Originally Posted by gjhuff (Post 2159901)

My Touch Pro 2 has water damage affecting battery life. Assurion would replace it for $ 100, but it would only cost $ 199 to upgrade. So, after much research, I went with the Samsung Galaxy S II/Epic 4G Touch. Android will allow me to use the smartphone the way WM 6.5 has. But I will miss the Touch Pro 2 which followed many years of PPC phones from the PPC 6500 upward.

I carefully considered the Arrive (which my Sprint store not only recommended against, but didn't even have a display model out anymore). But I am not a user of Zune or Xbox. I want to keep my files private and not in the cloud. Tethering is also an essential application for me. So while the Arrive is definitely a great hardware upgrade, Windows Phone 7 is a non-starter for me. Perhaps if I had never experienced the ability to customize and was starting anew, I'd feel differently.

I want to thank the Touchpro 2 community here and over at XDA who have made using this phone a great pleasure over the years. I wish that MS has chosen to upgrade WM 6.5 with new hardware so I could continue to follow what has been a great user community.

Originally Posted by gTen (Post 2159907)

Welcome to the darkest depth of the dark side! we have milk and cookies ;) (I ate them all already though *whistle*)

Originally Posted by elesbb (Post 2159903)

with mango on the arrive , it does support thethering if assurion would have given me an arrive i sure as hell woulda taken it .

Originally Posted by elesbb (Post 2159910)

comee onnn the touch pro 2 isnt THAT bad . its the service we receive from sprint and ASSurion which is the problem .

Originally Posted by gTen (Post 2159941)

um...when did I say it was bad?

dark side= what we call android

darkest depth of the dark side= going android + samsung

dark side is a pun used when you switch to something else, darkest depth of the dark side is something I made up for a double swap of Android + None HTC.