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The Destruction Of My First Evo - Whats Your Story

So,
Just for fun I thought I would share my story, of how I broke my first evo. I set my evo on the bumper of my car. Rearranged something in the the bed, and forgot my evo on the bumper. 20 minuets later I'm driving and looking for my phone. Well to make a long story short, the evo stayed on my bumper until I hit a speed bump in the parking lot of my apt. I drive all the way back home, and see it right next to the speed bump face down, screen shattered. The good news I have a tough case, and even though it was run over by a car, it still works! I would love to hear any other stories about evo destruction!

Dang. That's crazy that it still works even after being ran over, ha-ha.
I've only just dropped like crazy onto concrete, floors, etc, and it only has one tiny little crack by the search button and some dings.

jkinnison90 said:
Dang. That's crazy that it still works even after being ran over, ha-ha.
I've only just dropped like crazy onto concrete, floors, etc, and it only has one tiny little crack by the search button and some dings.
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Personally I'm pretty impressed with the durability of the phone. Extreme damage no phone can withstand, but I dropped it before out of the case and it holds up well to some of the older phones that I have dropped.

I dropped it by accident face first straight flat fall ON the face on my hardwood floor and not one single thing was damaged.
Edit: it was about a 4 foot drop.
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I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?

xp3nd4bl3 said:
I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?
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They are so strict on that, they wont do it, why sell you one for 200 when they can get 500 from you. I'm surprised they didn't tell you about insurance, it's a huge money maker for them. They want you to have insurance. It sucks losing a phone

xp3nd4bl3 said:
I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?
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Mobile defense (when re-released) and lookout are your new friends..

Evo 1 had burning in screen.
Evo 2 shattered screen
Evo 3 stolen
Evo 4 dead pixels
Waiting on evo 5
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xcodesterox said:
Evo 1 had burning in screen.
Evo 2 shattered screen
Evo 3 stolen
Evo 4 dead pixels
Waiting on evo 5
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Im assuming you only use the new phone for 1 day, because the wait times to receive a new phone is crazy. I waited a week and a half for my 2nd evo...and now this one has a crack on the back camera lens.

Your car has a bed!

Mine has held up really well. 5 months with no case or screen protector. My G1 did go through the laundry once, it still worked for a few days after too.
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garyfunk said:
Your car has a bed!
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The Bed Of My Truck! But I suppose I could put a bed in it.

First one lasted five weeks, then went to sprint store. Second one lasted a month or so.. Next one took a week, and was stolen before I got home.. Damn fedex.. And a week later this evo, my eta from asurion is monday for lucky number five lol.
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I'm on number 2. First one had the speaker stop working and the kickstand spring broke so the kick stand would flip in and it would fall over all of the time. I wasn't about to be responsible for it falling over and flying off the table so it was replaced.
This second one has been like two weeks and the kickstand spring is on the way to dying again. The kickstand squeaks - it slowly gets worse till the spring gives out. I'm sure the speaker will stop working on this one too.
With the luck I had with the first Touch Pro (12 of them in 10 months) I'm sure I'll be seeing the same crap here. I'm gentle to them, they just all fail terribly. I'm beginning to wonder why I bought another HTC phone after the Touch Pro and TP2 were so bad.

Asurion said 5-7 days for my replacement, and I got an email today saying it's been shipped and I'll have it tomorrow. Amazing...... What can I expect, a refurb piece of crap?

EVO #2 here, First one was fine except it had a cracked camera lens, Then i put it in my back pocket, almost sat down in the car and realized it was there. Pulled it out LCD was broken , Glass intact.
Second EVO - Perfect except for crack on power button. Not replacing it for that. And hopefully its my last one.

ShadowDrake said:
I'm on number 2. First one had the speaker stop working and the kickstand spring broke so the kick stand would flip in and it would fall over all of the time. I wasn't about to be responsible for it falling over and flying off the table so it was replaced.
This second one has been like two weeks and the kickstand spring is on the way to dying again. The kickstand squeaks - it slowly gets worse till the spring gives out. I'm sure the speaker will stop working on this one too.
With the luck I had with the first Touch Pro (12 of them in 10 months) I'm sure I'll be seeing the same crap here. I'm gentle to them, they just all fail terribly. I'm beginning to wonder why I bought another HTC phone after the Touch Pro and TP2 were so bad.
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12 in 10 months, I would think sprint would just cancel you. I replaced my diamond once and never had a problem with the refurbished one I got. Getting them to replace it took a couple trips to the sprint store though, 2nd trip they ordered my new one. They must know you by name there, probably keep a phone for you in a drawer.
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bharris25 said:
They must know you by name there, probably keep a phone for you in a drawer.k
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LOLLOL
On my second one, it should arrive today. The assurion backorder thing is a joke. They said it would take 3-5 days, that was yesterday when i sent them the info. And fedex overnight is so damn fast. They must have a driver dedicated just to me.
In all honesty, the first one i got a big scratch on the glass, so i decided to buff it out with a whole bunch of different grits of sand paper and polish. Well i did a good job (i have done auto paint multiple times, it isn't much different) but the scratch was so deep i would have had to remove way too much glass to make it go away. So i bought a new digitizer off of ebay. Put it on, was very happy about everything and that very day I didn't have my jelly case on it because I had it off to put the new digitizer on and i dropped the SoB on the floor at work and the LCD went out. Digitizer didn't crack or anything though.
I told assurion I lost it in the trash compactor at work so that I could sell the digitizer and other parts to recoup some of the cost of the deductible and new digitizer though.
I will never remove my baby from it's case again.

My 1st evo the headphone port broke.
My 2nd evo was accidentally hit with a baseball bat.
3rd Evo is great.

DeMiNe0 said:
My 1st evo the headphone port broke.
My 2nd evo was accidentally hit with a baseball bat.
3rd Evo is great.
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So uh, did the 2nd one get hit with a baseball bat while in your pocket or something? Mouthing off to the wrong people?

So called build quality

A thought just ran through my head in regards to build quality. In short drop a feather & a brick from about chest high & see what happens.
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what is this I don't even.......

Wildheathen0341 said:
A thought just ran through my head in regards to build quality. In short drop a feather & a brick from about chest high & see what happens.
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Well, you'll have to understand that build quality can vary greatly when comparing feathers to bricks. Although it would seem that the feather escapes the drop test completely unharmed, you'll notice that there are thousands of micro-fractures from the force of the trauma. The brick, too, will suffer severe cracks and possible breaks, but you'll notice that once you put both subjects under an electon microscope, you'll see that the brick has fewer micro-fractures for a sum of less damage (even though fractured).
That is assuming, of course, a solid surface such as concrete or asphalt.
/Plus, what the heck are you talking about? lol. I want what you're smoking; my stuff doesn't seem that strong.

So our epic's build quality is strong, however its weight doesn't compensate its strength?

othan1 said:
I want what you're smoking; my stuff doesn't seem that strong.
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This.
/10char

This is not the Mechanical Engineering thread is it? I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.

wait, what???

i hope you don't think you were being deep

My epic dropped dozens of times
All i got is a scuff mark from when it landed on a corner
The epic may be plastic, but its some nice engineering
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A_Flying_Fox said:
My epic dropped dozens of times
All i got is a scuff mark from when it landed on a corner
The epic may be plastic, but its some nice engineering
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+1 to that. I dropped it on tile 2weeks ago, about 3feet, sounded soo harsh. I thought it would shutoff or something. was perfect, no scuffs or anything =)

othan1 said:
what the heck are you talking about? lol. I want what you're smoking; my stuff doesn't seem that strong.
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He's probably on this new drug called Sheen. I hear it gives you tiger blood.
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Its like comparing titanium and steel,titanium is lighter,yet stronger given you use the same weight not thickness; Say if you had a 1" thick steel wall and a 1" thick titanium wall,the steel wall would be stronger in say a penetration test; But use the same material in weight and that 1" wall of titanium becomes a 3" thick wall,which would easily be stronger then a 1" thick steel wall. But seriously anything lighter will have less impact on case and components on the inside,physics 101,and a feather wouldnt get damaged from a drop on the ground.
Ok Im done thinking...
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Shoulon said:
+1 to that. I dropped it on tile 2weeks ago, about 3feet, sounded soo harsh. I thought it would shutoff or something. was perfect, no scuffs or anything =)
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Dropped mine onto a hard concrete floor about 4 feet. Back popped off, battery popped out, my dad gasped as I said "don't worry, I'm insured" and noticed some minor scuffs/pitting in one corner. I put the phone back together and it's like nothing ever happened.
Samsung physically builds their phones great. I've had 3 of them including my Epic.

If you don't know what I'm talking about then how could you possibly have an answer yet you've offered up one still. Smoking huh? ;-)
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Simple, drop a galaxy S device from about chest high Vs. an iPhone from the same height & what do you think the result would be? Now of course I don't mean on a mattress or any thing like that I mean a surface with very little give, what do you think the outcome would be?
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One weekend a few months ago I had my phone sitting on my desk charging, and it rang right as I was walking by. I grabbed the phone as I walked by so that I could answer it, but hadn't noticed it was plugged in to the wall two feet down.
As I grabbed the phone and turned to walk away, the cord caught, actually bending around a knob on my desk making a tight point and slipping the phone right out of my hands.
'Oh crap' I thought, and I quickly reached back to snatch it, but my lightning reflexes were not expecting the spring-loaded return the charge cable had initiated, and only the tips of my fingers hit the phone... hard... in an upward motion away from me.
In that moment my phone went from a 3 foot free fall to a high speed projection 7 feet above floor level and landing, cable now detached by force, about 15 feet away. On the floor. Which is tile.
As if that wasn't enough to make a bad situation worse, about 2 hours before I had taken my hard case off as well to swap memory cards and had not put the case back on.
In those 5 seconds from fingertips to floor I had already started wondering how good the insurance policy I had paid in advance for was going to be, but when I picked the phone up off the ground it was 100% intact, not even a scratch on it.
A far cry from any previous phones I have dropped, where a drop from 24" (falling off my lap getting out of a car, etc) would result in the phones exploding every loose panel, battery, etc, scuffing the crap out of the plastics. With the size of the screen on this phone I thought for sure if nothing else the screen would blow up, but not even that.

I was close then =P well my Dad own's a 3GS and dropped it off a Scaffold at 25ft. It worked fine, no scratch since it had invisiShield. Also on a lift at about 45ft. the outer rim bended abit though.

i think the epic's pretty well built

I accidentally launched mine from my pocket to about 10 feet away across the bar on my birthday. Fell screen down on a sandy floor. Digitizer shattered, but worked fine. Best Buy replaced the deigitizer. Fine now.

+1 to bestbuys awesome warranty's.
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For those with doubts about the glass on the TF101

I stumbled across this link on Wired.com.

I'd still rather be safe then sorry, the cat has already knocked mine off the coffee table once.

91ludesit said:
I'd still rather be safe then sorry, the cat has already knocked mine off the coffee table once.
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That's why I hate cats...

Mine gets dropped atleast 5 times a day. My 3yr old son loves this thing. All is well, knock on wood.
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The 6 year old knocked my tf and I had issues with the backlight of the tfSent from my LG-P920 using Tapatalk

My sister's 3 sons (3, 5, and 6) have used their TF as a frisbee before. The glass is fine.

Well, I got a scratch. I am very careful and I have a case and I still got a scratch. But I don't know how it happend. I use a sreen protector now.

91ludesit said:
I'd still rather be safe then sorry, the cat has already knocked mine off the coffee table once.
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Same thing happened and my screen DID break, fortunately the guy I purchased it from was more then happy to exchange it. It was within 48 hours after buying it,

dhamma110 said:
Well, I got a scratch. I am very careful and I have a case and I still got a scratch. But I don't know how it happend. I use a sreen protector now.
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I treat my tf like an abusive bf treat his battered gf. no case and no screen protector. Take it with me everyday. No scratch or mark of any kind. Don't know how you people do it.

I take mine just about everywhere but the loo, but my TF is fairly well taken care of other wise. Give or take dogs climbing over the screen and my backpack flying across the car here and there.
Watching the "Drop test" of a Galax SII and iPhone 4S, made me extra glad to have gone ASUS instead of Apple. I was especially impressed when getting scratched by my dog and the docks metal, didn't leave any thing behind but dock hair.

I am pretty rough on mine and not a single scratch

What cat!? All I see is a site for corninggorillaglass

lol super Asus TF
lol first day i got tf i got it in barcelona and i dont know the trains there so i got little confused i was using google maps with the dock open like a laptop i rushed in as an old woman was coming out droped it right on the door as i saw how the door closed it together for luck and i coulndt get it out because of the rubber of the door so i had to wait till next stop to pick it upbefoe door open and it could fall out of the train. "YES I DINT THINK ABOUT THE SECURITY BUTTON AND NO ONE COULDHELP ME THINK ABOUT IT"like i said im from ibiza a small island no trains there... btw not a scracth or nothing on mi transformer he is udistructble.
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lucky escape there mate!

Wow, that is.. pretty amazing. Damn old people, though good for her, not driving a car to kill people. She's just using the bus to attempt to kill tablets.

SGS-II, Toughness? Test!!

Did my own version of the drop test today (accidentally o/c)
Details:
-Venue = Subway
-Scene = holding sandwich in one hand, waiting for my smoothie to be made
-Accident = reached into jacket pocket to remove ph it (somehow) flew out of grasp & fell onto floor
-Height of fall = 115cm
-Floor type = hard mezzanine floor
My heart dropped when it happened as I couldn't do anything to grab it as it fell to the rear. I was certain it would be broken/cracked somehow.
Miraculously, not a single scratch!? :woohoo:
Ph is a bit tougher than I gave it credit for
SGS-II :FTW:

King_Rat said:
Did my own version of the drop test today (accidentally o/c)
Details:
-Venue = Subway
-Scene = holding sandwich in one hand, waiting for my smoothie to be made
-Accident = reached into jacket pocket to remove ph it (somehow) flew out of grasp & fell onto floor
-Height of fall = 115cm
-Floor type = hard mezzanine floor
My heart dropped when it happened as I couldn't do anything to grab it as it fell to the rear. I was certain it would be broken/cracked somehow.
Miraculously, not a single scratch!? :woohoo:
Ph is a bit tougher than I gave it credit for
SGS-II :FTW:
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It also depends on how u drop it Like a baseball or like a paper..:angel:

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Hang on,
I think we're all missing the point here. Subway does smoothies in your country?!

scayre32 said:
I think we're all missing the point here. Subway does smoothies in your country?!
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Keep walking Greece

I'm a student. I don't take good care of my phone. I was at Starbucks yesterday with my friend who has a HTC Inspire 4G (basically a Desire HD with a HSPA+ radio) and after seeing how I handle my phone at my home (throwing it on my bed when I Need to do something else, tossing it onto the ground when I need to pick something heavy up, etc.) he was amazed how his phone that he takes extreme care of is scratched and broken and mine is pristine.
Goes to show you how badly made these HTC phones are.

I use my phone as a Speedometer / GPS on my motorcycle. The camera is the only exposed part of the phone on the back. It's taken stones and bugs full force at 100kph+ with only minor scratches on the bezel. The phone is very tough. :laugh:

My phone fell out my pocket flat on its face onto tiles... No visible damage but the screen never came on again. Take care of your phones and dont drop them they are not nokia 3210s

Your phone fell and nothing happened? That's coz you're lucky.
It's nothing to do with Galaxy s2.
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Look at Youtube for "sgs2 scratch test" The gorilla glass is really good...

accidentally dropped my phone a couple of times even without any protected casings and so far just one small dent on the top left corner. While the phone is built very plasticky, I still think it's a strong protected phone overall. No scratch whatsoever on the screen either, well built!

I recently bought a Galaxy S II I was using my phone for navigation then suddenly it flew out of my hand and dropped on the concrete foot path and screen cracked but works flawlessly. It happened after two days I bought my phone.
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hooligan007 said:
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:doh: it was an accident :lmao:
scayre32 said:
I think we're all missing the point here. Subway does smoothies in your country?!
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:mmm: smoothies
rakeshishere said:
Your phone fell and nothing happened? That's coz you're lucky.
It's nothing to do with Galaxy s2.
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I'm one lucky SOB :aight:
I've dropped every smart phone I've owned one time or another :yup: & not one of them has scratched/cracked/chipped etc.
-=or=- maybe... just maybe... they're actually designed to fall out of hands & take a bit of punishment...
Like saying if you drive an SUV and crash & come away w/o any injuries - it's got nothing to do with the SUV! You're just lucky? :sif:
PS - thanks to those sharing their stories both sad & happy

Mine took quite a few falls not long after buying it. the first was the worst. Slid right off my dresser. my heart stopped as i watched it go face down in slow mo. i was afraid to pick it up. When i finally did it was fine and not a mark. Bought a screen protector kit that day and walked a with a little more confidence knowing this thing is pretty damn tuff. win.
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Dropped mine twice.
First time i was taking it out of my pocket to awnser a call while riding my bicycle(had forgotten my headphones that day) and it slipped out of my hand and hit the street at about 25km/h. Back and battery popped right of and when i picked it up it only had some minor scratches around the edges and booted straight up after putting the battery back.
Second time it slipped out of my trousers pocket while i was getting up from the sofa. Dropped about 40 cm onto the hard wood floor screen down. Destroyed the glass and screen completely. Locked liked somebody hit it with a hammer. Had to get the screen replaced. Just shows you how lucky one can be sometimes and sometimes not.
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Clumsiness: the thread.
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pcfanboy142 said:
Clumsiness: the thread.
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Mine has a small scratch on the glass from being dropped on cement while jogging the side is cracked a bit and the corners are dented. Phone works fine though!

auto_freak said:
accidentally dropped my phone a couple of times even without any protected casings and so far just one small dent on the top left corner. While the phone is built very plasticky, I still think it's a strong protected phone overall. No scratch whatsoever on the screen either, well built!
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+1
it happens too me also but you can barely see damage on the phone

+1 on the road, sidewalk, tossed across the office. Thing was built to last, not a scratch on it.
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Guess there's a lot of us lucky SOB's with the SGS-II... not just me :victory:
we must 'all' be Irish ^^ :highfive:

....Well (lol)

After having this phone for 3 weeks (Today literally made it 3 weeks), the phone took a fall from my computer desk and the "gorilla glass" completely cracked. So now all that is displayed is a single green pixel and a line of about 10 white pixels.
I was really happy with this device up until this point, but a fall like that breaking the screen is unacceptable. Guess it's time to find another new phone.

Must have been a real unlucky hit. Mine has fallen from shopping cart height 3 times without even a scratch. Back went one, battery another...put it all back together and all was good.

I guess I will chalk it up to bad luck and hope for better next time. Just ordered the Epic Touch, so we shall see how that goes (and this time I got a case with it, lol).
I wanted to go back to HTC, but something about these Samsug phones has drawn me in.

Bloodwar1988 said:
After having this phone for 3 weeks (Today literally made it 3 weeks), the phone took a fall from my computer desk and the "gorilla glass" completely cracked. So now all that is displayed is a single green pixel and a line of about 10 white pixels.
I was really happy with this device up until this point, but a fall like that breaking the screen is unacceptable. Guess it's time to find another new phone.
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You could buy a bad esn epic, or a broken mother board epic and swap out the mobos, or screen if you feel like taking it all the way apart. Its really easy.

i have slipped on a wet floor but caught myself but unfortunately my phone was in my hand so when I through my hand up to catch my balance my phone went flying face down on concrete floor picked it up expecting the worst nope all was good.

tazfanatic said:
i have slipped on a wet floor but caught myself but unfortunately my phone was in my hand so when I through my hand up to catch my balance my phone went flying face down on concrete floor picked it up expecting the worst nope all was good.
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I actually just did this yesterday... except I threw the phone hoping to catch myself, the phone went flying and hit HARD on my hardwood floors... not even a scratch... chalk it up to bad luck op...

I had my phone sitting 5 feet up on a shelf, connected to a stereo through an audio cable. My manager accidentally caught the cord, whipping the phone down to the tile floor faster than gravity could have pulled it, and the battery didn't even pop out
Sorry to hear about your bad luck
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Well I ended up losing the Epic 4g Touch auction by like $3, so I went looking for a nice SIII but in the end grabbed up the HTC Evo 4G LTE. Will have it on Wednesday.
I will probably grab up a bad ESN Epic at some point though just so I can have a backup phone (better safe than sorry). I really did like this phone and I figure the SIII would also be amazing, but I could not justify paying almost $200 more for the SIII than the Evo LTE.

Bloodwar1988 said:
I really did like this phone and I figure the SIII would also be amazing, but I could not justify paying almost $200 more for the SIII than the Evo LTE.
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Where are you buying from that the SIII is almost $200 more than the evo lte? You must be buying from ebay or some other auction site, cause the sprint website has them listed as the same price
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Yeah I got it on eBay, since I am not qualified for an upgrade until like March. Managed to grab the Evo LTE for $300 (after overnight shipping).

I've had this epic 3 years dropped at least 100 times not one crack love my gorilla glass
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My epic had slid on concrete floors at weird angles have never had a cracked screen it also been dropped over 1000 * and it still looking good as new I am very sorry for what happened to that mate but most of us have never had that happen to us must've been 1 real unlucky drop man
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I had my phone on my lap in the car and when I got out it dropped.. this happened to me about a 10 times.. one time after I got out of the car it fell face down and I stepped on it and slid it across the concrete while it was under my feet..
I just knew it was gonna be messed up..
But not a scratch on the screen.. at least not that I could see..
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Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was climbing the fire escape to get in my house, and my Samsung Moment slid out of my pocket as I was going in the window 3 stories above the ground. And it was perfectly fine. Also with my Moment, I went to put it in my pocket, but I missed and it fell on the asphalt screen first, and the glass cracked. Like what?
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If were talking about dropping phones during hurricane sandy. This was at night and the rain was over and the center of the storm was heading towards Philly so I went outside to record the storms force. While standing there a few seconds late a huge gust of wind blew pushed me and knock my phone right out my hand it fell smack down on its face on to the concrete I was like O_O I picked it up no crack in the screen just a dent in the plastic part around the phone. But now I'll never have warranty because somehow now my battery has half pink on it. If I had an iPhone 4S it would of been history for that phone. The epic records good night video by the way.
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Just luck of the draw then I guess. I still can't believe that it broke from one tiny drop onto a soft surface, but these things happen. I guess I won't fully write off Samsung, but for now I gotta stick with what I know has worked for me in the past.