{"id":420,"date":"2010-05-21T22:44:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T03:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/?p=420"},"modified":"2021-09-11T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T21:51:52","slug":"q-are-we-not-phone-a-we-are-evo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2010\/05\/21\/q-are-we-not-phone-a-we-are-evo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Are we not phone? 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I loaded it up with SSH, VNC,\u00a0a PDF reader, Java ME, Java apps of my own devising and probably some less used apps I&#8217;ve forgotten. Using the i300 changed my thinking about email, about web browsing, and application development. But ultimately, the hardware and network weren&#8217;t up to what I wanted \u2014\u00a0I wanted much more screen area in both pixels and physical size, faster processing, and faster transfers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->By some time in 2006 I&#8217;d gotten to the point where the i300 sat in the charging cradle most of the time. Late last year I stopped using it entirely \u2014\u00a0I think it is in my office closet somewhere, along with a spare that a friend gave me. My current phone (an LG Muziq) will nominally browse the web, handle email (even IMAP), and play all the MP3s I put on a MicroSD card, but I rarely use it for more than voice calls, an occasional text message, and an occasional photo.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t believe the iPhone, its predecessors and successors, could be all that fundamentally better than the i300. All the pre-3G and post-3G iPhone networking complaints, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/att-fails-the-sxsw-iphone-test-2009-3\">2009 SXSW reports<\/a>, didn&#8217;t help entice me. I didn&#8217;t even touch an iPhone for the longest time. I kept hoping for a larger scale device, bigger than a phone and smaller than a netbook, that I would find satisfying. My\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/2009\/01\/15\/xo-musing-820\/\">XO<\/a> has not been that. The alluring iPad is too big and, so far, missing too much to convince me.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0the HTC Evo was announced, it has seemed the closet fit I&#8217;m going to find anytime soon. Lots more pixels than the i300, modern processor, and, potentially satisfying networking. (WiMAX seems to cover our neighborhood and my most frequent travel spots.)<\/p>\n<p>Having ordered the phone, now I can&#8217;t wait. Every new report or review, even Mossberg&#8217;s ambivalence (<a title=\"Permanent Link: Sprint 4G Phone Hits New Speeds, but Battery Lags\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/ptech.allthingsd.com\/20100519\/sprint-4g-phone-hits-new-speeds-but-battery-lags\/\">Sprint 4G Phone Hits New Speeds, but Battery Lags<\/a>), raises anticipation. 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