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Austin Craig: We ask a lot from our Smartphones smaller here, bigger here, more here, faster everywhere, it seems like an impossible game to keep pace with, but the HTC EVO 4G on Sprint comes particular close to getting it all right. It's a lightening fast with a beautiful display running on the quickest network in the country, whoever like a Shakespearian tragedy this phone at least one critical flaw, we'll talk about the battery life later.
First the good news, the EVO is running a one gigahertz Snapdragon CPU, its fast applications are snappy and installs happened almost instantly. Sprint says their 4G area will expand to cover my region by the end of the summer, but even with 3G this thing moves quick. The screen is big and beautiful, 4.3 inches diagonally cross, it's bright and much better in sunlight than a vast majority of the competitors. The touch screen is very responsive and easy to use.
Sound quality on speakers is loud and clear, it has HDMI out, so you can watch those HD videos you record right up on your awesome new big screen TV. The eight megapixel camera on the back takes great snapshots for a mobile phone, plus 720 P video and the 1.3 megapixel camera on the front makes two-way video calling, a dream you can believe in, if not, a current validity. I mean who might go in video right now, nobody else has a front facing camera on their phone, at least not until iPhone 4 comes out.
O iPhone 4, we'll talk about you later. And now Achilles' heel, the weak link, the missing chink in the armor, the battery life on the EVO is atrocious. Now I came from using a G1 notorious for its poor battery performance, I even bought an extended battery, so I can use it throughout the day without the thing dying. So I'm not coming into this with super, high expectations, but come on people that I can use the device for a full day, is it a really a finished product and it doesn't help that the EVO came preloaded with a bundle of Apps that I'll never use.
Thank you very much Sprint each of which have a tendency to fire up with no prompting form the user thus draining the battery. You buy something like this for its amazing hardware features, for the camera, the screen, the processor, the 4G Network for crying out loud, it's the kickstand and hot red accessories on the back they got me to buy this phone. But if I need to turn off all the features just like an actually make in received calls throughout the day, is it really worth all the trouble. Be sure to keep some extra Micro-USB Cables for the car, home, the office and anywhere else you plan on spending a great deal of time. And that's another thing, the Micro-USB now Brady, the helpful associate at the Sprint store told me that the Micro-USB was smaller than the mini-USB, really Brady, really?
Let's take a look, shall we, the mini-USB is seven millimeters across and three millimeters deep, well the Micro-USB is seven millimeters across and 1.5 millimeters deep, same width, half the height, but we're talking about fractions of an inch here, less then two millimeters doesn't make any appreciable difference at all to the end-user besides the fact that now I've to replace all of my cables, you know, thanks for that one, HTC appreciated.
Really I'm describing, and ranking, and rating like a mad man because I'm weirdly passionate about mobile technology. The fact of the matter is this is a great phone it is in fact you could have confidently called that the best phone and there would have been hardly any opposition, until three days after its release the iPhone 4 is announced and we're back to Apple dominating the field.
So should you get an EVO, it all depends, its one of the best of there but I can't universally recommend it, I'd say try a few different things out before jumping on board and remember that this ship doesn't go far without refueling, I'm Austin for TopTen Reviews, where we do the research, so you don't have to.
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