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Going from a Blackberry Curve 8330 to an Evo 4g should seem like a no brainer, but now I’m having regrets. The curves spinning wheel of frustration that would occur frequently if I tried to use google maps, look at a photo, even sometimes make a call. Cold start for the device seemed like minutes making the battery pull option not appealing. When the Evo came out I thought, speed efficency, expandability with all the great essentials. I didn’t realize that the android operating system was lacking so, much of the functions in a blackberry I took for granted.
Syncing to outlook if you choose becomes frustrating and irritating. The only upside of the android is using multiple calendars from google, facebook and your computer. The downside is you can’t schedule anything by email. You can’t accept event invitations that come in the form of ics. No updating and less integrating business and time management functions that Blackberry exceeds in.
Sure you can load google tasks on your phone, but it should be flexible to at least assign tasks and add custom fields.
Android wins on the contacts function. Linking google contacts with twitter and Facebook makes it alot easier and seamless.
But then Android looses when it comes to a message screen that combines all email,phone calls, text messages, facebook updates and more. The slide down notifcation screen is great, but there is no history to look at and it includes operational tasks like installing apps.
The Evo is a great phone, and Android is very open, gorgeous, fast, with tons of apps, but not yet an integrated productivity tool.
