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So in 24 hours I'll be back to T-Mobile. I was going to port my # to Google Voice but then I'd lose the GV number I've had for years and I've been giving out for years. That is no good. I assumed I would go to the Dell Venue Pro but I can't get that phone in stores with T-Mo so I can't get that phone tomorrow for free and I can't try it before I buy it so F-that. So I'm trying to decide between the HD7 and the myTouch4G.

HD7 Pros: Windows Phone 7, bigger screen, good speaker phone and a good speaker in general.
Cons: Windows Phone 7 is still unproven and the support has yet to be seen. This didn't worry me 2 months ago but now it is as we see some companies start to back away from the platform.

myTouch4G Pros: 4G, front facing camera for video chat, better camera, more mature Android platform and hacking community.
Cons: I'm not entirely sold on Android, there are reported issues of screen quality problems that may or may not be resolved, the speaker is generally reviewed as being only OK.

I think I'm going to go with the myTouch4G and give the Windows Phone 7 a few years to mature. I think if Windows Phone 7 wasn't so crippled with multitasking and lack of exchange features (like no task syncing) I would probably go with the HD7.

Feb 10, 2011 8:09am PST

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So in 24 hours I'll be back to T-Mobile. I was going to port my # to Google Voice but then I'd lose the G... : rosewood
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  You look at the Nexus S and the G2? : coldfusioncs
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    No front facing camera. : rosewood
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      Nexus S has one : pwnage1232
      
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      No 4G : rosewood
      
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      That is true : pwnage1232
      
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      Since I have 4G coverage here I'm really REALLY tempted by the 4G phones : rosewood
      
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      it's a lot faster and it's really really nice to have. : kbnerd
      
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      I forgot in my master list that being able to do tethering is huge. With Sprint you can't add tethering a... : rosewood
      
      I've been tethering my laptop to my phone on-and-off and not only has T-mo not charged me, they haven't s... : coldfusioncs
      
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      its not 4g }:( hdpa+ is a 3g technology, tmobile are just being retarded. : harold.johnson
      
      I was waiting for someone to come to this thread and say this. They call it 4G so I'll call it 4G. : rosewood
      
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      If it's got the speed now its got the speed now. : Conan
      
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      4g technology is supposed to be able to eventually reach 100mbps, and that isn't happening for hsdpa. w... : harold.johnson
      
      Was it engadget or ars who had a great breakdown of the Gs? Whichever it was, go read it : rosewood
      
      Do you think they'd seriously upgrade the current 5-12Mb 4G by an order of magnitude to 100Mb and not cal... : DinK
      
      I'm aware it can, but it's not happening for years here in the US. As far as existing, actually implement... : Conan
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  Rosie, the wife and i love our mytouch4g phones. so you should get one. : kbnerd
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    my wife got red and i got black. : kbnerd
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      The two big knocks are goofy custom software (easily fixed with a custom rom) and the speaker. How is... : rosewood
      
      i think it works well! : kbnerd
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  Port your number to a diff gvoice account? : watcherxp
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    That really defeats the purpose because then I'm managing two GV accounts. If I could just have two GV... : rosewood
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      You can I thought? It's like a $10 one-time fee for a second number. At least I remember reading somethin... : tfboc
      
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      The GV faq says if I port in a number my current GV number goes away in 90 days. : rosewood
      
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      I thought you could actually just get a 2nd new GV number on the same account. Now that I think about it ... : tfboc
      
      Also, I just reread your original post and realize this isn't what you want anyway hah. : tfboc
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  RW if you're a real nerd you'll get a Nokia N900! : boring gegtik
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    I'd rather not have a phone instead of going back to Nokia, who is going to switch to Windows Phone 7 sof... : rosewood
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      immaterial! : boring gegtik
      
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      To be honest I wouldn't recommend getting one now, either. Not because of any problem with the phone (I'm... : Conan
      
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      that was clear a long time ago. the N900 is an orphan : boring gegtik
      
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      I'm excited about Alien Dalvik though : boring gegtik
      
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      Oh, no doubt, and a number of other software bits. : Conan
      
      i bought the modified network drivers from the dude that worked on neopwn : boring gegtik
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  Let us know what you decide. I'm switching to T-Mobile soon too and am in the same boat. Also, the G2 is ... : Albemuth
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    Switch on Friday or Saturday and your phones are free : rosewood
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      I'm going the no contract route. : Albemuth
      
      Ah, to get the free phones you have to contract up. : rosewood
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    atually why arent you considering the g2? over the whole keyboard thing? the g2 can be rooted and run the... : smacknca
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      The mytouch4g has video calling and the G2 doesn't. The mytouch4g can also be easily rooted. : rosewood
      
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      silly video calling, no one wants to see you! in any event i just want some spiffy dual core phones, unti... : smacknca
      
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      I want to be able to see my kids when I'm traveling and the kids to see grandma and for grandma to see my... : rosewood
      
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      you might want to test drive the 4g network coverage where you live. here its really frustrating how spot... : smacknca
      
      Around here it is going to be HSPA+ and 3G. Tmo's 3G coverage here is pretty good. : rosewood
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  I have the HD7. It rocks. I had a vibrant before that, and a Mytouch 3g before that. : JohnnyRey
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    what do you like so much about it? : rosewood
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      The size of the screen, and win 7 mo. : JohnnyRey
      
      I personally love the little sound effects the phone makes when you text or lock the phone. : mayooms
- Rosewood, because you helped me out let me set your mind at ease. I have has the latest and greatest phon... : peters4life
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  Why not get the android phone and have all your GV calls forward to it? You don't need to port the number... : fletch_
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    This is what I do now and I was hoping to save the step of having it ring at my phone first. Call my nu... : rosewood
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      oh gotcha, think you're SOL : fletch_
      
      Yep : rosewood
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  you sure you don't want to wait another few weeks for an atrix? : crypt420
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    It isn't coming to T-mo, right? Plus phones are free friday and saturday : rosewood
    - at&t...and yeah it'll cost you more. : crypt420
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  What companies are backing away from the platform? What support are you looking for that you haven't se... : xylothan
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    There have been rumors since this story broke: http://blogs.computerworld.com/17669/more_bad_news_for_win... : rosewood
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      I pay $45 monthly for unlimited calling, 3g and tether. Runs on AT&T's network and a Nokia E71. Oh yea... : Rigg5
      
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      I don't want any of those phones. I use my phone every day for business w/ email and scheduling and calli... : rosewood
      
      Robust is the word, because this phone does all of those things :] My only complaint is no shack app f... : Rigg5
      
      Why don't you use a Nexus S on that? E71 lols. Can't you just switch sim cards? : kabex
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      I personally didn't like LGs hardware and suspect that it didn't sell as well because the HD7 and Focus w... : xylothan
      
      I won't have to hack the MT4G except to get even more out of it. Really it will come down to my wife.... : rosewood
      
      Every time I see "Mango" I think of the SNL character : Dave-A
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  Android Hijack - Instead of starting a new thread I'll ask something that gets asked a lot around here. W... : rosewood
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    Not using Wfi through a proxy, thats for damn sure. Thanks google faggots. : Saman
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      I don't speak blind rage. Explain to my simple brain of what you speak. : rosewood
      
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      Unless you hack the shit out of your new phone, Android has no support for setting a proxy for Wifi conne... : Saman
      
      Oh. Ok. Yea, that isn't something I'll ever give a shit about but good to know all the same. : rosewood
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    Not using Corporate Exchange email. : greenbergMD
    - Why not? : virus
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      This was the first thing I tested. What surprised me was that I was able to see my flag for followups and... : rosewood
      
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      the main issue we experienced was it not syncing contacts correctly. : greenbergMD
      
      works fine here. Exchange 2010. : JohnnyRey
      
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      What kind of contact syncing issues were you seeing? Oddly enough, that's something else I'm heavily inv... : virus
      
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      We had a VP with a little over 2000 contacts and less than half of them were actually syncing to the device. We thought at first it was an issue where he had some how saved the contacts locally, but they were all on the server. We're also running Exchange 2010. In the end we went with Touchdown on the device because it worked correctly and also supported remote wipe.
      
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      We had a VP with a little over 2000 contacts and less than half of them were actually syncing to the devi... : greenbergMD
      
      Touchdown is actually what I recommend to people over the native exchange stuff. It is much more robust,... : virus
      
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      who the fuck needs 2000 contacts in their phone? Sweet jesus : JohnnyRey
      
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      You'd be surprised - most high level VPs and CEOs have *at least* that many contacts that they need to ke... : virus
      
      That is insane : JohnnyRey
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      My main issue with Android Exchange is sub-folder syncing. I set up several rules in Outlook to automatic... : kelzmelzer
      
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      That is how my setup is - does Touchdown have something like the unread mail search folder, a way to just... : rosewood
      
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      I wish I knew. Apparently the stock email client just does not have push sync for sub folders. Here's... : kelzmelzer
      
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      Misread your above post. Touchdown does have ability to Push for ALL folders you add to it when you se... : kelzmelzer
      
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      All I want is to be able to see any e-mail from any folder (even if I have to just pick certain folders) ... : rosewood
      
      I do find the sync going BACK to Exchange to be a bit slow (eg. marked as read), but not unreasonably so. : kelzmelzer
      
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      win 7 mo does this, just fyi =) : JohnnyRey
      
      I know. I really like the e-mail client on WinMo and as stupid as it seems I was really looking forward t... : rosewood
      
      If I'm reading my screen right, any folders I flag show up on my email home screen as unread. : breadsticks
      
      This is another reason I'm a fan of Touchdown. It handles folders better, IMHO. : greenbergMD
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    http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Recommended_Android_Apps#Holy_shit.2C_I_can_do_THAT_with_my_phone.3F : Arctic Fox
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      I'm going to have sex with your face now, ok? : rosewood
      
      eep : Arctic Fox
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  which modulation tech does T-Mobile's 4G network use? LTE or WiMAX? : biskits
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    http://t-mobile-coverage.t-mobile.com/ HSPA+ : rosewood
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      sounds like it operates over the same bands as CDMA2000. that is good. don't go for a higher-frequency te... : biskits
      
      That's what I've read. I'm excited to be able to talk and do data -- I've never had such a luxury before.... : rosewood
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  Nexus S, it is a '4G' phone on TMobile, since it is HSDPA+ : Yanks
  - It's not. : Albemuth
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    Bzzt, nope. : virus
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      Virus, you realize that if I don't like this phone I'm blaming you right? : rosewood
      
      Going with the MyTouch? That's an ok choice. I probably would have gone with the Nexus S, but you'll li... : virus
      
      Lets just start blaming him now. : xylothan
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      Doesn't really matter. 3G phones on T-Mobile's network operate at speeds higher than other providers 3G ... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
      
      Sure, but his statement was completely false. : virus
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  I have an HD7 I like it, but I find myself using my phone less than I did when I had the iPhone. I'm not... : J2 Analog
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    I had a G1 before -- I find myself using it more now that things like AlphaJax are out. :P : xylothan
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      is that better than words with friends, or scrabble. I find myself not buying shit if it's not on xbox l... : J2 Analog
      
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      It's got a free unlimited trial now, so give it a shot : xylothan
      
      Yeah, it's free with ads. I'm playing it with a friend right now. : Portax
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      AlphaJax, eh? Add me: Dave-A You too, Portax! : Dave-A
      
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      Add me too! J2analog : J2 Analog
      
      And me Patters. : patters666
  - So that Microsoft ad was right! I hope you're spending your new found free time caring for your family. : Dontdrop
  - Isn't that what their commercials are about? : Xencer
  - That's the point of the phone! : mayooms
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  Thread Hijack! Who's the shacker that works on Windows Phone 7? I wanna know when that damn update is co... : mayooms
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    I dunno, but when you find out let me know so I can give that asshole a piece of my mind also. : xylothan
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      Oh i thought it was you! Oopsy : mayooms
      
      It is him. : sigpro
  - http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/10/windows-phone-7s-copy-and-paste-update-now-coming-in-march/ : smacknca
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  I say Nexus S -- why? 'cause you'll actually get timely updates. no six months of carrier certification... : Postal
  - But a front facing phone is : rosewood

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