MyTouch 3G Fender Edition Review

Having been a die hard Blackberry user, I found myself at the T-Mobile store looking to upgrade my well used Blackberry Pearl Flip to the Bold 9700. Unfortunately, I really don’t like the wide model fully qwerty keyboard Blackberries. My fingers are just too big for those little keys.

I have long been a fan of Google and when the Android operating system came out I was very interested in the G1 but I just couldn’t bear to replace my crackberry but while at the store I found myself looking more and more at the MyTouch 3G Fender Edition. What a cool looking phone with everything I would need.

Now having been a Blackberry addict for a long time I was able to whip out an email or text message or BBM in seconds flat! My biggest concern was going to be the change to a touchscreen phone vs my already superb typing skills on the Blackberry. I decided I would try the MyTouch 3G for the 14 days and if I didn’t like it I could always bring it back and get the Bold 9700.

I’ve now had the MyTouch for about a month and am really happy I kept it.

The MyTouch 3G Fender Edition sports a cool “Starburst” Fender Paint job which in some respects makes it much more difficult to put this cool looking phone into a case or skin and hide the design. The phone comes with a screen protector but a Zagg protective skin is recommended.

The MyTouch comes with a 384Mhz Snapdragon processor, 296MB of internal storage for all your apps, a 16GB SD card for your music and pictures and 191MB of Ram. Now while this is a pretty good setup, most of it will be obsolete next year when the 1Ghz phones come out but by then I’ll be looking to upgrade to the Nexus 1.

One of the coolest things about the MyTouch Fender Edition is the packaging. The phone comes not in a box, but in a cool reusable case. Check out the video below to see the packaging and un-boxing.

Some Pros and Cons:

Pros:

• The phone feels great in your hands. Compared to this, the Blackberry feels like a plastic toy.
• Call clarity is superb. You can’t even tell you’re on a mobile phone.
• The apps you can get for the Android OS are amazing. Everything you could every imagine.
• Music sounds great and videos play with easy especially with the built in Youtube app.

Cons:

• Typing on the MyTouch sucks. It has slowed me way down, but I’m still learning. The great thing is the predictive text which helps compensate for your fat finger typing.
• I miss BBM. BBM was cool, easy to use and great to chat with friends. But as more and more of my friends move to Gmail, we just use Google Chat instead.
• The volume level stinks. Its hard to hear on speaker phone and I can’t even hear the alarm going off. Luckily the 3.5mm jack allows you to connect to speakers.

Overall I have to say I am very impressed with the MyTouch 3G Fender Edition and the Android operating system. Yes, the typing is slow, but I’ll get better.

Peace… G