Apple iPhone 3G [S] vs. Sprint HTC Evo

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/htc-evo-4g-is-sprints-android-powered-knight-in-superphone-armo/

HTC Evo Sprints first 4G phone.

  • 480 x 800 4.3-inch TFT LCD,
  • Snapdragon QSD8650 1GHz processor under the hood (the CDMA version of the QSD8250 in the HD2 and Nexus One)
  • 1GB of built-in memory and 512MB of RAM
  • 8 megapixel monstrosity with flash, that's capable of 720p video, and is augmented by a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for good measure.
  • HDMI out
  • 802.11b/g WiFi, and an 8GB microSD card.
  • Sprint's first 4G phone.

Everything I want in an iPhone and it's on Sprint. Time to switch? I think so.

Discuss
 
4G coverage is the pits. There is a tower within .5 miles and coverage is still poor. Putting the laptop on the floor will drop the signal completely, but having it on the arm of the couch nets 3 bars all with a laptop stick. A handheld phone? Forget about it.. they really should've skipped that and released this now without it.

AT&T/VZ will be getting the same type of phone for sure, sans "4G"
 
Yeah, I'm not really impressed by the 4G, they can't even do calls/data at the same time! Fail. Everything else makes me drool.

If the iPhone 4 doesn't have HDMI or front facing camera, HELLO SPRINT!
 
I was thinking the same thing. With rare exceptions, HTC is not prone to releasing phones that don't appear on other carriers. That said, the phone is a beast.
 
I get 3.5 Mbps on my iPhone speedtest. What speeds are we talking with 4G?

HDMI out is worth it. I wont have to haul my laptop when I want to watch movies between rooms. Maybe the HD3 will have it????
 
Apple better have something really nice planned for the next iPhone update. I cant really see anything being much better than what Sprint announced today. 4G coverage will get better in time. I hear over seas WiMax is really taking off and doing great, i believe its only a matter of time before it does the same thing here in the states. i look at 4G just being icing on the cake because here in Chicago, Sprints 3G is widespread and blazing fast. Apple better refresh the iphone OS and come out with a phone with a larger high def screen, and.... lets just say Apple better bring it because this phone is looking very tempting.
 
I'm sure that the phone may be exclusive to Sprint for a while, also when it goes to Verizon and AT&T I'm sure it will lose tons of features, namely the front facing camera.
 
Somehow I just cannot think of using an iPhone without a JB.... It really helps in many situations for me to be able to run things parallely - an example is running Navigon, take a quick phone call and go back to Navigon WITHOUT any delay and without getting lost.

I probably will have to ditch an iPhone if my current one fails as its not Jailbreakable with the new firmwares!
 
Granted this phone is a beast...your locked down to one carrier (sprint).

Also, 4G is hella fast (10x faster then 3g)...thing is...can you catch a strong enough signal to keep the connection going?

Here where I live, 4G isn't even remotely close to being released...yet, the Sprint stores all around town are preaching about how 4G is possible :confused: :p
 
Time to make the change then. HDMI is seriously against Apple's design philosophy, and a front-facing camera is doubtful (though not impossible.. the 5G Nano took me by surprise).
 
5G Nano doesn't have front-facing camera either, just a crappy away-facing one. I also doubt iPhone 4 will have front-facing camera - we would have seen it on iPad first.

Anyone who think iPhone 4 will come anywhere near EVO in specs will be sorely disappointed.
 
I know. I meant the 5G Nano camera wasn't something that followed Apple's design philosophy (IMO).

I wouldn't be surprised if the next iPhone had a Snapdragon in it and double the RAM (Apple has been pretty cutting-edge on this hardware aspect). Probably the same screen res, though.
 
I don't think it will have Snapdragon. It will have something close though --- the Apple A4 chip used on the iPad set to 1GHz.

Apple is the only phone producer that has its own customized CPUs, other than Samsung has on a few phones.
 
Just for the record, this will be using a 3g/4g hybrid chip, so even if you did have coverage of 4G, you can put it on EVDO only mode and see a nice 2.5mbps download speed.

In addition, you can absolutely do 4G data and voice simultaneously, just not 3G data and voice.

As far as speeds go, we're looking at 3-6 mbps real world speed at first, then 5-20, then eventually up to 100mbps in theory.
 
I'm in a real world market and you're looking at 2mbps in an area with low congestion and even less if you're in a residential area with lots of CLEAR users, this is also accounting for the degrading signal (WiMAX seems to be affected a lot by a poor signal) by the time it hits your house.
 
Not really. I'm in a fairly heavy Sprint area and hitting 2.5mbps on a rev A device. Let's be realistic here, not enough Sprint subscribers to call it "congested" let alone 4G customers.
 
I'm talking CLEAR WiMAX 4G, not Sprint EV-DO. They push CLEAR hard here and before my friend got 2 bars in a good spot (literally about a mile away from the tower with no obstructions inbetween it and her old apartment building) and less than 1 meg down and varying poor ping. Now she gets 2 megs in her new one but only gets service in her living room, in certain spots.
 
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