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DE 2 Philly

Mar 24, 2010, 1:24 PM
"Sprint Evo 4G, now at the top of the Android mountain. Sheer domination. There's really no other way to describe it."
- Androidcentral.com


"Sprint changed the landscape for Android devices by announcing the HTC EVO 4G, a handset whose specs make it the top handset, cross-platform, on the market today. The EVO 4G one-ups almost every other handset in the Android platform."

- Boy Genius Report


"Everything that relied on the 4G network, from pulling down Youtube videos to browsing, seemed to clip along at breakneck speeds. While it could very well be due to the fact that there aren't that many devices on Sprint's 4G network just yet, this thing was simply soaring.'

- Mobilecrunch.com


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Slammer

Mar 24, 2010, 4:37 PM
Here's the sticky part. These reviews will not have any effect on the normal consumer. You and I know that this is a device which is at the top of the game. Unfortunately, the iphone is still living the modern day Razor craze. The Razor is not even close to what the iphone is in terms of technical aspects. However, the hype surrounding it is almost identical. E.G. :

I still have friends tell me they want an iphone. When I ask them why? They respond: "All my friends have one. It's the newest smartphone and supposed to be cool". When I ask them if they have heard about Android powered phones, they say, "I've heard of Android, but what is it?" My point is that unless Android and Sprint/Clearwire start marketing the crap out of this, it will ...
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bluecoyote

Mar 24, 2010, 5:21 PM
Verizon has marketed the living snot out of the Droid. It's selling on par with everything else they've done. (Voyager, Storm.)

The big thing is that these features need to have a meaningful benefit instead of just piling on problems. Take the Droid and N1- so it's got 4x the pixels of an iPhone or Pre- does that actually translate to a better web browsing experience or does it just bog down the internals to display the same information density? You can cram a bunch of impressive specs on a phone but unless it's engineered carefully (HTC's track record is NOT in their favor here) , you wind up with a novelty phone that is a waste to develop for.
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SPCSVZWJeff

Mar 24, 2010, 6:02 PM
It is marketing. The iPhone borrows heavily on the ipod's momentum. It is where Apple successfully marketed the iPod and now people who are excited about the iPod are excited about the iPhone. Apple has spent 30 years marketing their brand. HTC has not had that luxury so they don't really stand out. It is everything from the stupid "hi I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" commercials to the super cool ipod commercials.
One of my employees traded in her iPhone 3G and got a Samsung Moment. She has been very happy and claims that she cannot tell a difference, she is just paying about 50% less each month.
Much of what you say is not fact, but a claim based on your opinion. I am not taking anything away from the iPhone but i will say that Android is a very ...
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bluecoyote

Mar 24, 2010, 8:14 PM
Yeah until she opens the web browser or IM client...

But I digress. HTC's been making smartphones about as long as Apple's been marketing iPod's. But while Apple spent time building loyal customers and its brand with the iPod, HTC was slapping other people's names on half-baked devices so they didn't have to support them. That's partially why Apple gets the benefit of the doubt and HTC doesn't.


And uh, 13 years ago Apple was about to die, they turned it around.
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Slammer

Mar 24, 2010, 7:16 PM
Are you kidding? Marketing is most certainly the key. The iphone is a perfect example. It was so revolutionary as far as what was experienced, and the marketing team excelled at their skills, that it has had time to incubate a marketable reputation without any serious competition until recently. The Pre as you know was the closest if not better in many aspects. However, the marketing team lacked the punch to drum any interest in the device and the lack of a landscape keyboard was a BIG issue. I love the Pre but if it had a larger screen and landscape keyboard, I feel the interest would have been greater with better marketing. The Droid with all it's feature packed inclusions, is dealing with a new OS that is not widely accepted...Yet. It rea...
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bluecoyote

Mar 24, 2010, 8:23 PM
Every time I use an HTC device I'm disappointed after a week as to how many things they 'swept under the rug.' My first experience was soured with them from the Apache and Mogul (both the worst devices to ever be sold on any network) , and everything else feels like a cheap dressing- like putting modifications on a Honda Civic against a true sports car.
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Slammer

Mar 24, 2010, 8:57 PM
Lol. I owned a Honda Civic many, many years ago. When it was almost time to retire it, we entered it in the local fair to compete in the demolition derby. We painted Student Driver all over it. To die with dignity was never seen. It lasted only two hits, then caught fire and burned up! Damn I loved that car.
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JoeyEsquire

Mar 24, 2010, 10:30 PM
Can your Honda Civic multi-task?
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DiamondPro

Mar 24, 2010, 5:34 PM
I like the way they described this masterpiece Sprint and Htc along with Google have put together. Now what do all the naysayers have to say now! So many 1st with this phone by any major US carrier its ridiculous and being Androids topdog is just the icing on the cake. Yeah this phone may not have the mainstream appeal of the iphone or the razor but it doesnt change the fact that is still 10xtimes cooler and far superior then anything on the market right now. 😎
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