sweet, it looks like i can still post here.

 

pardon me if i ramble a bit, but i think i may have something worth saying

 

 

i have been a user of att or cingular since 2002 or so and i just recently left to go to sprint, i dint think they’d let me post but they did and so here i am.

 

 

 

shortly after i posted this i went to sams club for some tables and left with htc evo 4g.

 

its a really really nice phone. so nice that i had to have it, even though i loved my tilt 2 and only had it about 8 months or so and was still in a contract with att

 

 

 

i feel i should make some small comparisons about the evo vs the tilt2. there are alot of things i could voer but i’m only going to high light a few that come to mind at this moment.

 

first of all the tilt 2 slide out keyboard spoiled me, virtual keyboards on capicitive screens are nice but not as nice as a the tilt2 slider, not too mention the tilting screen.

i found i would tilt the screen and set it in my lap, arm of the couch or my desk. the evo has a off center kickstand but it needs to rest on a flat surface to mantain balance

 

going through apps and menues and settings and pretty much everything on evo is very fast and smooth….pardon my english, iphone fast and smooth

 

getting gps fix is almost instant everytime for me

 

there are two built in gps apps,the google app is the best i have ever seen on a phone, better than my tomtom, but im sure it relies on data connection

 

the phone works, everytime i try to do somthing it repondsand does what it should, no soft resets now!! this evo can probably never need a reset, compared to wm needing reset as often as a few times a day…you know its true…:)

 

giant screen on the evo. ok screen on tilt2

 

market place is looking good and super easy to use, lots of good free apps

 

android does not support hid blutooth keyboard- this is a huge setback for me…tilt2 did this fantasticaly

 

built in head phone jack- i really dont care, but hey its there

 

2 cameras- one on front and one on back, not that i’ll use the front, btw the back camera is awesome, 8mp and 720p vids..i dont need to drag my dedicated camera around with me anymore.

 

battery life on evo- not so good, it uses the exact same bettery as tilt 2 along with a few others..makes extra batteries cheap. not only does this thing drain the battery rapidly but i beleive there is a chrargin issue that sprint nor htc want to talk about..google this if ya like. but all in all the battery is still prettgood. will last all day with light use. im not a light user so i ordered extra batteries.

 

no mini usb ports, so i cant use any of my five tilt 2 chargers

 

hdmi output on evo…not sure why though

 

no glitches out of the box, tilt 2 had many tweeks you had to do to get somethings to work right right out the box, like texting or something like that.

 

good price on evo, 200 with 2 year contract

 

sprint is cheaper, and i get a student discount, seems like alot cheaper and more options, earlier nights and weekends, all mobile to mobile are free, texting inlcuded in data plan.i have cheaper billl and alot more talk time. i was even getting a little too good of a deal on 3 data plans with att, aka smartphones using non smart plans..sprint was even cheaper doing it the wrong way with att

 

sprints techs and customer service seem to suck and the reps are in the philiipines and they are hard to understand. i definetly preferred the att call center  even if it is in gangstersville atl

 

data- i get 3g here out in the middle of no where with sprint, and i always get 1.3mb/700kb, with att  i didnt get att 3g here where i live and work, unlike with sprint. on att 3g i never got more than 400kb/200mb

 

on wifi  i get 7mb/3mb on evo, on  tilt2 and all my other wm devices i never got over 400mb down???

 

there are alot less tweaks to do on android, sure you can root, but i havent yet seen the point, but im sure i will eventualy.  in wm there was a tweak for everything and this was nice, there is very little tweaking on unrooted adnroid, or so it seems.

 

i dont have as many choices or options as i did with wm. maybe that was part of the porblem with wm from a coding standpoint. in wm there were 5 different options and those options had options to do any one task…in android usualy you dont even know whats going on or how it work, but it works.  in android,  even just downloading a file through the broswer can be awkward cuase it just downloads and it doesnt tell you where the file is.

 

also it seems like android just dumps stuff all over your micro sd card. its as if we really arent supposed to go browing our files or worring about this sort of things, lol. infact you have to down load a third party app to even see the sd card, and its interface looks crappy.

 

speaker phone ont tilt2 is better, imo

 

so i rambled on for a bit here but i thought i would share my experiences. i really thought everything about android and or my new evo  would be better then wm and or my tilt2 2 but that just isnt the case.

 

i will be selling my tilt 2 on ebay, even though i realy dont want to, i told myself if i got the evo i would offset the cost by selling my tilt2.  

 

i didnt come here to sway anyone or to taunt, but more to say a few words about my comparison of the tilt2 and the evo and to say thanks to the folks around here that helped me and i will miss my htc wm smart phone days i have had here.

 

maybe i’ll see some of ya over at xda