For those who may be interested, I finally went to the Sprint store and tried out the evo. I have a Palm pre and for the most part love it. I was planning on getting the evo after I got back from a month-long trip abroad, but I've decided not to. It's a pretty device but...
No physical keyboard - I hadn't realized how much I've gotten used to a physical keyboard. I can touch type sometimes if I'm walking with my pre (I know it's a douchey thing to do but I sometimes do it). There's none of that with the evo.
Camera isn't as good - The pre's camera really rocks. Low light is pretty bad, even with the flash, but I like having the pre as a backup camera when I don't have my digital camera. Plus it has video.
Lag - With the pre overclocked, it's nice and smooth. There's an odd lag on the evo.
Pinch zoom isn't accurate - I like the Pre's pinch zoom. On a browser, it zooms directly in the middle of where your fingers are pinching. Not on the evo. On the evo it just zooms in a strange way.
Multitasking - The pre freaking rocks at multitasking. There's nothing like it. I couldn't figure out how to see what's running and switch from app to app.
What's better about the evo?
Bigger Screen - The pre has a smallish screen.
Build quality and thickness - It's really built solid and it's nice and thin. The pre is somewhat flimsy.
More RAM - (I have a sprint pre - 256MB) I don't like seeing low memory errors, and I've recently been seeing them too frequently.
TL;DR:
Evo doesn't have a physical keyboard. I'm not buying it.
No physical keyboard - I hadn't realized how much I've gotten used to a physical keyboard. I can touch type sometimes if I'm walking with my pre (I know it's a douchey thing to do but I sometimes do it). There's none of that with the evo.
Camera isn't as good - The pre's camera really rocks. Low light is pretty bad, even with the flash, but I like having the pre as a backup camera when I don't have my digital camera. Plus it has video.
Lag - With the pre overclocked, it's nice and smooth. There's an odd lag on the evo.
Pinch zoom isn't accurate - I like the Pre's pinch zoom. On a browser, it zooms directly in the middle of where your fingers are pinching. Not on the evo. On the evo it just zooms in a strange way.
Multitasking - The pre freaking rocks at multitasking. There's nothing like it. I couldn't figure out how to see what's running and switch from app to app.
What's better about the evo?
Bigger Screen - The pre has a smallish screen.
Build quality and thickness - It's really built solid and it's nice and thin. The pre is somewhat flimsy.
More RAM - (I have a sprint pre - 256MB) I don't like seeing low memory errors, and I've recently been seeing them too frequently.
TL;DR:
Evo doesn't have a physical keyboard. I'm not buying it.
