Evernote vs. Springpad

As you know from reading my last post, Arc the Herald Angels Sing, Glory to the Sony Ericsson! I'm still looking for a good note taking and task management application.

I figured I'd be using Evernote since that's what everyone else is using. But a comment from a co-worker made me take a second look at their terms of service and what else is out there. Thankfully there's nothing in the terms of service to make me rip the internet connection off the wall. Both Evernote and Springpad assure users early on that the data belongs to the user - always has and always will. Although they both muddy that up later in their TOS it remains certain they're not trying to steal your data.

So the TOS aside, which one should I choose to organize my life? Both allow you to take notes, create to-do lists, add pictures and images. Apart from the Android app both have web apps to access your content from any web browser, and even hosted Chrome apps to launch in a special tab in your Chrome browser.

Arc the Herald Angels Sing, Glory to the Sony Ericsson!

Yes, I know, I'm going straight to hell. But then Lord Jobs probably wasn't going to let me in to heaven anyways!

It's been over a week now that I'm using a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and I still always try to spell it Experia! Unlocking the phone to use on my network was the most frustrating part of the experience so far - not the phone's fault or FastGSM.com's fault either, like usual Windows had driver issues!

(Future rant: more vendor support for Linux)

If you want to know what I went through, FastGSM.com has an excellent video on their YouTube site.

This phone is sleek, like so sleek the fanboy's here are going to wish the iPhone 5 looks like this! The concave back of the phone sits nicely in the hand; and the 4.3-inch touch-screen goes almost edge-to-edge making it feel like you're in that Corning Glass commercial. The display uses Sony's Bravia technology so it's crystal clear. The other thing you notice looking at the front of the phone is there are only three buttons, not the usual four - Sony Ericsson has done away with the Search button, as they should. The right side of the phone holds the camera and volume buttons, and the top holds a diminutive - but functional - power button.