Got this phone a week or so ago, been messing with it a bit and since there are a lot of people on here that love to talk smartphones figured I’d post a mini review…
First and foremost the keyboard is by far the best I’ve ever used, nicer than the xv/ppc6700, blackberry 8830, treos, blackjack, etc that I’ve used. It seriously is awesome and I can fly with it… often times typing faster than the phone displays the characters however which is kind of annoying (there is a registry fix for that however).
Stability so far has been awesome, have not had to do any soft resets, which I think is mostly due to windows mobile 6, because 5 crashed all the f’in time. I did a few hacks and mods to it, and they ran well for a while but the speed of the phone degraded quickly with modifications, kind of sucks, I ended up doing a hard reset to go back to factory defaults. Without modding it up the phone is very fast though.
Battery life is “decent” on the standard battery so far. It lasts me through a work day for sure, but if I am emailing heavily with it and/or browsing the web, it will need to be charged if I plan on using it at night.
Software-wise, documents to go, works well thus far… the pdf viewer is a bit nicer. The updated explorer browser seems to work much better than the previous mobile 5 browser, still doesnt touch safari on the iphone though. Active sync obviously works like a charm, but that has never been an issue with any windows mobile phone of the past year really. Media player is whatever, same old story, its not bad but most likely it will never get used.
Reception is a bit better than my previous vx8600, and comparable to the blackberry 8830.
Camera is all right, nothing to write home about. Does have a great flash light though which is great for when you’re in the dark.
All in all phone seems real solid, keyboard and software is great, just does not take modifications very well unfortunately. Also no GPS, but thats relatively rare anyways.
