Posting from my $400 Evo

[TheBundo]

Originally Posted by Pao

Thanks for posting your thoughts. Though I do find your thoughts on the screen very strange. This is a capacitive screen, they work on your body's electro-static field, so it has nothing to do with pressure (hence no stylus), like your TP's resistive screen does. The reason to want a capacitive screen is because you can have multi-touch, which you don't get with resistive.

I would have thought these were things you would have known going in since it was stated as having a capacitive screen, or just the fact that it's multi-touch. It has nothing to do with Apple or anyone following their lead, they did not create or pioneer the technology. And I highly doubt they were even the first to use it in an application.

Either way I'm jealous you're getting to play with the phone already, have fun and keep updating us!

Thanks, I'm a little more than just tired after playing with it all night, and was being a little sarcastic about following Apple. I did know it was multi-touch, but I guess I didn't put all the pieces together, and realize it was going to be unusable without bare hands. It is the first phone I've ever held that was like that. I've never held or played with an iPhone before (the specs on the 1st 2 units were TOTALLY unacceptable for me - no video recording, no MS Office document editing, etc). So the reality of it all hadn't sank in until I was faced with it. Certainly, highlighting text may be an upcoming issue I face during this decision period for me, since my fingers probably won't do too well. But the right software may address it, like letting you "mark" a start point, then arrow over to the end point, and "mark" that too.

I know this is being highly marketed for it's multi-media capabilities, and rightly so. That doesn't play into my needs that much (though it's fun for sure), and it doesn't hurt anything either, that it can do the multi-media well, because it also does email and other things that I do need so well. I am most concerned about when I have to write a long letter from the field, and how, for me anyway, it is much slower and more mistake-prone than the TP2. For that matter, the TP2 wasn't as good at cut/copy and paste activities as the Mogul was. Those that used both in that manner know what I mean.

The TP2 had some workarounds in SOME programs or screens, like a menu choice that said "Text Selection On", but that was more steps, etc., than on the Mogul. Add to that, with the Evo, how careful you have to be with the hyper-sensitive screen and buttons, and it will take some getting used to. I could type fairly fast, and would for a short message, on the TP2's onscreen KB, but always using the stylus. If the message was more than a couple sentences or so, the KB came sliding out. I tried Swipe, and was getting used to it, but it caused some major slowdowns in some apps for some reason. Hopefully, there is or will soon be a version for the Evo (I think there is, I forget, there are so many things to learn, test, play with, etc).

Again, I'm leaning more over the fence toward keeping the Evo than ever, but realize there are shortcomings that aren't major, but more than minor (for me anyway). I think part of it is that once you have had something, it's hard to lose it. Kinda like when we lost the flash on the TP2