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Official EVO Rumors and Speculation thread

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spar10 said:
does anyone here with evo have dejaoffice installed to sync the phone with outlook?

DejaOffice - Business & productivity apps for your phone or tablet
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Hi spar10,

We haven't actually got a chance to test DejaOffice on the EVO 4G just yet - we're waiting just like everyone else to get ours on June 4th! That being said, we're pretty confident it should work just fine. If anyone gets a chance to test DejaOffice out on the EVO, let us know! It's available at no charge from the Android Market.
 
Ive pre-ordered this phone.. absolutely cant wait! Does this thing come with a microsoft word typ application or somthin similar that i can write litl notes and documents on it? or is there some great apps for that?
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chad
 
Chad, there are some threads on this part of the site talking about Apps, but there is an entire forum dedicated just to apps- you may get a better answer there.

Also, I suggest browsing All Android apps
You can create a wishlist of apps you want before the Evo comes so you're prepared for June 4th :)
 
I've seen those cases before there cool! I wan't the car dock. Does it stick to your windshield? How well do they stick and has anyone ever had a problem of it falling down? I read they make these cup holder docks too.

htc.EVOlution said:
haven't seen it posted on here before
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mkampy said:
Any retail rumor pricing ?
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I just got back from BestBuy to check on my pre-order status. I was #33 and it turns out that this BB cutoff at 35 units. The dept manager said that those that ordered after #35 would have to wait until June 9th.

Now to answer your question, according to the dept manager that I spoke with the retail price from BB is going to be $600.
 
I think the person was asking about a retail price for the cases and the mount that we saw pics of earlier today. If that is the case, then we do not know yet. None of the pricing info for that stuff has come out yet.
 
chum1600 said:
I think the person was asking about a retail price for the cases and the mount that we saw pics of earlier today. If that is the case, then we do not know yet. None of the pricing info for that stuff has come out yet.
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Yep you're probably right. :o

In fact when I talked to the BB manager he said that he'd gotten a note that they'd be getting some accessories before June 4th for the EVO. It was just a couple cases, no docks and he didn't even have any pricing info on the accessories that were coming in before the 4th. Though he thought it was a big deal that they were getting any accessories before or on release date. He indicated that it was over two weeks before they had accessories for the Hero when it first came out.
 
This is my first attempt at using YouTube and it's also the first 720p video that I have made using the EVO 4G.


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Yesterday, before I left to meet the other forum members in Tampa, I bunged my phone to my rear view mirror with a couple of rubber bands. I moved the phone to the left so the lens was not blocked by the mirror, but I didn't have it over quite far enough and that's what caused the shadow on the right side.

I like to experiment to see where my limits are, so I used a $100 program for my computer called Pinnacle Studio HD and that's what I used to edit the video. I was able to add the title at the beginning and when I was stopped at a traffic light, I deleted that part of the video. The transitions were used to hide my editing imperfections. The last thing I did was add background music and then I uploaded it to YouTube.

The first time I tried it, I used a song that I ripped from one of my CD's and YouTube said I didn't have the rights to use the song and they removed it from my video. So, that got me to thinking. The Goggle I/O phones included an extra micro SD card with 198 MP3 songs on it, so I tried one of those that was about the same length as the video and it worked!

I'll be taking more videos and experimenting more, trying to find the best settings.

Edit: Click the video to watch it on YouTube - it's larger.
 
twospirits said:
i haven't clicked on the video yet cause i am at work, but something tells me the "Born to be wild" soundtrack is in that video. lol

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Well, I was limited to 198 songs and I wanted one that was close to the right length. It's Mary Chapin Carpenter - Down At The Twist And Shout.

If you click the video and go to YouTube, you'll see that it's larger.
 
billsmed said:
This is my first attempt at using YouTube and it's also the first 720p video that I have made using the EVO 4G.


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Yesterday, before I left to meet the other forum members in Tampa, I bunged my phone to my rear view mirror with a couple of rubber bands. I moved the phone to the left so the lens was not blocked by the mirror, but I didn't have it over quite far enough and that's what caused the shadow on the right side.

I like to experiment to see where my limits are, so I used a $100 program for my computer called Pinnacle Studio HD and that's what I used to edit the video. I was able to add the title at the beginning and when I was stopped at a traffic light, I deleted that part of the video. The transitions were used to hide my editing imperfections. The last thing I did was add background music and then I uploaded it to YouTube.

The first time I tried it, I used a song that I ripped from one of my CD's and YouTube said I didn't have the rights to use the song and they removed it from my video. So, that got me to thinking. The Goggle I/O phones included an extra micro SD card with 198 MP3 songs on it, so I tried one of those that was about the same length as the video and it worked!

I'll be taking more videos and experimenting more, trying to find the best settings.

Edit: Click the video to watch it on YouTube - it's larger.
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Bill, what codex does the video use? Can you choose between different codexs?

Edit: After a bunch of googling it appears to support video recording in these formats. . . . MPEG4 / H.263 / H.264 / WMV but I'm not sure how accurate the info was.
 
rsa said:
Bill, what codex does the video use? Can you choose between different codexs?

Edit: After a bunch of googling it appears to support video recording in these formats. . . . MPEG4 / H.263 / H.264 / WMV but I'm not sure how accurate the info was.
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I chose MPEG-4 and 1280 x 720. I'm all ears if someone has a better idea.
 
billsmed said:
I chose MPEG-4 and 1280 x 720. I'm all ears if someone has a better idea.
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That's interesting. Did Pinnacle Studio tell you what the source file format was? Like Mpeg4-H.264? I don't know why they would bother with H.263 and H.264. Of course the spec sheet I read could have been mixing what the EVO is capable of playing and what it uses to record. Most of the sites including Sprint's don't even tell the codex used for recording. But if it turns out to be MPEG4-H.264 that will be fine for editing purposes. I was just curious.
 
rsa said:
That's interesting. Did Pinnacle Studio tell you what the source file format was? Like Mpeg4-H.264? I don't know why they would bother with H.263 and H.264. Of course the spec sheet I read could have been mixing what the EVO is capable of playing and what it uses to record. Most of the sites including Sprint's don't even tell the codex used for recording. But if it turns out to be MPEG4-H.264 that will be fine for editing purposes. I was just curious.
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Yeah, I just chose MPEG-4 and then selected HD 720p from Studio.

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A couple of people have commented at YouTube on the video. One guy said it was really impressive for a smartphone. The more I look at it, the more I think you'd have to have a better camera to improve the video quality much more.

Pinnacle Studio HD is about a $100 program and it has a setting for going directly to YouTube. YouTube wouldn't except it though, but that might have been because of the original soundtrack I had in there.
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as everyone is scrambling to get accessories a lot of people are mentioning getting some sort of screen protectors. i'm curious if we really need screen protectors for these phones since they're glass and anti-scratch. is it really necessary or just extra protection?
 
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