Resolved Need help selecting an Android 2.2 Phone

I know so little about smartphones. I am changing from a Palm Treo 680 to Android and I have little to no understanding of the products available. Here are my requirements:

• Android 2.2 or later (cannot be Honeycomb, whatever that is).
• 3.5mm headset jack with microphone
• screen size specified as Normal or Large
• GPS enabled
• There must be third-party software available that will allow me to block or send directly to voicemail literally hundreds of user-defined numbers and private or unidentified numbers.
• There must be third party software software available that allows the recording of all calls, in and out, by default.

I understand there are phones that use certain chipsets that preclude the last two items on the above list and I don't know which chipsets/firmware to avoid.

TIA for any comments but, please, no lectures about recording phone calls. I know the laws concerning that.

 

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hello, not sure if this is of any help to you,, i was very aprehensive but still very much wanting an android phone, I had a windows based Samsung phone and had it for several years , i loved it,, i guess i grew into it and it being a windows based smartphone i was partial to it for what i thought was the ease of use because its windows based.. well i sure did find out that just because it was windows based should have made no bearing on wether i liked it or not because the Android actualluy works easier on my windows network than the windows based phone.. I chose the Android RAZR MAXX and i have owned it for3 months and i dont have anything negative to say. i love it, GO FOR A RAZR OR RAZR MAXX personnally if you get the MAXX i think you will be totally impressed

 

I've learned a little since I posted last and I think I now know how to select the phone I need. I'm down to two, The Samsung Galaxy II and the Samsung Note.

It seems the most difficult programs for developers are the call recording programs. The call blocking programs are many and they just about all get good user reviews. The story is much, much different for call recording. There are several offerings from various developers; but, most have a lot of bad things said about them by users -- and it is far more important to me what users have to say than the developers or the on-line or paper magazines, the bloggers and others who don't use the programs day to day.

I've about settled on the Samsung Galaxy Note, provided TMobile actually has it to offer next month as the people at the TMobile store said. If it doesn't actually materialize, it'll be the Galaxy II or III.

I have a small owner-operated business and the whole reason for the change from my trusty and reliable old Palm Treo 680 to the Android is here:
http://squareup.com

So, I'll mark this thread solved; but, feel free to post more comments because I certainly don't know everything there is to know about Android or Smartphones -- yet.