My wife got me a T-Mobile myTouch Saturday night as my Blackberry Pearl was starting to show it's age (Thanks Baby!). You know, buttons not working intermittently, loose buttons, been dropped and had a cracked screen on the very edge, etc. Not to mention that since I now work from my home I really have no need for for a blackberry anymore, most of my phone usage now is based on just having a phone with a little bit of fun thrown in now and again. I had been wanting to get an iPhone but really didn't want to deal with AT&T plus we like the service we get from T-Mobile, so I was wanting something comparable to the iPhone. I had done some research on the myTouch and I found mostly favorable reviews and it fit the requirements (i.e. touch screen, good selection of free applications, internet, bluetooth capable and wi-fi capable). I also like the fact that the OS is powered by Google Android and not Palm or Microsoft.

So, my first 24 hours with the myTouch have been very favorable. There are many theme apps available for customizing this phone that are free, of course there are also some pay apps but the price is very reasonable. As for other apps, there are MANY to choose from with most of them being free. The screen is big enough and very clear, but it does wash out and is difficult/impossible to see in bright sunlight (my biggest complaint). I was worried about using the software keyboard also, but that seems to work very nicely with the only issues on the "del" key as it is sometimes hard to get it to recognize a touch. The phone comes with a 4GB Mini-SD memory card, which is a bonus and it being an OS by Google, Gmail (my main email) support is built right in and works wonderfully. Setup was easy and straight forward, since I already had a Gmail account, all I had to do was provide it my login credentials. As for widgets to place on the home screen.... well, I started putting some on the home screen but noticed the more I added the slower the phone operated, so now I only have 2 widgets on the home screen, the Google search widget and a weather widget, as all of my play time is based on what the weather is doing and the Google search widget just makes it really handy for looking up something.

My overall impression with this phone is that I really like it. It meets all of my needs, has a beautiful display, works very well and is very geeky (like me). A bonus to the geeky part of the phone is, none of my other family members want to figure out how to use it . I do see the UI as being a little cumbersome, but like I said, geeky. It is certainly geared towards a technical person, at least that's how it feels but I guess as long as it works for me, that's all that counts. So, if you're in the market for a new phone, check out the T-Mobile myTouch, I bet you'll like it too.

I know it's been a while since I've posted anything, but I've been rather busy (understatement) here lately. But I've been doing some PHP development for one of my other customers and I've been incorporating DoJo dialogs and tool tips in various places throughout his site. While messing with a lot of this I found myself going through some of the code that gets generated when incorporating tool tips and dialogs into an XPage as a reference. If it weren't for me going through the XPages Tooltip tutorial over on Declan 's blog I never would have even been aware of something such as Dojo even existed.

So I would like to Thank Declan for the outstanding tutorial and also for making me aware of Dojo which allowed me to make a customer very happy and hire me for more development projects. Thanks Declan!