EVO 3D or Nexus S

[sprinttouch]

Evo 3d is gimmicky to me. Can't believe HTC's first dual core option on Sprint is a "3D" handset. Yeah, you could try to ignore the 3D features, but they pretty much broadcast themselves with those dueling cameras on the back. Call me OCD, but there is no way that I am carrying that thing around and answering those questions. I suppose it doesn't help that I am one of the many who currently find 3D recording and playback to be a curiosity at best...at least for the near term.

For me, the real question is whether to:

• get an Epic 4G
• wait a week or so and get the new Nexus (Epic specs without the keyboard, SD card slot, and LED...but trimmer, has NFC, and pure android), or
• try to hold out for a GS2 handset

...but I doubt that I have the patience to wait for Q3 for the GS2...so I'll be giving the Nexus a hard look.

wtf are you talking about? you seriously wouldn't use the Evo 3D because you don't want people to ask if your using a 3D phone? The dual camera's aren't even that noticeable. Your writing off a phone thats better than every phone on your list because of the name basically. And I wouldn't call you OCD, because you not. I might call you neurotic and a conformist though.

 

[toad6386]

After discovering that just about everyone I know that has an Epic 4G has had one hardware issue or another with it (NOT including the GPS), I gotta say I'm leaning heavily against it. I don't have patience for hardware issues, at all. And yes, that's AFTER seeing a Best Buy WORKING NS4G at the store that was VERY sharp looking and very responsive. I need a warm a fuzzy about a product before I drop 200 on it, and I don't have it quite yet.

 

[skinneejay]

Thanks guys for your responses. I thought I read somewhere that android isn't even ready for dual core processors yet. My big thing right now is the 512 Ram over the 1 gig of ram. Screen size won't kill me.


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[Emmexx]

Thanks guys for your responses. I thought I read somewhere that android isn't even ready for dual core processors yet. My big thing right now is the 512 Ram over the 1 gig of ram. Screen size won't kill me.


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It will most likely be Ice Cream Sandwich that integrates dual core support, if I'm not mistaken. Honestly, though, I see the E3D getting the Ice Cream update within 3 months of release.

The EVO 4G updated to Froyo in early August, right? That was only two months after the phone released and Froyo was only officially released by Google at the end of May. I can see HTC/Sprint doing the same type of update with the E3D. Essentially, that means full utilization of both cores within two months of Ice Cream Sandwich release.

 

[skinneejay]

Ice cream sandwich just sounds weird.

 

[toad6386]

Ice cream sandwich just sounds weird.

Maybe, but yummy, too. And how appropriate is that?

 

[Emmexx]

Maybe, but yummy, too. And how appropriate is that?

Considering an Ice Cream Sandwich is two flavors and this is rumored to bring dual core support to phones, I find it quite appropriate as well

 

[armdavid2]

Considering an Ice Cream Sandwich is two flavors and this is rumored to bring dual core support to phones, I find it quite appropriate as well

good point on the two flavors deal! anywho I'd say screen size to a point, but mostly specs....as more and more dual core phones come out they'll be apps that require it...I.E Tegra 2 only apps now. And my Evo's been fairly good to me. Now if only I can find a rom I can stick with for more than a few days!

 

[FocusFreak]

Nexus S for me. I am sick of waiting for Google to update my phone I just bought, I dont care if its a quadcore processor and shoots holograms of naked women in the room. I dont want to wait months and months to get the current version of the OS my phone runs on or worse yet, have Sprint decide they are skipping it altogether. Been putting up with it since the Hero. Plus, I would like better battery life, a smaller/lighter phone and a better quality screen. Cant wait! 10 more hours!

 

[toad6386]

Nexus S for me. I am sick of waiting for Google to update my phone I just bought, I dont care if its a quadcore processor and shoots holograms of naked women in the room. I dont want to wait months and months to get the current version of the OS my phone runs on or worse yet, have Sprint decide they are skipping it altogether. Been putting up with it since the Hero. Plus, I would like better battery life, a smaller/lighter phone and a better quality screen. Cant wait! 10 more hours!

Understand wanting the newest, juiciest version of Android, but I don't think Sprint will drop the ball on any of it's EVO line, like they've done with the Hero. The EVO line is what's helping Sprint add customers (in addition to TRUE unlimited data). If I hadn't had som many friends have hardware issues with their Sammy's, I'd still be on the fence with this one.

"Picture, if you will, a phone, with another dimension..."

 

[akhi216]

Nexus S for me. I am sick of waiting for Google to update my phone I just bought, I dont care if its a quadcore processor and shoots holograms of naked women in the room. I dont want to wait months and months to get the current version of the OS my phone runs on or worse yet, have Sprint decide they are skipping it altogether. Been putting up with it since the Hero. Plus, I would like better battery life, a smaller/lighter phone and a better quality screen. Cant wait! 10 more hours!

Understand wanting the newest, juiciest version of Android, but I don't think Sprint will drop the ball on any of it's EVO line, like they've done with the Hero. The EVO line is what's helping Sprint add customers (in addition to TRUE unlimited data). If I hadn't had som many friends have hardware issues with their Sammy's, I'd still be on the fence with this one.

"Picture, if you will, a phone, with another dimension..."

Sprint isn't giving the EVO Shift any Gingerbread love.