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what's up everyone John retinue from TechnoBuffalo here at a full review for you of the newest 3d powerhouse this is the evo 3d first sprint the successor to the very first 4G smartphone the Evo 4G let's see if it lives up to the outstanding precedent that its father set so if your ears are still bleeding from that intro my apologies so as I do with all of my phone reviews I'd like to start out with talking about call quality doesn't matter what the phone can do or not do but doesn't make good phone calls it's not gonna be much use to you when I do my phone tests I'll Drive about a five-mile radius where I am in Southern California and do a twenty call test I'm in a fringe 3G 4G area primarily I was on the 3G side and about twelve of my calls were done on only 3G and I didn't have any drop calls at all call quality was absolutely outstanding as I found to be pretty typical with Sprint service however the other eight calls were sort of on 4G areas sort of not sometimes it would drop in and out when they would drop in and out the cold would also drop in and out so I had three dropped calls and the call quality was not outstanding when I was connected to Sprint's 4G WiMAX network now granted I was only connected with one bar of service and the drop calls primarily happened in the 3G to 4G handoff but something to keep in mind if you are in a fringe area sneaker phone as has been true with most HTC phones that have come out recently and this is of course HTC built as is you can tell as is you can tell huh as you can tell by that big HTC logo right there speaker quality's absolutely outstanding so if you're big speaker phone user like me you are going to be pretty happy so as we go through the review will talk about specs and I remind you everything that this guy packs of course the biggest things that things that I want to know I assume you want to know - its how does the screen and the 3d camera work and how fast really is this because it's got one of Qualcomm's new 1.2 gigahertz dual core chips and this thing is absolutely a screamer so when I did my review of the HTC Sensation which is a t-mobile phone and the first phone was actually running HTC's new sense 3.0 I gave a bit of an overview on sense and what it could do because the first phone we've seen it in this being the second I'm not gonna do a thorough an overview of Sense 3.0 you can check out that previous video if you want to watch it but I will show you some of the highlights so sense is essentially a skin that sits on top of Android Android of course is very customizable and this is HTC's custom sense and it is on top of Android Gingerbread so you are getting at least the most recent phone OS so here's a couple cool things to notice here about this first the lock screen you can customize any of these four icons you can jump right to it so if I wanted to say jump into gallery I could just drag it right down and I would jump into gallery I don't want to just unlock the phone you can just unlock it pretty normally and you slide that up you get a cool bunch of coolest reading animations here then of course you can see that lockscreen that I just showed you can be pretty customisable if you go ahead and go to lock communic and choose a ton of different HTC options you can set any of those four programs to launch or shortcuts whatever you choose very very easily some of the nice addition to go ahead and drag this on down you get quick settings which I really like be able to turn these things on and off nice and easily go ahead and close that up and of course you get all kinds of neat 3d animation now because this phone is an absolute screamer from the spec department it's been augmented to I should mention with one gigabyte of RAM running this guy through a quadrant test I got a score of 1733 now it doesn't really mean that much to me I want to use a phone I just want it to be fast and I like it to not kill battery which we will talk about this phone is an absolute screamer is incredibly fast for opening applications and my big test sort of something that I use every day is the web browser I've got flash content loaded here it's enabled and turned on and on some previous single-core phones to flash turned on if I did quick scrolling I get that checkerboard pattern in the pinch-to-zoom wasn't as a media I would like not true here at the Evo 3d this thing is fast I have never had a checkerboard pattern show up credibly quick as you see here pinch-to-zoom very very fast really fluid no issues at all and Sprint's three three do you keep saying 3d there 3G network has also been very very fast I'm getting speeds about three or so megabits per second down you can see the slash content showing up there on the banner applications load really quickly no matter what you're loading just the phone you're gonna have great performance from you're not really have to worry much about memory management as well often times some the problems people have with their Android phones when they experience crashing is due to their task killing programs third party task killers you're not going to need that with Eve of 3ds certainly you have the option to manage your programs more judiciously if you'd like but not gonna be necessary you got a Giga RAM in here so things are always going to be fast and always going to be working pretty well so the next thing the big thing I wanted to see it was of course that the reading is and how does the 3d cameras work or how do two 3d cameras work so I mentioned earlier the HTC Sensation which really is a very similar phone you can see it right here to the Evo 3d of those does have an eight megapixel sensor that sensor does drop to five megapixels when you do the 3d business now when you shoot in 3d you can also shoot early shoot rather when you shoot 2d you can shoot in 1080p you're not gonna be able to do that unfortunately in 3d so let me show you some of the stuff about the phone one of the gripes that I have is that giant camera button now I like a dedicated camera button I'm all for a dedicated camera button what I'm not for is a giant dedicated camera button it almost feels like it's going to slice your hand when you hold it if you look at it right the right angle you can see it's raised there's a bit of a sharp edge right there so if you're a right-handed or you hold your phone in your right hand as you pick it up and you slide your hand over it you skate can get caught and I've actually had that happen a few times something to bear in mind so you've got a really big camera switch right there and you've got your 2d the 3d shutter leave that on 3d for right now and I really like that shutters there or the button there rather is to set it to 2 T or 3 D makes it very easy so I'll go ahead and open up the camera application and this is gonna open up the 3d camera now unfortunately I'm not gonna be able to see much in 3d I'll bring in my camera mode here this is just gonna look weird and blurry to you this is using stereoscopic 3d to capture the image so I'll go ahead and sort again in focus I'll go ahead and take the picture see there's a bit of a delay and the picture is snapped stereoscopic 3d essentially means glasses-free 3d and I will say that I was bit skeptical that the 3d was gonna be a gimmick on the phone and those fears were kind of realized I'm not that big into the 3d craze the Nintendo 3ds for example hurt my eyes after using it for just about 20 minutes if you guys would be a computer user you stare into monitor for five ten hours at a time your eyes start to hurt using something like the 3ds which also uses stereoscopic 3d definitely hurt my eyes I didn't have that same eye strain though however with something like the Evo 3d here so I should go back to my gallery and I'll show you some of the pictures here's some sample of 3d images so we're going the one that we just shot for example camera shots and there is that 3d image so again not gonna look 3d to you I will say the 3d effect though really doesn't work well so if you're into 3d there's gonna be a very nice welcome addition however if 3d is not that important to you you're gonna like that you can just go ahead and do this boom 3ds turned off and I can just have a very quick really nice 2d camera where you can shoot 1080p video and shoot very high quality stills so is it a gimmick yeah is it a deal-killer certainly not if you'd like to have the option to have 3d then you have the option to do that here and you're getting it in a very very very nice package so you're gonna see 3d of course on the screen let's talk about this Q HD screen for a few minutes go ahead and jump back into gallery because there's a lot of stuff to see here I have not been the biggest fan I've got on record of saying I don't think HTC is putting out the best screens possible especially you compared something like Samsung's AMOLED or Super AMOLED screens or AMOLED plus or what other other type of amyloids you can possibly think of the screen just hasn't really popped for me so you're some images these are in 3d yeah they look fine the colors are sort of bright but they're not as bright as they could be you look at text for example text on a website it's crisp and it's clear but not as crisp and clear as it could be oftentimes I use the example of TV shopping so if you walk into your local big-box retailer and you see two TVs next to each other you're gonna notice difference between equality between one and two of them however it wants to get that TV home on your wall you're not gonna notice the difference in quality so if you're holding phones next to each other you're looking at this versus say the galaxy s2 here can those difference in the screen quality however if this is your primary phone and this is what you've got in your pocket the screens going to look fine I just want to give sort of people a frame of reference the screen is not the best thing about the phone however you are getting that stereoscopic 3d screen so sorry you can measure out the pros and the cons so all that three deenis certainly is going to come at a drain of battery as well as that 4.3 inch screen HTC packs a pretty big 1730 milliamp hour battery and to this admittedly chunky package and I'm happy to say that I was able to get a full day of battery life which is awesome granted I didn't do much 3d watching but I did have to exchange accounts pulling data information all the time about an hour and a half ish of phone calls pretty extensive web browsing and a lot of YouTube viewing and I got through a full day so hooray for HTC for doing a pretty nice battery manage event processor management something to bear in mind so let's talk a little bit about the size of this guy cuz this is not the thinnest phone on the planet clocks in at 6 ounces and you feel all the six ounces I do like the back sort of that rubber feel to it hopefully you can see the texture there phone felt very good in the hand definitely feels high-quality I like that there's not a gap between the battery and the back of the phone here sometimes when there's a little bit of a gap you can hear a bit of hollow noise not so HTC's build qualities absolutely outstanding that's certainly true here with the Evo 3d the design is fine I like the capacitive buttons here on the bottom matters encapsulated in those circles very evil like I do like to 3d to 2d toggle here and I like having the camera shutter button again but I've already talked about how it slices your finger so sort of bear in mind I did test this phone for the death grip as I'm now starting to do on all my phones I did not have a death grip on here so hooray your phone is not going to be draining not only battery but losing signal strength whenever you try and hold it design standpoint otherwise is pretty standard Android camera on the back I do wish that it had the kickstand sort of evil like but alas that was not to be here I like the location of the power and lock button the upper right hand corner 3.5 millimeter headset jack has a little bit of a hump right there you can see it on the right angle but nothing that's a deal-breaker now overall if you're in the market for an Android smartphone if you're looking for a super phone with awesome specs the Evo 3d is really the way to go it is an absolutely outstanding device and the 3d is just an added benefit is it would be the reason I'd say go out and buy the phone certainly not but it's kind of cool to take a 3d picture and show your friends like hey it looks like I'm coming right at you it works it works decently well it's probably the best implementation of stereoscopic 3d that I've seen of a Nintendo 3ds included in that this is an all-around really solid package and when I can definitely recommend if you're looking for the latest specs and the latest Hardware on a phone that's really gonna last you throughout your two-year contract the evo 3d is a wonderfully fantastic choice and definitely gets recommended so guys hope you enjoyed I am John render from TechnoBuffalo it's been a full review of the HTC built evo 3d for spring you