More rambling on Sprint/HTC EVO.
I am still really liking my EVO.
I finally found a holster for it. The Seidio Innocase II combo (case and holster) worked out for me. I actually did not use the case just the holster Since the holster was made for the phone in a case and the silicon skin I bought with the phone was roughly the same thickness as the hard case in the combo. The silicon skin seems to protect the phone much better from impact than the harder cases (ask my boss with the cracked screen iphone that was in a hard case). The holster is the same style I had for my Mogul, rotating belt clip with face in retention to protect the screen. It's not as easy to put the phone back in as the mogul version but it can be done with one hand.
The app market is a lot of fun. There are a lot of cool/silly/useful apps. To totally geek out I down loaded one this morning that let me log the accelerometer data (at ~50hz) to the SD card. I log the elevator ride up after lunch today. Sent it to myself and plotted the data in excel. A little simple integration and ta-da I have the speed and distance traveled from the ground floor to the fifth floor.
It's reasonably accurate too. Each floor is ~3.5m tall (I measured it myself) and so four floors traveled should have been 14m and integration resulted in ~13.9m. There was no data filtering. The integration was simple trapezoidal. The only fudge factor with taking the somewhat noisy acceleration data and averaging to arrive at what one-g was so I could subtract out gravity before the integration. Once I got that the data was surprisingly good.
I also have several apps to let me play with the GPS and magnetometer. Google integrated Maps/Navigation is pretty good. It got me to YSU in Younstown yesterday pretty nice. The interface is really good IMHO. There an app that makes your display look like a STTNG tri-corder. And all of the pages display useful data, everything from GPS, magnetometer to Wifi to acoustics and so on.
The barcode scanner apps that uses the camera to scan bar codes is pretty fun/useful too. I have tried to use the app that lets you scan all you member-club cards (Giant Eagle, Best Buy, etc) and then try to scan the screen of the phone rather than the card but that has not worked yet.
The Google calendar and the ability to share that with GFWTR is awesome. Has already kept me out of trouble a couple times, but reminding me of GFWTR schedule and letting her know about stuff I forgot to tell her.
Latitude that tell you the location of other "friend" is interesting. To be accurate GPS must be on and that eats batteries somewhat but I am looking forward to trying that with GFWTR the next time we go to an amusement part of similar.
Battery life is pretty good. Not killer but I can get through a day of typical use without recharging and that is all I really need. I suspect like my Mogul there will be bigger flush fitting batteries in the next year or so. My Mogul's OEM battery was 1100mA-hr. A year and half later I could buy a 1600mA-hr battery that fit in the phone just like the OEM. The EVO has a 1500mA-hour battery and you can get bigger one that bulge out the back but I can wait for know.
Unfortunately I haven't got to test the 4G network speed yet. Cleveland is on the list for the next round of instillation but so far I only get 3G coverage. Even with 3G my network speed it really good.
I will stop rambling know, but if you have any question feel free to ask.
I finally found a holster for it. The Seidio Innocase II combo (case and holster) worked out for me. I actually did not use the case just the holster Since the holster was made for the phone in a case and the silicon skin I bought with the phone was roughly the same thickness as the hard case in the combo. The silicon skin seems to protect the phone much better from impact than the harder cases (ask my boss with the cracked screen iphone that was in a hard case). The holster is the same style I had for my Mogul, rotating belt clip with face in retention to protect the screen. It's not as easy to put the phone back in as the mogul version but it can be done with one hand.
The app market is a lot of fun. There are a lot of cool/silly/useful apps. To totally geek out I down loaded one this morning that let me log the accelerometer data (at ~50hz) to the SD card. I log the elevator ride up after lunch today. Sent it to myself and plotted the data in excel. A little simple integration and ta-da I have the speed and distance traveled from the ground floor to the fifth floor.
It's reasonably accurate too. Each floor is ~3.5m tall (I measured it myself) and so four floors traveled should have been 14m and integration resulted in ~13.9m. There was no data filtering. The integration was simple trapezoidal. The only fudge factor with taking the somewhat noisy acceleration data and averaging to arrive at what one-g was so I could subtract out gravity before the integration. Once I got that the data was surprisingly good.
I also have several apps to let me play with the GPS and magnetometer. Google integrated Maps/Navigation is pretty good. It got me to YSU in Younstown yesterday pretty nice. The interface is really good IMHO. There an app that makes your display look like a STTNG tri-corder. And all of the pages display useful data, everything from GPS, magnetometer to Wifi to acoustics and so on.
The barcode scanner apps that uses the camera to scan bar codes is pretty fun/useful too. I have tried to use the app that lets you scan all you member-club cards (Giant Eagle, Best Buy, etc) and then try to scan the screen of the phone rather than the card but that has not worked yet.
The Google calendar and the ability to share that with GFWTR is awesome. Has already kept me out of trouble a couple times, but reminding me of GFWTR schedule and letting her know about stuff I forgot to tell her.
Latitude that tell you the location of other "friend" is interesting. To be accurate GPS must be on and that eats batteries somewhat but I am looking forward to trying that with GFWTR the next time we go to an amusement part of similar.
Battery life is pretty good. Not killer but I can get through a day of typical use without recharging and that is all I really need. I suspect like my Mogul there will be bigger flush fitting batteries in the next year or so. My Mogul's OEM battery was 1100mA-hr. A year and half later I could buy a 1600mA-hr battery that fit in the phone just like the OEM. The EVO has a 1500mA-hour battery and you can get bigger one that bulge out the back but I can wait for know.
Unfortunately I haven't got to test the 4G network speed yet. Cleveland is on the list for the next round of instillation but so far I only get 3G coverage. Even with 3G my network speed it really good.
I will stop rambling know, but if you have any question feel free to ask.