nexus s vs evo (for my wifes sake)

[dizzle16]

Guys I just want some opinions. I've posted this in evo 4g forum as well. I just upgraded from evo 4g to evo 3d, my wife has a nexus s. my father in law just left sprint (a 15 year customer. That tells you where Sprint is headed) for Verizon and picked up a Droid razr maxx. His Sprint phone was a og evo 4g which he offered to give to my wife (his daughter) for free. My wife wants to know what I think. She knows I had evo and ONLY complaint was battery life. My father in law has extended battery on evo so that won't be a problem for her. I told her she'd lose ics because evo isn't getting ota. She doesn't care. I explained value of nexus line in the sense of first for updates and pure google experience. She saw that when she got ics like 2 months ago and my evo didn't and my evo 3d is still waiting in Sprint to push it to us. What I'm saying is this, AND ANYBODY WHO'S MARRIED OUR HAS BEEN WITH YOUR OLD LADY FOR A MINUTE KNOWS WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY, I don't want her to Blame me for taking evo or passing on evo lol. So what I'm asking of you guys is opinions. Know anybody who had both? Have you used both? maybe your spouse has one? Android enthusiasts what do you think. What would you choose? I will say this: I'm using evo 3d and there ARE things I miss about og evo. That sucker was just so dependable. Even with ics about to drop any day and better hardware and battery I still miss evo sometimes. but I don't want her to upgrade based on my word. keep in mind my wife is not a rooter like me. Phone will stay stock where as I got evo 3d 2 fridays ago and rooted it that following Sunday lmao. She will have stock experience. (her father has convinced her that rooting is unsafe because of warranty voiding. me and him have debated this many a time. It helps that my wife obviously lives with me and has seen all I can do with my rooted phones) so weigh in please

 

[hlxanthus]

The big bonus with the evo is it has much better radios so will get better signal. If she isn't going to root I would go with the evo. Personally I
prefer the nexus and just deal with less signal for the Google experience. Can't beat a 2 year old phone that is slotted to receive 4.1 jelly bean

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2

 

[jeffrok]

How many wives root their phones? Ha!

 

[chestont]

Haha, this pretty much sounds like a lose/lose for you. Hardware-wise it's hard for me to go back to LCD after Super AMOLED because the older LCD screens look washed out and muted in comparison, even if the Evo screen is slightly larger. Radios do generally seem better on the Evo than the NS4G if you have signal problems where you're at.

I would check to see what kind of widgets your wife uses, if any. If she uses ones that are native to ICS and that are not easily replaced she might miss them. Conversely, have her check out Sense and see if she prefers the Sense UI to the stock ICS UI. Maybe she really likes Sense widgets like Friendstream.

Regardless, I rooted my wife's Evo Shift and she's been much happier with her phone since (Running MIUI). I know there is a fear of losing warranty but you can usually revert software back for repairs, etc. Good luck.

 

[dizzle16]

Once upon a time she had a Droid eris.so she does know htc sense. I use widgets but she never has. She uses the app icons on her homescreen. We talked tonight and it seems she's already made up her mind and is going with the evo. Hard to imagine someone passing on a phone with ics but hey. thanks for the info guys. I do appreciate your help and let her know what you all said