Changing Course…

I’m a bit of a stick in the mud when it comes to change.

I dislike it.

A *LOT*

So what did I do…gave up my years-long love-affair with Blackberry and bought a new Android-based phone.

I’ve sort of had it spelled out to me recently that I resist change even when it makes sense. Fearing the unknown and all that.

So this is my gesture.

I managed to hit Sprint.Com during one of the 18 whole hours they had the HTC EVO in stock. My son wanted to spend his end-of-year-report-card-money on one and in playing with it in the store, I had to admit I was pretty impressed.

First off the screen. The EVO sports a 4.3″ diag. screen which puts the rest of the droid-based phones to shame. (Even the new HTC Droid “Incredible” isn’t so incredible at a paltry 3.7″)

Setup was easy, but not as easy as it could have been. After several unsuccessful attempts at activating online I was forced to call in. The unsuccessful activations were due to the fact that the phones were tied to the number they were purchased under, and I was trying to cross-activate them.

So far so good. The only notible exception is the inability to sync my windows “Notes” using exchange active-sync. I depend on those pretty heavily so will have to find a work-around for it.

I’ll update when i actually get a chance to use this in a “work” situation. But so far playing with it has been fun.