HTC EVO 4G Android Phone

O. Rijo
#1. July 29th, 2010, at 5:44 PM.

1. Its a 4G phone. Good luck getting 4G reception. I live in Seattle and I barely get one 4G bar. I’ve been downtown and various location and never seen the phone get full bars in 4G. Most of the time it runs on 3G.

2. The home, search, back and menu button are a bad design choice. Those buttons are touch sensitive which makes the phone look really nice. The problem comes when you are typing in landscape mode, you will find yourself accidentally pressing one of the button, ruining your typing (texting experience).

3. The phone has sharp edges which sucks when you put the phone to your ear. By the end of your conversation, you feel like you had a knife to your ear.

4. Lastly, The WIFI is horrible. You could be in the same room as your router and it barely picks up a solid signal. I know my router works because I have laptops and a iPhone which pick up the signal just fine.

UPDATE 6/21/10

When I use the Pandora Radio App in my car with the Auxiliary jack, the phone tries to voice dial. Maybe I just have a bad phone. I will look further into this issue.
Rating: 2 / 5

Robert Petry
#2. July 29th, 2010, at 7:01 PM.

I have been a smartphone user for years starting with Treo’s then Blackberry’s, iPhones and the Palm Pre. I wanted to love the Evo but I don’t. Mine crashed twice a day and locked up other times requiring a battery pull. It was buggier than my Palm 700p and that is saying something.

Plus I had trouble with multiple bluetooth headsets. The Evo would say they were connected but no sound out of them. I had to repeatedly turn them on and off and re-pair them while trying to talk to customers. That was a very big issue.

Ever heard of unified Inboxes? They are very popular right now on BB, Palm and now Apple. Not only do you not have a unified Inbox on Android with Sense, you have two email apps. One for Gmail and one for everything else. So I was constantly going back and forth between them.

If you are in the browser or one of many 3rd party apps and a notification came in you would hear a beep. But there is no way to see the notification without exiting the app, pulling down the bar and looking at the list. I would rather have an annoying popup like on the Apple.

Sorry. I love Linux and wanted to love my Evo but Android needs MAJOR work on usability and stability. I returned it.
Rating: 2 / 5

C. Lynch
#3. July 29th, 2010, at 7:40 PM.

After playing around with it for an hour, I am in love. I tossed my boring blackberry for this device. Its a wonderful alternative to the iphone.
Rating: 5 / 5

M
#4. July 29th, 2010, at 8:13 PM.

I bought this phone for less than a week and loved the hell out of it. then i hated it. it was not a thought out design as i expected like the iphone. bottom line, most of the phone is overkill.

PROS:

- fast 1ghz processor. fastest startup (5 stars)

- fast internet speed. even for a 3g speed is quite amazing!!! (4 stars)

- nice interface & big screen (3 stars)

- nice animation and live screen savers

CONS:

- heavy & bulky (case adds even more weight/bulky). excitement wears off quite fast after you realize how big this phone is. try wearing shorts on a hot day and wonder why it sags on one side…lol. feels like i have my girlfriend’s makeup kit in my pocket. a phone shouldn’t feel big in your pocket. (3 stars)

- terrible battery life (processor & screen size drains like bloody hell). 1500mah battery is quite small compared to most phones (2 stars)

- sound processor is the worst among mp3 players. no way to adjust the equalizer settings or even preset soundfields are not availble. in addition, no audio codecs available on android market or even a media player to enhance the sound. i bet most of the people who review this and love it aren’t audiophiles like me. c’mon this is supposed to be my entertainment center on the go. (1 star)

- limited apps on market vs apple. most people dont care but variety is good (3 stars)

- bluetooth connection in my car has compatability issues (1 star)

- screen resoultion is only 65k colors vs 230k for iphone. i would expected much higher resolution (2 stars)

Rating: 2 / 5

J. Shih
#5. July 29th, 2010, at 8:26 PM.

This phone is so sweet, way better than Apple Nazi’s 4g iphone with 400,000 junk apps. Sadly it’s on Sprint’s CDMA network. Most of Europe and Asia are on standard GSM networks, so this amazing phone is a domestic phone. Why would a smart phone in 2010 still not a global phone…I’ll wait for the GSM version. Sprint, get with the program and ditch 1990 CDMA technology. No wonder you can’t compete with the rest of carrier.
Rating: 5 / 5