When you first open up the phone and start playing with it, it seems perfect. TouchFLO is amazing, all the functionality is right where you need it to be and everything zips along without any problems.

Then about 30 minutes goes by and the usual windows mobile problems crop up. Terrible task and memory management. A not quite finger friendly interface (but better by far than other similar WinMo Devices.) The TouchFLO interface stops gliding and starts chugging, and you have to perform the only solution available to the platform. Pulling the battery.

The on board storage is great, the Sprint versions special dongle for headphones is silly and you probably won't be using all that storage for music. But that leaves a ton of room for pictures and video.

As a phone the device works great, calls are clear and plenty loud in good service areas. The data speed is fast enough for web browsing and iPhone versions of mobile websites run great on the phone's Excellent Opera browser.

Combine this phone with Microsoft's new Myphone service, and you've got a decent tool to record your daily life in photos and text.

If only you didn't have to pull the battery every 8-10 hours of use to keep everything behaving itself it'd be perfect. As it is it's the best windows mobile phone out there, which isn't saying much.


Note: I've flashed the phone with a customized OS and the Task management complaints disappear. but you still have to power cycle (battery pull) the phone every few days to keep touchFLO running at it's normal speed.