Well, the Epix was pretty cool, but considerably more clunky than the Blackberry I used to own. That wasn't that big of a deal, however, I live in a rural area and obtaining and maintaining a data/phone connection with this phone was bad! I had gotten my wife an LG Shine and that didn't work worth a dime either. So it is back to the drawing board for now. My Blackberry worked pretty good out here when I had it, so I may go back with the Curve or maybe the Bold, or, I am considering the iPhone. Now I have to figure out how to return these phones and get new ones heading my way...

Recieved it today. Now, I am trying to load up my contacts. Hmm, I have my contacts in Lotus Notes. But the Epix, being a Windows Mobile SmartPhone only syncs with contacts in Outlook. Pretty frustrating. I have exported my contacts in every possible form out of Notes, and not one of the options does a clean job of exporting. But even if the exports were clean, I have to have Outlook installed to import to. Guess what, I don't have Outlook on my PC. UUgghh!!

Here is a link to a helpful blog post to load contacts into WM from a CSV formated file. It requires you install PIM Backup freeware software.

I may have to work on the contacts another day. But now, I want to get Google Talk on my new phone. Hmmm, it is not in the IM software already loaded. Is there a client for WM for Gtalk? I have been looking, but not found much on this so far.  I have found OctroTalk and Fring. I haven't tried hard to get OctroTalk to work, but I downloaded it and put it out on the phone, but it doesn't work. Maybe I need to install it. I tried through the sync software, but it didn't sem to like it. I don't really know what all I am doing just yet, so some of this may be due to my ignorance. I think I may look into Fring and see if I can get it working.

Update: Fring was super easy to download, install and setup on my new Windows Mobile SmartPhone. I highly recomend it!!