I need some cellphone circle-jerk halp por favor.

[Akucaen]

Okay, short story: I'm on Verizon with a HTC Touch Pro 2 running a custom WiMo6.5 release. I love the phone, I love the OS (fuck the haters.) Verizon sucks ass.

My contract ends in January, huzzah!

Now I'm left with a hueg gaping hole in what to get and which provider to go with. AT&T and Verizon can go fuck themselves, so I'm left with Sprint & T-Mobile. The phones that vaguely interest me are:
Blackberry Style 9670 (I'm a sucker for flip phones, always will be) - Downside to it is that the screen isn't touch enabled. If the Torch were available on either network I prefer it'd be a contender for number 1. BB6 OS looks decent enough and that little mouse nub used on the most recent models is actually pretty good. I could easily get used to going back to a non touch display. I really, really prefer having a hardware keyboard, (hence the Touch Pro.)

HTC HD2 (WiMo 6.5, OS I know, like, and have all my data synced to MS's phone cloud), basically the exact hardware in any decent Android phone now, and the only complaint I had about my Touch Pro 2 was the fact the processor was a tad too slow. I already know people are going to lol and (try to) rip me a new one for liking WiMo6.5. Except I have the apps I want and like the OS with Sense applied over the homescreen. Everything else about how 6.5 is organized and runs I like as-is.
(I'll go ahead and answer the question: I loved my PocketPC PDAs way back when they were PDAs with a cell antenna attached. It acted like windows first and it could make calls if you needed. I liked that. I also liked stylus computing. It's the reason I love my TP2 so. fucking. much. It's like... the ultimate PDA phone that I always wanted. If there was a touch pro 3 with the hardware of the HD2 on 6.5? I'd buy that in a heartbeat.)


HTC HD7 (WiMo7, never tried it, I know it's in development still.) While I tend to jack-off to MS products since 99 times out of 100 they work for me 100% of the time with little issues and I tend to like their design choices with interfaces, it's tempting in it's own regard. Wouldn't use the live functionality at all nor the zune features, although I do like the Zune-y interface they chose. So basically the drawbacks to this phone/OS are the fact I wont use two of its strongest features. While I'm sure the actual software is decent enough to work (and my shit is already on MS's cloud server), at the same time I don't want to wait to watch it mature.

HTC 7 Pro is something that caught my eye as well. It's the direct successor to the Touch Pro 2, complete with the same or better features that it had. (Including the tilting screen that was honestly really fucking useful.) Has the downside of watching WP7 mature over time though. Looks like Sprint is getting it, but I can't find a timeframe at this second.

Saw the Dell Venue mostly by accident, but that's not a bad phone either (yay for MS demanding minimum specs,) so it's basically the "same" as the upcoming HTC 7 Pro, but with a vertical "blackberry" keyboard with a kickstand like the HTC Evo 4G. Another WP7 contender. Has a 4.1inch AMOLED display, larger than the 7 Pro, dunno if it'll be AMOLED as well.

MyTouch4G (lol "4g", T-Mobile) This one has me interested mostly because the hardware specs were pretty good, but I've never played with any variant of Android for more than a few minutes. I did use it on my TP2 (2.0, iirc) for a short while, but because it was a beta it wasn't exactly... usable.

T-Mobile G2 - QWERTY, awesome. 800Mhz Qualcomm unit though, so potential noticeable slowness all around, especially using Flash (from what I've heard on Android? Correct me if I'm wrong on that.)

HTC Evo 4G - Not really sure what to think aside from HTC quality and it's android with WiMax+3G. Not having a keyboard is a drawback, but it's a quality product.

(Also if my network choices weren't obvious enough, the iphone is not even a remote consideration. Fuck Apple altogether. Seriously, don't bother recommending it.)

In short, there are a shitton of quality products out there worth considering, and while I've been looking at the pros and cons of each phone/platform/carrier, I'm coming up short on a decision. So any BB/Android/WP7 users please weigh in on why your phone is the best.

[Furtwangler]

I can't vouch for anything except for android since thats what I use.
I have an Evo, and I love the thing to death. the large (its on the verge of too large, but perfect for me, i wouldnt go any bigger) screen makes it great for being able to text, and unless you're driving or something you won't have a problem( actually if you are dumb enough to do so, you can speech to text which also works well)

I was one of the physical qwerty onry ppl for a while, took the jump and it's not nearly as bad as I thought it was. I don't regret losing the physical keyboard.

Android itself for any phone is well synched to any accounts you have so fb and my schools gmail lists fill up my contacts. HTC Sense is also a very nice touch to the android screens. Check out a video review on the Evo to get a better idea for what im talking about.

If you have 4g service in your area it's also a huge bonus, it is a giant speed difference. If not, its still a great phone and works just as well as any other one will (I get 4g occasionally depending on where I drive, but not at home).

Kickstand is kinda badass, I use it actually to help anchor the phone when im holding it lol. rarely let it sit on the desk but would work nicely if you wanted to use it as a clock. Also has the usual GPS jazz, and you can get a dock for your car which could be handy to use instead of having to buy a GPS. I'm sure other OS's have similar features, but I loved the fact that when I first tried it, I told it to search for "home depot" it found them through google maps, I could see numbers, dial by clicking them, could see addresses- i picked the one I want, it started giving me directions, and I was on my way. Android is very well integrated with the browsers and certain apps. (navigation for this example)

If you have any specific questions about it just ask, because I can write a book

edit: on the WinMo7 phones, friend has it. the OS looks very sleek and I can see it giving android a good run for its money (maybe even winning for a while) but right now I'd avoid it like the plague. Too early in development. They've barely added support for multitasking (it used to freeze all apps, now it lets them run if they are the last when the phone goes to sleep) Still needs work IMO.

[Akucaen]

Have you used the older sense versions? (Basically WiMo versions) Are there any real differences between the old and new? Also goddamn on the search. I didn't realize it was that powerful/useful.

General evo questions would run more along the lines of heat. My TP2 can get pretty goddamn hot, but that's whenever I use anything cellular-related, not necessarily CPU intensive (unless phone calls are just that CPU intensive, I don't know.) Does the Evo (and by extension all the qualcomm 1ghz processors) run very hot?

Also how is flash on Android? I've heard very conflicting reports all around the web. Don't necessarily mean youtube in browser, but just flash-enabled sites with buttons/navigation, etc. Additionally, how tightly bound is the google apps suite on it? Is it something that all meshes together well or a mess of apps that just happen to work?

[sruon]

Qualcomm chip can get hot if you run CPU intensive apps for a while... no surprise there, it does get hot on phone calls as well but I think about every phone do.

Flash is random, some pages which are clearly not made for Android render very well (Megavideo for instance), sometimes it will be really annoying to resize the page etc...