EVO Owner Reviews

[Jeremy Sikora]

This is the "official" I have an Evo and I love it or hate it - and why thread. Please don't ask questions about the device, just post your opinion after you actually have one in hand.

Thanks!

(I'll post my review sometime Friday...)

[ecaggiani]

I have it and I love it! There are a few minor nits I would like fixed, but nothing major. The biggest thing would be the SD card issues. After about a day or so, the SD card access becomes slow, requiring a reboot. And sometimes (rarely for me but I've seen it) the SD card can't be written to and gives an error when taking a picture, for example.

Apparently Sprint/HTC are aware of the issue, and the rumor is that it only affects the Google I/O phones, but not sure.

Anyway, this is hands down the best phone I've ever owned, used, or seen! The screen is gorgeous, and the phone is fast. EVO FTW!

[Jeremy Sikora]

I see a lot of people voting in the poll, don't be shy and please shy why or why not you do not like the device.

[forceOnature]

I've come from Android phones that have suffered from lag (Samsung Moment and HTC G1) and other serious hardware issues (Moment) like radio lock ups and gps uselessness. The EVO has been great so far. As mentioned above, there are a few bugs to be worked out, but there is so much to love about the phone.

The Good:
It's fast! Only lag I've experienced is while installing apps.
Plenty of internal storage (important while no stock SD card app installation available)
Beautiful display
Multitouch screen works great
Takes very good still pictures
Better sound output quality than Ipod touch
Receive Froyo update soon
4G
Excellent phone functionality (audio, dialing)

The Bad:
Compression in 720p video capture
SD card faults
No track ball/pad - I've missed the ability to specifically place the text cursor when entering text. Until some app adds the ability to zoom in on what is under your finger in the text entry box, you'll need a bit of luck to put the cursor where you want.

[ecaggiani]

Originally Posted by forceOnature

No track ball/pad - I've missed the ability to specifically place the text cursor when entering text. Until some app adds the ability to zoom in on what is under your finger in the text entry box, you'll need a bit of luck to put the cursor where you want.

The built-in Evo keyboard has soft arrow key buttons for moving the cursor around, so that sort of replaces the need for the trackball. Of course, if you use a different keyboard, you're screwed ;-)

[forceOnature]

Originally Posted by ecaggiani

The built-in Evo keyboard has soft arrow key buttons for moving the cursor around, so that sort of replaces the need for the trackball. Of course, if you use a different keyboard, you're screwed ;-)

I am using an alternative keyboard that does not have the arrow keys.

[kellybrf]

the only issues i have are that i sometimes hit the search button when holding landscape (very minor issue, especially since it doesnt kick you out of what youre doing) and ive been getting some memory card errors with the camera. a soft reset fixes it, but its rather annoying at times. this thing is just incredibly, incredibly fast in everything it does

[scaots]

My FM reception is nill at home. Granted I am not close to any station, but any other receiver can tune to at least a dozen strong ones. I haven't tried it elsewhere yet. But really I couldn't care less about FM.

The SD card issues are not acceptable. I have had issues taking pictures, viewing videos and photos, and accessing music. I am putting in a different card to see if it is the card.

I wish the keyboard had the enter key in a more traditional place and a function key to do single numbers or symbols and auto return to letters. I also wish the arrow keys were arranged in a traditional keyboard manner. They are painfully slow to use the way that they are laid out.

Otherwise it rocks!

Wish I could turn off threaded gmail or at least delete individual messages not just the whole conversation, but that is an app thing.

[DougB541]

I mean you could just setup Gmail under the normal mail app unless you really need the labels function and everything.

I'm not up for my rebate until July 31st so hopefully the SD card issue is sorted out by then.

[kellybrf]

i think there is a bad batch of sd cards. i popped in a spare 2gb and have had 0 issues for the past few days. its a bummer, but glad to see it appears to be an issue with sandisk and a quick fix rather than an update wed have to wait for.