Ok, I went to the Radio Shack I purchased my phone from, they have had one return, for a very idiotic reason, the user reported that zero incoming calls ever rang through to the phone… I told the manager that I’d put $500 down that he accidentally setup Google Voice on his Evo, but never logged into the web and configured it, nor did he have a gmail account, nor did they set one up with the phone when he bought it.  So, he has all of his incoming calls “blocked” by Google Voice and is not getting the voicemail notifications, because he did not setup his phone to receive gmail messages. HA! too funny…  Also, none of the employees in the store have even heard of ANY of the issues that has been going on around the web with the HTC Evo (see links at the end of this post).  I spent about 30 minutes at the store “educating” the employees about the problems plaguing the HTC Evo.

Afterwards I went to a nearby Sprint repair center, they have not had a single Evo returned, nor have they even heard of ANY of the issues that are being reported on the web. The sales person I talked to was fairly knowledgeable, although he admitted to only having seen 3 HTC Evo’s prior to mine, I was able to cover all of the issues within 15 minutes (they closed while I was doing this) and show him the light leak and the “moving glass” issue from my phone.

I’ve been using my Jabra Cruiser Car Speaker phone (BlueTooth and FM transmitter) with my Evo for 2.5 days now, and I must say it has been working very well.  I love it, I had 1 issue where the Jabra connected, but only connected for phone audio, not music playback, but I just had to turn off the Jabra and turn it back on.  Now, when I was driving home from Radio Shack and Sprint, I was listening to Pandora through my Evo and the Jabra, played out through my car Stereo Speakers.  It sounded, well… good although I have a 200 Ford Mustang with the 6 speaker CD player audio package, and the passenger front speaker has a major tear in it and I believe at least one of the rear speakers has a small rip in the speaker fiber (not the original owner and I received the vehicle in that condition…)  So I do not know if that is a good review of the sound quality.

Then I got home and had a lovely reboot issue, I turned off my BlueTooth Speakerphone, and the Evo locked up on my desktop/home screen with a message “BlueTooth Device Disconnected” in a pretty little grey bubble.  it sat on that screen for 3 minutes, then the phone rebooted.  But wait!!! it gets better… the phone got stuck on the 4G logo (after the video ended) and sat there for 10 more minutes, without dimming the screen, or shutting it off, then it rebooted again!!!  I popped out the kickstand and sat the phone on the kitchen table and started to eat my dinner… You won’t believe me, but it rebooted while I was eating AND stuck on the 4G logo screen again! then after 2-4 minutes it rebooted itself (off the 4G logo screen) and made it back to my desktop/home screens.  has not rebooted since and I did use my new headset to both listen to Pandora and to take 2 phone calls (about 80 minutes total).

Today I also received my Nuvelli stereo BlueTooth headset/headphones, they are a lot smaller than I originally thought ( a little smaller than a half dollar coin), sound pretty good for music and fairly good for voice, but not perfect; however my one severely audiophilic friend (one of the two people I have talked to so far, while using the headset) said it sound like I am underwater and have severe echo.  I then talked to my wife, who is very picky, and she said that I “sound like shit” and should return the headset.  I tried to sync it with my PC (Ubuntu 10.04) and the BlueTooth device manager said that my BlueTooth device does not support “input” (note, it also said this about my HTC Evo).

Since I was completely unable to find any real information on this device online, I have happily created an absolutely horrible unboxing which you will find below, including a pdf file of the English section of the manual (If you are reading this and would really like the Spanish version, you might be able to bribe me to scan the pages written in Spanish too… maybe), that I made myself.  You also will not find ANY of this information on the manufacturer’s website or even on Amazon.com.