Who switched from TOUCH PRO 2 to EVO 4G??

[BlackDynamite]

Originally Posted by fcastro

Windows is way more customizable. I'll give you an example, HTC sense on windows, xda folks came up with the cookie editor which let you edit every aspect of sense. Nothing like that exists for Android. You could edit the size of the clock animations etc levels etc. On windows you can also easily add a reg hack to see 5 to 6 rows of icons. Its silly to sit here at go over all the changed. Android is much more hard wired and more difficult to make mods to. Even if the phone is rooted. Simple thing like adding a battery icon with a number requires you to jump through a bunch of loop holes.

Other things off the top of my head, wifi tethering can be done with simple reg edits. On android if you are running stock you need to install software on the host pc.

I don't know how long you have been using Android but it appears I should let you use it for a while longer before I respond to this. I'd be curious to see if you felt the same way after, say, a years experience with Android.

Let me tell you this though... Sense is not Android. Just because Sense might be easier to hack on Windows Mobile doesn't mean Android itself is harder to customize. It just means that Sense is way more incorporated into the OS on Android- meaning HTC spent a lot more time on it.

By the way, tethering may be a few reg edits on WinMo, but it is built right into Android. It's as simple as going into the settings and turning it on. You may not be able to do that on your phone because Sprint took that feature out of the stock ROM (another example of how easy it is to customize it). But if your phone is rooted you can simply install another tethering app from the market, or even flash a vanilla Android ROM that has the stock tethering feature intact.

Changing the battery icon is as simple as installing the theme or widget that you want. It's like a 1 or 2 click process.

Again, don't confuse HTC Sense on Android with Android itself. HTC Sense may be harder to tweak, but Android itself is at least as easy, if not even easier to tweak than WinMo. The reason Sense is harder to tweak on Android is because HTC gave up on Sense for WinMo, and the Sense on Android is several generations later. It is much more intertwined with the OS than Sense for WinMo. But there are many other launchers on Android that are every bit as easy to customize as Sense on WinMo.