iPhone HD/4G versus the Almighty HTC Evo 4G!

iPhone '4G' rendering

Just when you thought it was over…  Here is another ‘Clash of the Titans’ in the making!

There are quite a few things that differentiate the Evo 4G from the iPhone ’4G’.  I want to call it the ‘HD’ iPhone but for the sake of ‘model naming succession’, I feel compelled to use the 4G moniker instead.

But there are a few differences/factors between the two phones:

Camera and multi-media consumption = Evo 4G, with its 4.3″ TFT LCD screen has the making of a mobile cinema at your finger tips as opposed to the iPhone ’4G’ rumored smaller screen (smaller than the 3GS even?).

Carriers:

In this case, AT&T versus Sprint.  According to a recent Changewave study, the iPhone 4G’s AT&T networkhas shown a 4.5 percent call drop rate in the past 3 months, making it the worst of all 4 carriers. Just to put this figure into persepective, you can compare AT&T’s 4.5 percent to Verizon’s 1.5 percent, clearly a 3 times bigger call drop rate.  I currently use AT&T myself and I can honestly tell you, I prefer the 3G data speed’s consistency over any AT&T 3G coverage hands down.

4G network:

The HTC Evo 4G is the first 4G phone to arrive in the US and will probably be the only one this year.  Just for clarification, the iPhone 4G is not 4G capable; but instead, will more than likely inherit its name by being the successor to the 3GS. Rumors however point out that the iPhone 5G (2011 iPhone) will be 4G capable and probably using LTE. Hence why maybe they should call this year’s model the iPhone 3GS-2 and save 4G for 2011.

I will be getting HTC Evo 4G unless something just absolutely stunning comes out before then.  My quest for ‘a higher tech’ will lead me away from AT&T and to Sprint.  Which I already have an account with the Sprint OverDrive.  Which is another story, but it has proven ‘battle’ worthy for my road warrior-ness.

What say you all?

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