So I took the plunge and decided to upgrade to a Samsung Moment this week, partially fueled by the fact Sprint gave me my $150 off upgrade 7-ish months ahead of my 2-year mark. Combined with a $100 rebate that I won’t see for another 10-16 weeks, I paid about $180 for the phone, and that’s never a bad deal.
Compared to WinMo, this thing is so much easier to deal with. Granted I was using a custom 6.5 on an outdated phone so it’s not a fair comparison to what is out there now probably, but I am liking Android Cupcake 1.5 much more than WinMo by a longshot thus far.
Proving that I am a somewhat impatient bastard the moment UPS updated the delivery status online I about bounded out the door on break from work to run home and grab it. I tried to activate it while I was there but signal in the apartment was shitty as usual and I needed a Sprint PCS signal to dial the activation number the chat support gave me, and that wasn’t flying, and I had to be back at work for a 1pm meeting with the movers so they can tell us what we need to do for our building move in a couple weeks, so I brought the whole box with me back to work so I can get it running and play with it during work, because that is how I roll. There was a slight irony in doing a support chat session with Sprint while being a support chat technician myself, but I appreciate delicious irony.
Once the phone was on and working and the data provisioned I immediately began syncing contacts and data from my Google Apps domain. One thing I found differently between the WinMo version and the Android version is the WinMo version made me place all the contacts I wanted on the phone in the “My Contacts” group where I had previously had them sorted in groups. So when I went to sync my contacts to this phone, it synced everything including the EPS group that I didn’t really want on the phone but had in there and a couple other contacts I had but didn’t need on the phone. Eventually I figured out the phone had options on which groups to sync or not, so I went back into Google and fixed all my contacts and re-synced them to the phone. I also added contact pictures that I mostly lifted from people’s FB profiles. Would have been nice to have an automatic option for that, but then I suppose it allowed me to pick far more flattering photos of y’all.
Setting up widgets and programs has also been fairly painless, as I’ve already figured my way around Android Market and gotten a few nifty widgets in, such as ones for controlling the Wifi and Bluetooh, as well as apps for the shit I somewhat pay attention to. The stock FB app was pretty bad, ended up going with the one off Market and I had started with twidroid for Twitter and while functionally no problem I then found seesmic and found it to be better and stuck with that. For AIM I’m using Meebo which seems to work fairly well in addition to holding all 3 AIM accounts I have, one personal one work and one mobile.
Email is still the thing I’m playing with, right now my main email is being pushed through the Google Account sync and my work email through POP since we don’t have exchange or imap. Since there is no interval setting so to speak for Google Account sync I am wondering if I disable auto-sync and grab the mail from imap it would help my battery a bit and allow me to just imap up everything.
Anyway, I had started this at work before the great flood of installations and kinda lost train of thought, so I’ll leave it at that until there is more worth writing about.