...What am i missing? And please dont say its the principal of it. Why get so upset over something just for the sake of principal? And no a 1 year old Hero doesnt run a single app better than the EVO. Not a single one. And benchmarking apps dont mean anything.
Actually, I have several things to say in response to this. I've taken about 4 days off to re-evaluate why exactly I'm not liking the way the Evo is displaying it's animations, both 2D and 3D. The reason it's annoying me and, and through annoyance, angering me, is that it's not smooth. I can noticeably tell the difference between the Evo, and my Hero. The Hero, both on the home screen, and even through something as simple as scrolling through text, is always smooth (albeit if something like Pandora is munching away at it's old Arm11 CPU). The Evo however, even on a fresh boot and with nothing running in the back, is never
quite smooth. If you sit there and scroll through pages and pages of text reading as I do often times in the morning, whether it be news, the shenanigans of Engadget, whatever, you can very easily see the skips and studders as it stumbles it's way through the scrolling animations. This, after about 15 minutes, either makes me just turn the screen off, and pocket it, or just shut my phone off and go continue my read on my computer.
Now if you want to be really into it, as I am, sit down, and with a steady hand, scroll down and up through the pages. You'll notice that you can see the text and images on the page jump and jerk up and down after you scroll. You'll notice this every time, unless you try hard to turn a blind eye and just get annoyed by the plain fact that it's not smooth.
I'm not going to say anything about the 'principal' of the thing, as you've said you don't want to hear, and I don't want to hear it either. I don't quite frankly care about it much, neither, so I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) we're on the same page. But the thing is, it just looks really really bad when compared in-hand against something much more dated, like the Hero and a G1, for 2 prime examples.
As for the Hero not running one single application better than the Evo, I can name a few right here. It can run....
1) The browser better (no chunky scrolling)
2) Any games involving lots of moving/scrolling animations
3) Any 3D based games (few, though there are)
4) It runs the Sense UI home replacement overlay smoother (no chunky scrolling or studders)
I'm going to stop here, I don't want to ruin all the others that people might want to point out.
As for the benchmarking apps not really meaning anything, I can agree with that to some degree. I think, in my honest opinion, that they're better for showing out existing problems rather than pitting phones against each other. Yes, it gives back results in a mathematical result with numbers and a chart, but I think, especially with the Evo, it's best suited to either showing flaws, problems, or issues.
That's where I break with your points so far. I do have to say, I'm glad the phone WORKS all the time, unlike it's brother on Tmobile running WinMo 6.5. My petty officer at our recruiters station saw my Evo and said, 'Hey you got it! How many times has it frozen up on you?'. Apparently, since he's had his HD2 for the past 3 or so weeks, he's had it lock up at LEAST twice a day requiring him to yank the battery out. He's still astounded I never have to pull my battery or force a restart to fix a problem. That, I can say at least, is a good thing about this phone when compared to others of similar nature.
-edit- Almost forgot to say he's going to drop his HD2 soon here, and grab a Nexus One when he can. Lol.
