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A Tale of 2.5 Phones, II

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX ACCESS

A Tale of 2.5 Phones, II

I picked up my iPhone 4s today.  And there are parts of it that I truly love and there are things that are strangely missing.

This blog is just my initial impression from setting up the phone.

If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, this will illustrate with some of the basic differences.

Shows the different lock screens, notice the semi circle at bottom of EVO

 

The EVO is bigger and has a bigger screen.  That said I will let the true techies debate the different type of screens.  The lock screen on the EVO is much more useful and functional especially on the 3D.  If you want to unlock the phone into one of the 4 apps that appear on the lock screen you just drag them into the semi circle at the bottom and the phone opens into the application.  You can chose those apps.  You also get time and weather if you chose that HTC Sense 3.0 widget.  It also has great visual effects when your turn the phone on.

The iPhone allows you to select the picture and you get your alerts and messages on the lock screen, but in this category the EVO 3D is the clear winner.  

Many people have wondered why anyone needs a screen that is so big.  Aside from the obvious that a bigger screen is a better screen as with our TV's and computers, a bigger screen has a bigger virtual keyboard.  And for fat fingers Pat, that makes many things better.

Now for the best part of the iPhone so far.  I setup so many phones that I have the POP and SMTP settings for Go Daddy and Road Runner memorized.  The iPhone asked for my email address and my password.  I entered them and looked for the manual set up button.  I was frustrated that they didn't have the manual setup option and clicked next.  What happened next floored me.  Apple found all the settings for my email account and I was up and running.

I had all of my stuff in the iCloud and the setup for the iPhone was done in minutes.  I couldn't believe it, actually still can't, so setup goes to iPhone.

Summary of part II:

Graphics winner EVO

Initial Customization EVO

Setup iPhone

Setup iPhone had to add that twice because it was shockingly easy, but is it worth the loss of options and optimization?

The next blog will be about configuring the phones and basic usage.  Today is Tax day so it may not be for a few days.

Please comment and add your thoughts!  If there is anything that I missed or short sold regarding one phone over the other phone, please let me know!

 

Comments (1)

Chris Smith
Re/Max Chay Realty Inc., Brokerage - New Tecumseth, ON
South Simcoe, Caledon, King, Orangeville Real Esta

Pat, I need to look into replacing my blackberry, but I see there are so many good options out there beside the iphone... thanks for the comparisons and your opinions

Oct 17, 2011 04:23 AM