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<3me
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Default any previous epic owners

My upgrade will expire on march 31 and trying to decide if I should upgrade now or wait a month and see if anything comes out if you had an epic your thoughs on if I should switch or not. Please don't make this a flame and thank you
 
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How does a upgrade expire?

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I was a premier member but I downgraded to add a line and get a cheaper price. I'm still a premier member until april 1 when they change the qualifications.
 
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ahh that makes sense. Well working for sprint I use both phones all day, I personally think the epic is terrible, the material they used just feels cheap and like it will fall apart in your hands. The screen is the only plus to the phone I haven't ran psx4droid on it but I get like 30-45fps on castlevania.

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I would wait until february to see.what this announcement will be.

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Well it may be trivial but I think the selling point for me will be the slide action. If it slides like the epic (which slides just fine for me) I probably won't pick it up but if it slides and feels like the g2(after using it I feel that the g2 is my favorite android to date just on the wrong carrier) I will actually pick this up. Any thoughts on the erognomics
 
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You might bump the volume keys once and a while. The drawer on the shift is tighter and doesn't wobble like the epic. I really like the blue HTC two piece case they sell at sprint for like twenty bucks. The back is kinda like silicone so it won't slide off anything easy. The other surfaces of the case are like rubbery plastic. I like the color. I found a class six sixteen gb card at compusa for fifty bucks. It's taking a while to get used to a smaller phone than the evo and epic. Even though it has a physical keyboard, I like typing in landscape on screen because it can be faster for me than the physical kb. The physical kb would always come in handy with an console emulator.
 
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Have you noticed any real loss in speed or quality in your daily use I don't really play any graphic intensive games mostly just surf the web and such. But the epic no matter how much I love it it doesn't really have the keyboard that I like I'm always making typos how is the keyboard?
 
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After watching the mobile burn review I'm sold on this phone I don't care if its specs are lower I'm going to get this if nothing comes out by feb 15 :) thatway if something better comes out I can still trade it back
 
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The physical keyboard is good, better than epic in my opinion. From my experience these past few weeks, I've found that I really have to watch what I install on the phone. The reason behind that is some programs make the phone's responsiveness slow down and lag. If I run into a program that does that, I remove it.


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