Which phone are you switching from and why?

[jayhay312]

Same as many others who have posted here. Yesterday I made the switch from the original Sprint Palm Pre. I love the OS, but the hardware had become meh and I was fed up with the lack of apps.

 

[Melaza]

Palm Pre - Sprint

Evo 3D - because of the hardware, tired of HP saying in the coming months... I'll check HP in a year or 2 to see if they got their act together.

 

[kevinwska]

I came from a Blackberry Curve 8530 and before that I had a Blackberry Pearl. I loved my Blackberry but it was time for a change. I do miss some of the perks of having a blackberry, such as push notifications but I am loving my Shift more all the time. I made the switch because I was eligible for an upgrade and sprint was getting ready to change their plans to where I couldn't update every year. My curve was not going to make it through a longer term! Sadly while that Blackberry was a good little smartphone is had some issues and they never used it like was promised at launch. So it sat without updates and was growing very obsolete after a year so I made the jump to Android and I may not ever go back.

 

[luv4u859]

I switched from t mobile Motorola cliq to sprint htc evo shift (obviously lol)

 

[HuskerTom]

Coming from BlackBerry Bold 9650. While I love the usefulness of the BB, its just getting left behind by all of the major phone manufacturers. I had an EVO previously but gave it to my son so I figured I would go with the smaller form factor of the Shift. It should arrive by Tuesday, which means the BB will be gone by Wednesday.

 

[ahandlen003]

Coming from a BB Curve 8330 which i had for almost 2 years now. I was a huge fan of BB until the end of my contract here and the phone has gotten significantly slower. IDK if its just the "older" BB's but its lagging to much for me now and i cant wait to switch over to the shift of friday.

 

[HuskerTom]

Coming from BlackBerry Bold 9650. While I love the usefulness of the BB, its just getting left behind by all of the major phone manufacturers. I had an EVO previously but gave it to my son so I figured I would go with the smaller form factor of the Shift. It should arrive by Tuesday, which means the BB will be gone by Wednesday.

Got the phone, great size......the darn thing kept rebooting over and over....tried everything I could think of to get it to stop. No dice.....Soooooo, back it goes and I'm back to the trusty BlackBerry.

This little experience may have soured me on the phone.....

 

[kevinwska]

Why didn't you exchange it for another Shift first? Even if it was just something you installed and couldn't find the reason you could of just replaced it to be sure.

 

[pa7tip]

I will be moving to android from a BB bold 9650. Probably going to be a shift.

 

[evoldroid]

I'm coming from the blackberry 9700. I'm loving this EVO shift 4G

 

[anon(38845)]

I switched over from a Palm Pre. My second Pre was just about ready to fall apart and I don't think WP7 is exactly up to snuff I decided to go with the Evo Shift. I do miss WebOS from time to time but like others have said, I will see where HP and Microsoft are in two years.

 

[diaknia]

Buh Bye Hero...

Smartphone history.... here goes.

HTC Mogul from Sprint.
Upgraded that to HTC Hero. Loved Android, but only so far you could push a Hero.
A year and change later, here we are: The Evo Shift 4G. Everything I loved about android from my Hero and powerful to boot.

 

[nyry]

Got the Moto Droid a few months after it came out on the big red, went to a fasciante,switched to sprint, the Evo is on backorder, its coming in next week, and until then they gave me a new shift 4g, which is an amazing phone!

 

[Roosterman]

I'm coming for a Palm Pre. I really loved the form factor of the Pre, but I had horrible call quality. For the last 6 months, I could no longer get google maps to work any more. It would take 2.5 to 3 minutes to reboot. Just time to get on to something else. I was not impressed with the "new" line of Pre's and decided android was the way to go.

The shift rocks! Much quicker, a bit bigger screen and I love having the querty keyboard. Huge upgrade coming to the Shift!

 

[jakelaw#AC]

I came from a VERY pimped out Palm Pre so I am fickle, I like the side keyboard, expandable memory, and that it is on Sprint (the Shift). If Sprint could have assured me they were getting the Pre3, I would have stayed with the Palm, I love WebOS, and the learning curve with Android is so far a little frustrating. I will say, that it is nice to have a phone this fast without overclocking it.

 

[n2ishn08]

Switched from Palm Pre

didn't have enough features

 

[crump84]

Switched from Palm Pre

didn't have enough features

Welcome to the Shift forum!

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[chewie9769]

I know this is crazy but I switched from my regular EVO 4G to the EVO Shift 4G. I switched because the EVO 4G was too big and beings that I'm a girl I like small gadgets. But, I kinda miss my awesome cameras in the regular EVO. :/

 

[Nunook]

all of you seem to have had descent phones to start with. I switched from my old samsung behold 1 (t-mobile) Ill say one thing, the samsung took a beating.

 

[Bashiier]

i started with the Behold 2 (t-mobile) then when to the Galaxy S Vibrant (t-mobile) and Now i have the 4g evo shift