[crzycrkr]

You'd rather get an outdated phone over a modern spec'd phone that looks outdated?

To be fair, if you consider the GN outdated now, a few months after initially released, then this phone will be outdated by the time it releases as well. Especially considering its dual core.

[Love Divine]

This phone will NOT be outdated anytime soon. The EVO line has always hovered near the top spec-wise. Hell, the EVO 3D still holds up decently today. The Krait chip > the Tegra 3. It will also do very well against the GSIII, depending on which Exynos variation Samsung goes with.

For a high-end device, the Nexus, hardware wise, is slayed by the One X, which should be on par for high-end phones through Summer and Fall.

[crzycrkr]

This phone will NOT be outdated anytime soon. The EVO line has always hovered near the top spec-wise. Hell, the EVO 3D still holds up decently today. The Krait chip > the Tegra 3. It will also do very well against the GSIII, depending on which Exynos variation Samsung goes with.

For a high-end device, the Nexus, hardware wise, is slayed by the One X, which should be on par for high-end phones through Summer and Fall.

I never said it was. I said if he thinks the GN is already outdated, THEN this phone will be outdated by the tinsmith releases in June. That is fair to say.

It'll happen the way it always does. The new EVO will cone out and be king of the hill for 2 months or so, then the SGIII will come out and destroy it. Just like last year.

[BigDinCA]

It looks fine to me. I like the One X better however the battery trade off is worth it. My only concern is SLCD2 or AMOLED? From the videos I have seen the SLCD2 would be the most important feature! Can't wait to find out more!

Edit: Also the battery looks like it may be removable. Looks to have a camera button!

Apparently the AMOLED rumor was false and it is the SLCD2. There is speculation that the color variance on the back is due to the addition of a door where the removable battery is, but I'm not so sure. I am really curious as to what is behind that little white sticker on the bottom right corner, though.

[delta7]

The design is awful and it's actually bigger than the standard one X, this phone will be big with a case on it. I just sold my evo og and bought a smaller evo design and the size is perfect but I might the kickstand.

Sprint is broke anyways and that kickstand looks like it's gonna break pretty easy, i wouldn't touch this phone till the fall till all the bugs and issues are worked out.

I wanna see the photon 2 and what MOTO does with ICS

[crzycrkr]

Apparently the AMOLED rumor was false and it is the SLCD2. There is speculation that the color variance on the back is due to the addition of a door where the removable battery is, but I'm not so sure. I am really curious as to what is behind that little white sticker on the bottom right corner, though.

Probably hiding a serial number. Personally I'm hoping its hiding the charging contacts, bit I get the feeling Sprint pulled them to save money.

[Flibberdejibit#WN]

I'm not understanding all the hate. I like the design of the 1X just fine, and I think this looks absolutely STELLAR as well. Anyone who follows Android would immediately know this is an EVO based on the black slab with red accents. I think this looks absolutely fantastic, and I don't fault Sprint for sticking with the black and red color scheme on their flagship EVO devices (the Shift and Design were abberations in my opinion and not worthy of the EVO name). Bringing back the kickstand? LOVE IT. It was the greatest thing I missed when I switched from my OG EVO to the 3D. I even love that its now in the center of the phone : greater stability. Dedicated camera button to boot? Awesome. The Nexus is a nice phone, but I'm an HTC guy...I just love Sense. If my 3D wasn't so damn great, I'd pick this up on launch day for sure. And yep...I use the 3D feature all the time haters! Haha!

Also, in my opinion, removing red accents from an EVO would be the equivalent of removing the galloping pony off the grill of a Ford Mustang. It should just never happen. Nice design HTC/Sprint. I really like it.

[JayWill]

Before you guys go running for a rope and a rickety chair to stand on, remember that pictures rarely do phone design justice. Often times you have to see it from all angles with your own eyes and hold it in your hand before you can adequately pass judgement.

[chance1117]

Apparently the AMOLED rumor was false and it is the SLCD2. There is speculation that the color variance on the back is due to the addition of a door where the removable battery is, but I'm not so sure. I am really curious as to what is behind that little white sticker on the bottom right corner, though.

Hope SLCD2 is right. If so this is my phone! If there is a removable battery and a micro SD slot and a kickstand Sprint made a lot of people happy. Those are exchanged for a less attractive design. I 100% okay with a little less attractive phone. I just don't understand why sprint chose red over yellow for the evo series. It seems weird to have Verizon colours on a sprint phone.

[crzycrkr]

I'm not understanding all the hate. I like the design of the 1X just fine, and I think this looks absolutely STELLAR as well. Anyone who follows Android would immediately know this is an EVO based on the black slab with red accents. I think this looks absolutely fantastic, and I don't fault Sprint for sticking with the black and red color scheme on their flagship EVO devices (the Shift and Design were abberations in my opinion and not worthy of the EVO name). Bringing back the kickstand? LOVE IT. It was the greatest thing I missed when I switched from my OG EVO to the 3D. I even love that its now in the center of the phone : greater stability. Dedicated camera button to boot? Awesome. The Nexus is a nice phone, but I'm an HTC guy...I just love Sense. If my 3D wasn't so damn great, I'd pick this up on launch day for sure. And yep...I use the 3D feature all the time haters! Haha!

Also, in my opinion, removing red accents from an EVO would be the equivalent of removing the galloping pony off the grill of a Ford Mustang. It should just never happen. Nice design HTC/Sprint. I really like it.

Changing the colors wouldn't be an
issue, but completely changing the body and making it a brick is.

Before you guys go running for a rope and a rickety chair to stand on, remember that pictures rarely do phone design justice. Often times you have to see it from all angles with your own eyes and hold it in your hand before you can adequately pass judgement.

Pictures do the One X plenty of justice. Although I do agree with you, I think in this case the pictures show this phone for what it is, a pig.

A little change is one thing people, but Sprint is stuck in the designs of 2 years ago. What if the iPhone they got was twice as thick? Or if the opacity was squared off and looked like a laptop from the 80's? Horrible design choices pure and simple. They're so busy trying to make it look like an EVO that they're not keeping up with the times.

[BigDinCA]

Probably hiding a serial number. Personally I'm hoping its hiding the charging contacts, bit I get the feeling Sprint pulled them to save money.

I'm hoping for the same thing, but the change in the device footprint is going to make the standard HTC docks unusable.

[crzycrkr]

I'm hoping for the same thing, but the change in the device footprint is going to make the standard HTC docks unusable.

Yep, just one more major issue with this horrible redesign

[jean15paul]

This is hilarious! Back when the Evo and Evo3D's came out and I said I thought they were ugly I got flamed. Now they release a new phone that looks like an Evo and everyone thinks it's ugly. I guess I was ahead of the times back then. #vindicated

Actually this phone doesn't look that bad. It's not great, but it's an improvement over the existing Evo's. I'll wait 2 years for everyone to decide to agree with that.

[Crispy]

I don't understand people who are willing to forgive this because its an Evo. It's not that hard to have great hardware and great design - many many phones do that, e.g. One X to name the obvious example, iPhone. And these phones are desirable objects, not just a spec sheet.

If Sprint thinks the Evo brand is some kind of magical loyalty club and they can sell anything under that name, they are mistaken.

If this is indeed the final phone (and many more sites are reporting it), then Spring decided to ignore the One X design completely just to make it an ugly Evo brick.

[bunique4life05]

I own a htc thunderbolt and my friend has HTC OG Evo 4G so I am pretty familiar with the product. I am not a fan of Evo series but I can relate to those who feel the design is not what one one expect. The Evo One resembles out line wise to the orginal HTC EVO 4G but the glossy back piece at top phone and the matte finish bottom part does not match. The red accents on the HTC Evo 4G is sort of a surprise as the come company seem to go away from that styling queue(IMO for the best). Overall the HTC Evo One as Evo device could be better in comparison to the One Series could be a lot better. The HTC Evo 4G looks alot better than this device.



What happen Sprint? Making the HTC Evo One should have been easy. Take a black HTC One X then it's camera, htc logo, docking pins,capacities buttons and turn them red. Plus add a evo logo and matching red beats audio headphones. (Kickstand IMO is great but the polycarbonate body is better...much better)

[Crispy]

Evo 4G is a lot better design than this. At least it has a uniform back surface rather than the ugly shiny + matte thing the Evo One has.

And I agree, screw the kickstand.

[crzycrkr]

This is hilarious! Back when the Evo and Evo3D's came out and I said I thought they were ugly I got flamed. Now they release a new phone that looks like an Evo and everyone thinks it's ugly. I guess I was ahead of the times back then. #vindicated

Actually this phone doesn't look that bad. It's not great, but it's an improvement over the existing Evo's. I'll wait 2 years for everyone to decide to agree with that.

The OG EVO, I didn't mind. It was kinda groundbreaking. I was actually waiting for the Nexus at that point. The 3d was a complete fail for so many reasons in my book. Just drives me nuts, HTC pumps out beautiful phones bit none of them ever end up on Sprint.

[zhecht]

I guess I'm in the minority, but I actually like the black with metallic red stripe on the back. It looks a whole lot better than the plain black back of the OG EVO to me.

[crzycrkr]

What happen Sprint? Making the HTC Evo One should have been easy. Take a black HTC One X then it's camera, htc logo, docking pins,capacities buttons and turn them red. Plus add a evo logo and matching red beats audio headphones. (Kickstand IMO is great but the polycarbonate body is better...much better)

+++++++100000000. Exactly this.

[BigDinCA]

This is hilarious! Back when the Evo and Evo3D's came out and I said I thought they were ugly I got flamed. Now they release a new phone that looks like an Evo and everyone thinks it's ugly. I guess I was ahead of the times back then. #vindicated

Actually this phone doesn't look that bad. It's not great, but it's an improvement over the existing Evo's. I'll wait 2 years for everyone to decide to agree with that.

I don't think it's a bad looking phone, it's just not what we were hoping for. I loved the OG EVO because it looked like nothing out there. It's tired looking, in a sense, because Samsung and Sony and LG and Moto started doing the same things. The 3D wasn't bad at all. I have had them both and liked them both. The 3D is built like a brick poophouse (I didn't curse there Kevin) and I like the fact that they shrunk the width and got a better screen to fit that footprint. The problem with this new EVO is that it is supposed to be a variant of the One X. Variant. This is, design-wise, nothing close to the One X we were all expecting. Love the idea of the kickstand again, but this one just looks puny compared to the OG EVO. Performance-wise it looks to be a beast.

[onthezone]

The phone goes from gloss black, red kickstand, then matt black?! fail.....

[WeGlobal]

Not buying into the idea of people not wanting the phone because of how it looks. We are NOT talking about a Kyocero Echo or LG Optimus Vu here......those phones would be considered horrendous to look at. But 9 out of every 10 people will eventually throw a case on the new EVO.

As long as the thing is a beast spec-wise, I'm cool with not having a "pretty" phone......now can I please get a OtterBox Defender Series case for the HTC EVO 4G LTE?????

[NicksGarage]

It's always funny how people take this so seriously. It's not like Sprint promised one thing and pulled the rug out from under you. People saw one phone and automatically assumed they were getting that, plus all their dream specs on top of it. Boo hoo. You don't like it, don't buy it. There will be plenty of people who are not looking for a fashion accessory but instead a PHONE. If you want to look stylish, go buy a phone based on looks. Next time you can wish that Sprint will consult you before they build the next one.

[wyrdangel]

I was a little concerned after I saw the first couple of pics released but now that I've seen more (and much better quality) pictures from today's event I am very relieved. It is a slim, great-looking phone. I do wish that they had kept the curved bits at the corners of the glass like the One X but I can live without them.

I do think that some of the folks posting in this thread are a little over the top with the dramatic negativity. One would think that Sprint just slapped the thing in an old clock radio chassis and called it a day. Maybe try to have a *slight* sense of proportion...but this IS a forum out on them there interwebs afterall so I guess that is to be expected

[crzycrkr]

Its not really just this forum. The design is being met with jeers just a out everywhere. And, I agree, if you don't like it dont bbuy it. But you make it sound as if you can only have performance OR looks. Both are easily done. At least we've moved on to metal rather that the creaky plastic of the OG EVO. Hopefully the next one can feel more like an HTC design and less like a Sprint one.