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Well, I just picked-up my new EVO a short while ago. The Mogul has been retired and I am once again one of the cool kids and no longer getting sand kicked in my face.

I can also see that I am going to spend the entire weekend loading apps, customizing it, and trying to figure out how to use it. and

OK, I thought his would be a quick in-and-out upgrade since I was visiting a Sprint-owned store. Well...you guessed it, the store folks said that I would have to call the Sprint Everything Plus/SERO hotline since they have never been able handle the Employee Referral folks in store. WTF? Anyway, I called the hotline and they took care of the upgrade and I was able to pick-up the phone in store. Apparently, the folks in the store could not input the right codes needed to move me into a SERO Premium account or add a 4G phone. The process only took a painfully long 1 hour and 45 minutes...but I logged into my Sprint account and everything appears to be set-up correctly. My account now shows a SERO Premium 500 for me and a SERO F&F 500 for my wife.

I have a Gmail account but rarely use it...been using Hotmail the past 3-years since it was built into my Mogul (Win Mobile 6.1). I had to setup my gmail account in Store in order to "The Market".

Anyway, the Sprint customer service agent moved the Mogul's Contacts (synched with Hotmail) over to the EVO (yes, I saw it with my own eyes)...however when I later tried using the phone while driving...all Contacts were gone. WTF? Likewise, there were no contacts in my Gmail. I don't know what happened, but I exported them from Hotmail to a .csv file and imported them into Gmail. No biggie...but it's going to take me a few hours to get the EVO setup like I want it.

Lessons Learned:

- The EVO is a powerhouse of a phone...although you can't go wrong with an Epic.
- Based on my experience, upgrading at a Spring-owned store will not be easy...but it's possible just as long as you are persistent.
- Big learning curve from using my Mogul...but well worth it.
- SERO Premium 500 4G is a heckuva plan for $50...not if I can just find a 4G network.

riffjim4069: So overall how ya like the speed of the EVO and screen size

pro96 said:

riffjim4069: So overall how ya like the speed of the EVO and screen size

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I'm impressed with the phone...really, I am seriously impressed. Although I initially preferred the Epic's Super AMOLED screen and pull-out keyboard, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the EVO screen (huge and looks great) and I managed just fine with the virtual keyboard (and I haven't gotten around to loading Swype just yet). The one thing I really love about the EVO is the HTC Sense UI - it is wonderful. I pretty much set-it-up (80% or so) in a few hours and figured-out how to use 80% of the features just putzing around. Although my wife has an very high IQ, she is a self-admitted computer dummy who just doesn't like electronic gadgets. However, she loves the DVR and I will guarantee that she will want an EVO when she sees mine.

While the screen may not be quite as nice as the Epic, it's huge and I used it to watch America's Got Talent video via the YouTube app...looked very HD-like and filled the entire 4.3 screen. OK, it looked fantastic. I played around with Sprint TV some...decent content, but I wasn't all that impressed with the small video size.

Speed? If you're talking about 4G...well, I wasn't in a 4G area today. 3G seemed OK, but I didn't download the Speedtest app until much later and I am currently in a roaming area and connected to a Wi-Fi router. I am getting 18Mb down and 3.8 up on my laptop, but only 12.5 down and 3.8 up on the EVO - although I noticed the Speedtest guage only went to 10Mb so the different may be with the app. As far as how fast does the EVO operate? It sails! I probably had 25+ apps running at one time and I can moved quickly between menus without delay. This is one fast operating phone!

To be honest, I didn't figure out how to kill apps until I download App Killer...but later found how to do it via the Setting. I still haven't figured out all the ins-and-out and shortcuts, but there are few minor annoyances:

- I couldn't find a Hotmail or Windows Live app (doubt one will be available for an Android phone). Although I setup my Hotmail account, the GMail app was so, so, so much nicer...and I was used to using Hotmail/Windows Live on my old Win Mobile 6.1 phone. I will probably just autoforward all my Hotmail to my Gmail.

- There was no LinkedIN, SatelliteGuys or a handful of other of other site apps. I'm sure these will be available in time. I was going to download Tapatalk, but I'll just wait on the SatelliteGuys Android App. I was going to use PDA Mode but, to be honest, the screen is so large and so easy to manipulate that I'm just fine using the web browser for the time being.

~Happy Camper

I use Tapatalk pro for my satelliteguys browsing on my hero. It's a paid app but worth it to me.

FYI: my wife has no problem upgrading to a SERO Premium in store this weekend. Apparently Sprint has worked-out the bugs.