New superphone for sprint soon? HTC Evo 2?

[OLD_HATCH]

Current Pre (plus-ed @1ghz) also looking at the evo. MWC had no sprint news, and it seems Sprint is going to focus on the dual screen kyocera for the summer. I think I will get the EVO soon.

Anyone know where to get a good price on the EVO with a 2 yr contract renewal? Been off contract since June and been itchin for a new device. Especially aftr my wife got the Evo Shift. I definately can get used to android and the os is taking off like noones businness. Seems like all the ios devs ae pushing their apps to android before any other os.

 

[giograves]

Current Pre (plus-ed @1ghz) also looking at the evo. MWC had no sprint news, and it seems Sprint is going to focus on the dual screen kyocera for the summer. I think I will get the EVO soon.

Anyone know where to get a good price on the EVO with a 2 yr contract renewal? Been off contract since June and been itchin for a new device. Especially aftr my wife got the Evo Shift. I definately can get used to android and the os is taking off like noones businness. Seems like all the ios devs ae pushing their apps to android before any other os.

sEEN THE eVO ON RADIOSHACK.COM FOR 159.99 SHIPPED. wEB ONLY PRICE IF YOUR COMFORTABLE THAT ROUTE.

 

[sndplace]

When I spoke to Sprint about my plan. They said that you can still qualify for the yearly upgrade depending on your plan...

If you are eligible now to upgrade you won't loose it come april with the changes. It would affect your next upgrade... Contact sprint , thats what i was told about my second line.

I wanted the Evo but picked up the Epic for the keyboard when the EVO 2 comes out I might consider it.

 

[gonk24]

When I spoke to Sprint about my plan. They said that you can still qualify for the yearly upgrade depending on your plan...

If you are eligible now to upgrade you won't loose it come april with the changes. It would affect your next upgrade... Contact sprint , thats what i was told about my second line.

I wanted the Evo but picked up the Epic for the keyboard when the EVO 2 comes out I might consider it.

Sprint told you wrong unfortunately. Any 12 month upgrade available on a plan that becomes silver will be lost on April 1. It will be pushed back to the 22 month date from your last upgrade.

 

[timmo]

Thanks, makes me feel a little better, but I was really hoping for some promising news before then. If they're on the same schedule as last year then I have to wait 'til march to find out about the new phones for sprint and it won't be 'til June/July until I'm actually able to get the new phone. My Palm Pre is getting worse and worse by the day and I really need an upgrade.

I finally got rid of my Pre Minus last week and bought the Evo Shift 4G at Best Buy (got it for $99 with 2 year contract extension). I do NOT miss Palm one bit! (except for Touchstone charging) Android rocks...so many cool apps alone. LOVE the phone. On the same day my friend got the Epic 4G and he loves it (he also had Pre Minus).

IMHO, get the Epic if you love games and multimedia (great screen and sound). If you use it more for "productivity", get the Evo Shift. It's a great size and easier to use one-handed. I like the physical keyboard better on Evo Shift, but I like the virtual keyboard a tiny bit better on the Epic. No front camera on Evo Shift, but that's okay...don't think I would really use that anyways. No regrets and am having a very fun time learning Android!

 

[blatherskyte]

Im right there with you guys. Im an overclocked Pre- owner dissapointed with the HP event. I'm seriously considering the EVO, but I cant figure out if I should pull the trigger now and buy something that will clearly be obsolete in a few months or wait it out. I think most Pre owners can understand that Im sick and tired of waiting around for HPalms promises to pan out or just turn into lies. The Pre3 looks tempting and I would buy it if it were out now, but waiting around till summer seems stupid, especially because I dont think theres a snowball's chance in hell Sprint will get it. I'm stuck with sprint mostly because Im cheap, but the thunderbolt is looking really good to me. I really hope this Feb 24th announcement will be an EVO upgrade, but that seems unlikely too.

 

[Robbzilla]

I want an Epic 4g 2.

Slide out QWERTY
1ghz Dual core Orion
4.3 Super Amoled plus
Great camera quality (if its anything like my Epic)
2.3 gingerbread

That's what I'm hoping for

It would come out with Froyo, with a promise of an upgrade to Gingerbread "soon". You wouldn't actually see that upgrade until 2012.

 

[TheOnlyMorgan]

CTIA should be interesting. Sprint could be saving a new superphone announcement for then. Honestly though, one superphone won't be enough. Verizon showed off a lot of LTE phones at CES. Sprint needs more than just one. EVO 2, yeah, and definitely a sequel to the Epic has to be coming up with Samsung announcing the GalaxyS II. Sprint's only got three 4G phones over 8 months since the release of the EVO.

I don't know if the recent talks of Sprint moving to LTE have something to do with the lack of new WiMAX phone announcements from them but this is pretty lame.

 

[Officerpolabear]

I'd consider an Epic 4G 2, but it would need to be considerably thinner. The thing is just way too fat for my taste.

Tell that to my friend and he'll say: DAMN (as if he were a big african-american lady)! He said that one of my other friend's iPhone was too fat! BAHAHA. To me, at least, the Epic is actually quite thin for a horizontal qwerty slider (with the exception of the pantech laser). For all you moment owners, the Epic IS actually thinner!

 

[am4966]

EVO 2= the Thunderbolt, except most would want a dual processor

 

[sndplace]

4.3 inches, WVGA 480X800, Super LCD
Software Version: Android 2.2, upgradable to 2.3, 2.4 in the near future*
Skin: The New HTC Sense*
Cameras: 8.0 megapixel with Dual LED flash*, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera*
Announcement Date: ANNOUNCED!
Other: Kickstand with speaker underneath for Dolby and SRS sound*, 3.5 mm headphone jack*, notification light*, 8 GB onboard memory plus included 32 GB card, video chat with skype mobile built in to the OS*, compass (strange for HTC)*
Processor: 1 GHZ MSM8655 Snapdragon (next generation)*

http://www.androidcentral.com/evo-4g-specs
Sounds more like the Bolt And Inspire are more of EVO 4G copies just with some newer/different specs... There's nothing about them that says I'm not an EVO2 device.... And it took them 10 months or so to bring these devices to market...

 

[am4966]

Thunderbolt this device has already stated by myself and others is pretty much the sprint evo 2.. but thats not a bad thing as the EVO still to this day is one of the top devices available and the Thunderbolt (henceforth called the BOLT) improves on that device in every way.

 

[schnoid]

For my purposes, I really could care less if the Thunderbolt is equivalent to the Evo2. If it's not on Sprint then it's a no go for me. I do like the specs a lot, and would jump on it with no question if it came to Sprint. I really hope Sprint's announcement is this rather than the stupid WP7.

 

[mycrownvic02#WN]

For my purposes, I really could care less if the Thunderbolt is equivalent to the Evo2. If it's not on Sprint then it's a no go for me. I do like the specs a lot, and would jump on it with no question if it came to Sprint. I really hope Sprint's announcement is this rather than the stupid WP7.

If the evo 2 has thunderbolt specs, then I will not upgrade my evo. I dont consider it much of an upgrade at all. The processor is a little better, and a few other little things.. That is hardly an upgrade. For me its dual core or nothing. If sprint announces an lg dual core device, and htc doesnt, then bye bye htc. We should find out some info in the coming weeks...

 

[giograves]

Wow, are phone specs (dual core vs single) really that big a deal to jump to a new phone? It seems like iphone users are more concerned with what they can do with their phone rather than what cpu is in there. I don't think i'll ever understand why other communities aren't this way.

 

[schnoid]

oh, I thought the thunderbolt was dual core. Either way, for me I would consider buying an Evo right now, but really the VERY biggest reason I haven't is because of what I hear about battery life. My #1 annoyance with my Palm Pre is battery life. It dies in a few hours if I use it for anything substantial. From the little bit of time I've spent using the Evo, I found the speed to be blazing fast (compared to my Pre) and the screen is amazing. Yes, I'd be happy if the form factor was slightly smaller, but I could deal with it as is.

 

[xcomputerman]

Another former Pre user here. Bought an off-contract Evo and have been in love ever since. I think I'd jump all over an Evo 2 with a dual core processor and increased RAM and storage, but HP still has a chance to win me back over if/when they release a phone with the right specs. The Pre 3 is very tempting to me for one and only one reason: it's a world phone with dual GSM/CDMA radios. Put that dual-radio chip and SIM slot on a Sprint Evo 2 and I'm all in on my next 2-year contract.

 

[schnoid]

Another former Pre user here. Bought an off-contract Evo and have been in love ever since. I think I'd jump all over an Evo 2 with a dual core processor and increased RAM and storage, but HP still has a chance to win me back over if/when they release a phone with the right specs. The Pre 3 is very tempting to me for one and only one reason: it's a world phone with dual GSM/CDMA radios. Put that dual-radio chip and SIM slot on a Sprint Evo 2 and I'm all in on my next 2-year contract.

i agree that the world phone is a big selling point, but if it has a GSM radio at the expense of 4G (WiMax/LTE) then its not going to be a huge sell for the majority of people. I personally don't travel outside the country enough to care. Most countries I go to will rent cell phones for relatively cheap.

 

[ramonm2]

The Hero2 is coming...

 

[schnoid]

The Hero2 is coming...

where'd you hear that from? How does the Hero differ from the Evo?