First time Android purchase help please.

**Andy357#AC** · 11-23-2011, 06:20 PM

Hello. I am coming to Sprint from a AT&T iphone. With the holiday sale prices in my area I've narrowed my. choices between a Evo Design and a Nexus S. Myself and my wife are both getting phones and these two models will end up being free this weekend. Any help in this decision pros or cons greatly appreciated. They both look like awesome phones.

**SnitGTS** · 11-23-2011, 07:15 PM

I personally don't have any experience with either of those phones, but I have a decent amount of Android experience so I can at least give you a little help.

The Nexus S is a Google Experience device, meaning that you will be running stock Android. The benefits of this is, like your iphone, you will get Android updates as soon as they come out. The drawbacks of this is that some people feel that stock Android isn't the most user friendly experience, however since Ice Cream Sandwich is about to be released this shouldn't be as bad as it once was.

The Evo on the other hand, has HTC's Sense UI layered on top of stock Android Gingerbread. Benefits are that there is a polish to it that stock Android lacks, also Sense has a lot of Social Networking apps and widgets that does not come with stock Android. Drawbacks are you will probably never see an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, definitely not anytime soon. (my old HTC Droid Incredible was just upgraded to Gingerbread last week, almost a year after Gingerbread was released)

Both devices will not have the battery life that your iphone had, there has been an ongoing switching issue with early 4G devices that drains the battery. I'm not sure if the Ice Cream Sandwich update does anything to fix that issue, so maybe the Nexus S will have an advantage there but maybe not.

Good luck either way you go!

**reelon** · 11-23-2011, 07:58 PM

I'm kind of a similar situation and Sam club is going to have the galaxy s2 for 96 cents, might be worth the look. I think that you can get it online today instead of going to the store on Friday. If I can't get the galaxy I will get the nexus s.

**Andy357#AC** · 11-23-2011, 08:11 PM

Thanks everybody for the help. I just checked samsclub.com and the s2 is still 149.99. Going to keep my eye on it. RadioShack.com has Evo Design for free with 19.00 next business day shipping, worth checking ou if you're interested in the Evo.

**reelon** · 11-23-2011, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by Andy357

Thanks everybody for the help. I just checked samsclub.com and the s2 is still 149.99. Going to keep my eye on it. RadioShack.com has Evo Design for free with 19.00 next business day shipping, worth checking ou if you're interested in the Evo.

I think the sale starts @ 11:00 pm eastern time....

**reelon** · 11-23-2011, 10:12 PM

the offer is there, but when I go to the actual page of the phone it still shows $148.88, maybe try tomorrow and see how that goes.

**androidmaster1** · 11-24-2011, 06:31 PM

this will answer all your questions

**Andy357#AC** · 11-24-2011, 08:15 PM

The .96 price showed up for the AT&T version but unfortunately not the Sprint model which I had my eye on. Gonna check around tomorrow and see what I can find.

**crankless** · 11-24-2011, 08:25 PM

I just got my epic touch 4g from amazon for $.01, all phones but the iphone is a $.01

Sent from my Galaxy S 2 4g

**Andy357#AC** · 11-24-2011, 11:26 PM

Wow! Thanks so much!

**reelon** · 11-25-2011, 08:55 PM

Sorry my bad I missed read your post and thought that you were coming from sprint to att. Glad that that they pointed you to the amazon site.

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