[HTC EVO 3D] Machina2o2:
Ive had mine since the day they made me an advocate for it at sprint which was about a week now? Im gonna break the rules a bit because people have to know what they are getting themselves into.

Pros

1. Faster -Shorter Boot Time, Faster loading of everything compared to the evo4g as expected with double the cpu, gpu, ram

2. Build QA - It just feels better all around and being that the device is a tad bit narrower easier to hold in hand.

3. Sense - I like the new shortcuts as they save time and although the animations are neat they will likely get old pretty soon like the evo4g ones did.

4. Resolution - its not really too noticeable but have those extra pixels make web browsing a little less of a scroll fess and the screen itself is very bright and clear but sadly pales to the amoled screens for videos.

Cons

1. Slow! - Still has that annoying choppy feel when using kinetic scrolling in app drawer, swiping from one window to another, web browser scrolling by comparison im doing a side by side with an epic and nexus s which both do not show this issue, 3D apps are obviously not optimized for the Areno 220 as most heavy 3d apps are sluggish vs the 540 in the samsung devices and even though its a higher res device it should not have to struggle when htc claims higher gpu through output along with a dual core cpu.

2. STILL CANNOT PLAY .MKV FILE TYPES! this is so annoying a lot of videos i download are usually .MKV packaged files and even with software renderers like rockplayer the phone displays terrible visual artifacts and out of sync play vs epic and nexus s. If I wanted to sit around and convert them to "proper" formats I would have picked up an iphone or ipad instead I like beiing able to drag and drop files and play them off the bat like on the samsung devices.

3. Camera blows - Its obvious that the processing is auto sharpening the images compared to the Evo4g but comparing it to the beauty that is the epic camera this is a downgrade the only upside is having the wonderful tactile camera button which is the best ive used on a phone. I have a real camera a canon SD1400 and a Nikon D90 but neither are portable enough for me to remember to bring them out which is why I rely on my phone for a lot of instant moment shots.

4. 3D - Plainly is terrible in fact despite all that they advertise (3d capture, record, youtube, movies, games) only the movie included seemed to really make great use of it since all the other options had the 3d settings a bit off causing headaches and blurry vision with longer than 10 minutes of usage. the spider-man game they included is a joke as it performs considerably slower than the 2d version and in most cases caused the unit to crash and power cycle if you minimized and reentered the game which I was able to reproduce 2/3 times

Neither here or there

Speed - 4g and 3g is still exactly the same and upon opening mine up its the exact same 4g wimax chip in that they use in the evo 4g

Battery - its technically a better battery however the EVO3d uses more power thus this cancels out the actual savings and imho less efficient than the evo4g

Android - although gingerbread out the door since it is not a ASOP rom no GB animations =(

Design - Great idea on the powerjack placement but the lack of kickstand saddens me as i use it quite often and dread the fact that i have to use a case to get one adding weight and bulk for no reason.

Overall you can see im not a fan of the new phone but the inner geek in me loves the new hardware under the hood but it feels like something only custom roms could really solve. Im quite shocked that the evo3d isnt really offering the 2x performance I was hoping for in android and everyday it feels like my inactive iphone4 is laughing at me having to work so hard to make android enjoyable like windows mobile 5, 5.1, 6, 6.5 did.

This phones gets a 5 From me :mad:

Current phones I bounce around Evo4g (owned since day one I rate it a 8) Epic4g (owned since day one I also rated it an 8) Nexus S4g (owned since day one rated also 8) and Evo3d (collecting dust but owned since day one rated 5) and for comparrison sake Iphone 4 ATT (was given to me as a gift despite me not actually being on ATT so I use it as a jailbroken ipod I rated a 8.5)