[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mhannigan:
I never ask questions like this because I pride myself on knowing everything - or at least being able to piece together an answer. But honestly, I'm tired of searching and trying to make sense out of the data. You are the smartest group of mobile device "All in One" tech types I know. If anyone thinks I am posting this is the wrong place, screw you... Please just help me.

My Epic Touch 4g is on its last leg from too many experiments. I need to get a new phone tomorrow. It will be either an S4 or an HTC One.

Background info that has me assuming things that may be wrong.

My service is Boost and I've run both Boost and Sprint ROMs with identical functionality.

Boost now sells the s3 with 4gLTE support vs WIMAX. Of my sii

I can't justify leaving Boost if I can help it because I currently pay $40/month for everything including limited "unlimited" data and get great speeds service etc.

On the new phones, I believe most variants have identical hardware including radios and it is controlled by the ROM.

What I need to know...

I assume that I could at least buy the sprint variant of either and activate on Boost. Is that accurate?

Can I buy the Dev version of the HTC or the I9505 S4 and activate it or flash and activate on Boost and still get 4g. If I spend $600 on a phone, I'm not talking about with a donor phone etc. Clean ESN etc...

And finally... What do you guys and girls think about these phones? I've always been a fan of OLED. Are these reviewers on the take, or does the IPS screen really blow away the AMOLED? When I tried both, I immediately thought the LCD suffered from what I would describe as a slower response time... For example, scrolling white boxes on a dark background leaving sort of a white tail behind it... Something I don't see at all on OLED. I am primarily interested the best display and best feel of the swipe. That's all... The rest of the components I'm intimately familiar with. I would prefer the camera on the s4, but that is not as important to me as the display. And not color accuracy... But pleasing. Display display display.

I know that's a lot to ask, so I suggest you all start working on helping me right away. I will remove my pants now and monitor the pub for the flood of answers. General opinions on the phones are welcome as well. I trust you folks more than I trust anyone I've seen review the phones. Except one guy who seemed pretty cool. Ad this one other guy....no... Seriously. I trust you guys the most. And no, it wouldn't be funny to lie to me so I get a crappy phone that won't work on my continent or something. I mean it would be funny... But doing it to me would make it instantly unfunny. Thank you!

Mantastic

---------- Post added at 11:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 PM ----------

Miguel. Sorry. I just saw this after my long and selfish post. "Sad" will never describe what any of us feel when we lose a loved one. I learned a LOT when my mother died recently (I learned that 3 years can still be called recent for example!). Don't cheat yourself out of whatever emotions come your way - love, nostalgia, anger, guilt. Life is for the living, as is grieving. And we all grieve in totally different ways so there is nothing "wrong" or "bad" that could be applies to things you say or feel about it. Bereavement is yours to grow from... A little or a lot... It doesn't matter. When my mother died, I has not seen here for about three months prior to that day I received the call from my brother in ICU. My mother was brought in the night before and we needed to make a decision to take her off life support that morning. I experienced every emotion and every pain all at once... Plenty of regret and guilt... Later I was pretty angry at her for dying so young or maybe knowing something she didn't tell me. I felt a depth and range of things I hadn't felt before. And it changed over time... I changed over time too. I matured a lot from it but also take some things less seriously because of it. I learned a lot although I'd be hard pressed to tell you exactly what. Embrace whatever you feel from his passing, negative, positive, or neither. Its your grief. That's one thing you don't have to feel bad about.

Mantastic

---------- Post added at 11:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 PM ----------

I replaced a heater core once to save a ton of money and It will never happen again.

Nor will removing, modifying, and reinstalling an intake manifold on a Saturn. Never again. Never never never. I would choke myself to death before I would do either of those jobs again.