****Are you happy you left Blackberry***

I had a BB Curve then BB Tour loved both phones but got sick of waiting for a BB touchscreen to come out for Sprint.

Once you Evo you can never go back or atleast I cant, they would have to come out with something like an Evo to even consider it.

I came from the Tour using BIS for email.

The EVO is so much better.

The biggest thing i miss is the keyboard and BBM. Though i've come accustomed to not having them both in a short period of time.

My gmail is just as fast but much better now because of the gmail app. I used to get my work email via the tours native mail app plus OWA which only allowed it to new mail every so often. No syncing. With the evo's mail app using active exchange i now can have synced email that is instant. So both ky personam and work email without carrying 2 devices.

You wont be dissapointed making the switch.

Went from using a cell phone w/no camera or internet access to a BB Curve 6 months ago & I HATE IT! What a POS! The web access is useless in a pinch & only mildly entertaining when I'm REALLY board. I don't use BBM so I won't miss it.
I'm LUCKY that my company provided it so I won't get spanked when I give it back. Kinda wish it was MINE so I could take a hammer to it when my new EVO arrives.
Definitely NOT "getting" the whole BB craze.

I've been a blackberry user since the time I started working at Cingular in 2004 all the way up until we became at&t and I left the company in 2008. Being mad at at&t and having to give up my employer paid phone I decided to go with sprint where I also started on a blackberry curve and had that all the way up until I just got my EVO. It was definitely a change at first, especially using touch screen. My fingers were all over the place. But this phone is packed with features and not to mention its sexy as hell. So far i'm glad I switched

Received my Evo at 5:00 from FedEx on 6/11 and have not seen my curve 8330 since. Does anyone know where it's at? It was a great workhorse for me, no doubt the email was awesome up til the end, it stopped delivering my work email and neither Sprint nor my IT department could fix the issue. Will not miss the near dial up speeds for internet access, and to now look at the size of this screen compared to the curve oh my god. I know that all bb are being made with wifi, but while using my curve at work which had a low signal, being able to tap in to my buildings wifi is a definite plus. Other than email push, I can not think of one thing the curve did that my Evo doesn't just blow it out of the water doing, almost forgot, the app markets are as different as the Clippers and Lakers, of course the Android Market being the Lakers.

There are only 2 things I miss about my Curve, 1. the keyboard obviously, and 2. email reliability. With my Curve, often times the email would hit my phone several seconds before it even showed up in my Outlook inbox. It was rock solid, never have any sort of email delivery issues, or delayed messages, nothing. The evo isn't as reliable with my exchange mail. Most of the time it gets the message at the same time as my desktop, but at least once a day a message will take 10-15 minutes to come through to the evo. It and the exchange server are both setup for push, so I don't know what the problem is.

I'd never be able to move my company off of BB's, because they would be extremely frustrated any time one of their emails took longer than normal to arrive. I don't necessarily blame the phone itself, it's just probably something with exchange, or activesync, but with my BB and BES I never had to worry at all. Email just worked.


That said, it's not enough to ever make me go back to a BB!


If Rim was smart they'd make a Android blackberry client that could connect to a BES server. They could probably make more selling\licensing the app than they make on hardware sales. I'd easily pay $100 to connect to our BES server.

I used to have the 8330...the evo is by far a waaaaaaaaaaaaay better device...get all my emails and i feel it was easier to set up on the evo...the Only thing i miss about my bb is bbm but besides that i am 100% pleased with my decision to switch.

I had a 8330 Curve, and I'm definitely happy with the switch. I do miss a couple of things from the blackberry. For one, as some others have said, blackberry BIS push email is more reliable. I don't really need to get my emails in a timely fashion, so it doesn't bother me that much. I still get emails after about 30-40 minutes. Another main thing I miss is battery life. I would easily get 2-3 solid days out of the blackberry. If I use it heavily, I get a day out of the EVO. I also miss having built-in, unified profiles. With blackberry, most programs that added notifications could be set in the profiles settings along with all other notifications. Android, in general, doesn't have anything like this. You have to set notifications in each application. There are 3rd party applications that unify some notifications, but I haven't found anything like blackberry. Other than that, I love the EVO, and couldn't imagine going back to that tiny screen or laggy blackberry OS.

EDIT: And to answer your question, you can have POP3 or gmail, but I just have my gmail account download my pop3 email. I found it annoying having gmail and POP3 email in separate apps.

And another thing I miss from the curve is the multicolored LED. I don't really care all that much, though.

goblue42 said:

I'm pretty sure there are folks out there who have left Blackberry for the Evo. Well most of you have had a few weeks to play. How is your email working, your ability to sync (USB or Bluetooth) your calendar, to do list, and contacts. Are you able to get POP3 emails or do you have to have a Gmail account? I have a Tour and really thinking about making a move after 15yrs with a BB. Would love the feedback on the switch.

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i am happy i left blackberry for my palm pre, and was even happier upgrading to the evo!

I'm ****ing ecstatic!!! The Blackberry platform is so boring and the apps were lame as hell.

I had a Curve for a year and just saw the new BB OS 6.0
and i have to say
The evo is waaaaay better then the curve
and OS 6 just looks played out and it hasn't even been released!
I just say BB releases a phone with Android, that would be pretty cool.

Snow Gator said:

Blackberry compared to a EVO. Lets see ummmm F 15 Tomcat compared to a piper cub

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F15 is designated as eagle. F14 is designated as tomcat. Also you should have listed the piper first and the more advanced plane second, since you referenced the blackberry first and the evo second.

dest said:

If Rim was smart they'd make a Android blackberry client that could connect to a BES server. They could probably make more selling\licensing the app than they make on hardware sales. I'd easily pay $100 to connect to our BES server.

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You are spitting truth right there! I feel the same way about garmin. They need to give up on the game they are in and focus on making an android peripheral and software system and sell it for $40-$75. Their company will survive the storm and possibly even thrive if they get with the program.

Also. @GREYHOUND. I thought the same thing, hahaha.

I had a BB Tour (which was my first BB) and really loved it coming from a Touch Pro. I never had any issues with it but I wanted to try out Android. I haven't missed by Tour at all and besides wanting to just try Android, I was kinda getting bored with the BB. Themes, wallpapers and fonts only hold you over for so long as far as customization lol. The one gripe I have about the EVO is the native calendar because my Tour was perfect for putting my class schedule for each semester. For example, I was able to set a Stats class every Mon, Wed, Fri, 8am-10am from Aug 25th-Dec13, etc. The EVO doesn't allow you to set a reoccurring event for multiple days of the week.

Besides that, email is about the same for me. I have 2 Gmail accts, 1 AOL and a University exchange acct. I actually like that it allows me to see my Spam folder for my AOL acct which I couldn't see before. I love being actually able to go to more websites on my phone without it being a pain, a lot more apps, video chatting, and endless customization. I thought I would miss my hardware keyboard but Swype took care of that. I think I will be with Android for a while, even after WM 7 and BB OS 6 comes out

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. You could not drag me back to blackberry.

I got the evo on 5/21/10 and I sold my Tour on ebay that night...Before that I had BBs for about 4 years. I missed BBM at first however all my closets contacts have left BBs too for either the iphone 4 or any android phone...so its back to texting and now I dont have anything to miss from BB

Well, I was one of the few who had a really terrible (awful, horrific) experience with the Tour, so going from that to the EVO is indescribable, I've never had so much instant gratification from a phone.
My gmail and yahoo mail accounts work just fine. I still have my Tour, and during the first couple of days, I watched each phone closely when the mail was pushed through, and even sent myself mail from my netbook. The gmail was pushed faster on the EVO than the Tour, and the Yahoo was pushed through at around the same time.

Before I had the Tour, I had a Blackberry Curve, which I loved and truly believe is the pinnacle of the Blackberry Experience.

That said, equal strengths of both phones:

Sturdy build (the Tour had an awful batter door, but the rest of the device was pretty hefty)
Mail notification

Pros of the EVO versus the Tour:

No battery pulling. None.
Instantaneous installing and uninstalling of apps. No more waiting for the phone to reboot itself. You have not experienced joy until you have downloaded and are running an app in less than a minute.
Superior web browsing experience--I no longer have to lug my netbook around with me if I know I'm going to be out all day.
Superior media experience--watching videos, playing games, and listening to music is flawless on the EVO. I stream radio from Sprint TV through my car stero, and I experience absolutely NO lag, or refreshing or anything like that.
Faster, seamless, and more user friend OS. I know that Android has a reputation for being "difficult", but honestly, I knew how to use the phone right off the bat. I feel like if you have any previous experience with a smartphone, you should be right at home with the EVO.
I dropped calls often with the bb, the gps was off most of the time, and I hit a lot more "dead spots". Have not experienced any of those issues with the EVO, call quality and data speeds are definitely superior.

Cons of the EVO versus the Tour:
Exclusive BBM.

I consider myself a heavy user, I have several messaging apps running at all times, and I text, Facebook, and Tweet all day long. The EVO battery just lasts the day. Before the 5.0 update on the Tour, I would be able to get about 2 or 3 days out of it's battery. The update killed my battery, and I could no longer get more than about 3 hours out of it from heavy use. Knowing what the Blackberry is normally capable of battery wise, I will of course give them the point on this issue.

Facebook notification--really sucks. I mean, really, really suck. If I didn't have my FB tied to my gmail account, I would never get any type of notifications at all. In comparison, the BB FB notification was flawless and user friendly.
However, the various twitter apps are on par with BB.

Phone size--I love the EVOs screen, but sometimes the phone feels a little too large for me, and I forget that it's not as compact as the BB when I go to pick it up, which sometimes causes me to slip up and almost drop it. I just put a case on it today so hopefully that will help me to remember what kind of powerful phone I am working with, but it's a little more difficult than I anticipated carrying around a large device.
Still in the end, I would take EVOs large frame and form factor over the BB. Once you get a taste of that screen, you'll never want to go back.

QWERTY keyboard--Swype saved my life, and I just don't know how happy I would be with a touchscreen only device without it. BB's keyboard is superior. Period. But I think in a few weeks (or even days, dealing with the swype) I might be able to manage better on the virtual keyboard than a physical keyboard. Even now, I'm really comfortable with Swype, and I'm concerned that I will stop being able to type on a real QWERTY all together.

Standouts on the EVO:
The apps! Handcent is particularly amazing, and I never want to go back to a boring text messaging app again.
GTasks--I emailed all of my BB memo pad entries to my gmail account, which I then turned into gmail tasks, which then synced itself with the gTask app on my phone. An easy transfer to me, and I love being able to have all of tasks instantly synced to my gmail account.
Customization, various homescreens. My husband I both have EVOs, and our two phones could not be more different, but they both are custom to suit both of our needs.

I've only had my EVO for a little over a week, but you could not pay me to go back to BB under any circumstance. True story, I was afraid to use my EVO in public because I didn't have any sort of screen protectors or case on it, so I carried my Tour around. I went to Target to do some quick shopping and left my EVO in the car, and once inside, tried to take some pics of some items and send it to my daughter. The Tour, spazzed out and nearly bricked itself from the effort. The spinning clock thing never left the screen, and I eventually let it run it's battery down and have not picked it up since.
Good riddance. Blackberry is like AOL dial up, while the EVO/Android is like discovering broadband. There is just no turning back.

I switched from the Blackberry 8900 on T-Mo's network. So for me, I took several huge steps with this move.

1. EDGE (2G) to 3/4G
2. Much larger device with a higher screen resolution to include touch screen
3. No more annoying trackball
4. Much better operating system (and I was running 5.0)
5. Much more apps
6. MUCH BETTER BROWSER EXPERIENCE (yes, I'm yelling this one)
7. A kickstand
8. HTC Sense UI

The only things I wish the EVO had that my 8900 provided are-

1. I had several friends with BB's and BBM was our choice form of connection. I'm so over this now.
2. Native customizable settings for device profiles and apps (I.E. setting the length of vibrations for email, sms, phone calls, etc.). I've been playing around with several different apps, but nothing gets close to my 8900 options.

It took me several hours to get use to an Android OS, but I think I got it now. Also, I highly suggest installing a 3rd party keyboard like Swype, ShapeWriter (which is now pulled from the Market, but will hopefully return...apk?), the Droid X keyboard, SwiftKey, etc...which, I use the two latter. This will make the change from a physical keyboard seamless...I mean, I think I can crank out messages faster then I could on my 8900...for real.

Battery life...I had great battery life with my 8900, my EVO gets pretty damn close...ymmv on this.

All in all, it was well worth the switch. I just hope RIM will get off their laurels and catch up before it's too late.

OMG YES... I'm never going back to #WACKBERRY

goblue42 said:

I'm pretty sure there are folks out there who have left Blackberry for the Evo. Well most of you have had a few weeks to play. How is your email working, your ability to sync (USB or Bluetooth) your calendar, to do list, and contacts. Are you able to get POP3 emails or do you have to have a Gmail account? I have a Tour and really thinking about making a move after 15yrs with a BB. Would love the feedback on the switch.

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How could you have had a BB for 15 years when the first one (which wasn't even a phone) was released 11 years ago? Do you work for RIM? If so, I imagine you might want to keep your BB. Otherwise, there's no comparison between a BB and the Evo.

I have had my phone for less than 24 hours, and two things i thought i would miss was push email and password keeper. The evo has both. This phone literally runs circle around my tour. And i actually enjoy browsing the web now on a phone. I had a blackberry for 4 years.

I used Blackberry's boring interface for 8 long years(cause I liked copying off my Dad lol), been through the elements of heaven and hell but after seeing how "sadly overhauled" BB OS 6 is going to be sickens me and thats when I decided its time for change and many others feel the same because RIM's market share is dwindling down. I try to remember that RIM is not really trying to appeal to the "cool" crowd but they seem lightyears behind all other Smartphone OS's, browsers, etc. and could do a little bit more to it. I played with an iPhone and heck I thought of buying one, but Android just feels like MINE and I am not stuck in iPhones wall garden, but back to Berry, I just had to let it go because with Google services I have contacts, calendar, etc. always updated and my GMail pushes to the phone just like my Berry so I knew this was a good choice and all the bells and whistles on this Evo(except factory battery, which I replaced with a 3000mAh version) are just.....I am in aww. Maybe one day a great innovation from RIM will come when they do decide to lean a bit more towards media or "cool" things. I have confidence is RIM but until that day...Android will be my device OS of choice.

P.S Sorry Dad no more BBM, you can always text me, Love your son ^^

Just my personal outlook

lordrainkm said:

How could you have had a BB for 15 years when the first one (which wasn't even a phone) was released 11 years ago? Do you work for RIM? If so, I imagine you might want to keep your BB. Otherwise, there's no comparison between a BB and the Evo.

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Correction, the first Blackberry pager models were released in the mid-nineties. 1996 or 1997 I believe. I know, as I tested a 857, which replaced the 850 that came out prior to it. Even some of the 95x pagers would have fit this time frame pretty well. With that being said, he would have had to jump on the bandwagon from the inital launch to get close to 15 years.

Why do you guys like the EVO?

Its trash lol... I went back to the store twice now even with my blackberry 9650 in my bag about to swap for the evo, but when I pick it up its just a POS.

I had the Incredible on Verizon and I liked it much better.

EVO seems slower much slower than the incredible.. it lagged, and the web browsing was SLOW

My bold was wooping its ass in web browsing speed using opera mini.


HTC Sux.