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Official EVO Rumors and Speculation thread

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AndroidTod said:
is it safe to say that we should get some official specs and 4G plan info before the preorder "mid May"?
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Maybe that's where this event has some significance?

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OK dont hit me with your shoes...I know they were the ones who put the April 16th date, but I'm just saying...May 12th this time? I'll defer to what Jackson says but I'm just trying to be hopeful for anything. Today wouldve been a good day to have the EVO video cam. Extremely obese guy riding small japanese sport bike on freeway wearing a very loose t shirt. Sorry youtube...missed that one totally
 
Thanks RiverOfIce I couldn't agree more, I just didn't want to read into your comment if you meant something else? I think this phone will kick Apple's Ass, but they have the Loyal following and will overpower with advertizing and media events.

I wish Sprint would have got the phone out in May
 
LatinP said:
Nah that would be the internet radio and it still wouldn't be able to make calls outside the US since GSM and CDMA operate on a different radio spectrums. Dual band call radios have existed for a long time that's why I asked if it had one but what you are referring to is a dual band 4g internet receiver. Oh well one can dream. :)
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I thought that Sprint offered international roaming packages for non world phones. I maybe wrong though.
 
Supersonical said:
The problem here is, and this goes right inturn with what self praise said, there are only 12 real in circulation! HAHAHA, i love Dan(my source) but he is not that important! The only people to get one are Dan Hesse and Clan. SO lay OFF
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Jackson the 12 in circulation came from me. http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/54768-official-sprint-htc-evo-4g-info-74.html#post578059
No offense taken self praise has brought alot of good information to this forum.:cool:
 
Gekko said:
1. what do you think is the business reason behind the decision to give Best Buy the one week early release in advance of Sprint's own retail stores? it seems like that would undermine Sprint's primary distribution network and their own sales force essentially cutting their balls off for a whole week.

2. one week before June 6 is May 30. so the Best Buy release is May 30?
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From what I heard it has to do with Sprints contracts with certain stores. I think the all S|P customers should have 1 day lead ahead of Best Buy. Then release it to Best Buy then the Sprint stores.
 
cary328is said:
Maybe that's where this event has some significance?

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OK dont hit me with your shoes...I know they were the ones who put the April 16th date, but I'm just saying...May 12th this time? I'll defer to what Jackson says but I'm just trying to be hopeful for anything. Today wouldve been a good day to have the EVO video cam. Extremely obese guy riding small japanese sport bike on freeway wearing a very loose t shirt. Sorry youtube...missed that one totally
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I mentioned the May 12th date earlier but people had a hair-trigger on the 'ignore the heretics' button. They did change it from 4/16 to 5/12. The justification left on that page is so that people could have more time to sign up for notifications. Whoever is running that site is a grade A fool because they could just make a fan page instead of an EVENT. So what are we to assume the significance of May 12th is?
 
cabbie said:
I mentioned the May 12th date earlier but people had a hair-trigger on the 'ignore the heretics' button. They did change it from 4/16 to 5/12. The justification left on that page is so that people could have more time to sign up for notifications. Whoever is running that site is a grade A fool because they could just make a fan page instead of an EVENT. So what are we to assume the significance of May 12th is?
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Maybe we can pre order the evo than? Idk. Would be nice though. Can't wait till May and June. LOL I like my pre but I am ready for EVO
 
 
Yea so that means (if they get this to work) while at a lounge or starbucks you can charge your phone there while chilling eating a bagel or nasty coffee . not saying starbucks coffee is nasty but i don't like or drink coffee period .

and I dont think he downloaded it (hope not) i think he was trying to point out that it's coming and what we can expect . that's how i got some of the features to 2.5
 
UniqueNate - am I imagining things or did I just read this on that link:

Portable App Engine
"Using the new Portable App Engine, Android will now be able to run Palm Pre and iPhone applications using a virtual machine.


I wonder how that would work...allowing Pre and iPhone apps to run on Android? I smell 2 lawsuits waiting to happen but that would be cool!! Thanks for the link!

EDIT: Damn. I'm soo late. Thanks Zaaye for letting me know it was a joke. I almost totally lost it right there!
 
JinCA said:
I really hope they are able to smooth that video out, it still looks jittery and it's not because of the site it's because of the normal movements that happen when someone holds a camera, they really need good image stabilization. Also as I said before I hope the camera records in at least 30fps, the N1 only records 20 fps so I hope that's not HTC's goal here, it's not smooth enough at 20 fps.
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This is Qik live STREAMING video. This is not the video quality you'll get from the camera recording. It will be MUCH better, 720, 30fps or better.
 
LOL that would of been cool to run pre apps and apples apps on evo LOL but oh well..I did see some of the same apps though that I do currently use on my pre. So yeah..that will be cool.
 
Yea I think I'm going to be overwhelmed when this comes to reality . the talk of it is like woah already . but yes you read it right man .
 
RiverOfIce said:
That is easy.

Notice the last week.

Verizon releases the incredible. Great phone.

Apple then talks about apple 4g and drops a hardware sample pictures.

Wonder want is getting media attention. Hmmm. One min. Looking.

Oh the apple ipad and iphone 4g. But they have either been released with weeks of coverage or are months out.

Amazing how every time a competitor releases something or has a news story, apple manages to steal back the headline.

Amazing.

The iphone will be announced one week after the evo. It would take 3 small moves from apple to flood every major news site with Apple products. To the point where no one will find any thing on evo, except for the forums.


Case in point?

Alex from spring designs was released on april 13. It is such a cool little reader.

Did anyone hear about it? Ten days after the ipad lauch. And all you heard was ipad.


Need another case in point? the pre. Launched the same time. Once again apple tossed it into overdrive. Flooding apple every where. At least 30 different stories at engadget alone. From june 3 to 13.

Palm Pre? 3 stories.

The same will be with the evo. If they release it in june. Apple will flood the new stations with soo much media attention. That the poor sorry marking people at sprint will not even get a chance to breathe.

They will just release press release and apple will counter each move with a "leak".

When you are fighting apple you have to take your hits when you can.

If they release in mid-to-late may, it would be a different story. Apple would have to really, really, really try hard to over power that.
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Same thing I've been saying all along man, you do NOT release a phone a month before or after the iphone, you have to get as much seperation from it as you can to really get any media hype.

The Evo is on sprint so that is already a hurdle it'll have to jump in many peoples minds, sprint is still considered 2nd rate by a lot of people out there and the phone selection is honestly still garbage.

As far as releasing close to the iphone, the evo will get very little hype if it releases around the iphone no doubt about it, the tech media are on apples nutts like crazy and always have been even if they deny it. I swear engaget would give Steve Jobs bowel movements a positive review if he'd let them check one out.

The main marketing point that distinguishes the evo from the iphone will be that it will have 4G functionality, the thing is most people won't have access to that for a while so that's going to have limited marketing value, it seems most of the other things that tie evo will have the iphone 4G will have as well like the front facing camera (don't know how AT&T will be able to handle that added pressure) it'll have a higher res screen then the current iphones and it could possibly even be larger although honestly 3.5 inches is already a good size and it'll have a better camera with a flash.

I know some think the 4.3 screen will make people want the evo more than the iphone but that could be a thing that goes both ways, some may think the Evo is too large because of the screen size and want something a little more pocket friendly like the iphone. If you've held a HD2 you know it is a substantial device and the Evo is slightly larger as far as thickness.

The fact that apple may be putting "4G" in the title of the iphone will also from a marketing perspective negate the 4G on the Evo for the people that really don't know the difference out there and confuse them into thinking they can both do the same thing.

I've been saying for a while now as I know many have that they needed to get this phone out by mid May to really let it hit it's potential from a sales perspective, I know they can't just throw it out if it's not ready but I would think and hope they are doing everything they can to get it out as fast as possible and not just being arrogant and thinking because they are finally putting a good phone on their network that people will just come running to sprint.

As I said before no matter what happens with the Evo sprint is going to have to offer more than just this phone, they need a nice selection of devices not just one nice on and a bunch of crap. One thing I think they should do is instead of releasing the legend as is here in the states, see if they can get HTC to up the screen size to 3.5 or 3.6 inches and give it a snapdragon processor. That tough unibody build looks pretty cool and it already runs fairly quickly on the slower processor it has now but if they upped the screen size and the processor it could get all of the nice bells and whistles the desire has yet it would still have it's unique unibody construction.
 
Man, crazy news day for the Evo thanks for all the insight guys. I'm new to this and I've been reading the forum all day and finally decided to post. I just got the Sprint Hero for Christmas and I was not expecting to replace it anytime soon, but then the Evo came out and now I'm in love for the first time ;D. but today I was at the mall and I got a chance to play around with the HD2 to get a feel for how the Evo may feel in my hand boy is that thing HUGE. It's thin but the screen is absolutely beautiful. Records smooth and clear video, and takes better pictures than my Hero. I teared a little lol. But now I know what to expect from the Evo which will be even better! I'm on the edge of my seat for that phone. And I thought I was excited about getting the hero.. lol
 
RichboyJhae said:
Man, crazy news day for the Evo thanks for all the insight guys. I'm new to this and I've been reading the forum all day and finally decided to post. I just got the Sprint Hero for Christmas and I was not expecting to replace it anytime soon, but then the Evo came out and now I'm in love for the first time ;D. but today I was at the mall and I got a chance to play around with the HD2 to get a feel for how the Evo may feel in my hand boy is that thing HUGE. It's thin but the screen is absolutely beautiful. Records smooth and clear video, and takes better pictures than my Hero. I teared a little lol. But now I know what to expect from the Evo which will be even better! I'm on the edge of my seat for that phone. And I thought I was excited about getting the hero.. lol
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remember the video quality and picture quality is gonna b better on the evo :)
 
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