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Official EVO Rumors and Speculation thread

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Sir Loin said:
Dealbreaker for swype ONLY!

hehe. My best friend and I are hyped about getting this phone, we're going to show off the video chat to as many people as we can.

I pre-ordered the EVO and took that day off as a vacation day. Getting it early morning, also have a coupon for the nearby Chic-fil-a for a free chicken sandwich. Friends in town that week for upcoming class reunion. Being my first android phone, I want to have at least 6hrs to play w/ the phone and know it in detail before I go out partying. I don't want to learn it on the fly and be fumbling around w/ it the whole time.

Almost forgot to add that one by one, coworkers are ditching their Blackberries for Androids now that they support exchange email. I want to have that all set up because they looked up to me once they got their Blackberry because I really knew my way around that OS, so once they see I have an android phone they'll be handing me their phones asking "can you help me w/ this".
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Sorry I thought you meant deal breaker on the EVO. LOL Im taking a 3 day weekend for the EVO launch, its going to be my 2nd honeymoon hahaha, only this time without the wife!
 
ARR22 said:
Sorry I thought you meant deal breaker on the EVO. LOL Im taking a 3 day weekend for the EVO launch, its going to be my 2nd honeymoon hahaha, only this time without the wife!
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It's all good. Glad to hear I'm not the only one to take an extra day off to pick up my phone and play w/ it for a good few hours!

I've so far seen around 6 other members from various forums over the course of the day state they're doing the same thing. Show off that android! Word of mouth is the best advertisement. My friend sent me a link back when the EVO was "HTC Supersonic" and my jaw dropped, I've been reading up on it since then!
 
Sir Loin said:
It's all good. Glad to hear I'm not the only one to take an extra day off to pick up my phone and play w/ it for a good few hours!

I've so far seen around 6 other members from various forums over the course of the day state they're doing the same thing. Show off that android! Word of mouth is the best advertisement. My friend sent me a link back when the EVO was "HTC Supersonic" and my jaw dropped, I've been reading up on it since then!
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Not only am I setting aside time to enjoy the Evo on day one, but I have a trip planned to a nearby city dripping in wimax to visit a few friends for a couple days. They're iphone slaves at the moment, but by the time I leave I'm betting they will have bought Evos! I don't get a free sandwich though, lucky.
 
clambert1273 said:
and it has been said many times that the advocates are not allowed to show the evo's or even allow anyone else to see them. It is theirs to learn with so that when it is released they will be able to answer questions :)

I agree, the displays should be working but every time I go to any store I never expect a display to work LOL :D
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I don't know whether the Sprint store employees will be able to answer detailed EVO questions. A few weeks ago, I took my TP2 because it seemed to hand when trying to change ring tones. Sprint store employees ordered a refurbished one for me and then I realized that the phone was not hanging but scanning through songs on my 8GB micro SD card. Once I mentioned this "feature" to the Sprint Store employees, they seemed perplexed and thanked me (I don't think they understood what I was saying). So I suggest you view sites like this one if you have EVO questions.

Just my 2 cents of experience with the technical staff at the Sprint store next to my house in Austin.
 
mcbtrain929 said:
a quote from the article:

"htc evo 4g, which is easily the best smartphone available on Sprint and is second to the HTC Incredible as the best smartphone available today."

uhhhhhh, what?
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The post also says that the EVO's 4 navigation buttons are part of the display. I think the person is confused (or is it me?). I think I saw 4 touch sensitive buttons at the base of the phone, outside of the display.
 
htc.EVOlution said:
Pictures taken by the evo

http://androidforums.com/786291-post263.html
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Wow, that's some serious resolution. When I zoomed in on pic 13, it looked like I saw a bean aphid on the third bean to the right on the second row.
Colour-enhanced-scanning-electron-micrograph-of-a-bean-aphid-on
 
ARR22 said:
Sorry I thought you meant deal breaker on the EVO. LOL Im taking a 3 day weekend for the EVO launch, its going to be my 2nd honeymoon hahaha, only this time without the wife!
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I have 2 jobs n i only work Saturdays at one and i asked for it off just so i can play with the evo all weekend.
 
cary328is said:
Enter this part # 687860003

In this website: Arrow Electronics - North American Components (NAC)

It costs $8.40. NO MINIMUM BUY and is 2 meters (6.57' long).

The one in dealextreme.com is $12.20, has free shipping, but is only 1 meter long.

Here's my original post:

http://androidforums.com/735244-post12327.html
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That's a strange web site though. I never did find a description for the part number or a photo of the cable. So I just ordered it blindly based on your information. Thanks :)
 
Here's a question to all of you that have the phone in hand. What's the word on the battery. Is it the same as the Hero? I'd like to order a couple of extra batteries. Also what's the charge jack? Will it accept a "standard" mini usb charge connector? I've got a HTC Touch Pro with several chargers both A/C and car that I could use on the EVO if they continued to use the same connector for power.

Thanks for any and all information! :)
 
rsa said:
Here's a question to all of you that have the phone in hand. What's the word on the battery. Is it the same as the Hero? I'd like to order a couple of extra batteries. Also what's the charge jack? Will it accept a "standard" mini usb charge connector? I've got a HTC Touch Pro with several chargers both A/C and car that I could use on the EVO if they continued to use the same connector for power.

Thanks for any and all information! :)
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BTW, this was talked about before, but I can confirm that the Hero battery works in the EVO.

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I did too - on arrow electronics as well as the auxiliary cable for the car at 3.5mm AUX AUXILIARY CABLE CORD FOR iPOD MP3 CAR 3.5 mm - eBay (item 320521888776 end time May-23-10 05:32:13 PDT) for $0.99 and the 32gb micro sdhc at 100% NEW 32GB 32G microSD micro SD SDHC - eBay (item 230476927200 end time Jun-18-10 06:54:41 PDT) for $21.28, all including shipping. I guess the 32 gig card is worth a buy even if it's a Class 2.

Now trying to find an inexpensive, yet sassy car dock!! I don't like the ones available on fleabay and want something similar to what was shown on the purported accessories powerpoint released on engadget some weeks ago. Any suggestions?

Regards,
HGL:)
 
sitlet said:
This has been talked about MANY times, its Micro USB. As for the battery, do a search, it too has been talked about many times.
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So I still didn't get a straight answer just condescending attitude. :rolleyes:

So is the charge jack on my HTC Touch Pro really a micro USB and not a mini? So that the existing chargers I have, regardless of what they're called, will or will not work on the EVO?

Thanks to anyone who can give me a straight answer without trying to talk down to me.
 
hgl said:
I did too - on arrow electronics as well as the auxiliary cable for the car at
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3.5mm AUX AUXILIARY CABLE CORD FOR iPOD MP3 CAR 3.5 mm - eBay (item 320521888776 end time May-23-10 05:32:13 PDT) for $0.99 and the 32gb micro sdhc at
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100% NEW 32GB 32G microSD micro SD SDHC - eBay (item 230476927200 end time Jun-18-10 06:54:41 PDT) for $21.28, all including shipping. I guess the 32 gig card is worth a buy even if it's a Class 2.

Now trying to find an inexpensive, yet sassy car dock!! I don't like the ones available on fleabay and want something similar to what was shown on the purported accessories powerpoint released on engadget some weeks ago. Any suggestions?

Regards,
HGL:)
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Just a side note concerning high capacity SD cards off eBay. There has been a big ripoff going on with standard and micro SD cards sold on eBay from Chinese and Hong Kong sources that end up being fake for the last couple of years. They take memory modules that fail to pass and re-process them and package them as Kingston or Sandisk, etc. Or they take 2GB modules and some way re-program them to look like 16GB or 32GB and all they do is keep re-writing 2GBs worth of data onto the chip. So if you wrote 6GB of data onto the chip you'd end up with the last 2GB actually on the chip. You can get a lot of information on this problem with fake memory out of China by Googling.
 
hgl said:
I did too - on arrow electronics as well as the auxiliary cable for the car at
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3.5mm AUX AUXILIARY CABLE CORD FOR iPOD MP3 CAR 3.5 mm - eBay (item 320521888776 end time May-23-10 05:32:13 PDT) for $0.99 and the 32gb micro sdhc at
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100% NEW 32GB 32G microSD micro SD SDHC - eBay (item 230476927200 end time Jun-18-10 06:54:41 PDT) for $21.28, all including shipping. I guess the 32 gig card is worth a buy even if it's a Class 2.

Now trying to find an inexpensive, yet sassy car dock!! I don't like the ones available on fleabay and want something similar to what was shown on the purported accessories powerpoint released on engadget some weeks ago. Any suggestions?

Regards,
HGL:)
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lol, both of those links have been removed
 
rsa said:
So I still didn't get a straight answer just condescending attitude. :rolleyes:

So is the charge jack on my HTC Touch Pro really a micro USB and not a mini? So that the existing chargers I have, regardless of what they're called, will or will not work on the EVO?

Thanks to anyone who can give me a straight answer without trying to talk down to me.
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Cable A is Mini, Cable B is Micro. Phone A is a Touch Pro that uses Cable A. Phone B is a EVO that uses Cable B.

Inference and reason would then tell you that in fact, no, your EVO cannot use the cable from your Touch Pro. This is pretty clear and easy to understand.
 
What are the chances the Evo drops this Friday the 28th, one week ahead like some other Droid phone recently did? Incredible ... I think?
 
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