What scared me about the iPhone was they control what app’s you can install, lack of a removable battery & physical keyboard and not having any Mac products in my life. No question it’s a great phone and was more capable back in ’08 than the Epix, yet thought the Epix had to catch up.

Blackberry Bold was another solid option back then. Blackberry’s seem to be more of a drive from point A to point B phone. Yeah, they are great, can do a lot but lack the bells and whistles. Stupid litmus test here but could not get into Fox Fantasy Sports for fantasy football, sure it’s petty but did send a red flag. Lack of a touch screen might have been what sealed the deal.

Onto the Epix…
What a joy this was, touchscreen, full qwerty keyboard, great browsers (Opera / Skyfire) able to download app’s, never failed on email, okay enough GPS (put me close and did not know how well other phones worked), microsoft office applications installed, and great call quality. At the time, I felt it was only a matter of time that all the developers turn their attention to Windows Phones…that may have been the #1 factor in me going with the Epix (and biggest downfall). Well, you know the rest; Android came out and stole all the developers.

I just retired the Epix and glad I did. Was a nice phone but too bad Samsung, ATT and Windows let this sucker die a slow death (releasing the Jack, not upgrading it to 6.5 for well over a year, no solid free app’s). Went with the Aria, but changed my mind and jumped on the Captivate. Aria is certainly a tremendous upgrade over the Epix, while the Captivate is on par with any current phone out there (iphone / droidX). It’s been night and day and it pains me to read all the complaints about the current issues (alarm issues, ringer volume, ect…), it’s time to just give up and move on.

All in all, the Epix had great potential and we all bought into it…then we were forgotten about by all except for this site. Was great to know you were always fighting for us and I relied heavily on the findings and insights here. Thank you very much for putting so much time and effort into helping all us strangers understand our phone a little better.

I have noticed that this thread has all but stopped and I have to wonder if there was some miracle cure found for the Epix to make it work properly, if all the people who bought it have already done their 3 phone and replacement or if that is even still available.

My 2nd Epix will be coming to me tomorrow. I have to say I really like my phone but I need something that is reliable and won’t crap out on me. I noticed AT&T offered some people the Tilt 2. Anybody know if they are still doing that and if not, what they are offering these days? I want to be optimistic but after reading through ALL these posts it is difficult. I had never upgraded (can you call it that?) to the ID1 so I feel like if the refurbished phone coming to me has it and it has so many complaints that it is going to be an excercise in futility.

If anyone is still out there reading this thread, please update or speak up. Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the help!!

Sorry its been a while since I checked this site. I got a message saying they were going to add a data plan to my line, but I called AT&T and they’re adding an exclusion to my account so I won’t have any more problems with automatic data plan additions until I upgrade my phone.