SamuraiInBlack
Supreme [H]ardness
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I'm more or less sold on the phone after trying out a number of Android phones at the Sprint store. Its the smoothest operating one, 4G in my area works, the keyboard allows me to actually type (my fingers are just too fat and calloused for that touchscreen keyboard, else I'd be sold on the Evo) and I know it can still be rooted per a Google search. So, that said, I still have some questions:
1. What's good in the protect-your-phone world? I need next to bulletproof protection. I work on a receiving dock and my current phone has a nice little sunspot in the screen from the liquid crystal leaking out after falling out of my hip holster (I hate magnet based holsters but they are the only kind out there, it seems) and meeting concrete. The sunspot blocks my view of anything on screen. I'd like to not repeat this with a more expensive and way more awesome phone.
Additional question to this topic - Zagg Invisible Shield. Thoughts on it? Is there better?
2. The two demos of the phone at my local Sprint store seemed to have a very weak slide with the screen part being very easily wiggled. I suspect this is from everyone and their mother manhandling the phones, as a dummy phone of it at Radioshack doesn't have this problem, but i want to make sure that the end product itself is not so flimsy. So what's the deal?
3. Apps and the keyboard - do most apps support the Epic's keyboard?
4. GPS - Is the issue with the Galaxy S and GPS resolved now? I get lost, easily, especially going through unfamiliar areas or places I don't frequent often enough to know where I'm going. So I'm very reliant on GPS to keep me on track.
5. Other accessories - what other accessories would you recommend for the Epic? I'm a Premier customer so I am going to see if I can still get accessories at a discount, and if so, I'll grab what's good at the Sprint store while I'm there.
Edit: More questions in post #9.
1. What's good in the protect-your-phone world? I need next to bulletproof protection. I work on a receiving dock and my current phone has a nice little sunspot in the screen from the liquid crystal leaking out after falling out of my hip holster (I hate magnet based holsters but they are the only kind out there, it seems) and meeting concrete. The sunspot blocks my view of anything on screen. I'd like to not repeat this with a more expensive and way more awesome phone.
Additional question to this topic - Zagg Invisible Shield. Thoughts on it? Is there better?
2. The two demos of the phone at my local Sprint store seemed to have a very weak slide with the screen part being very easily wiggled. I suspect this is from everyone and their mother manhandling the phones, as a dummy phone of it at Radioshack doesn't have this problem, but i want to make sure that the end product itself is not so flimsy. So what's the deal?
3. Apps and the keyboard - do most apps support the Epic's keyboard?
4. GPS - Is the issue with the Galaxy S and GPS resolved now? I get lost, easily, especially going through unfamiliar areas or places I don't frequent often enough to know where I'm going. So I'm very reliant on GPS to keep me on track.
5. Other accessories - what other accessories would you recommend for the Epic? I'm a Premier customer so I am going to see if I can still get accessories at a discount, and if so, I'll grab what's good at the Sprint store while I'm there.
Edit: More questions in post #9.
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