Data is unlimited, but I'm sure the speed is severely throttled after a limit, right? I know T-Mobile does this.
Just want to second Clutch's thanks. My TMobile contract is up in March and thanks to the advice on this thread, I'm moving to spring and the wife are getting a pair of HTC EVOs... Can't *bleeping* wait. Thank all... this board is so awesome.
That is not my understanding Now, I have yet to use over 5G in data in one month on my phone, that is what my computer is for, but if I found that to be true, me and sprint would have words cause when I asked about it they said unlimited data on phone plans...no ifs ands or buts.
you may be grandfather clause'd into a true unlimited plan; all the current cellphone data plans are 5gb of 3g service, and unlimited 4g service
wonder if the fact Im on a business account makes the difference? The contract was just renewed when I got the Evo the day after launch, but they didnt grandfather clause me when I switched the old pc card modem for the usb one, so I cant imagine they would have done the phone contract differently. I dont care enough to check with sprint on this since I dont plan on going over 5G on my phone, thats just not how I use it....email, twitter, navigation and text and calls are all I do with it.
I really want the Evo, but damn. I signed up for Sprint opened up a 2 line unlimited date with 2 Samsung Transforms for free on blackfriday. Good phone, but what I really want is the Evo. And now it's $99 for the EVO on RadioShacks site....but in store $199. WTF. I'm tempted to cancel and have no phone for 30days then resign up with Sprint. My gf works at radioshack, which is why I went and did it in store so she'd get the $$ for signing up a a 2 line. really wish they'd lower the instore price. I have till the 23rd to do a trade in for another phone if I'm not happy with this one. Radioshack is ending their trade in policy that day.
Go phoneless. If Samsung releases android 2.2 before you get your hands on that EVO, ditch the EVO for the epic
LTE is the next jump. Forget the 2g/3g/4g marketing mumbo jumbo. This is more of a Analog --> CDMA/GSM --> LTE. Right now, voice calls and data transmission/calls are done on different channels. Voice calls use up quite a bit of spectrum compared to data. For example, 1 minute of voice equals several thousand texts (or some absurd number). EVDO and HSPDA have been too slow in the past to provide voice transmission in the form of VOIP in a reliable manner. LTE changes that. CDMA and GSM will be around for the next decade or so as the infrastructure is already setup to transmit those voice calls. As LTE is rolled out and improved upon, calls will eventually goto VOIP on LTE instead of using CDMA/GSM. I predict in the next 4-5 years, "calling plan minutes" will start to phase out. Instead of having something like $60 calling plan with $30 data package, you purchase a data device and data plan tiered at certain speeds and add features like unlimited VOIP for $20. The term "phone" will be a thing of the past.
The Transform was my first android. I liked it a lot, although it was a bit slow. I hated how it still had 2.1, which I was clueless about till I got the phone. I really wanted something that had flash that would allow me to stream videos from sites like justin.tv. Well, today. I made the jump to the phone I have wanted all along. The Evo. I'm absolutely floored by this phone. It's amazing. I was thinking about just waiting, but my gf surprised me tonight. She had traded in my transform for an Evo for me.
*PARDON ANOTHER THREAD BUMP* HTC came out with the HTC EVO Shift for Sprint, the EVO version with a physical keyboard; seems like they scaled down some other things like no front facing camera and the camera is 5 megapixel instead of 8. Shift is 4G just like the EVO and the Samsung Epic. Here's a review: <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZET2gMKAH2U?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZET2gMKAH2U?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> Comparison of EVO Shift and the original EVO: <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OxI8vG6wT8g?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OxI8vG6wT8g?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> Comparison of EVO Shift to the Samsung Epic: <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5D1cygsc_1M?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5D1cygsc_1M?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
