I made the switch again to a new phone, platform, and apps

So after not even a year with my Blackberry Storm, I have switched to a new phone, OS platform and brand new apps. The Storm was fun, exciting and worked 100% better than the Motorola Q9c. Windows mobile OS is a terrible platform, causing the Q to crash multiply times a day. So after an agonizing year of restarts and searching the web for help and answers to get the phone to operate, and keeping the battery alive longer than 30 minutes, I purchased my BB Storm.

It took me only 5 hours to transfer and set up the phone the way I wanted it. I spent countless hours a few months prior, searching and researching that phone. Thank you Crackberry.com, for all your wonderful information and members that posted such great tips and tricks.

Once I got the phone the way I wanted it with my information in place, I started to play with the apps. I about fell in the floor when I discovered, that the apps were expensive, rarely free, and did not work well with a touch screen, even though they were said to work perfectly.

That opened the door to disappointment then the phone problems started, crashing, locking up, a lot of crashing; you have to do a battery pull at least once a day. What?!? Can't you just turn off the phone, nope, that is actually not turning it off, (who came up with that idea). So now I have to take off my case, no easy feat, then take off the back, then pull out the battery, DAILY! No of course not, just download a "free app" to do a simulated battery pull. Ok, doesn't work... Are you kidding me? So now you must buy an app to do that for you, but since you started with the free app, you will have to buy an app that will work around the OS problem, cause the free app screwed up the OS, so that it will not work with the same paid app, which is slightly higher in cost. Anyone confused yet?

So after countless hours of doing more research to fix problems, buying, downloading, installing, uninstalling, getting refunds for apps... I am finally getting this phone to work for me not against me.

Then guess what happened... the new platform of Google android phones are now on the open market and you can get them at Verizon, not just on T-Mobile network. What?!?
I love my Google: Gmail, Calendar, Task, Voice, Blogger... and all that does not work well with my BB Storm. But do I want a new phone, let's think a moment... will it be hard to transfer over, since I enjoy the touch screen (that is about it (not really the problems that mount on a daily basis)), I sold my parents and brother on this phone... Should I abandon ship to a new phone and platform?

So again I start my research and study of the Google platform Android. Great reviews and lots of apps that are free or really inexpensive like the iPhone. I could spend 10 dollars for an app for my Storm that would be 3 dollars for the iPhone, then I found out a lot of the apps for Android were free or about a dollar.

I set my sights on a HTC Droid Incredible and headed for the Verizon store. As I am talking to my sales guy Aaron, he informs me that the Incredible is not available, they are on backorder cause HTC didn't realize how popular they were going to be, and did not produce enough. Can we say Tickle Me Elmo? So he shows me the Motorola Droid, I don't like, I have a couple of friends that have it and I didn't like it when I played with theirs.

Then Aaron said to me “Do you have to have the Incredible, how about the Eris or even the LG Ally?”

“No, Let's see those phones.”

He got the two phones out for demo, and I didn't like the LG, but awww the Eris, was perfect, it was smooth and easy to hold, it fit perfectly in my hands, and it was easy to type on. I didn't make almost any mistakes on the Eris composing a message as I would have done on the Storm. So we start talking about apps and moving over my information. As I am asking questions, Aaron was training a new employee, he says to me, I went from the Storm (which he had to exchange out 9 times) to the Droid and it was so easy to transfer over. SOLD! After a few more questions, and setting up the new phone from my old, I walked out a happy customer, and excited about getting to know the new phone.

Here it is not even a week later, and I can't put the phone down. I have only had to buy 3 apps (a total of 8 dollars, my total for the Storm was about $75) the rest of the apps were already on the phone or I downloaded them for free. My Google accounts sync up and I can do everything on the phone with them as I can online. The internet download is fast, even when I am in a terrible area of reception; it is 500% percent faster than the Storm. I can get my Facebook and Twitter updates without having to wait 5 to 10 minutes then being told the connection has time out.

The Eris has everything the Incredible does, except for moving wallpapers (who cares) and a tad bit less memory. But it works so well and I have drained the battery so often, I have to buy an extra capacity one just to keep it charged, which is good thing. The battery is not dying just cause the phone is on, it is dying cause I am using and enjoying the phone.