is Moto Blur that causes the Motorola devices to be laggy. Which is 100% true. Look at the Atrix
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They say it is Moto Blur that causes the Motorola devices to be laggy. Which is 100% true. Look at the Atrix
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Yea it's the ui install another launcher and you'll see
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MOTO has always had horrible UI's. That was true even for their basic flip phones. I had the MOTO KRKZR years ago with Sprint... and the lag was awful.
I absolutely love my Evo and as far as I'm concerned it's still number one. But I've got this odd fascination with the Kyocera Echo and have come close to buying one a few times. There's something that screams nerd having those dual screens. I've yet to actually use one though. Have any of you tried it and what do you think of it compared to your Evo? And I don't see a forum for it here so is there any active development going on for it? Thanks.
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I absolutely love my Evo and as far as I'm concerned it's still number one. But I've got this odd fascination with the Kyocera Echo and have come close to buying one a few times. There's something that screams nerd having those dual screens. I've yet to actually use one though. Have any of you tried it and what do you think of it compared to your Evo? And I don't see a forum for it here so is there any active development going on for it? Thanks.
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I don't think there is any XDA development going on...
http://www.echobykyocera.com/developers/
The idea of two screens...eh.
If I wanted a tablet I'd buy one.
(By the way, on here, likely to be flamed quite a bit)
Yeah I know, but I wanted an Evo users opinion. I'm not giving my Evo up, I'll throw it on my wife's line and mess with it. Thanks for the info.
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Yeah I know, but I wanted an Evo users opinion. I'm not giving my Evo up, I'll throw it on my wife's line and mess with it. Thanks for the info.
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I don't think you'll get flamed. I don't reccomend getting the echo. IMO its ugly, too slow for two screens.. just not worth it. I'd rather recommend you getting a HTC tablet or something
Deck's + SZ + SuperCharger script + ViperMod script.
My friend has one. I horsed around with it a little bit, it seemed flimsy to me.
Neet concept though.
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Properly executed it could have been a sweet phone. If we had an evo sized phone that opened up like that, with little to no bezel in between, and a dual core processor I would drool.
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I think the opinion on the echo is almost universally negative. I'd love to know how many they've sold...I'd imagine it has to be in the very low thousands.
I wouldn't recommend that phone to anyone.
Hey all. I've been looking to buy a new phone for a few weeks now, and have been leaning towards the Evo Shift. But my choice was the Epic months ago. So my question is; which would all of you prefer? Epic of Shift?
I've done much research, but I'd like to hear insight from some actual Epic users. I know the Epic offers Samsung's Super AMOLED display, and the shift doesn't. The Epic also has a bigger screen. But I believe the Shift has a faster processor? I've also heard that the sliding mechanism on the Epic can become loose fairly quickly with heavy use? Is this even true? I also know how the Epic doesn't have a fully functional Gingerbread build build yet. The Shift does, but there's only temp root at this time. I really do like Sense, but I've never tried Samsung's TouchWiz UI. Also, I know this is also a bigger phone, but is like, a brick? I definitely wouldn't want a phone to be pulling my pants down when it's in my pocket haha.
I'd really like to outweigh all the pros and cons before I go through with any purchase. Thanks!
Omg the epic wins on ALL fronts. CPU is faster, gpu is faster, keyboard is better, bigger screen, amoled over lcd (spliech!), its thinner, the cameras better, the speaker phone is louder and not tinny. The shift has absolutely nothing on the epic.
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My roommates boyfriend has one sonics had plenty of time to play with one. Not blowing smoke just in case. Also I forgot to mention, the Evo shift doesn't have gorilla glass
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Epic has superior hardware in every way, but shift has aosp, sense 3.0, stable miui and stable cm7, whereas we don't. So Shift has more ROMs and dev support + they have stock gb too.
Overall = EPIC ; Developement = Shift ....... personally , I think EPIC is WAY Better
Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
Be cool and get evo 3d or photon. If you don't have the top of the line flagship then you aren't crap and should be asshamed of yourself and move to a remote island with no cell service.
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Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
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moto_google said:
Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
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Because I can't really deal with an all touch screen phone, so I want a full keyboard. That's why my choices are the Epic or Evo Shift.
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The shift is too
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When people see my end of life epic I get laughed at and told no self respecting cellphone user would be caught dead with an end of life flagship phone. They say you ain't crap unless you have evo 3d or photon.
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When people see my end of life epic I get laughed at and told no self respecting cellphone user would be caught dead with an end of life flagship phone. They say you ain't crap unless you have evo 3d or photon.
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I could care less what people would say about me because of what phone I have. A phone is a phone, and everyone has different opinions. I don't need a brand new, top of the line phone to make me happy. I just want somethin that works, and gets the job done with what I need it for
I have an Epic... and love it! It's fast as hell (running RandomROM EG22 "HAWK"), and I use it for work so it takes plenty of abuse. My wife has a shift stuck on 2.3.3, and it's a dog. Even she complains about how slow it is, but hopefully (someday) permanent root will be found and I can flash a different ROM to speed it up.
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I have an Epic... and love it! It's fast as hell (running RandomROM EG22 "HAWK"), and I use it for work so it takes plenty of abuse. My wife has a shift stuck on 2.3.3, and it's a dog. Even she complains about how slow it is, but hopefully (someday) permanent root will be found and I can flash a different ROM to speed it up.
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Yeah was gonna add no root for shift right now.
xjayman said:
Yeah was gonna add no root for shift right now.
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What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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Yeah they do. They have the. Newest Miui and CM7. You should check out qbking's videos. He has both phones in his growing arsenal and has videos on both. I had to stop the Shift Miui 1.8.19 (maybe wrong #) video before he started showing the features...I was getting pissed! Lol EDIT...Shift has Miui 1.9.2...my mistake!
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I could care less what people would say about me because of what phone I have. A phone is a phone, and everyone has different opinions. I don't need a brand new, top of the line phone to make me happy. I just want somethin that works, and gets the job done with what I need it for
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If a phone is a phone then you should be happy not getting the promotion and the raise and the not new trophy wife.
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What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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I mean a new shift with
2.3 update, only temp root right now
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Get the Epic hands down over shift yea they have more devs but we got Great devs are self the epic got better everything cpu gpu humming bird processor super amoled etc. etc. the evo camp got more devs there like the army but the Epic like the marines!! Support the troops USA!!
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I have an epic, and my brother has the shift.
My epic surpasses it in everyway. Better screen, battery life, and keyboard.
Plus, you might end up with a non rootable shift because most of them in stock are aleady on 2.3.
Epic hands down
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Phones are going to come to life someday. Take note: LG Optimus line. ASUS Transformer. And now the Nexus Prime.
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My Epic runs circles around the Shift regardless of what rom it's running
Forget dev support, no matter how far you push it a Shift will never be an Epic, so I'd say the Epic.
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My Epic runs circles around the Shift regardless of what rom it's running
Forget dev support, no matter how far you push it a Shift will never be an Epic, so I'd say the Epic.
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That's what I have been told as well.
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Hello all.
Let's post some positives of the EVO, and some negatives. Feel free to debate, and express opinions.
Try and structure it like this:
Positive(s):
-One of the most developed phones
Negative(s):
-Battery life typically sucks without some sort of extended battery
Rules:
-There really are none, say whatever you want, and if this thread gets closed, then it gets closed. lol :good:
I'll try to make this fair in reason that advancement in phones over time can set the evo back.
Pros
-First 4G wimax phone
-Digitizer upgraded to gorilla glass in HW revision.
-8MP/Dual LED flash
-HDMI port
Cons
-qsd8k (porting)
-shipped with froyo
-SDCard bay placement
-No Sense 2.0/2.1 update
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Pros-
Still most actively developed device after nearly two years.
Tommytomato
Kushdeck
JmzTaylor
Mazda
Sovaca
Digitalkharma
Atyoung
Ca1ne
Platty
PS
Rope
CONS-
Still the most actively "developed" device after nearly two years...
JTG
*******
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Team ********
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*****
last and definitely least..
Kang err.... King
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Pros small fits in the pocket
Cons drop it while its reading or writing data on you sdcard say bye bye to your crupted sdcard and it cant be fixed..
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@lreyes brother u gotta start using punctuation and capitals
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@lreyes brother u gotta start using punctuation and capitals
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Ok I didn't know this was English class...
"you know what's sad? if I put my shirt around a fan it'll look like I have boobs...and they're bigger than yours. " - me lreyes
to a friend of such and if this is not appropriate then please pm me
Pro-
youcanpost wit out prosper grammr and pumchificatiums
Con-
Someone will inevitably point out the err. :screwy:
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youcanpost wit out prosper grammr and pumchificatiums
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Someone will inevitably point out the err. :screwy:
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Lol
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guiz, yoo knead too use propper gramur becuz u look lyk a moron wen u tipe lyk this
Pros:
First phone to break some barriers.
Kickstand.
camera.
HTC device.
I own the device
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Cons:
Overly developed.(people become devs, from a mod they place in a Rom.)
HTC device.
I own it.
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PROS
Cleared the way for other phones to have huge screens.
Broke barrier for 4G.
It was a tank. I dropped it twice and no screen crack just a minor bump.
Lots of development.
Ability ton run pure android and sense variations.
CONS
Also somehow allowed for phone. companies to charger for "premium data".
Overly developed. I thank everyone for their attempts but the dev section is way over saturated.
Battery
Sense
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Pros:
A legand in the smartphone industry.
Great overall device
Great development even after 2yrs
Best damn 1st phone a person could ask for
Cons:
Its starting to show its old age (a little)
Wasn't updated to its full potential (couldve easily handled sense 2.1)
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Pro: it is the truth that all others measure by. Still solid. Still strong.
Con: 512 on the ROM, RAM, whatever it's called its far too low.(who knew)
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Pro-its strong. Con-wish it was soda and water proof but I managed to save it, again lol.
Pro:
Easy to root
Great development still going on for it.
As others have mentioned, started off the Big Phone craze, to which I plead guilty.
Con:
My first one took a crap on me, had to get a replacement when I had it all set up just the way I liked it.
SD card placement (already mentioned, but bears repeating)
Low internal memory.
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Cannot think of anything to add as far as pro's go. However, as a con I'll say the USB port is a weak point, with all the broken USB port horror stories I've encountered, including my own.
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Pro's - already covered
cons - hmmmmm
Pros: Best dev support of any device continuously over the last 2.5 years.
Cons: the good general section threads keep getting closed
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Pros: Best dev support of any device continuously over the last 2.5 years.
Cons: the good general section threads keep getting closed
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Pros: Best dev support of any device continuously over the last 2.5 years.
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+1