You left the iPhone for Evo. Does the iPhone 4 make you want to go back?

[Setite]

In spite of present competition, the latest iPhone announcement is yet another slap in the consumers face. Wifi only features have no place on a phone, so the video chat is blah. Knowing Apple, no one will be allowed to make a competing app, with the exception perhaps of Skype, but I fear that will be wifi only as well. Having used Fring while driving down the highway, I can tell you wifi only holds no sway.

The external antenna is nice, but I don't imagine it will matter. If they can't draw proper signal through the 3Gs plastic back, this likely won't matter.

The only upgrade worth anything, and with a grain of salt, is the "Retina Display". The problem with this upgrade is it's on a screen that is 3.5", in a market where no one complains about the PPI.

All in all I am unimpressed. Same OS, with limited multi-tasking on approved apps. I am underwhelmed.

 

[Beezzy]

Yay Video callin..............over wifi only......fail boat galore!

 

[Edge767]

In spite of present competition, the latest iPhone announcement is yet another slap in the consumers face. Wifi only features have no place on a phone, so the video chat is blah. Knowing Apple, no one will be allowed to make a competing app, with the exception perhaps of Skype, but I fear that will be wifi only as well. Having used Fring while driving down the highway, I can tell you wifi only holds no sway.

The external antenna is nice, but I don't imagine it will matter. If they can't draw proper signal through the 3Gs plastic back, this likely won't matter.

The only upgrade worth anything, and with a grain of salt, is the "Retina Display". The problem with this upgrade is it's on a screen that is 3.5", in a market where no one complains about the PPI.

All in all I am unimpressed. Same OS, with limited multi-tasking on approved apps. I am underwhelmed.

Well said. I've been surprised by some posts on Facebook of the fanboys who are extolling the virtues of the newest iPhone and how magical it is. I thought they saw a different iPhone than I did, but I think it's only because they're deluded.

 

[JERAVICIOUS]

I was reading on some Apple-related and Pre-related sites, and it's interesting to me how many people are blinded to the Evo only because it's not an Apple/Palm device. It's nice to see people who are enlightened enough to go beyond what they're used to and to embrace a new technology/OS/paradigm.

It's funny how people (especially At&t users) stick to only what they know. Sometimes that can be a bad thing. I have a Palm pre and love it a lot. However, I will be switching soon to the Evo because of better hardware, android is really growing on me and it's features. I've tried many os's and nothing really worked for me except webOS, but the pre's hardware is just terrible. I remember looking into the iPhone when it first came out and also the 3g back in the day but it did not appeal to me. I felt it wasn't what a "smart phone" is suppose to do. Blackberrys do more than the iPhone and other phones out there.

The iPhone can not multi-task. But supposily, i can with iOS4 or whatever their os is called but it still is not true multi-tasking. Like I said earlier, the iPhone does not feel like a complete smart phone, more like a fun toy i guess with the apps and that's what people buy them for. Similar to the ps3 when it first came out, people bought it as a blu-ray player since it was "cheap" back then.

 

[th3gh05t]

Watching his speech made me want to get an EVO even more.

 

[johnh1234]

Well, I've been converted to android, but I think I'm going to sell my evo and get a streak. That way my wife can keep her iphone, and I'll get an even bigger screen. The wimax is nice, but to be honest I'm not sure that it is that big of an advantage over hspa. When the streak gets froyo, I'm gone for sure. That isn't a knock on the evo, it is a great phone.

 

[Droid800]

Yay Video callin..............over wifi only......fail boat galore!

Blame AT&T.

And Jobs made clear that access to video calling would be available and open for all apps since its an open standard for them. Until the carriers come around no app will be able to do it over 3G, but it isn't closed by any means.

 

[Gameboy70]

It's pretty much impossible to separate AT&T from the iPhone, at least legitimately. Even if there were a demand for video chat (which, let's be honest, is little more than a novelty, even on the Evo), AT&T's tiered pricing makes actually using it over 3G a non-starter. The 200MB/mo. plan only covers 5 hours of listening to Pandora, or less than half of a Wired magazine download (that $5 rag magically becomes $50: $5 + $45). And you want to do video chat over this network?

People who complain about Sprint's $10 unlimited data need to understand that they're getting what they pay for, which includes the ability to video chat over 3/4G.

 

[vor]

Not an iPhone owner, but I wanted to see what Steve had up his sleeve before committing to the EVO...in the end it's just not the droid I'm looking for...

 

[sYnOnYx]

Nothing impressive was shown. But let the fanboys bask in their new phones. Let them keep lord jobs on autopilot for them and we'll take the pilots seat on Android customizing the phone we want. Their so blinded they won't even leave due to the clutches of at&t's horrible data plans. The iphone 4 is nothing but a fad and status symbol at this point.

 

[dpg]

I am sticking with my EVO because the plan is better with Sprint for me. oh and there is no way I am going back to a smaller screen. I am coming from a 3G iPhone. Only thing killing me is that I had better reception with ATT in my house. Sprint is killing me in that sense, but I am going to tough it out and see what comes available and I don't see spending $200+ just yet on the booster kits to improve it

 

[Edge767]

I am sticking with my EVO because the plan is better with Sprint for me. oh and there is no way I am going back to a smaller screen. I am coming from a 3G iPhone. Only thing killing me is that I had better reception with ATT in my house. Sprint is killing me in that sense, but I am going to tough it out and see what comes available and I don't see spending $200+ just yet on the booster kits to improve it

Call Sprint and tell them you came from AT&T and that the reception on the AT&T network used to be good, but now on Sprint it's not good at your house. They know that you have 30 days to cancel, so there's a good chance they will send/give you an Airave for free.

We got one from Sprint for free, and it solved our problems with reception in our house (6 lines).

 

[dpg]

Call Sprint and tell them you came from AT&T and that the reception on the AT&T network used to be good, but now on Sprint it's not good at your house. They know that you have 30 days to cancel, so there's a good chance they will send/give you an Airave for free.

We got one from Sprint for free, and it solved our problems with reception in our house (6 lines).

oh sweet, thanks. i'll do that.

 

[xorg]

A couple of iPhone3GS users on EVO...

Screen size makes all the difference.

Mailbag: iPhone 3GS owner comments on Sprint EVO - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech

 

[milominderbinde]

Call Sprint and tell them you came from AT&T and that the reception on the AT&T network used to be good, but now on Sprint it's not good at your house. They know that you have 30 days to cancel, so there's a good chance they will send/give you an Airave for free.

We got one from Sprint for free, and it solved our problems with reception in our house (6 lines).

We got the Airave for free as well. Here is the link:

AIRAVE

 

[fonefanatic]

HA HA milo did you jump ship from the Pre and Precentral to the EVO and android central like several other users? I recognize the name

 

[freeza]

Not a chance.

 

[xlnja]

I have the iPhone 3G and there are definitely some nice things that I will lose when I switch to the EVO soon. For one, it is nice to have the automatic sync with iTunes. In the past, I used to prefer dragging and dropping music files to the device (the Palm Treo days), but I have gotten used to the iTunes sync. I will miss that.

The main reasons I am switching from the iPhone is I hate the control freaks at Apple (the "turtle-neck dictator" Jobs as I saw in one article. haha!) and AT&T, which absolutely sucks.

 

[milominderbinde]

It is amazing but so far less than 2% of former iPhone users want to go to the iPhone 4.

 

[milominderbinde]

HA HA milo did you jump ship from the Pre and Precentral to the EVO and android central like several other users? I recognize the name

I did not inhale!