Evo funcionality as a phone?

[bronconia]

Question for anyone that has the pleasure of using this phone as of now.

First and foremost, I want a capable phone. My experience with the Hero (my first smartphone, and OBVIOUSLY not anyone elses' experience) as a phone was far and away the most frustrating to date.

The dialer was extremely laggy...it couldn't keep up with normal number pushing. I would often find myself dialing a number, then hitting talk, only to find that only PART of the number had actually gone in. So I'd hit end, and by that time the phone would freeze, and the vicious circle would continue. When I actually MADE calls, the quality was great. But, and I'm not exaggerating here, every time I would attempt to dial this would happen. Believe me, I tried all of the workarounds (I'd already used a number of app killers, fixed the text receiving problems on TWO phones, updates, etc etc). I realize, by typing in the numbers extremely slowly, this could be avoided, but in my opinion, every other phone I'd used had nowhere near the same problems, and that phone shouldn't have been any different. THEN, there was the ringer lag. Often times, I would get maybe two rings before the call went to voicemail.

Overall, it was maddening.

I want to have a fully functioning phone, pure and simple.

So my question to the current Evo users, have the problems that plagued the Hero (and I realize it might have only been a select group of them, but still) that I've mentioned been fixed?

How's the dialer?
Call quality?
Ring lag?

I've already preordered the phone, but this is the deal breaker for me, and I'd like to know what I'm in for.

Cheers and thanks

 

[npark]

every time I would attempt to dial this would happen.

I realize, by typing in the numbers extremely slowly, this could be avoided, but in my opinion, every other phone I'd used had nowhere near the same problems, and that phone shouldn't have been any different.

I would perhaps type in a number only once a month, or even less frequently on my phone. 99% of all calls I make are on my contact list already. I'm sure different users require different use cases, but this occurs so infrequently for me, I can't imagine this really being a "deal-breaker", unless you do cold calling on your phone or something like that multiple times a day.

For me, it's generally responsiveness with hanging up calls, and answering calls which I'm rather finicky about. To hang-up on a Pre, if the screen is shut-off (power standby), I'd have to turn it on, then press the screen to hang-up. This is probably the most (of the very few things) that annoy me about webOS.

In general, Android appears more responsive than webOS (no knock against webOS, just simply an observation) and is also something I'm looking forward to with the Evo.

 

[PhilR8]

No lag when dialing. I can relate to your concern about input lag - I just came from a Touch Pro and everything lagged. Can't count how many time I'd dial a number and press talk only to discover that I'd only actually dialed the first four numbers of a name or number.

As for the Evo, no input lag on the dialer. I thumbed a number as fast as I could and pressed talk and it worked fine. Ring lag was the same as it's always been for me - about two rings until the Evo started to buzz. More of a network thing probably because this also happens to my touch pro. Call quality is fine once you find out exactly where to place the phone on your ear so the speaker is directly in your ear canal. Once that's found and committed to muscle memory, it sounds great.

 

[Yourdogsdead]

No lag when dialing. I can relate to your concern about input lag - I just came from a Touch Pro and everything lagged. Can't count how many time I'd dial a number and press talk only to discover that I'd only actually dialed the first four numbers of a name or number.

As for the Evo, no input lag on the dialer. I thumbed a number as fast as I could and pressed talk and it worked fine. Ring lag was the same as it's always been for me - about two rings until the Evo started to buzz. More of a network thing probably because this also happens to my touch pro. Call quality is fine once you find out exactly where to place the phone on your ear so the speaker is directly in your ear canal. Once that's found and committed to muscle memory, it sounds great.

You're right about it being a network thing. The phone isn't constantly checking the towers for incoming calls.

 

[bronconia]

No lag when dialing. I can relate to your concern about input lag - I just came from a Touch Pro and everything lagged. Can't count how many time I'd dial a number and press talk only to discover that I'd only actually dialed the first four numbers of a name or number.

As for the Evo, no input lag on the dialer. I thumbed a number as fast as I could and pressed talk and it worked fine. Ring lag was the same as it's always been for me - about two rings until the Evo started to buzz. More of a network thing probably because this also happens to my touch pro. Call quality is fine once you find out exactly where to place the phone on your ear so the speaker is directly in your ear canal. Once that's found and committed to muscle memory, it sounds great.

Perfect, thanks so much

 

[PhilR8]

I would perhaps type in a number only once a month, or even less frequently on my phone. 99% of all calls I make are on my contact list already. I'm sure different users require different use cases, but this occurs so infrequently for me, I can't imagine this really being a "deal-breaker", unless you do cold calling on your phone or something like that multiple times a day.

I never open my contact list - I always dial by spelling out the name of the person I want to call. Bring up dialpad, type in first three letters of recipient's name, press send. On my Touch Pro, this method would be successful about 75% of the time (very rough and probably untrue estimate, but it worked more than it didn't). Many times when it did not work, I would look at the screen and see that I had missed a digit because I thumbed the dialpad too fast, and sometimes it was because the screen failed to register that I had selected the contact that I was looking for. Whenever this method is unsuccessful, it rings twice and connects to a very loud and annoying automated message, which both wastes my time and irritates me. So I can understand the OP being concerned about the responsiveness of the dialpad.

And as I've said above, I've had no problems with my Evo (small sample size alert) and he/she shouldn't be concerned.

 

[bronconia]

I would perhaps type in a number only once a month, or even less frequently on my phone. 99% of all calls I make are on my contact list already. I'm sure different users require different use cases, but this occurs so infrequently for me, I can't imagine this really being a "deal-breaker", unless you do cold calling on your phone or something like that multiple times a day.

For me, it's generally responsiveness with hanging up calls, and answering calls which I'm rather finicky about. To hang-up on a Pre, if the screen is shut-off (power standby), I'd have to turn it on, then press the screen to hang-up. This is probably the most (of the very few things) that annoy me about webOS.

In general, Android appears more responsive than webOS (no knock against webOS, just simply an observation) and is also something I'm looking forward to with the Evo.

I'm a big CL'er, so I'm always calling random numbers. And, I should have made it more clear, it was happening when I'd dial my own contacts as well. There'd be a delay once I started keying in contact info, and I wouldn't be paying super close attention, so I'd hit talk thinking it was the same name as I'd previously used for those keystrikes. Well, it wouldn't be, so I'd hit end, then lag, then contacts, lag, dial, lag...even when I'd miss calls and try to just "talk talk" for the last available call, it would freeze and get crazy.

Anywho, thanks for the responses, it's really nice to hear the main functionality (in my case) of the phone is working smoothly.

 

[bronconia]

I never open my contact list - I always dial by spelling out the name of the person I want to call. Bring up dialpad, type in first three letters of recipient's name, press send. On my Touch Pro, this method would be successful about 75% of the time (very rough and probably untrue estimate, but it worked more than it didn't). Many times when it did not work, I would look at the screen and see that I had missed a digit because I thumbed the dialpad too fast, and sometimes it was because the screen failed to register that I had selected the contact that I was looking for. Whenever this method is unsuccessful, it rings twice and connects to a very loud and annoying automated message, which both wastes my time and irritates me. So I can understand the OP being concerned about the responsiveness of the dialpad.

And as I've said above, I've had no problems with my Evo (small sample size alert) and he/she shouldn't be concerned.

LOL I was typing my uneloquent response while you illustrated my point much better, thanks.

Thats great news!!

 

[fonefanatic]

I couldn't agree with you more Bronconia! That is one of my biggest gripes about the pre. The dialer pad is very laggy. Even worse is when I try to hang up a call. I have to push the end button several times and then sometimes it still wont go away until the other person hangs up cant wait for the EVO only a few more days

 

[PhilR8]

I couldn't agree with you more Bronconia! That is one of my biggest gripes about the pre. The dialer pad is very laggy. Even worse is when I try to hang up a call. I have to push the end button several times and then sometimes it still wont go away until the other person hangs up cant wait for the EVO only a few more days

Hah, I can totally relate to your end button comments. I had made it a habit to press then END key five times in a row at the end of every call just to make sure the call would end and the dialer would close. Hitting it twice or even three times would not reliably close everything out.

 

[fonefanatic]

Hah, I can totally relate to your end button comments. I had made it a habit to press then END key five times in a row at the end of every call just to make sure the call would end and the dialer would close. Hitting it twice or even three times would not reliably close everything out.

Thanks! At least I feel like less of an idoit now that I know someone else had the same problem LOL

 

[DocPeanut]

Wait....the EVO is a phone?!? lol

 

[gwap]

With the snapdragon under the hood everything is gonna be faster i know, i am gonna look at my pre like why did i buy this again?

 

[error4o4]

Ugh, I know the feeling on my old Touch Pro it was horrid.