Samsung's Epic 4G for Sprint

[servantofone]

This is one sweet looking phone. I wish I had Sprint. This looks better than the EVO, but I guess we'll find out when it is actually available to the masses.

Like the EVO 4G before it, the Epic 4G sort of blows everything out of the water on paper: 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 5 megapixel primary camera with LED flash and 720p video recording paired with a VGA front-facing cam for video calls, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, six-axis accelerometer, and a 1GHz Hummingbird core. Oh, and of course let's not forget those EV-DO Rev. A and WiMAX radios, the latter of which will earn you theoretical downlink speeds in excess of 10Mbps -- speeds that will work nicely with the phone's five-device mobile hotspot support (three devices fewer than the EVO 4G, interestingly).

Article: Samsung's Epic 4G for Sprint seems to live up to its name -- Engadget

 

[Big Daddy]

Sprint's service is questionable, but their latest phones are mighty nice.

Personally I'm drooling over the DROID X. :druel: Too bad I need to wait until my firm approves Android phones and my contract ends with Verizon (although I'm not sure which will come first) and either way by then I'll be drooling over the DROID XXVII. :lol:

 

[servantofone]

That's a nice looking phone too. The screens now are getting so large. It's remarkable.

 

[Big Daddy]

That's a nice looking phone too. The screens now are getting so large. It's remarkable.

I know. I can't imagine them getting too much bigger, unless people start walking around with an iPad holster. :lol:

 

[servantofone]

I know. I can't imagine them getting too much bigger, unless people start walking around with an iPad holster. :lol:

It's funny, because computers\phones start out large. They get smaller and smaller, and then they start making them bigger again. Obviously improved, but still. Same thing with cars. They started out larger, got smaller and smaller, and now they are getting bigger again.

 

[TheRingWraithe]

Sprint's service is questionable, but their latest phones are mighty nice.

I've had Sprint over 2 years and their service is actually pretty good. I get a signal everywhere. When out of range of a Sprint tower you revert to a Verizon tower. So between Sprint and Verizon you can make a call just about anywhere. For $36 I get unlimited internet, texts, 7PM N&W, and a big bucket of minutes ( which I never use). I travel to the west coast, the Rockies, Florida and northern New England and I always have a good signal.

Sprint is way ahead of everyone with their 4G system - up and running in 50 cities and climbing. Verizon is likely 9 months out for 4G and poor AT&T is left in the dust.(If I had an iphone I'd be po'd with no 4G in the pipeline) Most of Sprint's phones are easily hackable with a huge enthusiast network out there to teach you. I've been tethering my laptop to my 3G phone since day one. Currently getting 3G dl speeds of maybe 1 gig. I buy new handsets off ebay when I get bored with the current model. It takes 3 minutes to activate a phone online. When my town goes 4G, I'm dropping my DSL line and will use the wireless access point feature being offered on new Android handsets.

 

[servantofone]

I've had Sprint over 2 years and their service is actually pretty good. I get a signal everywhere. When out of range of a Sprint tower you revert to a Verizon tower. So between Sprint and Verizon you can make a call just about anywhere. For $36 I get unlimited internet, texts, 7PM N&W, and a big bucket of minutes ( which I never use). I travel to the west coast, the Rockies, Florida and northern New England and I always have a good signal.

Sprint is way ahead of everyone with their 4G system - up and running in 50 cities and climbing. Verizon is likely 9 months out for 4G and poor AT&T is left in the dust.(If I had an iphone I'd be po'd with no 4G in the pipeline) Most of Sprint's phones are easily hackable with a huge enthusiast network out there to teach you. I've been tethering my laptop to my 3G phone since day one. Currently getting 3G dl speeds of maybe 1 gig. I buy new handsets off ebay when I get bored with the current model. It takes 3 minutes to activate a phone online. When my town goes 4G, I'm dropping my DSL line and will use the wireless access point feature being offered on new Android handsets.

Isn't tethering seriously against your contract though? I'm pretty sure the fine on that is not worth risking...

 

[TheRingWraithe]

Isn't tethering seriously against your contract though? I'm pretty sure the fine on that is not worth risking...

Technically it is , you are correct, but, neither Verizon nor Sprint really seem to care. I learned how to tether on Verizon, and there is a wealth of resources online to assist you. But nothing beats the adaptability of Sprint's network and handsets. The big Sprint User group forum has Sprint employees as members who give inside info such as service codes, engineering secrets, and little known customer service tricks-Such as how to get an employees discounted plan. Some of the members are cs reps who say basically Sprint doesn't give a hoot about tethering.

The carriers are certainly able to detect tethering but as long as you aren't dl'ing 50 feature films a day or something, they aren't going to worry about it. - according to cs reps on the boards. Plus now that everyone on Sprint is migrating to 4g, the data pipeline is much larger, much more breathing room and less strain on the network. Look at all the problems with the iphone due to AT&T's antiquated network, too many users on AT&T's restricted pipeline

 

[DanC]

Motorola backflip is a very similar design