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Can't believe I almost bought this phone. The epic 4g was just so big that I didn't want it. But then I thought about how Motorola was releasing phone after phone (something like 5 on Verizon alone last year), and I knew that updates on a Motorola phone was a roll of the dice. That with a locked bootloader to make it extremely difficult to flash my own ICS on it, I am so glad I went with the ET4G instead.

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Can't believe I almost bought this phone. The epic 4g was just so big that I didn't want it. But then I thought about how Motorola was releasing phone after phone (something like 5 on Verizon alone last year), and I knew that updates on a Motorola phone was a roll of the dice. That with a locked bootloader to make it extremely difficult to flash my own ICS on it, I am so glad I went with the ET4G instead.

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You clearly haven't seen how many galaxy s2 variants Samsung had released then.

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Can't believe I almost bought this phone. The epic 4g was just so big that I didn't want it. But then I thought about how Motorola was releasing phone after phone (something like 5 on Verizon alone last year), and I knew that updates on a Motorola phone was a roll of the dice. That with a locked bootloader to make it extremely difficult to flash my own ICS on it, I am so glad I went with the ET4G instead.

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Glad you're happy with your choice. That's all that really matters today since all these phones are so similar. They all have pros and cons. The ET4g huge low-res over-saturated unreadable-outdoors screen was the show stopper for me.

Glad you're happy with your stock ICS on ET4G. I'm sure I'll be happy with stock ICS on the Photon later this year. We both win - we're happy.
 
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I had an E4GT. The radio in that phone is terrible. Thats the one thing the Photon has over that phone.
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Can't believe I almost bought this phone. The epic 4g was just so big that I didn't want it. But then I thought about how Motorola was releasing phone after phone (something like 5 on Verizon alone last year), and I knew that updates on a Motorola phone was a roll of the dice. That with a locked bootloader to make it extremely difficult to flash my own ICS on it, I am so glad I went with the ET4G instead.

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That phone still sucks

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Apple doesn't care? Is that why they sued jailbreakers years back and tried to make jailbreaking iphones illegal? It took a ruling from a court that jailbraking and modding was indeed legal to get them to stop.

Is that why they almost immediately neuter any sort of workarounds or apps that allow jailbreaking in their market? At least the android market has fully legit apps like superuser and rom manager still in the market.

Not that Motorola is doing much better, but to say that Apple doesn't care is foolish in itself.
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Can't believe I almost bought this phone. The epic 4g was just so big that I didn't want it. But then I thought about how Motorola was releasing phone after phone (something like 5 on Verizon alone last year), and I knew that updates on a Motorola phone was a roll of the dice. That with a locked bootloader to make it extremely difficult to flash my own ICS on it, I am so glad I went with the ET4G instead.

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enjoy that scamsung POS. they tried to get me to take one during my upgrade. I told them they can take their samsung and shove it after the whole Moment debacle. I'd take a locked down Moto over a unlocked samsung any day
samsung moment>evo shift>photon 4G>optimus G
 
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Can't believe I almost bought this phone. The epic 4g was just so big that I didn't want it. But then I thought about how Motorola was releasing phone after phone (something like 5 on Verizon alone last year), and I knew that updates on a Motorola phone was a roll of the dice. That with a locked bootloader to make it extremely difficult to flash my own ICS on it, I am so glad I went with the ET4G instead.

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So are we lol

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enjoy that scamsung POS. they tried to get me to take one during my upgrade. I told them they can take their samsung and shove it after the whole Moment debacle. I'd take a locked down Moto over a unlocked samsung any day
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