Rose4uKy
Android Expert
The Sprint Nav is free and should be included in your 69.99 plan. sprint TV is also free and included but they have some premium channels that do cost from what I hear. I haven't tried it yet since I've gotten this phone.
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The real EVO vs. iPhone 4 Side by Side
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The TV's basic functions are free if you want the premium ones you have to pay, not much different than anything else. Sprint TV never advertised as full programming but you do get some. Bottomline, it is still an included extra.
The "trial" navi message that comes up is for all the Sprint customers, everything data customers or not so you get a default message saying you may need to subscribe but it will continue to work on everything data plans, just ignore it. The messages will eventually go away with normal use but if you don't want to see the messages anymore ASAP, just subscribe. You won't be charged but call Sprint and tell them that you subscribed and are on an everything data plan to make sure they do not bill you for this since it IS include in the plan as advertised.
Those on Sprint employee plans or other special programs will have to pay for this, it is in most cases a EDP plan exclusive.
The problem with Sprint is their service reps don't usually know what they are talking about so when they say you can't get a simply everything plan on the EVO they are wrong, assuming that is what you meant.
The "trial" navi message that comes up is for all the Sprint customers, everything data customers or not so you get a default message saying you may need to subscribe but it will continue to work on everything data plans, just ignore it. The messages will eventually go away with normal use but if you don't want to see the messages anymore ASAP, just subscribe. You won't be charged but call Sprint and tell them that you subscribed and are on an everything data plan to make sure they do not bill you for this since it IS include in the plan as advertised.
Those on Sprint employee plans or other special programs will have to pay for this, it is in most cases a EDP plan exclusive.
The problem with Sprint is their service reps don't usually know what they are talking about so when they say you can't get a simply everything plan on the EVO they are wrong, assuming that is what you meant.
Evo and iP4 aren't comparable. Both phones offer many of the same features, but the network makes so much of a difference that apples-apples isn't possible.
My biggest peeves in comparison:
Video on network - Evo yes, iP4 only on wifi. The point of videochat to me would be to keep in touch with my wife when I'm on the road. No way is wifi as available as Sprint network, and you'll never be able to vid-chat on iPhone while actually traveling.
Multi-tasking - Evo yes, iP4 still not really multitasking.
Cost - complaining about the $30 hotspotting of Evo/Sprint when you can't do it all with iP4 is ridiculous. Even more, tethering on ATT now is priced like kb/mg/gb are made of gold. ATT could never support network-driven hotspot of up to 8 devices so it's not built in. In addition, ATT lowered and hardened the data cap because it cannot afford to have power users - not to mention it's now going to include SMS/MMS in it's data calculation vs separately - how's the commercial with embedding video into messages going to work out when you get the bill? ATT complained that 1% of its users were consuming too much of it's network capacity.
I hope when iP4 hits, these same reviews do other reviews based on heavy usage to see what the final bills will be after a month. Won't even be close unless you put your iP4 down and stop using it once you approach the 2GB Power Pro allotment. The MBs are going to add up very fast after that.
My biggest peeves in comparison:
Video on network - Evo yes, iP4 only on wifi. The point of videochat to me would be to keep in touch with my wife when I'm on the road. No way is wifi as available as Sprint network, and you'll never be able to vid-chat on iPhone while actually traveling.
Multi-tasking - Evo yes, iP4 still not really multitasking.
Cost - complaining about the $30 hotspotting of Evo/Sprint when you can't do it all with iP4 is ridiculous. Even more, tethering on ATT now is priced like kb/mg/gb are made of gold. ATT could never support network-driven hotspot of up to 8 devices so it's not built in. In addition, ATT lowered and hardened the data cap because it cannot afford to have power users - not to mention it's now going to include SMS/MMS in it's data calculation vs separately - how's the commercial with embedding video into messages going to work out when you get the bill? ATT complained that 1% of its users were consuming too much of it's network capacity.
I hope when iP4 hits, these same reviews do other reviews based on heavy usage to see what the final bills will be after a month. Won't even be close unless you put your iP4 down and stop using it once you approach the 2GB Power Pro allotment. The MBs are going to add up very fast after that.
jrstinkfish
Android Enthusiast
I wonder if they'll mention that Sprint's plan doesn't take mobile-to-mobile calls (to any carrier) out of your 450 minutes. I think I've called a landline maybe 20 times this year. This in itself blows any other carrier's minimum "everything" plan out of the water.
I failed to mention that you can tether an EVO via USB right now for free using an adroid app like PDAnet with umlimited data and 4G where available. Last I heard Sprint is not frowning upon this. ATT wants an additional $20 a month on top of the extra cost to only share your data plan with another device, USB only.
acp
Android Expert
I have preached about being open minded when comparing the iPhone and Evo, but after playing with my friends new iPhone all I can say is WOW we really do have a winner. There are only two things that I liked better, the clarity of text and colors and the way web pages are displayed, even though we have a lot more screen real estate the fact that you have to zoom or double tap on full html web pages makes the web page similar in size compared to the iPhone. Other than those two small differences I was not impressed at all and it made me love my phone 10x more.
I've said it 1000x, just compare the calls and see how much the network matters. Early reports of iP4 dropping signal when held in hand - where are you supposed to hold the phone? There is going to be a tidal wave of negativity on iP4 if this call signal thing turns up to be the Achilles again. Not surprising to me, but still a HUGE negative when it makes the phone an un-communication device. Seriously, without signal this thing just becomes a slick UI iPod.