[HTC EVO 3D] rlaw:
Got my first job and bought a moto RAZR. I remember when they were first available they were the hottest thing ever, my uncle paid a cool few hundred for his. Couple years later? Got mine for like 50$ I think.

That's what first started my phone customization craze. I remember using QPST I think? And some website specifically focused on RAZR hacks. Did little things like changing the carrier banner and unlocking my wap browser a bit. =)

I remember my plan only included 250 txts/mo and I was like, "pffft, that'll be plenty."

Of course eventually I realized nooope, gotta change that! Then I bought an enV off ebay for a few hundred. LOVED that phone!

To this day I still friggin' love it! Keyboard was so perfect and spacious. The phone was nicely balanced weight-wise. I would do stupid tricks with it all the time, flipping it and stuff.

Only issue was the ****ty proprietary charger standard LG was using for a few years. Connectors were guaranteed to break off in a year or so's time.

But man was that phone a blast for txting! I had fun with its stupid little browser and games too!

Next came a few subpar phones like the Samsung Glyde I think? I wasn't big on touchscreens but it had a keyboard and was cheap so I said screw it, why not? I needed a replacement device anyhow.

Man was that a terrible phone! I broke it out of frustration.

Just as I had had scorn for texting and qwerty keyboard phones (hey, I got pretty fast at t9!), I looked with disdain at smartphones. I saw them all as needless and extraneous until my first one and then I saw the light! No way I was going back.

So this is when I bought my Palm Pre. LOVED that phone, absolutely LOVED it!

I was free at the time to switch to any carrier and any platform but I still wanted a full keyboard with my phone. So my options were pretty much limited to WinMo (no), iPhone (no keyboard, was never a huge fan, at&t had expensive, ****ty plans), BlackBerry (plans are so overpriced, a premium JUST for BlackBerry only data access?!), Android (the G1 had just come out and man was that thing an ugly, clumsy, awkward wreck) and webOS.

Honestly, to this day I still view webOS as superior to Android. The os is just so slick and pretty and gesture navigation is so intuitive.

It's a great example of a well-thought out development process because unlike a lot of things on Android that seem like afterthoughts, the os was designed with its UI metaphor and navigation as being intrinsic to the structure not just how you move THROUGH the structure.

No need to root or anything and the homebrew community is so grounded and focused with an actual Linux repo foundation and upstream movement.

The patches and kernels themselves were self-updating and everything just had a very slick, well thought out feel to it.

I really hope webOS picks back up, there's nothing else like it.

Anyways, so my last Palm Pre is dying (I went through a ton of em for various reasons, have I mentioned I tend to break a lot of phones?) and wanting to stay on Sprint, I researched the upcoming smartphone offerings on Sprint.

I didn't want to wait for Samsung Galaxy SII and honestly, after my experience with Samsung hardware and Epic 4Gs my mom and sis got the previous year, I just wasn't impressed.

I had no interest in the rumors of iPhone coming to Sprint. Apple hardware and software is very nice but most of the time, it's not what I'm looking for.

I was actually deadset on getting the Photon and decided to buy the EVO 3D and then return it for the Photon.

After doing some more digging (and loving my phone more and more by the day), I made the choice to stick with this one. What really drove a dagger into the business was the relative future-proofing of the EVO 3D versus the Photon, including 800mhz support and the better hardware of this phone. Plus, the Pentile screen? Yuck! And finally, the HTC and EVO community always seems to squeeze their ways into conversation and draw highlight to themselves, so I knew I'd have a demonstrably rich ownership experience with this phone.

Oh and the actual 3D tech itself? I hated on it til I tried it and was blown away. Sure, it's nothing but a gimmick and an add-on but man is it a cool one! =)

This is probably more than anyone cares to read but thanks if you do!