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ilevo4g said:
Just bought my EVO4G from someone (local) off of Ebay. He was nice enough to let me pick it up at 11pm! :) I have been watching these forums for weeks and can't tell you how excited I am right now! :p

Feedback/comments coming soon. In the meantime, ask me any questions that you'd like me to answer.
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Please tell me you did not pay through paypal.
 
mbell75 said:
and people are selling them on Ebay? haha
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Yep.

Some folks like myself aren't eligible for upgrade incentives, so buying from eBay came out to about the same as buying full price... except I got my phone almost 2 weeks before the rest of you. :p
 
Bek said:
Yep.

Some folks like myself aren't eligible for upgrade incentives, so buying from eBay came out to about the same as buying full price... except I got my phone almost 2 weeks before the rest of you. :p
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Me too but the ones I have seen are not selling anywhere close to the $449 retail price...
 
Bek said:
Haven't tried it and I don't have a metal table in the house, else I'd give it a try. But then again, I already have enough of a headache with the SDCard issue.
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Bek... I haven't been following this tread as much as the official / unofficial we all we're glued too over that last few month's.... whats the issue:confused:


Edit*** NM Bek... I got it from TS's link above.
 
:rolleyes:I currently own a Sprint Palm Pre. Got it the first day it was released. Although I went through several replacements till I got one that worked well I freely admit to liking the phone. The webos for me works very well. It is underpowered and battery life is horrible. I have never had an andriod phone before so any information would be helpful in my decision. Trust me, I am looking for a reason to get this phone!

Now, one thing I noticed with the HTC EVO is the screen is a 16-bit vs other phones like mine that is more. Seems a step backwards. My screen is very nice. I am also concerned about losing a hard keyboard even if the palm pre version is not great. Have these touch keyboards improved since my HTC touch pro days? One more question. WIth my old touch pro when setting up my email accounts I have 4 hotmail accounts and the touch pro would only seem to let me use just one. Was that because the phone was using windows or something with HTC?

Someone convince me to take the leap to andriod with this EVO and give me the gain vs loss

Thanks
 
darynm said:
:rolleyes:I currently own a Sprint Palm Pre. Got it the first day it was released. Although I went through several replacements till I got one that worked well I freely admit to liking the phone. The webos for me works very well. It is underpowered and battery life is horrible. I have never had an andriod phone before so any information would be helpful in my decision. Trust me, I am looking for a reason to get this phone!

Now, one thing I noticed with the HTC EVO is the screen is a 16-bit vs other phones like mine that is more. Seems a step backwards. My screen is very nice. I am also concerned about losing a hard keyboard even if the palm pre version is not great. Have these touch keyboards improved since my HTC touch pro days? One more question. WIth my old touch pro when setting up my email accounts I have 4 hotmail accounts and the touch pro would only seem to let me use just one. Was that because the phone was using windows or something with HTC?

Someone convince me to take the leap to andriod with this EVO and give me the gain vs loss

Thanks
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The touch pro has a resistive touch screen, which requires you to push down on the screen, which slows down your typing. Plus, it's only 2.8" in size, which can easily lead to more typing mistakes. The Evo has a capacitive touch screen, which only requires the electricity of your fingers to register a touch, which means you can type faster, as you just have to touch the screen, not push it in. Also, with the 4.3" screen, typing accuracy shouldn't be too big of a deal. Plus, the auto-correction in the HTC keyboard is great.
 
mbell75 said:
Me too but the ones I have seen are not selling anywhere close to the $449 retail price...
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Do the math from my perspective. RS cost is 500, plus King Daley (Chicago's sales tax) is over 10%. So 550 is already my base cost.
 
With the EVO, I will probably be using random pairs of headphones around my office or the FM transmitter in my car (3.5mm plug). When you make or answer a phone call, can you use the phone's mic? or do you NEED to be using a 3.5mm cable w/ a mic?
 
firemanjay said:
I asked in a seperate thread, but this seems to be a better place to ask.
I have a head unit in my vehicle that allows for bluetooth sms, meaning i can text on my headunit. will the EVO do bluetooth sms?
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I will go ahead and say no (But I dont have an evo) newer phones dont support this b/c its not something that really caught on. i think there are only like 2 or 3 (older) phones that are still available to buy that support this (this is accoring to a Kenwood Forum that im on alot, they have only found like 2 (older) phones that they can get it to work with and no smartphones allow it to work (though their MIGHT be an app in the market that will get it to work, but i have not seen one and it might not be supported by the bluetooth hardware)
 
Thanks dj
for the info I have a kenwood DNX7120 in my H2 and really love it, maybe someone can come up with an app that will allow me to use that feature.
 
djdisturbed said:
Cool I have a DNX9140, here is the kenwood forum i use for info on it KenwoodForums.com
thats where i get my info from.
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Hey my brother has that stereo too. Do you have an EVO already. If not, do you know what kind of capabilities the two will have together? My brother is getting an EVO too, but he's not a forum nerd like me, so he won't come looking for anything.
 
I've not had good luck with paypal. Several years back I purchased a small $50-ish item for my car, don't even remember what it was. Paypal used my NON verified account, could have been user error, HOWEVER they kept trying to pull money from my account (which had no money because I DIDN'T USE IT) until there WAS money to cover the item. My $50 item turned into $700 in overdraft fees.
 
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