You didn't think we'd let the Sprint Evo 4G launch without giving one away, did you? Here's what you have to do to win the biggest, baddest Android smartphone from the biggest, baddest Android blog:
Just reply to this thread and tell us what feature you're most excited about in the Evo 4G. Maybe it's the massive 4.3-inch screen. Maybe it's the full 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Maybe it's the 4G WiMax. Or the 8-device WiFi hotspot capability. Or the HDMI-out. Or the two-way video chat. Or the simultaneous voice and date. Or its ability to overthrow small nations (roaming charges may apply).
Tell us here, and we'll pick a winner on June 1 -- the Evo 4G will be available June 4 -- and we'll make you the coolest kid on your block.
Good luck!
I can nerd it up with the best of them, and talk about how the soft-touch plastic back, or advances like a front-facing camera, or the 4.3" screen demands respect as the best endowed phone in the locker room. I could go into details on how the speedy Snapdragon processor impresses, or the Sense UI will add functionality and eye-candy in one fell swoop, perhaps even talk about "4G" Wimax service (albeit not in NYC yet) powering a mobile experience past previous thresholds. The list goes on and on (the $10 additional charge from Sprint is absent on the list...) about all the features packed into HTC's new super beast.
Or I could talk about how happy I am to upgrade from my Pre, and how I can leave my negative experiences with the Palm hardware behind--this could end up being a long[er] post if I did that.
I could do all that, but quite simply, I'm just excited to have a phone that oozes sex appeal. I'll admit, I'm vain.
I can't wait to roll-up into a club and whip out the Evo and capture some 720p videos of redbull+vodka powered partying while eyes pop open at the sexiness in my hand (and ignore my pitiful attempts at dancing). The next day at dinner, perhaps at some posh steakhouse on Park Avenue as I suffer through dinner with my hipster friends in typical NYC fashion--i.e. no table talk, instead twitter messages via one's Iphone about how the prime rib could use a better au jus--brandish the Evo and simply lay it down on the dinner table then count the seconds before a fanboy asks in complete awe, "is that the iphone 4g?". "Nope", I would reply with a smirk.
Or go to lunch with my engineer coworkers and as Ipads, Nooks, Blackberries, Iphones, are brandished at the cafeteria lunch table, I'd like to break some geek fanboy hearts with the sexiest gadget at the table. My geek colleagues would ask, "that's the new HTC phone? can I see it?" I would coyly reply, "Hey gotta run to a meeting..." and leave them hanging, lusting for yet another peek at the sexy beast. I'd play hard to get as my colleagues would swing by my office eager to lay grubby hands on my super-model-level-sexy phone.
To be honest, I don't need this phone and nothing will be life changing. My current phone is fine. All these features that my phone doesn't have, like Wimax, or a 4.3" screen, or a faster processor, or a kickstand, or dual cameras/dual flash, or 2.1, or anything.. simply doesn't excite me in the way that knowing
sexiness metamorphised into a phone form factor will.
Edit: typo.
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