[Clem2]

I have a Sprint TP2 and bought an EVO 4g from best buy....... What an impressive phone! The large screen, the fast chipset, the front facing camera, the 8 mega pixel camera with the fabulous pictures! The awesome high def camcorder, nice big software keyboard, the easy to use andriod OS.... blah blah blah.

And as I start to use the phone I start finding out some of the other details. Like only 9 speed dials vs. 99 in winmo. The fact that you can't search contacts by company name, period. I don't think that you can even arrange them by last, first. It does not sync with outlook without exchange server, and if you do have that service I believe you need third party software to do it correctly. Basically, the whole contacts part of it totally sux. And you can forget me ever syncing my stuff with any google server. Gmail = donkey guts.

I don't want to sync with gmail or google, forget it, they both totally suck compared with outlook. Not to mention the security concerns with having personal info on their servers. I don't want to take 8 steps backward in this area. Outlook works great and it’s probably the most used client in the world, why would google cut themselves off from those users? It dosent make any sense. Kind of reminds me of apple, which by the way, the iphone syncs with outlook MUCH better than android.

How about the camera taking pics that are too large to mms, probably some setting somewhere that I couldn’t find, another thing I have to figure out how to fix.

The EVO, or android OS simply does not have anywhere near the detail that winmobile has in the areas that are most important to me. I don't think some people realize just how powerful winmobile actually is, or how powerful some of th the programs are that are written for it.

Oh, and I love the argument of "you don't need that option, or, just do it like this, It’s just as good!" This is the answer I seem to get all the time. I don’t want to do it how you do it, I want to do it how I want to do it, it will work better for me.

The EVO with android 2.1 locked up a few times on me to the point where I had to reboot/pull the battery a few times, so don't try saying that winmobile is the buggy one. All the phones I have or have had have been buggy, all of them. Including the Iphone, our family has 2, a 3g and a 3gs, both are buggy sometimes.

Battery life on the EVO was worse than the tp2, because I have the tweaks package put together by Goodthings2life. This is a perfect example on how tweak-able winmobile is.

And as far as it being a snappy phone........ With that processer winmobile would be snapping all over the place too. I can't wait to see it in action.

Yes the large screen makes the software keyboard better than the software kb on the tp2, WAY better. But the hardware kb on the tp2 still blows it away. No question. No hardware kb means that the software kb is taking up half of the screen.... there goes that big screen. And with my big hands it’s still not my choice. The slide out KB on the TP2 is better, period. I didn’t “get used to it”.

The EVO is a nice phone, it really is, but I took it back and picked up my TP2 for now. Hey........ the tp2 has suck parts too. But I'm syncing up with outlook, all of it, perfectly! I have all of my speed dials, all of the detailed tweaks via the registry, use of my entire screen via the slide out kb (which is probably bigger than what’s left over using the software kb on the EVO) etc, etc.

I want a phone that has a powerfull chipset, nice big screen, snappy processer, sync's COMPLETELY with outlook (correctly)………… So, I am going to wait and see what comes down the pike. Maybe that Samsung thing will be more to my liking (if they get the outlook sync thing working).