{"id":397,"date":"2011-07-29T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T19:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2011-07-29T11:29:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T19:29:51","slug":"htc-evo-is-finally-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"HTC Evo is finally mine!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me preface this posting by saying that I was impressed and eagerly awaited the Snapdragon-powered HTC phone long before it was ever was released to mobile carriers. I was then stoked more than ever to hear that Sprint would get it and the model would be called the Evo.
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But nowadays I am more a cheap bastard more than a technophobe. So when Sprint changed the Sprint Premier \"\"<\/a> program which before the change would in exchange for lengthening my contract would give me a new phone annually. With the change though now I would have to wait 2 years for a new phone, so I was like no HTC Evo for me if I had to pay full price for it and at $549 there was no one I was springing for it.<\/p>\n

So I was having problems with my previous phone – the HTC Snap. So after numerous calls to Sprint’s useless<\/em> Support I finally bit the bullet and decided to head to the Sprint Store. Mind you the HTC Snap on the Sprint network is a Windows Mobile<\/a> 6.1 phone and since I had hacked it to Windows Mobile 6.5 I really didn’t want to go the Sprint Store because I knew what their answer would be. Even though HTC supported WinMo 6.5 on this device, Sprint<\/a> had written this device off in favor of the WinMo7 devices on deck.<\/p>\n

So needless to say I was in the neighborhood at another store waiting to get my new Apple MacBook Pro<\/a> no less so I had a little time to kill so over to the Sprint store I go. I walk in totally<\/strong> committed to only getting the Snap worked on; then the rep starts talking to me about a new phone. Normally I am unflappable when I have my mind set on something, so the only thing I can say is that I must have been a little off my game that day because the only thing she had to say was “There’s a promo until the end of the month so you can get it for $99<\/em>” and baby I was in<\/strong>!!!!<\/p>\n

So with the new $10 monthly up-charge for having a true<\/em> “smartphone” in addition to $10 for the mandatory<\/strong><\/u> insurance I walked out with a new HTC Evo (see the other specs here<\/a>) and a whole new more expensive monthly billing plan. So for all you folks thinking of going to this phone either on Sprint, Verizon or AT&T (each of them have a comparable phone under other model names) just keep in mind that they have these mandataory add-on charges. Want to use the USB tethering?… extra charge! What to use the phone as a wifi hotspot?… extra charge!<\/p>\n

The good thing about Sprint is they don’t have a charge for going over the 3G and 4G monthly usage tops like some of the others – remember the iPhone users who got bills for hundreds of dollars because they went over the network allowances.<\/p>\n

So the HTC Evo 4G is finally mine and after upgrading it to the Android Gingerbread 2.3 OS it is really snappy and a plucky little phone! Now if only the Android OS could stop churning through battery power like a druggie at the coke store.<\/p>\n

Yahhhooooo!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me preface this posting by saying that I was impressed and eagerly awaited the Snapdragon-powered HTC phone long before it was ever was released to mobile carriers. I was then stoked more than ever to hear that Sprint would get it and the model would be called the Evo. But nowadays I am more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}