evo madness

i’m not a fan of waiting lists. i am happy to announce that i finally got the new htc evo 4g from sprint after waiting for about 4 days. the employees there must hate me because, yes, i’m not ashamed to say, i called everyday to check on my phone! how annoying must that have been? hahaa!

 i love it! makes me warm and fuzzy inside to say the least. lately ive been bombarded with texts, emails and phone calls from family and friends and even co-workers sending me reviews of the evo. thank you for that. i, however, think i’m the best critic. taking into consideration everyone uses their phones differently, i shall decide whats best for me. drum roll please! …it kicks ass!

there’s been loads of talk about battery life, phone being way too big (which by the way, for toy fanatics you geeks sure were quick to bash the size, hmmm?! thats all i’m saying!)

I took a road trip with my dad, from dallas to el paso. we left saturday morning at 5:40am, I had charged it thru the night, I txt, Facebooked, and watched the entire game: Mexico vs. S.Africa on ESPN mobile. When we arrived, I used gps to find bonnie’s (an awesome burrito joint) where we met up with the rest of the family. usage didn’t end there, I called my mom to let her know we had arrived ok at 3pm. and we all know how moms can talk right? my evo got passed around to all my iPhone family users, which by the way all agreed it was a cool phone! Went to the hotel to check in, took a nap, changed, facebooked some more and the battery had rundown to yellow on the display, and it was about 6pm by then. With that said, am I complaining? No. I simply charged it in the car on the way to the family’s. Does the battery run out fast? that is to be decided individually and based on usage.

I think when it comes to size, for some, bigger is better, for others, its the motion? No? Ok. Again, this is an individual, personal choice. I use gps a lot, so its awesome for that. Not that I need to look at it, since sprint provides gps with turn by turn direction, I call her handy mandy (yes, Im one of those who name everything) I use the internet and check email, fb,Twitter, my bank acct., I Google everything, you, me and our second cousin twice removed. I watch tv (espn, can’t miss my sports just because of work). So do I like that the screen is about the size of the iPhone itself? you bet your ass I do! Plus its got a kick stand! Convenient -very! Awesome for picture viewing too. Which brings me to the camera.

It has 2, an 8mpix in the back and one in the front, its a 1.something mpix. I’ll be adding a pic or two from our trip, so you can see how awesome it is. one pic is of guadalupe peak (highest point in tx) which was taken from inside the car at about 65mph. A pic of a bug, and my dad having a bonnie’s burrito. The evo is totally rad! There’s more and we’ll get to that later. Im sure plenty of others are blogging about it.