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Default Question for Sprint GNex owners

I am currently on the EVO 3D and just picked up the Epic 4G Touch and was planning on moving over to it. But, I just found a pretty good deal on the Galaxy Nexus and was trying to decide if I should skip moving to the E4GT and crack open the brand new box.

My question is about problems that the Verizon model saw. Also those coming from the 3D and E4GT what are you seeinghow battery life and signal strength compare to the EVO 3D and the E4GT.

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I had the Epic 4G Touch before this Galaxy Nexus and there are a lot of little things I miss about it:

-Better camera
-Flawless performance with live wallpapers
-Only 16gb but it has an empty MicroSD slot
-Display was gorgeous even at a lower resolution
-Better battery life

Having said that... I don't think I could go back to it. I love not having to flash a ROM to get vanilla ICS and the 720p display on this thing is a thing of beauty. Not to mention it is LTE ready. And what is huge to me is how the phone looks and feels physically. The Epic felt cheaper and more plastic-ish. And I love the soft keys.

I really don't notice much of a difference in overall signal strength. But if you look at my post history I posted a thread about 3G signal dropping a lot. It happens enough to be annoying but when it does I have had WiFi available so it's not a deal breaker for me.

EDIT: gray colors get a purple hue when the brightness is way down, but I've been told that's normal with this kind of display.

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Thanks, those are good things to consider. Anyone else have any input?
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I am really on the fence as to whether I want to go back to my epic or stick with my nexus. Last night there was an electrical storm here in Austin. I had my nexus and was filming the storm. My wife had her epic right next to me. The difference in quality was stunning. The video from my name nexus was almost un-watchable. The blacks were pixelized and the lighting was out of focus. On my wife's epic, the video was beautiful. The blacks were solid and the lighting was in focus and awesome. I like the phone as a whole and I am excited about LTE; but without LTE I am wondering why I switched at all at this point.

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That is why I haven't broken the seal on the GNex yet. I love the clean ICS experience, but it seems like the E4GT really is still a really liked phone. I wish that ASOP and AKOP were a little more solid on the E4GT and then I would probably wait awhile longer for the GNex
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I had an evo 3d for 4 months and an epic touch for 2 weeks. I like my evo since it came out but I was disappointed with the camera moved on to the 4s and it been my daily driver till I got my nexus... I own the epic touch in between and hated the slow camera (consider I was using a 4s at the time) and how wide it was compare to the 3d and my iPhone... I return the phone I don't like touchwiz is not my cup of tea... Anyways now I got my nexus Galaxy for 2 weeks... Backing actually felt like an upgrade from my 4s evn tho I could go back and forth but phones are great IMO the camera could be better and battery life was bad the first week finally decided to root and i'm just as happy as I used to be with myns rom on my OG evo I feel the google finally is getting android all together UI is so much better and I definitely can't go back to gingerbread or skin ICS I hope this helps you decide I'm definitely staying with this phone as my daily driver I know the evo lte is coming soon but it doesn't interest me as much

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I enjoy my GN. I aint gonna lie but I do miss my EVO4g and what jgalan says nothing can go wrong with MYN's roms. Damn they were good. I had the chance to jump on the EVOLTE wagon but tried sense on my wifes EVO3d and I cant stand sense anymore. So I am good with my GN. If this purple tint gets worse as time goes by I gotz my insurance.
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