should i switch to the shift??

[kristi]

i purchased the optimus s about 20 days ago, i went with the optimus so as to avoid the 4G fees tacked onto my monthly bill. however today it was released that all smartphones with data will be 10$ more a month so why not get a 4G phone...i see no point in staying on the 3G. so should i get the evo shift or the samsung epic? i am leaning towards the evo shift partly because of the price but more so because the HTC fans seem to really be hardcore fans. so is the shift the way to go?
any comments here will be appreciated since i only have a couple days to decide

 

[jscher2000]

To not answer your question... I don't think Sprint will raise your rate during your 2 year contract.

 

[Dave Blake]

I think your cool on the $10 thing till your contract is over. If you still want 4G I wouldn't get the Epic I'm not a Samsung fan there devices feel cheap and getting a software upgrade from them seams to take longer that necessary. There are many debates as to why this is bottom line it is.

MHO
Dave

 

[Outsyd]

Your bill wont go up until you sign a new contract with a smart phone. So if your current plan hasnt changed with your new phone then I wouldnt change again. I would wait till your contract is up then find a 4G that you like. So in 2 years who knows what will be out.

If you are happy with your curent choice, then I would stick with what you have.

 

[liquidxit2]

I would say if you like the phone then yes. Try it out for a bit and see if it works for you. The shift, like my epic, felt right from the first keystroke. I have always been an htc fan, but hardly hardcore. If my shift doesn't fit the bill down the road out it will go for something that does fit. The only brand I used to be hardcore about was palm and the pre took care of that fanboy'ism.

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[tarpon6]

My wife has the Optimus and really likes it. Having said that the Evo Shift is on another level. The display is much better, the phone is faster, the touchscreen feels better, the software interface is better, it has a better camera with a flash, and of course a keyboard. I think the Shift is worth the extra $10 per month.

 

[steveninstl]

as a former epic owner for 29 days...go with the Shift...its a much better device.

 

[liquidxit2]

The epic isn't a bad phone. Its actually a great phone that's poorly supported. Had samsung and sprint cared about it it could have replaced the evo as the front runner for sprint. But sprint has its love affair with the evo so the epic was doomed well before it released.

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[kristi]

i was a hardcore palm fan, i am just switching off of the palm treo because i had to buy one off of ebay...long story. anyhoo there are a couple thing with the optimus that drive me crazy, one is the keyboard two is the camera and 3 is that there are no arrows so if you are typing and you want to go back a space its really hard to do or maybe i should say really annoying. so i am thinking the shift is the way to go and i will use the Dpad a lot.
the sprint guy at my store said that as soon as my bf (on a family plan) upgrades then both of our phones will go up 10$ plus i dont think i want to spend 10 months admiring his evo when he gets it in 2 months while im stuck with the optimus. the potimus is a nice little phone but the one last thing that drives me crazy is the fact that i only hav 64Mb of memory left on it and i've only had it a couple weeks so maybe i am more of a smartphones user of apps and stuff than i originally thought.
so thanks for the advice and im sure after next week i will be on this forum even more with questions

 

[liquidxit2]

The lack of a dpad is one of the many reasons why I left palm. The pre was a PITA (as is any phone) to use without a dpad. If versions of android dont matter to you also look at the epic 4g as an alternative to the shift.