So thanks to Google, since Thursday I have been playing around with an HTC EVO on the Sprint network. I have come away impressed and it has nothing to do with the EVO theoretically supporting 4G. I have mostly had 4G turned off - apparently it is a huge battery hog and the few times I did turn it on, I did not seem to be in a 4G coverage area. In any case, 3G speed has been fine for me on my new BlackBerry Bold on T-Mobile (my old one got wet). The first reason I am impressed is that the EVO ...

Recently, someone (I believe it was Nicholas Carlson) said to me: “what most people forget about the iPhone is that it is also a very capable iPod." This was said in the context of a discussion of how successful Android will be this year. Now this is an interesting alternative view to Bill Gurley’s assertion that the head-on comparison is wrong because Android aims at the much broader market of folks who have feature phones today. But: for everyone who wants to upgrade from a feature phone an...

Yesterday I went to T-Mobile to get a new Blackberry 8900 for Susan, who wanted to switch back from the iPhone. There were a bunch of things she did not like about the iPhone. She never got used to typing on the glass keyboard and wanted to have a real keyboard again. She also was super unhappy when we were in Europe this summer that I was using my Blackberry with abandon due to T-Mobile’s excellent international email roaming, while she was afraid of even touching her iPhone due to all the h...

So I must be missing something big here, because it seems that this should not be an issue in 2009. Susan is fully on a Mac using the iCal app. When she sends me an invite, it shows up in Outlook on my end sort of looking like one, but when I click on the attached .ics file, the Accept, Reject, etc buttons are greyed out (for those of you wanting details, this is Outlook 2007, Service Pack 2 running under Parallels on a Mac). I did a bunch of searching around without finding an easy solution....

The likelihood of my switching to an iPhone is rising rapidly. Earlier this year I switched from a Pearl to an 8900 (both on T-Mobile). At first, I was very happy with the 8900, especially the wifi calling capability that T-Mobile offers is super handy as I have no cell coverage in my house. Also, tethering my laptop was easy and I use it frequently. But the browser is simply atrocious. I am not keeping track precisely, but it feels like at least 20% and possibly 30% of links that I click on ...