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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Rxpert:
Samsung claims they added the extra gb of ram to future proof it for jb. However, It's painfully obvious you don't need 2gb of ram to run jb, so it having an extra gig is a moot point to me.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] codexv:
I have both. The HTC build quality can't be touched. The display is a toss up... the HTC is more natural and lifelike while the Samsung is more vibrant. The s3 speed and performance is ahead... by a lot in day to day use.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] PsiPhiDan:
I played with an S3 briefly today. Nice phone, but ugly. Both the hardware and software are ugly. No noticeable difference in speed between my rooted overclocked EVO running Flex's ROM and that stock S3... Haha.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Toney Starks:
Somebody give this man a standing ovation, jesus u just made my decision that much easier, thanks bro.

Sorry htc not this time around
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
yes, there will be a D&S+ 'Warm' on evo lte, but Derek and inc are with vzw sgs3 now.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Man i never expected Myn to jump ship. I mean even Freeza did also. But change isnt always a bad thing.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JMQUINT00:
Raw power and specs don't have a thing to do with sales number as for every power user that buys a phone like this there are 10 regular users who buy it for the apps and to do the facebook and take pics and blah blah. Case in point is the iPhone. The most under powered smartphone yet most sold of all times. Samsung has learned from Apple that most people are sheep and will buy anything if they see it n TV enough times. Unfortunately or maybe because HTC lacks the money they aren't advertising as much. But I promise you that the majority of people who buy the Samsung or HTC don't know half the specs and half of those people don't even know what ram is.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gmelchert:
so like a lot of people are saying these are both 2 great phones. due to some problems at sprint when I got the evo, and I had a flight to Italy later that day I wasn't able to activate my phone. so I haven't touched the bootloader until I get this thing activated. that means I've been suffering from the terrible multitasking on this phone. and right now I would really love that extra gb of ram. that being said when I get back, root and maybe there will be aosp by then, the multitasking won't be nearly as bad.

something I have been enjoying is the ooos and ahhhs from all the Italian girls when they see my evo. everybody thinks it looks and feels better than the s3 (s3 is the only major phone out here).

The evo feels better in the hand, sense is very soothing to look at and the screen is beautiful. text is clearer and colors are truer. I hate how fake the s3 looks and feels. The ui looks like a cheap child's play phone and the phone feels like a toy. This is clearly my own opinion and other people might enjoy the s3 ui more (idk why). anyways that's my 2 cents, I'm happy with my evo, I wouldn't be happy with the s3 even though it may multitask better
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Kujila:
SGSIII causes cancer within one month of usage, so I bought HTC EVO 4G LTE :highfive:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] XTRoRDiNAiRE:
I love the look and feel of the evo lte over the sg3 any time

One thing that disappoints me from the evo lte is that I feel it might not get that much development :(

I'm such a flashaholic that I can't stand running the same rom for more than two days but I'm forced to use sense until we start seeing more aosp dev.

I miss miui so much :-\

I was even considering trading the evo lte for the sg3
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Rippley05:
I've already tried to sell/trade mine for the s3 and absolutely no interest lol. I miss MIUI as well, I haven't had official CM support since the OG evo and I miss that too.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tm21fourt3:
Only regret is not waiting for the white evo lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] raiderep:
Same here but a white case works well ;)

As for lack of development, have you looked? We have plenty as far as I'm concerned and its still very early in the game folks...

Sent from my EVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] firmbiz94:
Yea development just got a little interesting with bad seed; team derp , and all of its member dropping individual roms after the derp effort....I've gotten caught up in the whole gs3 vs EVO thing but at the end of the day I've realized that there can be two equally awesome phones at once..at least there's a discussion this time, as with the EVO 3d vs the epic touch nobody gave the EVO a shot ..
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tm21fourt3:
All the white cases look weak though....I need some protection :cyclops:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JMQUINT00:
There is this one case with a lot of androids on the back. Made by cruzerlite. I think they have a white one. Looks pretty dope. I have one.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] freeza:
Yeah, not even Sprint. They didn't give that awful device a year on the shelves before canning it lol.

As much as I loved the EVO 3D on paper, it was just a terrible device. Not because of the hardware. That was fine, slightly less better than the GS2's Exynos, but fine. It was the marketing, lack of development, terrible update strategy, screen angle issues, touch screen issues, and on top of that nobody really cared about it. I for sure thought that since GSM version was available, the EVO 3D would see a wide range of support by people. You're right, nobody gave it a chance mostly because it didn't deserve one. That phone would have done better if it had dropped the dual cameras, kept the 3D screen, and was marketed as the EVO 4G 3D--like the Nintendo 3DS. There was just too much time and effort needed to keep developing for that dying phone and both Sprint and HTC realized that. I'm not sure it would have been much easier to keep the 3D screen, but both of those played a huge part in that phone's ultimate failure.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] firmbiz94:
I actually enjoyed my 3d although I did go through a couple replacements..but the viewing angles were terrible and the camera left much to be desired..I luckily never got trapped by hboot 1.5 and enjoyed the devs we did have ..I think sprint failed that phone (like you said) the internals have been and still.are being.used in successful devices, so that wasn't the problem and I found it to be a speedy lil phone..and it def multi tasked better than my shiny new LTE does atm
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JMQUINT00:
I think the problem with the 3d was the '3D'. I have a few friends that went for it and the whole 3d didn't really catch on. And the camera went backwards in my opinion from the original. The phone itself was pretty responsive from what I could tell but the whole 3d ruined it. But they redeemed themselves with the new one. I only change phones every 2 yrs anyway so I look forward to 2014s Evo :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] firmbiz94:
Yea a lot of ppl bashed the 3d aspect of it ...then pretty much dismissed the whole phone..ppl don't dismiss the gs3 bc s voice sucks..its a feature that is not essential and you don't have to use..as a smartphone I thought it was a good jump from the og EVO..it did have some build quality issues internally ..I had like 3 b4 I finially had one that lasted almost a year b4 the digitizer went bad
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tridogg97:
I had them both all this about the internals is irrelevant. Both are good phones. Its just personal preference. Personally I take hardware over software any day. I'm a happy Evo owner. Samsung gave an extra gb to make it not as painful for the sorry hardware. They are really capitalizing of this device.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] babyschmoof:
Load MeanROM 2.3, it's a whole new experience. It flies along with great battery life. Also the best developer communication I have ever seen!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] babyschmoof:
Volume+ is free app. I have not needed it since upgrading to MeanROM.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] KBone25:
Wow. Just read the entire thread from start to finish since I'm due for an update on the 1st and have been on the fence about EVO LTE vs GS3.

I'm coming from the EVO 4G and love sense. My worry is the multitasking issue.

Is this something the community can fix or is it going to take HTC to do it?

I've always used the FRESH Rom on my EVO and love it. Simple, stable, close to stock... I'm not a romaholic... just want some of the extras that FRESH provided, along with some of the bloatware removed.

I noticed there's a FRESH rom for the EVO LTE, any chance this gets rid of the multitasking issue?

Thanks!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mazzmoney:
Honestly both the SGS3 and the Galaxy Nexus look more attractive than the EVO LTE. But that is my personal opinion. It's a great phone, but Sprint is gid awful. Like, I'm afraid to take my phone out and search something because it is so slow. On top of how slow the network is, you have ugly sense bogging down this beast. If you want to get rid of sense like me you will have to get a CM Rom which as of now doesn't have LTE.

I'm sure enough people have talked about the multitasking issue so I won't mention but rest assured it is very annoying. Honestly the only thing saving this phone is the device community.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] funcrusher:
Elaborate, please.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fachadick:
Granted, I've been on the same rom for over two months now, and have no real complaints with multitasking, but I've heard that cm10 is almost a daily driver, and a slew of new sense roms are about to drop from top tier devs. An argument can definitely be made that the community is behind this device, even if you think that HTC and Sprint aren't.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mrnamster:
I regret purchasing the Evo only because of the smaller developer base, lack of USB host and poor multi-tasking. Trying to focus on hardware instead of software.

Evo pros:

-Design (kickstand, shutter button, capacitive buttons layout, solid feel, USB port and hard buttons where I like them to be)

-Display (colors look great)

SIII pros:

-Display (larger size by .1")

-Faster development (larger developer base)

-Camera (image stabilization)

-USB host

I just scooped up a used SIII on eBay and will soon decide which one to keep.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] klitzkrieg:
i always had poor GPS on Samsung seems to still be the case from running GPS test on S3 in the store compared to HTC. I also love hardware camera button. The metal edged body feels better to me.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JMQUINT00:
The S3 is for girls lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] firmbiz94:
Cm10 for the LTE? are they keeping it under wraps or something ..ill ****e myself if they just drop a functional cm10 out of nowhere
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] DioTGT:
I've been hearing rumors about all of the ROM's dropping soon also. My Wife hates it because I am always in this thread lol but anyways...Dont be surprised if they come out with a functional BETA CM10.

Going back to the original question, I have the cheap feel of the Samsung phones and I abhor TouchWiz
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] owlchemist:
The HTC Inspire was my first android device and the EvoLTE is my second. I'm currently waiting on my replacement because my phone was borked and I could not access data. Now I'm considering dropping the extra $100 and getting the S3. Has anyone who has gone from evo to s3 wanted to go back to their evo?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] woody296:
I don't own either but have read a ton on both. I do not think the s3 is worth getting for an extra 100 bucks. Both phones, according to most reviews, are excellent.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Hunt3r.j2:
Multitasking issues is from HTC shenanigans inside their framework that are killing tasks before the OOM killer does.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mrnamster:
Been using both devices and I must say the SIII feels better to hold since it's rounded and the plastic is more grippy than the Evo's aluminum body.

The Evo feels more solid, thin and slightly heavier. I like how the soft Home button on the Evo is capacitive compared to the SIII's hard button.

The SIII's speaker is lounder than the Evo's.

I haven't found a need to swap batteries yet.

I'll follow up once I decide which one to keep/sell.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] P.Mobile:
to be honest i have had all 3 evo's og evo the evo 3d and i loved both of them phones so i had to jump on the evo lte.. i got the phone the day it came out june 2.. i really loved it when i first got it but now im thinking did i make the rite choice?? the most thiing that bothers me is multi tasking its sux!! the rom im running now it did get better but its still a problem.. also i dont kno if its the phone or its just sprint signal but my signal blows with this phone on the og evo everything was all good.. same with the 3d i could get 4g in my dam house!! since i got the lte i cant get 3g half the time and when i do it sooooooo sososososo slow i feel like smashing the phone.. sometimes it takes like 5 min for a app to dowmload.. i dont kno.. ohh and when scrolling from srcreens its choppy sometimes and some lag.. i played with the galxey s3 yesturday and i was blown away.. NO lag it was like butter.. sucks cause i love the evo line and love htc but i wanta good solid phone and the lte aint cuttin it for me :( if **** s keeps up i think im ill be getting my first samsung phone
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] PsiPhiDan:
Hey guys... Go to the Original Development section...

Deck's CM9 thread is now a CM10 thread. Also, psp's AOKP ROM is now CM10 (ported from Gnex).

I'm running the CM10 right now, and it is so incredibly amazing that I'm willing to live with its flaws. As for beta... Eh, I've heard devs won't call it beta until everything is working. They still need to fix 3g icon, video, landscape mode, battery life, etc. BUT, it runs smoother than anything I've ever experienced on a phone, Google Now is a beast, and it is a multi-tasking pro. That's reason enough to jump on board! :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] preymd:
Just wish we had more developers working on our phones like the GS III.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Rxpert:
The SIII is on multiple carriers and multiple countries, Thats why it has more developers. Nothing to do with the success of either phone
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] shook187:
Well the EVO in every scene of the word has been a flop. I guarantee this will be the last HTC to carry the EVO name. And to answer the OP, yes I choose the EVO over the GS3 and I had regrets. And regrets no more cause as of today, I crossed over to the otherside.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] molitar:
One thing I really want to know not from any bias version.. these are my order of preference what phone you would go with? Build quality forget it any good case solves that like a Ballistic for example.

I. Battery Life for these actions

A. Gaming

B. Videos

II. Loudness and sound quality (I do not have best of hearing)

A. Speakers

B. Headset

III. Connectivity

A. Internet 3G (I won't see LTE for a long time)

B. Voice (low signal levels or dropped connections)

Performance I think is a bit mute also since both have similar specs except for 1GB memory. So I think it really comes down to the 3 questions above I expect games will be released quicker on the Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Evo 3D as I have experienced with Gameloft for example. I'll post this same exact question in Samsung S3 thread also but these are the answers I really need to know.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] slowfncar:
Samsung galaxy s3 seems to be for you.

The evo lte is very simular, as far as battery life you will have better luck with a pentile samoled ,touchwiz & removable battery. Me on the other hand still chose my evo :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scoot0073:
I chosen mine b/c I have always been happy with every HTC device that I owned since the Touch Pro days and and of course its a EVO :)

sent from my EVO LTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JoshuaFCB:
Better build quality, nuff said.

Htc Evo FooGeee ElTEee
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] child.prodigy.99:
Well I had the evo 3d but the build quality was horrible I never dropped my phone once I kept a case on it but after I took the case of the frame started peeling off and the phone started getting laggy and unuseable so then I got another something happened again and the I got the e4gt really great phone love the screen and screen size haven't had any problems out the phone at all
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dacdd:
The panel going out on my two and a half year old Samsung ln55b650 LCD going out on me that cost 2 grand sealed the deal:)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] child.prodigy.99:
Only tho g I don't like is the touchwiz but I hate sense 4.0 even more
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Saneless One:
I regretted the evo vs Samsung but now that there's good and stable CM10, I'm happier I don't have a phone with a crappy hardware home button.

And of course with identical software, the evo screen is much better. I guess I'm happy with the evo until we have issues with CM11 and Samsung does its likely source release for the gs3
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] luisrod03:
i used to have a sgs2 before i was not very happy battery life sucked, 3g speeds where very slow and i didn't matter what modem i used...and when you rooted the phone you can't customize anything on their easily....HTC i had the evo, evo 3d, and now lte and battery life is great signal and 3g speeds are great....the only bad thing is that development is a little slow

HTC EVO LTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] PsiPhiDan:
No offense, but what does that have to do with this thread? That's like the 2011 version of this thread.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eric00716:
Htc does have great build quality. I came from the htc inspire 4g and loved and i will only get another htc phone unless they make some serious missteps. The screen is my main reason the screen on my 4g lte blows my brothers galaxy nexus out of the water.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Kyjibo:
Screen and build quality. Mostly the screen. It's awesome.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] iandmacdonald:
I think some guys want their Evo to do everything a high-end computer can do, which the Evo obviously is not. I use it to browse forums, check my email, etc. This phone does all of that well. I don't know jack about what it SHOULD do (multi-tasking, etc.). I guess I'm not a hardcore phone nut, but, I do know when the Evo was introduced at MWC, I knew it was the phone I wanted, and liked it enough to stay loyal to the Evo line. I speak for those whom use their phones like me for texting, etc., and it gets the job done.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ItsTommyGun:
I work on phone for a living. I have already worked on several S3s which says a lot for a phone that's barely been on the market a month. I have hardly worked on any EVO LTE's and it's been on the market longer.

I bought my EVO just a few weeks prior to the S3 coming out, and I will say though that if I had waited 3 weeks longer to decide to buy a phone I probably would have gotten an S3. I have extensively used both devices and the biggest thing that would have driven me to the S3 is the feel of it. I came to the EVO from an iphone and I didn't realize how much I like having a physical home button. Also having the lock/power button on the side like in the S3 is very nice on such a big phone - try holding the EVO LTE in one hand and lock and unlock the phone - it's difficult. Also, the bezel on the EVO is too small (I know that's blasphemy in some circles) - such a small bezel ends up making your hand hurt after extensive typing.

I will say I haven't noticed the lack of an extra gig of ram hurting the evo AT ALL.

On paper and in use I would definitely say the S3 is the way to go. But, I also feel like I need to go back to my first statement. I have worked on, and had to replace SEVERAL S3s but very few EVO LTEs.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cevaes_64:
i own both devices and they are both pretty good machines, but i rather the evo over the S3 any day,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] morfinx:
That doesn't really answer the question the thread asks, which is "why"? ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bootny:
Amaze is w tmobile and also discontinued
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] il buono:
Definitely a nice build quality but supposedly prone to bending...thankfully mine's still flat :)

Both UI's look good to me but of course haters still exist. Personal preference though and there's no need to overclock on the S3 to have a smooth experience :D

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] `Ghost`:
they still offer it online. Im getting it free with activation waived and with the andrid prefered data plan for $20 per mo soft cap at 5 gigs. also getting a sweet deal on my monthly bills aswell so after tax ill be paying $55. #Winning

Phone fits my hand better, has an almost as good camera. audio in recording videos could be better (but users have fixed it with root)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] starplaya93:
I see absolutely no benefits of having 2gb of ram. Everybody speculates that it will somehow make the phone "faster" or "better" but there is nothing on Android to date that even utilizes 1gb of ram. The Nexus 7 and the "coming soon" OUYA both run on 1gb of ram and will run any Android game or App that has been released to date and any app that will be released in the foreseeable future, perfectly smooth. The Nexus S which has only 512mb of ram is going to be updated to Jelly bean before any of our phones, it's years old and will still run 99% of the stuff on the Android market perfectly.

2gb of ram is just another gimmick that Samsung added so that they can brag about it on the feature list. It looks "cooler" to have 2gb under the feature list of a phone than 1gb when you are comparing devices at a mobile store.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] greengoldmello:
I wouldn't be so quick to call it a gimmick as it seems this phone doesn't keep any apps open with one gig.. A gig and a half would have done it
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kali323:
It is not a gimmick and HTC phones will benefit the most. Despite what blogs are saying about Sense 4 is light, it is still as heavy as ever. Maybe multitasking wouldnt be an issue if it had 2gb of ram. The Nexus S will not run everything perfect especially the big heavy games. The Nexus S is not as smooth as you are making it sound. And nexus devices dont have skin and bloat so they dont need as much ram.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Anthonicia:
Remember reading somewhere on another s3 vs EVO thread that the Samsung launcher (htc has sense, can't remember what Samsung's is atm) requires more memory than sense does. The S3 also has more bloat ie s-voice, etc.

I'm happy with the EVO. I don't like the multi-tasking issue or having to keep it in an otterbox to prevent it from bending even more than it already is. Also havent rooted yet, but I like the functionality I keep without rooting right now.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Evo_Shift:
The screen, kickstand and feel of the phone made me choose evo. I am regretting it a little though. Mostly because development is faster on the gs3
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Evo_Shift:
If htc didn't have their memory management so aggressive 1GB would be enough. Sense shouldn't have to free up memory by closing apps when there is apparently around 150mb still available. I'm sure they could keep quite a few more open if they didn't free up memory until the 20-50mb mark.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mexiking713:
Coming from the Evo 4g, Evo 3D and Epic Touch 4g I missed sense. Touch wiz is just awful. Glad to be back with HTC.

Sent from my HTC Evo LTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] stanglifemike:
I had the HTC Touch, Touch Pro, Touch Pro 2, Evo 4G, Evo 3D now this. I like HTC products and dislike Samsung screens and build quality..... Easy decision for me an absolutely no regrets!!