Exstatica

I’ve always been somewhat of a nerd, I know I know hard to believe right? I usually have the latest gadgets, toys, and the occasional useless purchase. I started this cell phone epidemic before it was even one. I had a T68i as my first phone. I once watched that phone slide across a dance floor during a break dance move. Luckly I found it from the blinking bluetooth light. The the geek overdrive took over and a phone that didn’t have a touch screen was a thing of the past. I moved up to an Sony P800. Aww technology.

I’m that sort of guy who pushes things to the edge because well I need speed. I need things to be fast. If its too slow I’ve already moved on. I switched to Sprint about a year and a half ago. I eventually ended up with the phone I have now. The Palm Pre. Don’t get me wrong I love WebOS, but the phone is a piece of crap. I’ve had 4 now, its slow, its painful, and it randomly reboots. But it does a lot of things. One thing it does not do however is 4g.

I work near LAX airport. We’ve got a few cell towers on our roof here and one of them is Verizon, and the other is Sprint. I was on the verge of paying my early term fee, and switching to Verizon because I want android, and there was no end in sight for 4g coming to LA. That was until Some guys in a truck showed up to run fiber. You see I’m the guy who knows where all the fiber comes and goes in this building. First it was Verizon working with Timewarner to get a bunch of fiber. Then Sprint showed up. I had a chance to talk to them, see the inside of their sprint setup, and finally was told… “This is WiMax going in”.

So I hopped on a roof and snapped some photos which you can see here.

My heart jumped, I was so excited that we were getting WiMax here in LA, but when? There are no WiMax devices, I don’t really want an overdrive because well I have a cell phone and Wifi, and well fast internet everywhere except my pocket. Where are the WiMax phones?

Thats when Sprint, and HTC announced at CTIA that they had a new phone.

Meet the HTC Evo. This phone does it all. It runs Android, 4g, HDMI, mobile hotspot. Feature packed, amazing phone that I want now. This is the kind of the device I’ve been waiting for. Full 1ghz processor, plenty of storage, sd card, dual cameras. This phone takes it to the next level… my level.

I’ve been waiting for this kind of device. Something that can keep up with me.

You see as I said previously, I’m a geek. I rely on technology as its my day job, but also my hobby. I sync with multiple exchange accounts, google, yahoo, aim, and a bunch of other personal sites. I’m the Ninja of the internet, I deal with backbone, routers, and switches all day long. Not to mention coding, and forcing things to work the way I want them to work.

Thats how it has been with every phone I’ve ever had. I’ve had to push it to the edge to keep up with me. Hacking kernels, rooting, writing my own plugins. Just to get it to do what I need it to do. I don’t think I’m going to have that problem with the EVO.

I’m ready to switch from Palm to Android. I’ve almost always had an HTC phone, but Winmo sucks, and I’m never going back there.

So heres to you Evo, I hope that your cost is worth it, your OS works, the hardware is solid, and you can run voice and data at the same time. I don’t know when its going to be released, some say june 13th, other say end of May. Either way its not quick enough. If the nexus one was available on Sprint I’d probably have that by now, and then switch again when the Evo came out.

Palm, thank you for the good times. Hate you for the bad times, you’ve been fun to root, hack, and make my phone slave. I’ll miss you, but only in that foster care kind of way.