Evening Reading
In other news, I'm playing a lot of Skate 3 and enjoying it a lot, but EA needs to hurry up with fixing the grind magnetism bug for Hardcore mode. Hopefully, I'll have my review later this week.
Gaming News o'the Day
- Steam for Mac launches and Portal is free for a limited time.
- "Pay What You Want" indie bundle makes over $1 million.
- Bad Company 2 getting co-op DLC for console; PC up in the air.
- Metro 2033 DLC ramps up the difficulty.
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mwasher
replyhttp://now.sprint.com/evo/?INTCID=AB:UEU:HERO:041110:EvoPL:960x320
Guess i'm out another $10/mo come July 1st when I can upgrade. I don't really mind considering I only pay $52/mo right now and the entire Austin metro is covered in WiMax.
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That phone is so awesome.
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A friend of mine got a HTC HD2 from T-Mobile recently. It's the exact same size as the Evo...and not nearly as big as I expected. It's barely bigger than an iPhone!
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/03/htc-evo-4g-comparo-04-hands-1269376719.jpg
that looks too big to you?-
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No track pad? Fuck that.
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The good: The phone owns.
The bad: $10/month for a service NOT AVAILABLE TO ME pisses me off to no end. And everyone seems to be reporting that it's mandatory if you have the phone, regardless of where you live!-
early adopter tax unfortunately :(
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Thing is, there's no other really good smartphone on Sprint, and Verizon and AT&T are far more expensive. T-Mobile is price-competitive, BUT their coverage is ass out here.
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yes, it is ridiculous
if it was an extra $10 to get wimax, i would be fine, but forcing people to pay for something that they cant even use is absurd
and if they are worried that people wouldnt want to spend extra to get speeds faster than 3g, then they shouldnt have invested so much money into 4g in the first place -
Whoa nelly, maybe the $10/month is optional if you want to use 4g?
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-do-you-feel-about-evo-4g-pricing
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More like 'crisis extended' because now we have no idea who's actually right and who's actually wrong!
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That page is now updated to say that the extra $10 / month is NOT optional
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Damnit, they
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T-Mobile also has Austin covered really well; here's what I get at home:
http://conan.shackspace.com/pics/speedtest-tmobile.png
That's on 3G. Even just a block closer to downtown It bumps up to 3.5G and my speeds go up considerably - I hit 3MB down at a borign morning SXSW panel. -
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nexus one was more. But with the N1, I get a reduced monthly plan price on T-Mo because I bought an unsubsidized phone. AFAIK if you buy the unsubsidized EVO, you still have to pay the same plan price as the people who buy the subsidized one, and that's just bullshit.
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The EVO does not work on SERO. No smartphone past some older Blackberry or the Touch Pro 2 does. This includes the Hero, Moment, and EVO, as well as newer Blackberrys and, for some reason, the Instinct.
You cannot activate any of those phones on SERO, which makes me sad, because I love my two SERO accounts.
And the $10/month is for 4g access and (so I'm hearing now) unlimited data with no cap for both 3g and 4g. -
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Good hands on videos here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/sprints-htc-evo-4g-put-through-its-bandwidth-sucking-paces/
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For some reason I thought the 4g download speeds would be higher. They were only getting around 4mb down with a tower being in the same building.
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That's double what Conan posted with T-Mobile above.
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Based on the iPhone leak I would say Apple is planning pretty well. It won't include a data connetion that is as fast as WiMax, but it looks like it will include video chat (front facing camera), an Apple A4 processor, a higher resolution screen (although not much larger in size), a bigger battery, a flash for the rear camera (also capable of 720p recording), and the new software update which includes multitasking and tons of extra stuff.
I would say they are setup to be pretty competitive with this. Obviously some people will still prefer the EVO for it's WiMax or Android capability, but I am pretty sure Apple will take away a lot of the spotlight that the EVO might gain. -
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I've not heard a thing about it, but it'd be nice for sure.
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