I picked up a HTC Hero from Sprint and I can agree with what Alan says about his My Touch phones. Been playing with it a little bit atta time so that I can get used to the phone, so much to learn and to play. The back of my Hero is not easy to take off thou. One of the nice things I like about is the automatic sync of my contacts and calendar using my gmail account. If make a change in the phone, boom, my gmail.com account gets updated and vice versa. I also do have the Sprint Everything plan with unlimited data, messages and picture messages. I have 450 minutes on the plan. One may think that is bad but the plan comes with unlimited mobile to mobile so that is good. Jon ---- Alan Dayley wrote: > My wife and I recently each picked up the T-Mobile My Touch phone. > > - Nice, smooth operation most of the time. Once in a while it pauses > for a few seconds before bringing up the requested task. > - Battery life is easily good for an average day but will chew up > quick if you use all the features, all the time. > - Don't get it if you are just going to talk and text. > -- You must subscribe to a data plan if you get the phone and will be > paying about $75 a month for service. That's cheaper than iPhone and > some Blackberry plans but still, it's a chunk of change. > -- On the other hand, once you start using the data service, doing > email, web browsing, Twitter, maps, etc., you may start doing things > beyond just talk and text. > -- The data plan is all you can eat, data and texting. > - The back of my phone seems to come off too easily. Don't know if > that is for all phones or just mine. > - One can "root" the phone to get terminal access (BusyBox) and even > more control. > -- This takes you off the "official" updates from the service provider > but could be good. > -- I have not done this but plan to do so to get the > http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ going! > -- After "rooting" you can load several different ROMs to get > different features and really go off into whatever you feel like > hacking. I don't plan to do this. > > Alan > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Nathan England wrote: > > > > Hello Hello, > > > > Now that Android has been out for a while, anyone care to talk about their experiences > > with it? Is it a joke, great phone for an IT guy, better for a joe blow who will only talk > > and occasional text?? > > > > nathan > > > > -- > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Nathan England > > Verizon (928) 951-5116 > > Google (480) 559-9681 > > nathan@paysonlinux.org > > http://www.paysonlinux.org/ > > > > Information Security Consulting > > Software and Web Development > > Systems Administration > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss