EVO Owner Reviews

[mellyf]

Discontinued or not, the EVO 4G is a great phone and will still be better than most phones available today.

Things to take into consideration:
1. How much did the EVO 4G cost you? If it cost you $50 or less then you're not overinvested in your phone. If you paid $100 or more you might as well get the EVO 3D or the Motorola Photon.
2. How often do you upgrade your phone? If you upgrade every time you become eligible then theres no harm keeping the EVO and upgrading again next time. Also if you only upgrade occasionally then thats fine too because the EVO is a great phone and will serve you well beyond your two-year service contract. And I HIGHLY doubt the EVO 4G will get Ice Cream Sandwich simply because ICS requires a dual core processor and the EVO 4G only has a single core 1ghz. (still plenty fast by all means).
3. Do you have a Gold Premium account status? If yes then you're eligible for upgrade every twelve months. By then there will be newer devices.

Either way you cant go wrong buying either EVO or the brand new Motorola Photon (which I also have and is a GREAT phone). As for the Nexus S 4G I would not pick that phone over any of the EVO's or the Motorola Photon. I heard it has signal issues etc, plus it has a smaller screen although that may not matter to you. Its all up to you. Good luck.

Thanks so much for the response. Some good things to think about. I'm leaning towards keeping it because I love it so much. I can upgrade every year, so that's really not that long. I think I will check out the Photon before making a final decision though. Thanks!

 

[milominderbinde]

Discontinued or not, the EVO 4G is a great phone and will still be better than most phones available today...

I still have my EVO 4G.

I went to the Sprint Store all set to upgrade to the EVO 3D. But I can't find a thing that the EVO 3D can do that my EVO 4G does not do.

I tried again when the Photon came out but still have my EVO 4G.

Whatever your preference, Vote for Sprint's best Android phone.

 

[jamesmb47]

Re: From Sprint Pre- to EVO

BIG PLUS... really do love WebOS and will miss it, but the hardware was simply cr@p.

I had 3 warranty replacements and 1 insurance replacement (with a warranty kicker-no cost but went against the policy) for various defect in the hardware from the oreo effect, earpiece speaker not working to the cracking screen from the usb port. I've developed and was waiting for the release of the Pre3 LONG WAITING, until another defect worked its way into my life and without support from HP/Palm for a replacement, I simply said bye...

Love the EVO, large and firm hardware, getting used to Android and kinda liking it, still miss WebOS, but more and more each day absence is lessening the impact...

+ 1

 

[dizzle16]

Recently got mines. Coming from LG Optimus S. I love this phone. Love the screen, the 4g speed, battery life is better as is technology.

 

[nscagal]

Hard to say if I don't like my Evo or if I just don't like Sprint - but I'm on Evo #3 and still having major problems. And since Sprint support updated w/o telling me I can't root it. I'm hoping something new will come out similar on a different provider - I think most of the problem is Sprint. I especially liked that I put on a new s/w upgrade today, hoping it might fix some of the problems introduced by the last update, and it took 7 hours for 17mb! That's not the phone - that's Sprint. Concept is good - just wish I could use it for phone calls, text, etc. :'(

 

[nikkisharif]

Hard to say if I don't like my Evo or if I just don't like Sprint - but I'm on Evo #3 and still having major problems. And since Sprint support updated w/o telling me I can't root it. I'm hoping something new will come out similar on a different provider - I think most of the problem is Sprint. I especially liked that I put on a new s/w upgrade today, hoping it might fix some of the problems introduced by the last update, and it took 7 hours for 17mb! That's not the phone - that's Sprint. Concept is good - just wish I could use it for phone calls, text, etc. :'(

The Evo 4G has been rooted on GB for about a month now...search the forums

 

[vulcan001]

So far im happy with my device. Just switched from Verizon due to expensive plan prices. Decided to give the Evo Shift a shot & in my opinion it sucked wasnt enough. Returned it & got the Evo. Its given me some problems here & there but its a good phone overall. Love it. I wanted more out of it so i rooted it & flashed to CM7. Its a bit bumpy with the new rom but ill find a way to fix some of the bugs... But all ur gonna hear from me say is 2 thumbs up for the Evo!

 

[dwelder]

I am very happy with my Evo. I came from a Blackberry Storm2 from Verizon and it froze and needed to be rebooted all the time. So I decided to switch to Sprint and found a great deal on an Evo 4G. I have had it for a few days and I am very happy.

 

[Android_son32]

I love my Evo. Got it a few months after it 1st came out. Had 3 smartphones before it. (G1, Hero, & a Transform) The Evo 4G is by far the best of them! I was upset to hear its not getting ics 4.0...but its been a Damn good phone! I will never have a smaller phone!

 

[Android32]

Ona 1-10 id say its a 8...Had it since it came out. Good phone. However, this crap where it always says "loading" when leaving an app or email or anything......the 20-30 sec pauses... they have gotten really old! It was a flagship type phone when it came out. Now today, I will be retiring mine. :-/ lol. Galaxy 2 should be here later. ;-)

 

[mextex58]

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...)

 

[mextex58]

I did but now I don't this phone does not have enough internal memory and all the pre installed apps take up 75% of the memory especially after you do the updates and most of the pre installed apps I don't want. If you look at the reviews 80% of the users don't want nascar. I don't either and I don't use Facebook or Flickr. HTC and Android should fix it so if we don't want them we van remove them. I have a Sprint account and now I'm leaning toward the iPhone 4s it has 16mb built in no SD card and Android should reguest there developers to fix there apps to move to the SD card

 

[jjrog1129]

Screw the iPhone. It has several bad features:

- 29% smaller screen size
- special cable??? wtf???
- dependent on iTunes to do anything, like transferring songs, pictures, video, documents, etc.
- can't swap in another SD card if you want to
- can't swap in another battery if you want to

Droid rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[agent00dragon]

I love my evo. It's the first smart phone I've owned and it does everything I need and then some. I just don't like the battery life...If I use the smart phone for it's smart phone features, the battery dies fast :/ but other than that I love it

 

[I.Gearz]

I love my Evo as well. Like others in this forum I have been in IT or any other computer science my whole like and up until a year ago I also had a BB Bold.....wow, glad those days are gone. Also as a consequence I learned rooting and modding and cannot put this thing down, so many great things you can do that aren't even possible on another non open source platform. I will prob cry when I upgrade. The only way I will say goodbye is if a dual core, 1.5ghz, 2gb RAM+ext(gb) Evo 4g LTE comes along. One can dream

I.Gearz

 

[kdrod95]

I love my evo. Even if I'll be stuck with it until June 2013 (not a typo)

The good:
-huge screen
-better sound quality then my ipod touch
-SD card (I took my moms 16gb that was in her SGSEpic to replace the 8gb that came stock with mine)
-HTC widgets are cool (if only I could get them to work with GDE)

The bad:
-sense is a resource hog (and I like sense and it's widgets)
-low internal memory
-won't let me add any clock or weather widgets to screen even though I have enough space
-camera went to a purple and pink lined screen that kept crashing and would let me take pictures (now I have a refurb one, also just happened last month
-sprint bloatware (I'm not rooting because I'm a klutz and don't want to void my warranty.)

 

[DarkCreep]

Best phone I have ever owned.

I now own a Samsung Charge and I miss my EVO 4G terribly.

 

[Lord Vader]

My parents are switching from their old, crappy flip phones with AT&T to Sprint. My father is 70 but still in great shape and young-acting. When we talked about which phone he'd like, he agreed that the EVO 3D isn't really needed. He wants the same one his 3 adult kids have--the original EVO.

I explained about the EVO 3D's faster processor, dual core, larger memory, etc., but he made a good point when he said he wasn't going to be using his phone for data and all the stuff for which I, my brother, and my sister use it.

The last factor was the price. I've been with Sprint for 11 years. Before they destroyed the Premier program two months ago, I was able to use my still eligible upgrade to get an EVO 4G at no cost and the 3D for $99. Now, however, the original EVO new is $99 and a new EVO 3D is $199. Ridiculous.

He's going with the original EVO and having me root it.

 

[some0guy0]

got my evo about a month after it was released. I am on my third evo by now but i still love this phone!

 

[1moneymark]

its ok