Htc evo 3d or motorola photon?

[crzycrkr]

U seem to have a more well thought out argument as to why you wouldn't get this phone than most who just regurgitate the "3D is a gimmick" line. I've enjoyed the debate. I respect your opinion eventhough I still feel you give too much weight to the 3D aspect, performance is what makes this phone a solid choice in my book. I use the 3D camera about as much as I use the microphone button in the messaging app to dictate text messages, very sporadically. Both are nice functions to have, but are afterthoughts in day to day use. 3D is the last thing I discuss when asked about the phone, because I feel it has much more going for it than that.

The great thing about Android is the variety of devices we have to choose from, so everyone can get a device that's perfect for them. I'm just curious as to what constitutes a show stopper in your book. The new crop of top tier phones are going to be fast, powerful, dual core, hi Res display devices like the new EVO. While each will do some things a lil better or worse than the others, the specs and performance will be pretty much the same across the board. I dont see how anyone could make a bad choice when choosing between the Sensation, EVO 3D, photon, galaxy s II, bionic and whatever other superphones are upcoming. Next year we might be looking at 2.0ghz, quad core, hi res, completely button free, 4.5 - 5in displays with 32gigs onboard storage standard plus a 32gig SD card installed. But as of now,hi end smartphones are basically 1.2ghz,qhd or amoled, and 4.0 - 4.5in. So what would you need in order to label a current smartphone a show stopper?

For me its not about the specs on paper. On paper, its the beat phone on Sprint right now. Performance wise, whether its Sense or that Android isn't utilizing the dual doesn't well enough, thebphone just wasn't the big step forward I was hoping for. Look at the leap between the hero and the evo. That was kinda what I was hoping for. The Nexus was a big step performance wise over the evo. The 3d doesn't do the basics any faster than the nexus. That's why I didn't get it. I'm sure when ICS comes, we'll see a bigger difference, but when that happens, I'll look at what phones are out and decide what's the better phone. As of right now, in real world performance, the Nexus overclocked makes the 3d look kinda mediocre. I guess I just didn't see the "upgrade" there for me. When the real world performance reaches the specs on paper, then I'm in, until then, I'm happy with what I got.

On a side note, glad to see this discussion got back on track

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[EMT J]

For me its not about the specs on paper. On paper, its the beat phone on Sprint right now. Performance wise, whether its Sense or that Android isn't utilizing the dual doesn't well enough, thebphone just wasn't the big step forward I was hoping for. Look at the leap between the hero and the evo. That was kinda what I was hoping for. The Nexus was a big step performance wise over the evo. The 3d doesn't do the basics any faster than the nexus. That's why I didn't get it. I'm sure when ICS comes, we'll see a bigger difference, but when that happens, I'll look at what phones are out and decide what's the better phone. As of right now, in real world performance, the Nexus overclocked makes the 3d look kinda mediocre. I guess I just didn't see the "upgrade" there for me. When the real world performance reaches the specs on paper, then I'm in, until then, I'm happy with what I got.

On a side note, glad to see this discussion got back on track

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Point taken about wanting the software to take full advantage of the hardwares capabilities. I think we all want that. There will always be something left to be desired though. And once everything is properly optimized someone will come along and overclock the damn thing and make it look mediocre again,lol. In fact i read somewhere that someone already got the EVO 3D to 1.7 or 1.8ghz.

I think because of the speed with which mobile tech is moving its going to be very hard to get that wow factor moment that a jump from a hero to EVO brought, especially for people who spend time in forums on tech blogs. I think the next wow moment will be when the person you're talking to shows up as real time talking hologram like in star wars

 

[crzycrkr]

Point taken about wanting the software to take full advantage of the hardwares capabilities. I think we all want that. There will always be something left to be desired though. And once everything is properly optimized someone will come along and overclock the damn thing and make it look mediocre again,lol. In fact i read somewhere that someone already got the EVO 3D to 1.7 or 1.8ghz.

I think because of the speed with which mobile tech is moving its going to be very hard to get that wow factor moment that a jump from a hero to EVO brought, especially for people who spend time in forums on tech blogs. I think the next wow moment will be when the person you're talking to shows up as real time talking hologram like in star wars

Completely agree with you. That's why I'm waiting a bit. I actually bought the Nexus off contract rather than using my upgrade because the 3d just didn't seem to be any faster. Once the system takes advantage of the dual core, I'll be all over it. Until then, the Nexus puts up some very respectable #s

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[the12nv]

I choose the evo 3D (over the photon) mainly due to a lack of storage (microSD) on the photon.... that, and the fact that the 3D is out now. ;-)

There were some other factors, but that was the "biggie" for me.

EDIT - After more research....... I'm getting the Photon.

I have not yet went through the 7 pages of reading....but your edit is classic!!!! I found out today that the phone comes with 16GB of memory and then you can install a 8GB chip for 24GB of total memory (DAMN). The only downside I see so far, is that it is so new, there are not any custom ROM's yet, however there were not many when the EVO4G came out either. After today, I am sold....Photon!!!