[G1 Android Development] my_former_self:
Gram-mar tase! Gram-mar tase! Ah, I think we've found a new catch phrase for being angry in here :D And, won't you look at that! Arkain2k actually did something

good

, for once! I guess a blind squirrel does finds a nut every so often :eek:

Back on subject...All the guy at Best Buy did was try to sell me Sprint. I told him if he mentioned a three letter company, I'd give him an in store demo of projectile vomiting and then also informed him of my feelings towards the big V ever since they tried to stick me with a $15K phone bill (nope, that's not a typo...they really did send me a bill for $15,000 and tried to argue with me). Sprint's plans are tempting (only being $10 more than I spend now and for unlimited everything), and the EVO is nice, but I love my TMO. They've been awesome to me, they pioneered the android platform and their customer service is next to none (although, I hear US Cellular comes close in CS). So, that was all a bust for the most part. Especially when he said, "So, it looks like you already have a Droid phone..." We had a little talk about what Android is...and what a kind of robot from the Star Wars universe's copyrighted name licensed to a big cellular company for marketing purposes is :rolleyes:

I did look at the Slide in the TMO store. It's a heavy little sucker, but I actually liked that (makes you feel like you're holding something significant...like $180, for example). And it is just a smidge thicker than the original MT3G. And I do mean just a little. Bad thing is...the battery died when it booted up and they didn't have a charger (the store was packing up for renovations). So, I didn't get to play with the OS, just the hardware :mad: But, the hardware is nice. The phone feels solid in the hands (like it could survive a fall or two...), the snap of the keyboard is reminiscent of the G1 (maybe even a little more solid) and the actual keys feel great to the finger tips. I could see myself typing pretty fast on it. And thank God they wised up and started making audio ports standard! I (and my wife) HATE that stupid adapter we have to use just to listen to music (on both her G1 and my MT3G). Man, what were those engineers thinking?

On a secondary note, though, the rep did something so dastardly, so evil, so conniving...he brought me out a Samsung Vibrant!

IT'S SOOOOOOOOO PRETTY! :D

I think I had an android-gasm right there :eek: [Sigh] Alas, although the camera is very nice (seriously, you would never be able to tell the dif between its 5MP and a 8MP without a degree in photography) and it is CRAZY SLIM (like 4 credit cards thick slim), there still is

no flash

and why oh why didn't they put a notification LED on it? Why?! C'mon, the phones companies give away for FREE have an LED!

That aside...I do think I techno creamed my pants. For both. Even without seeing the software on the Slide. So, to sum it all up, the Vibrant and the Slide are, in my humble opinion, the absolute BEST android phones TMO has to offer right now. If I had to pick, with a [grammar] taser to my head, I'd actually probably pick the Slide. The Vibrant is crazy slim and gorgeous (and I mean REALLY gorgeous)...but the slimness scares me (if you sat on this in your pocket, there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that you would literally snap it). And its lack of a flash, lack of notification LED and the severe battery drain is a deal breaker for the moment. If those were fixed...I'd nab one faster than Steve Jobs can botch a keynote presentation :eek:

I'm going to hold out on the new battery for my MT3G until next week (the TMO store reopens then). I'll play with the Slide again and see how I feel. Here's hoping Cy and the team start on a ROM for it before then! At least it can be rooted. Plus, we can always install ADWLauncher on it to get rid of those disgusting bubble icons.

P.S. - This is the same Best Buy that once made me wait so long to ask a single question (while all 5 reps talked about going to see Avatar), that I reset the BIOS admin and user passwords...on all 19 in-store demo laptops. I left the store watching a guy start to notice that 19 laptops had black screens with nothing more than "ENTER PASSWORD" on them :D Moral of the story: Don't make an IT guy wait while you talk about your personal life for 20 minutes.