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I'm really on the fence when it comes to buying this. On the one hand it's seems like a really great phone with really great specs. I would be coming from the Samsung Epic.
On the other hand I'm really puzzled by how this phone is being released. Unlike the Evo,Epic and Nexus there is really a lukewarm reception as far as the retailers go. We're at launch day and places like Best buy, Radio shack are not really showing much interest.
The phone was released in Europe 10 months ago and seems like the US retailers are treating it as such. The low price $99 from Walmarts to the lackluster offerings from the retailers.
With the changes Sprint has made canceling Premier cutting the return time from 30 to 14 days and increasing the ETF. I wondering if they are just trying to get people to use their upgrade on what they consider a lesser/cheaper phone. So less people will use it on the Nexus Prime,Iphone 5.
I would really appreciate people opinions on this. I have my upgrade and cash in hand today. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I'm right there with you. I've had my upgrade for a while and have just been waiting. I am honestly now waiting for the iPhone 5 specs to be released. Depending on how it looks I will buy it or the epic touch. I still prefer android but I like trying all os's. As far as the prime goes..I don't think sprint will get it in 2011
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I'm right there with you. I've had my upgrade for a while and have just been waiting. I am honestly now waiting for the iPhone 5 specs to be released. Depending on how it looks I will buy it or the epic touch. I still prefer android but I like trying all os's. As far as the prime goes..I don't think sprint will get it in 2011
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If Sprint doesn't get the Prime this year then I'm afraid I'll have to ditch my Nexus S and get the Epic Touch. I just hope it gets Cyanogen Mod
OMG! It is hard to make decision about this E4GT, I know it has the best camera and high resolution as far as I know. I am using Photon 4G, it is great phone as well with dual networks (world phone), it is convenient when you step out from USA, you just pop in pre-paid gsm card, then you can connect the world. Gee, the hardest decision that I need to make. Any thoughts?
I am truely upset about how Sprint went about releasing this phone. I was able to preorder the EVO 3D a month before it was available at Bestbuy. Now, Bestbuy doesn't even know what the Epic Touch is. And it's release day....
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I am truely upset about how Sprint went about releasing this phone. I was able to preorder the EVO 3D a month before it was available at Bestbuy. Now, Bestbuy doesn't even know what the Epic Touch is. And it's release day....
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Sprint seems to have a much better relationship with HTC. They really go all out with regards to advertising and release hype.
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If Sprint doesn't get the Prime this year then I'm afraid I'll have to ditch my Nexus S and get the Epic Touch. I just hope it gets Cyanogen Mod
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I am kind of with you. I want the prime so I am waiting at least a few weeks I think to see.
Does anyone know if I will be able to get the phone at a discount price, since I'm not eligible yet till 3/23/2012. The phone plan is 3 Evo's and another cheap phone that does have an upgrade option. I want to get this phone, but I'm also interested in seeing the iphone 5
I just got it about 20 minutes ago and couldn't be happier. Coming from the evo 4g, the difference is night and day. You can natively ditch any bloatware. So much faster and lighter. I absolutely love this phone...and highly recommend it.
Btw, and im not sure how, but my gf and I both upgraded our phones on the same account and it only cost us $200 combined. We both sold back our evo's for $88 each. This was all done throu a sprint store...Brent, if you happen to read this THANKS BRO!!!
Finally, they confirmed that the nexus prime will be a verizon only phone. Not sure if that is true or not so you can take that for what you will.
Now bring on root
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I just got it about 20 minutes ago and couldn't be happier. Coming from the evo 4g, the difference is night and day. You can natively ditch any bloatware. So much faster and lighter. I absolutely love this phone...and highly recommend it.
Btw, and im not sure how, but my gf and I both upgraded our phones on the same account and it only cost us $200 combined. We both sold back our evo's for $88 each. This was all done throu a sprint store...Brent, if you happen to read this THANKS BRO!!!
Finally, they confirmed that the nexus prime will be a verizon only phone. Not sure if that is true or not so you can take that for what you will.
Now bring on root
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Verizon has exclusivity for the nexus prime but no one knows for how long. It's gonna have to be released on the other carriers but may not for some time.
Also, I just got back from my Sprint store where I played with the E4GT and it is simply mind blasting! The screen is so beautiful..my NS4G screen was dwarfed next to it...and of course the employees had downloaded all the benchmark apps. Quadrant was 3400 I am really having trouble fighting off the urges to get this phone...screw the iphone 5, lol
This phone is simply fantastic. So very glad I got it.
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I bit the bullet and got it!! haha well at least i have 2 weeks to decide to keep it. hopefully by then the iphone 5 will be announced and unless it is mind blowing, ill keep E4GT
I am in the same boat as the OP, I am upgrade eligible but don't want to jump in because of the next few phone announcements. I am also puzzled about how hush hush this release is, makes it seem like the phone is not important.
I was playing around with it in the Sprint store today and it is an absolutely beautiful phone. I have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I love that device, hopefully the phone has good battery life as well. The only thing I was not sure about was how large the phone is, may not be so comfy in your jeans.
The more I used it more I like it.i give this phone a name
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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The more I used it more I like it.i give this phone a name
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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Like your description for the phone, i believe everybody here in the form feels like you do. If the evo 4g had such a huge amount of developers around it, I can only imagine the amount of love this phone will get.
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Like your description for the phone, i believe everybody here in the form feels like you do. If the evo 4g had such a huge amount of developers around it, I can only imagine the amount of love this phone will get.
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The good thing is that the GSII has been out for a few months, and has plenty of development. I wonder if the base stock ROM is similar.
Oh yeah...this device is just, really what Android should be. It's borders on g'damned religious epiphany.
Samsung definitely did it right with the Galaxy S2.
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The more I used it more I like it.i give this phone a name
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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Hey, thats my line. I gave this phome that name in a couple for forums already. Oh well, they say great minds think alike. Lol
Ian B
I still can't figure out why Sprint is not hyping it up unless its like some people have said..the iPhone is coming to Sprint and thats why.
Boo iPhone!
Is it wrong to love a phone so much, when it feels so right?
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I still can't figure out why Sprint is not hyping it up unless its like some people have said..the iPhone is coming to Sprint and thats why.
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I did see a commercial today while watching the Redskins vs Cardinals football game...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrPPTeu1wWQ
Hell, I'm the biggest geek I know.
For once, a phone of all phones..
I have yet, yet, to lag this phone even trying.. first phone I've had not big down and lag with live wallpaper.. And My last phone was the photon.
I love this phone so much
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I did see a commercial today while watching the Redskins vs Cardinals football game...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrPPTeu1wWQ
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Finally! But its nothing like that 3D POS got. I loved the Evo 4G but IMO the NS4G and this new beauty have been the best phones since it...although the Photon wasn't bad at all but returned it before my 30 days for the S2.
Any word on CM for this thing?
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I still can't figure out why Sprint is not hyping it up unless its like some people have said..the iPhone is coming to Sprint and thats why.
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They are now... I saw 5 commercials during football.
thenags said:
Any word on CM for this thing?
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Need root first good sir.
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They are now... I saw 5 commercials during football.
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I never saw a Epic Touch commercial but I did see an Evo 3d..I didn't watch every game though.
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They are now... I saw 5 commercials during football.
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I think I saw about the same, 3-5 commercials during games...and like 3-5 dozen J-Lo Fiat commercials. But I digress.
I think they're not over advertising because supplies/distribution are really low right now. I know the Sprint store we got our phones from only had 14 in-store on Friday (they had 5 on Tuesday when I reserved 2, and then got another 9 in Friday morning), and were down to 3 when my wife and I picked ours up 2-hours before close. The Best Buy across the parking lot only got in 2 for Friday, and no accessories at all.
I really suspect that they are probably saving some revenue for a big push with the new iphone. I love my epic touch but I think the the new Iphone will be the perfect phone for my girl. Way off topic though. I agree OP I am in love with this phone too. My day off today my girl went out and I stayed home all day messing with my new toy.
I'm headover heels in love too!....(cept...I'll probably betray her when Nexus Prime is onveiled...shhhh)
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I thought this was about "the announcement", lol.
I don't feel myself looking forward to the next phone on the horizon I'm actually satisfied with what I have for once.
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I actually identify with this, after coming from a Moment to a Hero to an EVO4G quickly...had that for a year, happily, then to an E3D, to ANOTHER E3D, to an NS4G, to ANOTHER E3D, considered the photon but wasn't impressed, and finally to the ET4G I agree whole heartedly.
I anticipated just jumping to the Nexus Prime ASAP, but, I think I'll hang onto this device for a while....and this is before I've done any more than flash CWM in preparation.
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I'm currently a Sprint employee and I work at an Indirect retailer/service & repair center. I'll be the first to admit that I have a serious phone addiction. I somehow end up getting all the new phones right when they launch and get to play with all the ones I don't get to carry personally. My family has a business plan with 17 lines so I'm always able to somehow squeeze and upgrade out, do a "Repair" swap to a comparable model, or employee purchase a phone.
My girlfriend has had an iPhone 4 since launch and even though I used to carry one for awhile I've grown to resent them. My first Android upon working here was a Samsung Epic which I loved at first (coming from an iPhone 3G) but as I loaded more apps on it I watched it become laggy and seen it develop quite an overheating problem. I was extremely close to going back with an iPhone then I found this site and began experimenting with rooting and custom roms and now I'm hooked.
So to flash forward since my Epic days (sorry I've been rambling) I've went from a Nexus S to a EVO 3D to a HTC Arrive (tried something new and yeah didn't work out) to a Motorola Photon and now finally a Galaxy S II. Needless to say every single phone I've had up until this one had issues I just couldn't cope with. My nexus got horrible signal wherever I was at and 3G was practically worthless. I was so hyped about the 3D and when it launched the first one I had was defective and my second would freeze and lag constantly. To top it all off about 30% of the ones we would sell were defective out of the box. It's hard to have love for a phone that you sell to someone only to see them come back the next day ready to rip your head off. After that I figured I'd try something new and went with an HTC Arrive. I'll spare you the details lets just say a week into it and I was done. So I decided to go with the Photon and for the most part I liked it other then the horrible UI (Customer Launchers saved me) and the silent call issue that plagued it.
I'd been reading about the GSII for awhile and once I heard it was coming to Sprint I had to make sure I could get it on Launch. Enough calls into Sprint got me my upgrade early and I took the bait and dove right in not knowing exactly what new "issues" I'd be getting myself into. It's been almost a week since I've had mine and I can say without a doubt that I've never ever owned a phone this amazing. Everything about it is superb from the screen, to the UI, and the sleek design. I haven't had NOT ONE single problem with this phone and to me that's saying something. Traditionally almost all of our Samsung devices have been crap. Plain and simple. This phone was bashed by all my coworkers before launch because of the bad name Samsung had made for themselves. Now they're just as amazed as I am. I don't feel myself looking forward to the next phone on the horizon I'm actually satisfied with what I have for once.
I know this post is nothing but rambling but honestly this phone is everything I've ever hoped for and more. Once the roms start pouring in I truly feel it will be a short while before this phone is dethroned as King. I guess I made this post just to see how everyone else was feeling about there phone and if anyone has had similar issues with past phones and now finds themselves satisfied.
This is my first post on here so don't flame me too hard =) Any thoughts/experiences would be appreciated especially from anyone else who shares my phone addiction lol
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im an ex-employee so i totally feel you and your addiction. Its a serious issue, and an expensive one lol.
But yes your right. When I bought the 3d, my dude that still works there tried to talk me out of buying it. Because of the power and signal issues. Of course like a idiot I still did. Wanted to love that thing so bad.
Im going to also agree with you 1000%. This is my DREAM phone. Ive lost sleep over the s2. When i heard Sprint was getting it, I literally thought about nothing else than the Epic Touch, aside from women and money. This thing is awesome. ****t, the only thing I want is higher resolution, but even with that I love this phone. I cant imagine what the next one will be like, but for the FIRST time in my life, I AM TOTALLY SATISFIED WITH A PHONE!!!
Yes my addiction to crack started when I was..oh wait...your talking phones...Like you my friend I have had every phone you listed (except the Arrive...my god man what were you thinking!) and this is the best phone I have owned..hands down. No problems...yet. Great camera and fast. I love it!
I will agree. I was happy with the HTC Incredible based on what was available and told myself that no matter how bad I wanted a new phone no 'feature" would be worth the upgrade until dual-core chips hit. Yes I jumped on the LTE band wagon but quickly realized that was far from ready for daily use. Then they(dual-core) hit and man its been disappointing till the chip Samsung used( Exynos). That chip with the GPU totally blows anything else out of the water.
Maybe just stick to iphone if android gives you so much trouble? I'm pretty sure there are lots of users on this forum that use Epic1, Nexus S and Evo 3D with no problems.
+1 from me. Nice write up, thanks.
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Maybe just stick to iphone if android gives you so much trouble? I'm pretty sure there are lots of users on this forum that use Epic1, Nexus S and Evo 3D with no problems.
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Every thing i was reading was great until this, you had to mention the iPhone and to top ot off, recommended sticking with it if Android gives you problems. Expecially if you're talking about the E4GT, man what were you thinking.
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Every thing i was reading was great until this, you had to mention the iPhone and to top ot off, recommended sticking with it if Android gives you problems. Expecially if you're talking about the E4GT, man what were you thinking.
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+1 this post was pointless. Anywhoo. Back to the subject at hand
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Success100 said:
im an ex-employee so i totally feel you and your addiction. Its a serious issue, and an expensive one lol.
But yes your right. When I bought the 3d, my dude that still works there tried to talk me out of buying it. Because of the power and signal issues. Of course like a idiot I still did. Wanted to love that thing so bad.
Im going to also agree with you 1000%. This is my DREAM phone. Ive lost sleep over the s2. When i heard Sprint was getting it, I literally thought about nothing else than the Epic Touch, aside from women and money. This thing is awesome. ****t, the only thing I want is higher resolution, but even with that I love this phone. I cant imagine what the next one will be like, but for the FIRST time in my life, I AM TOTALLY SATISFIED WITH A PHONE!!!
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most definately i am very satisfied with this phone just stock. thats amazing to say cuz i was a flashoholic. from the og evo. i can root but no need to since im on vacation only needed it for work. and the resolution is a small minus but dont mind really the screen looks amazing everywhere. my real minus is kickstand. coming froma evo i miss the hell out of it
I thought sprint employee don't get the phone untill 2 or three week because customer are the one paying the most and they should be the first to have it?.......I am under an employee account ( SWAC ) and sprint wouldn't let me buy the phone at all. They keep saying it's one of the disadvantage of being under this plan, but is more advantage than have a regular plan. God DAMN! I can't wait till is available to buy ( BUT WHEN?).........It was kinda funny on launch day I went to sprint store and they told I can't buy it cause I'm under employee account......I was like WTF! than why ya let me buy the gift card to reserve for the Epic 4G Touch?...they was like, well....who ever sold you that card should of known better, we are really sorry......I was like can I have my refund?......they said, No, we can't refund but you can use to buy any sprint product........I was like, can I use it to buy the phone when is available for SWAC plan?........they said, ummmm maybe... I said...CRAP! bye!!!!
I dont have any desire to worry about any phone coming out after getting this phone. It does everything I need it to better than any other phone I have come across.
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most definately i am very satisfied with this phone just stock. thats amazing to say cuz i was a flashoholic. from the og evo. i can root but no need to since im on vacation only needed it for work. and the resolution is a small minus but dont mind really the screen looks amazing everywhere. my real minus is kickstand. coming froma evo i miss the hell out of it
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I miss the kickstand dearly, but funny thing is I never actually used it as a kickstand. I just fidgeted with it ALL THE TIME. Now I have nothing to fidget with so I swipe through my home panels near compulsively.
I went from a Razr to a crap cricket phone to helio ocean to palm pixi to hero to epic 4g to inspire 4g to evo and finally to eptouch
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Every thing i was reading was great until this, you had to mention the iPhone and to top ot off, recommended sticking with it if Android gives you problems. Expecially if you're talking about the E4GT, man what were you thinking.
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The guy said he used to use iphone and had problems with the epic1, nexus s and evo 3D, which are all good android phones. I was suggesting the problem was the user not the android phones.
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I thought sprint employee don't get the phone untill 2 or three week because customer are the one paying the most and they should be the first to have it?.......I am under an employee account ( SWAC ) and sprint wouldn't let me buy the phone at all. They keep saying it's one of the disadvantage of being under this plan, but is more advantage than have a regular plan. God DAMN! I can't wait till is available to buy ( BUT WHEN?).........It was kinda funny on launch day I went to sprint store and they told I can't buy it cause I'm under employee account......I was like WTF! than why ya let me buy the gift card to reserve for the Epic 4G Touch?...they was like, well....who ever sold you that card should of known better, we are really sorry......I was like can I have my refund?......they said, No, we can't refund but you can use to buy any sprint product........I was like, can I use it to buy the phone when is available for SWAC plan?........they said, ummmm maybe... I said...CRAP! bye!!!!
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Sprint employees can't buy it yet. That's how it always is they have to wait a while before high end phones to become available to them. HOWEVER...one person per corporate store gets designated to be an advocate, and are responsible for making sure the staff is well informed on it and handling customer questions about it, and they get to keep the phone because of it. I was the advocate for the palm pre and OG Evo
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I miss the kickstand dearly, but funny thing is I never actually used it as a kickstand. I just fidgeted with it ALL THE TIME. Now I have nothing to fidget with so I swipe through my home panels near compulsively.
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Haha.... yeah I always used the battery cover clip on my Captivate and flicked it back and forth...
I think all phones should have a dedicated fidget system...
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Haha.... yeah I always used the battery cover clip on my Captivate and flicked it back and forth...
I think all phones should have a dedicated fidget system...
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So true. I barely ever used my E4G kickstand but boy did I miss it when it was gone.
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I thought sprint employee don't get the phone untill 2 or three week because customer are the one paying the most and they should be the first to have it?.......I am under an employee account ( SWAC ) and sprint wouldn't let me buy the phone at all. They keep saying it's one of the disadvantage of being under this plan, but is more advantage than have a regular plan. God DAMN! I can't wait till is available to buy ( BUT WHEN?).........It was kinda funny on launch day I went to sprint store and they told I can't buy it cause I'm under employee account......I was like WTF! than why ya let me buy the gift card to reserve for the Epic 4G Touch?...they was like, well....who ever sold you that card should of known better, we are really sorry......I was like can I have my refund?......they said, No, we can't refund but you can use to buy any sprint product........I was like, can I use it to buy the phone when is available for SWAC plan?........they said, ummmm maybe... I said...CRAP! bye!!!!
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He's not a Sprint employee. Indirect dealers are not Sprint employees, they work for a company that has a reseller agreement with Sprint.
He also said he has a family plan with 17 lines, so he got it on a non employee line, then moved it to his line. I know indirect employees get a discounted line, not sure how much it is though.
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So, in the summer I'm going to be traveling to Europe and need a World phone. So I decided to get a decent smart phone, none of that black berry crap.
Anyways, after buying a Moto XPRT and Sprint giving me the shaft and not allowing me to activate it due to being on SERO, I bought another phone, the Photon.
The device is built like a Rock and has some nice feature, especially the kick stand. Honestly, it feels good in the hands (that's what she said) and performs decently.
But going to the Photon from the Epic, there is no comparison. The epic is much faster, feels solid without the bulk and is just plain sexier.
Also, the photon has a really disorganized support. Our forums for the Epic are so well maintained and have active support. Granted, the photon is probably an older device.
It took me about 2 hours to unlock, root and install CWM on it. Not only is it a hassle, but all the links were broken! I wanted to install a ROM and all of the links were pointed to Multiupload which seems to be gone.
Anyways, I just wanted to post this because I can't wait to go back to my Epic after I make sure this phone will work in Europe.
Any others out there try the Photon too?
If you want to mod it I believe shabby still has his holylivingfuck.com links up
The photon was much solid and with motorola holding back the bootloader it really held a solid device back. The devs are great and there was no sort of bs negativity on the forums. It was like everyone there was a family and chill as F not talking down to each other....
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If you want to mod it I believe shabby still has his holylivingfuck.com links up
The photon was much solid and with motorola holding back the bootloader it really held a solid device back. The devs are great and there was no sort of bs negativity on the forums. It was like everyone there was a family and chill as F not talking down to each other....
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I'll show you BS negativity *angrily waves fist*
Seriously though I can't wait until the GNex comes out. I love my Epic touch but I want some of that NFC and LTE going on over here!!
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I'll show you BS negativity *angrily waves fist*
Seriously though I can't wait until the GNex comes out. I love my Epic touch but I want some of that NFC and LTE going on over here!!
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lol
Man the Nexus will be cool but you do know the GS3 will have all that and I bet a lot of our devs will jump to it. The old hardware in the Nexus is not worth it to me at least but that 720p screen mmmmm lol
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So, in the summer I'm going to be traveling to Europe and need a World phone. So I decided to get a decent smart phone, none of that black berry crap.
Anyways, after buying a Moto XPRT and Sprint giving me the shaft and not allowing me to activate it due to being on SERO, I bought another phone, the Photon.
The device is built like a Rock and has some nice feature, especially the kick stand. Honestly, it feels good in the hands (that's what she said) and performs decently.
That's also what she said.
But going to the Photon from the Epic, there is no comparison. The epic is much faster, feels solid without the bulk and is just plain sexier.
Also, the photon has a really disorganized support. Our forums for the Epic are so well maintained and have active support. Granted, the photon is probably an older device.
It took me about 2 hours to unlock, root and install CWM on it. Not only is it a hassle, but all the links were broken! I wanted to install a ROM and all of the links were pointed to Multiupload which seems to be gone.
Anyways, I just wanted to post this because I can't wait to go back to my Epic after I make sure this phone will work in Europe.
Any others out there try the Photon too?
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Man the Nexus will be cool but you do know the GS3 will have all that and I bet a lot of our devs will jump to it. The old hardware in the Nexus is not worth it to me at least but that 720p screen mmmmm lol
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Don't see the point of 720 on such a small screen. HBO go and you tube both look great on this phone
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Wizard Knight said:
Don't see the point of 720 on such a small screen. HBO go and you tube both look great on this phone
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Exactly there is no point but its cool to have anyways
I had the Photon before I got my GS2. The Photon has a much better radio and pulls a mu h better signal even in weak coverage areas. This is fact. The ONLY reason i returned the Photon was because I couldnt stand the grainy pentile display. It does conserve battery but for me the jaggedness of fonts and icons, videos, etc was just too noticable and it really bugged me a lot. I had no other complaints about the Photon other than the lack of decent stock motorola widgets.
For traveling and the need for a good solid signal, the Photon is your best option. Believe me the motorola radio in the Photon rocks. Thats pretty important when travelling. This is my ad ice.
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Exactly there is no point but its cool to have anyways
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It's very noticeable when you're using an mhl adapter on a bigger screen, but that aside. This phone is Epic.
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The photon was much solid and with motorola holding back the bootloader it really held a solid device back.....
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That's exactly what Motorola wants. That phone had so much potential, such a waste of a good device.
I loved my MoPho and would still be using it if I didn't brick it when trying to unlokc the bootloader. Once bricked, I freaked out and got the GS2 with my upgrade.....LOL
The MoPho was very solid and had great reception. My 4G was constant all day and I loved it!!
I tried unlocking the bootloader, I freaked out and didn't go through with it. At the time there were no ROMs so there really wasn't any real need to.
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I tried unlocking the bootloader, I freaked out and didn't go through with it. At the time there were no ROMs so there really wasn't any real need to.
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Exactly. No poi.t in risking your phone when there's no custom ROMS and development is basically at a stand still becausr of the locked boot loader. That was the other reason I moved on from the Photon. Stoll its a solid device was an excellent radio. Dont underestimate the Photon's radio, it smokes my GS2 all day everyday!
Unlocking the bootloader was really easy, to be honest. They instructions are scary, but I was in a "I don't give a $&*@" mode.
I messed something up when I tried to unlock the bootloader and wasn't able to revive my MoPho for a day or two. I had to search all over these forums to find a solution to an issue I was having while going through the revive process.
Ok so, I've had (and love(d)) my Epic since It debuted, but I feel it's time for me to upgrade. I'm kind of torn as to weather or not go with the GNex right away to take advantage of that 50$ Gwallet credit promotion; or, wait it out for the Sprint GSIII variant, which I'd guess would probably arrive sometime durring fall/winter. I've noticed some of our devs hoped on board the gnex bandwagon which Is always a plus for familiarity. Im REALLY torn about this :/ ...or I could go with the ep touch...*sigh* Any thoughts from current sprint gnex owners?
Jbluna said:
Ok so, I've had (and love(d)) my Epic since It debuted, but I feel it's time for me to upgrade. I'm kind of torn as to weather or not go with the GNex right away to take advantage of that 50$ Gwallet credit promotion; or, wait it out for the Sprint GSIII variant, which I'd guess would probably arrive sometime durring fall/winter. I've noticed some of our devs hoped on board the gnex bandwagon which Is always a plus for familiarity. Im REALLY torn about this :/ ...or I could go with the ep touch...*sigh* Any thoughts from current sprint gnex owners?
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I don't own one... but I know a few people who do and they absolutely love the gnex. Imo you really can't go wrong with the gnex, it'll get relatively fast updates and the hardware is pretty decent... overall very responsive from the few minutes I played with my uncles today....
If your looking for a community like the epic you won't find it at the gnex forums. But its a really good phone... there are a few people I recognize but not too many. Its a great phone... I don't see why people are saying its not good and is a bad idea and you should just wait until the sgs3. But I'll tell you what, I don't regret getting it. Its a very nice slim phone, its curve is perfect and is very appealing. If going for an upgrade and don't feel like waiting its better than than the Evo.
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