After two weeks of using Android, I'm feeling increasingly confident I'm going to be staying here. There are definitely things that aren't as good as the BB I left behind, but there are, IMO, way more pluses than minuses.

Let's get the big minus out of the way. Mail sucks. Not having a universal inbox drives me up a wall. The Yahoo Mail client is, arguably, better than the Gmail client (I use both Yahoo and Gmail pretty evenly), and the UX is nice. But I hate having to use two applications for email, and I hate not being able to switch the source of replies/forwards from within the message composition window. Yeah, I knew that mail wasn't going to be as good as what the BB offers, I just didn't realize how much I was going to miss that.

The slightly smaller minus would be IM. I'm missing BBM, and the whole BBM experience, really bad. Google Talk isn't as good. eBuddy isn't as good. I'm sure WhatsApp or Kix would be a good substitute, but I don't know anyone using those. I'd pay good money for a BBM port to Android.

Web browsing on my slide makes me forget how badly I miss BB mail. The experience is just slick as hell. After years of browsing on Symbian/WinMo/BB, I just didn't understand how nice mobile browsing could be. Sure, I'd played with the iPhone, but unless you live with something, you just don't know what you're missing. I now know what I was missing.

The sheer variety and number of available applications is overwhelming. I thought I had hit application heaven on the BB (don't laugh, I came from Symbian/WinMo, where apps are like oases in the desert), but Android is awesome. I tend to check the Amazon app store daily, and have picked up a few of their free daily apps. That, in turn, has led me to pick up a few other applications from that store (I've only downloaded a few things from the Android market, and VitalPlayer is next on my list). I'm also searching for some sort of Sega Master System emulator (yeah, really), but haven't found anything promising quite yet.

I'm also really digging the myModes feature of the slide. Basically, it's a time/location based profile switcher. I've got it set to go to a vibrate/silent mode while I'm at work. If I could get it to automatically switch on WiFi when I'm home, I'd be ecstatic.

Battery life isn't the horror story that everyone claims. I'm sure if I had gone for a dual core phone, or a 4G phone, I'd be singing a different tune... but I can make it through a work day without depleting a battery, and that's all right in my book. Not that I've got much juice left if I do that, and to be fair, I usually do top up at lunch... but it's possible to get through a day.

So, two weeks, and I'm pretty happy. Next up: Applications!