[EVO 4G General] AshMa:
YES this is a pointless rant unless you're someone thinking about going from the mighty Evo to tiny iPhone:

I loved the Evo when I got it on launch day. Screen issues x 3 and sluggish UI, had me looking at other options. After weeks of waiting, I got my iPhone 4G in the mail today and I'm sitting here with it turned on, right beside my Evo that's about to go back to The Shack.

I really don't know what all the talk is about across the web. Sure the iPhone screen is very sharp and looks great, but side by side with the Evo, to my good 29yr old eyes, I can not see any meaningful difference from about 10 inches away. Going to get my SLR and lighting equipment out and take some really nice side by side shots unlike all the Apple loving blogs do. The Evo looks much better in terms of the entire face of the devices. And I really don't think I'm going to be able to get used to this tiny little iphone screen. The Evo makes this iPhone look like a toy and this is after all the hoops I had to go through to get my hands on this thing today.

The iphone apps do look very nice; IMDB on the iPhone is much nicer than on my Evo and just like everyone claims, facebook for the iPhone is miles ahead so it seems in my limited testing. Then we have iTunes which is hated by so many but let me tell you that in a matter of 2min, I was able to sync ALL of my Outlook data to the new iPhone via iTunes with no problems or extra apps needed.

I was wrong! The Evo is one bad*** device and looks like a real mans phone where as the the iPhone is so cute and tiny......What was I thinking; I jumped through hoops to get Sprint to take back my Evo and allow me to end my contract 4 days late and att put me through a mess and half to get my order done and sent overnight after a week long 28 call mess with them (at least they gave me a $100.00 credit for my troubles).

I'm 6'1 and I have mid-large sized hands and the Evo is just right, where as the iPhone is so little and too narrow. I can see it now, I'm going to end up returning the iPhone and getting a new Evo (hope it has a good screen) or a Samsung Galaxy. I'm new to ATT and my first call was from my mom calling me from her land line, while I was sitting in my home office and sure enough the call was dropped right after I picked the phone from my desktop.

I really want to like the iPhone because the apps and some other features such as all the very nice accessories out there, are great and the battery life is nothing to look down on so I'm told. And I don't know the OS well enough yet but we'll see. I do know though that the lack of a back button on the device means that many apps have back buttons wasting space within the apps and then some app screens don't have a back button and so you have to click the home button and go home (but then again I guess the iphone has multitasking which I haven't tried yet). Also having just one button, seems like such a waste where as the Evo not only has 4 but they can do more than one function. I wonder if I'm the only person who doesn't like the iPhones one button that feels and looks like a button that is broken as in smashed in.

What in the world have I signed up for?!?!?! The iPhone is slick but the dang screen is way too small for these Evo and HD2 4.3" spoiled eyes. One last thing in my rant here; all the talk about the Evo being sluggish compared to the iPhone. Well that's not always the case. I've tested a few things and each and every time, the Evo can pull up the main settings screen, faster than the iPhone and it does the same with a few other screens I've tried.

I guess I'll take the iPhone for a 30 day ride and by then the Samsung Galaxy on all 4 should be out and new Evo's with better glue? should be out for me to come back to the land of Android..........

Yeah the iPhone screen is super sharp and sure you can see it from more angles BUT it's a phone! It's NOT a TV! Why on earth would anyone care about being able to view a phone screen from wide angles?!?!?!?! Even the Evo and it's big screen is still best for one person viewing at a time. If I want to share, I'll email contant to my friends phone or let them each hold my phone one after another. Just had to add that because of all the iPhone viewing angle hype out there. Which brings me to another little point: If you read about the Evo vs iPhone 4G on almost all of the big blogs, you'll notice that they claim that the Evo and the iPhone cost the same on a 2-year contract but that the iPhone comes with 32GB of memory where as the Evo only comes with an 8GB card and that you have to pay extra for a 32GB card. What they don't state is the fact that I paid 200 for the Evo and 300 for that 32GB iPhone. Now I'm pretty sure a 32GB card for the Evo can be had for less than a 100. Okay enough of my rant! Time to go to Radio Shack........