2 Fat Dads

Just before Christmas, I was given the chance to test out the brand new Samsung Galaxy on Bell’s brand spanking new HSPA+ network. This was a really cool demo opportunity too.  Basically it went like this:  No Strings Attached, I get a Galaxy for my personal use, unlimited local minutes, unlimited SMS and most important of truly unlimited data usage. The latter totally sealed the deal for me, these days there is no way to know how a phone is going to perform in the real world without suing it in the real world. There is no way you should ever base your phone buying decision on the fake unit they try to show you in a store and most of these place have some really strict return policy that usually means that the minute you turn it on you can no longer return it.

After being a long time BlackBerry user and avid Apple Fan-boy, I had some pretty big apprehension about using an Android device. My fear was that this would be the first time that Google would actually let me down. This coupled with the fact that over the years, I have become accustomed to two types of  geek-out excitement:

1. The jaw dropping visual stimuli most associated with watching a Steve Jobs keynote or fondling just about any Apple product.
2. The feeling of your mind opening to a brand new possibility or way of thinking that you just know will change the game.

Continue reading Three Weeks With an Android: Part ONE