Should I get an HTC EVO or the Samsung Epic?

I'm eligible for upgrade in about 2 weeks, right around the time my taxes will be coming in. I'm currently a Sprint customer (obviously) and right now have a Blackberry Bold 9650. When I first signed up I tried the Samsung Moment...that phone really sucked but I've been wanting to go back to Android as oppose to the less favorable Blackberry OS. I've been reading and watching many different reviews comparing the two and I'm still quite torn between which phone is the better of the 2. My main interests in using a phone is messaging and email, small amount of gaming, processor speed and some light multimedia usage. Also, phone quality is relatively important as well. I know the Android is updating to the 2.2 by the end of February on the Epic (I'm not sure what the difference in versions are but it seems to be a much anticipated update by many Epic owners) so that's not really a concern for me. Basically, I'd like some feedback from owners of either phone to give me their first account experiences. I'm pretty picky and whichever phone I choose I'd like to be able to have for a good amount of time. So if you would be so kind as to give me your thoughts it would help me out tremendously. Some things I'm already aware of....Epic has a better looking screen than the EVO (one reviewer compared it to plasma vs. lcd which I found to be quite accurate). Having a physical keyboard would be nice but not entirely opposed to trying to work with a solely touch screen keyboard. Not too concerned with the difference in megapixels in the cameras. Anything else though is open to opinion...thanks!