HTC EVO 4G
Tried the EVO 4G...Switching back to iPhone 4
Well, after whining on here that I could not decide whether to buy the new iPhone 4 and renew my AT&T contract or go to Sprint for the new EVO I took the advice of fellow forum members and purchased an HTC EVO 4G from Sprint. People suggested I buy it and try it for 30 days and return it if I was not happy. If I was happy I could cancel my AT&T contract at that time.
After four days I am going to be returning the EVO 4G on monday and ordering the iPhone 4 on tuesday.
Do not get me wrong, the EVO4G is an amazing phone and my review of it in the EVO review section will be a glowing one. Although I do have a few minor physical build issues with the phone, the problems I have with it are mostly carrier related.
The physical issues I have with the phone are simple. One, I prefer a glass face. I do not care if people want to say the EVO has a glass face but it just has a plastic coating. That still scratches like plastic. In fact, the display at our Sprint store by my house has a nasty scratch on it. Two, the back panel is a bit flimsy when you remove it. I could easily see me damaging it with my ham fisted tendencies. Third, I do not like rear speakers. Although I will say this one did a pretty good job...but it did get muffles a bit if I sat it on a soft surface face up. Finally, the rear camera sticks out a bit too far. The phone will not lie flat. As you can see, these are all minor issues. I did have one major issue with battery life while using 4G. I left home one morning and took the train to Seattle and back. I browsed the web a short while at the train station, checked some info a couple of times while in Seattle, and then browsed the web a few minutes at the train station before returning home. After only about 2-2.5 hours max of usage my battery was dead. That seems a bit extreme...but I was warned 4G was power hungry.
The place it really fell down was with the carrier service. I am in a 4G market but could not get 4G inside my home. I could get it in my back yard, but not inside the house. When I was receiving 4G service the phone did very well, but not as well as I feel it should have. I did speed checks and even though the EVO claimed to be receiving data at rates of speed 2-3x the speed my iPhone 3GS it did not seem to actually work much faster. My iPhone 3GS was averaging .6-.8 and the EVO was averaging 1.7-2.1 when outside. Still, web pages seemed to load at almost the same speeds. The EVO did always finish first by a half second to a second but that is really not the big difference I was hoping for when I bought the phone. Another problem was dropped calles. I have dropped at least a half dozen calls in the past two days. I am one of the few people that has never had that issue with my current AT&T service.
So, even though I love the HTC EVO 4G I will be sticking with the iPhone for now. It is kind of a shame too. I really fell in love with the huge screen on the EVO. Luckily I have the unlimited data plan with AT&T. I feel I will probably be less happy about this decision once the EVO gets Android 2.2 and has an actual flash player. If Hulu works on it I might end up regretting my decision. Hopefully the new Netflix iphone app will dull the pain of the decision a bit.
After four days I am going to be returning the EVO 4G on monday and ordering the iPhone 4 on tuesday.
Do not get me wrong, the EVO4G is an amazing phone and my review of it in the EVO review section will be a glowing one. Although I do have a few minor physical build issues with the phone, the problems I have with it are mostly carrier related.
The physical issues I have with the phone are simple. One, I prefer a glass face. I do not care if people want to say the EVO has a glass face but it just has a plastic coating. That still scratches like plastic. In fact, the display at our Sprint store by my house has a nasty scratch on it. Two, the back panel is a bit flimsy when you remove it. I could easily see me damaging it with my ham fisted tendencies. Third, I do not like rear speakers. Although I will say this one did a pretty good job...but it did get muffles a bit if I sat it on a soft surface face up. Finally, the rear camera sticks out a bit too far. The phone will not lie flat. As you can see, these are all minor issues. I did have one major issue with battery life while using 4G. I left home one morning and took the train to Seattle and back. I browsed the web a short while at the train station, checked some info a couple of times while in Seattle, and then browsed the web a few minutes at the train station before returning home. After only about 2-2.5 hours max of usage my battery was dead. That seems a bit extreme...but I was warned 4G was power hungry.
The place it really fell down was with the carrier service. I am in a 4G market but could not get 4G inside my home. I could get it in my back yard, but not inside the house. When I was receiving 4G service the phone did very well, but not as well as I feel it should have. I did speed checks and even though the EVO claimed to be receiving data at rates of speed 2-3x the speed my iPhone 3GS it did not seem to actually work much faster. My iPhone 3GS was averaging .6-.8 and the EVO was averaging 1.7-2.1 when outside. Still, web pages seemed to load at almost the same speeds. The EVO did always finish first by a half second to a second but that is really not the big difference I was hoping for when I bought the phone. Another problem was dropped calles. I have dropped at least a half dozen calls in the past two days. I am one of the few people that has never had that issue with my current AT&T service.
So, even though I love the HTC EVO 4G I will be sticking with the iPhone for now. It is kind of a shame too. I really fell in love with the huge screen on the EVO. Luckily I have the unlimited data plan with AT&T. I feel I will probably be less happy about this decision once the EVO gets Android 2.2 and has an actual flash player. If Hulu works on it I might end up regretting my decision. Hopefully the new Netflix iphone app will dull the pain of the decision a bit.
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Your thread is a little misleading considering that the Iphone4 is not even out yet nor can you pre-order until the 15th. So how can you possibly be returning to something you never had? 😕
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funny thing is even if you aren't getting 4G it's still going to be a lot faster then anything you will be getting from the slowest network on the planet. lol
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I had the Iphone 3g and now with the Evo and I absolutely love this phone!!!!!! you have to give it a couple weeks of breaking in period before the battery will work the way you want.....I didn't like it at first either but I was making the move from Verizon to Sprint and I am so glad I did......
The battery is fine now and last me the whole day and then some.....
The battery is fine now and last me the whole day and then some.....
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After seven months of using the EVO 4g, I too will be switching back to the iPhone. The usability of the EVO is very hampered. I continually get the text wrong (due to auto correction) where in the iPhone I rarely had a problem entering text. I have also started to have problems with apps just starting to do things on their own (my profiles app has occasionally put my phone into silent mode). The OS is just not as good as the iPhone. There is a better selection of apps on the iPhone not to mention a better quality of apps overall.
Overall the iPhone is a much better device (although on AT&T the phone quality sucks). I will be switching to the iPhone on Verizon on the 10th of February.
Overall the iPhone is a much better device (although on AT&T the phone quality sucks). I will be switching to the iPhone on Verizon on the 10th of February.
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