The Good
- FAST... really FAST... what you expect your phone to do. At a processor speed of 550Mhz it is amazing, however, the 1Ghz version is coming late December early January and I can't imagine what that will be like.
- Screen - it is large, high resolution has great touch control and very bright
- Call quality is fantastic - very clear, best thus far. Although the speaker phone isn't quite as good as the HTC TP2, it is a close second
- GPS - Ready to go with Google maps day one, no enabling etc. Getting to the navigation is a series of touches, can be remedied by an app for free
- Home screens are good, you have 3 that can easily be moved through to get all your apps where you want them etc. You can create short cuts to phone numbers routinely dialed for one touch dialing etc.
- Browser is good, fast and scales well. Uses double tap to zoom in/out. Works very well.

The Bad
- The slide out keyboard is horrible, keys are small, and off to one side vs. being centered on the device. Motorola has placed a "mouse" like cursor movement pad on the right side. Really makes typing difficult since your right hand has to stretch further to get to the keys. If they lost the cursor pad and made the keys larger it would be a HUGE improvement. The HTC Touch Pro2 keyboard is far better, best I've used to date.
- Calendar integration, there is none out of the box that is worth using or will connect directly to ActiveSync. BIG hold for Corporate users. You have to download a second app to sync and use your calendar in any meaningful manner with MS Exchange. The issue here is the Droid interface for email is slick, it is very good. However the downloaded app which includes email is not. I find I use the Droid email viewer and when necessary I use the other app if I need to do anything calendar related. Not a seem less design at all. I personally think they should fix this immediately. Hopefully Google is listening. The app is $4.99 and works, but not elegantly.
- Global settings don't work within all apps. Since the apps are coded by anyone who can code... they don't follow a set of guidelines while developing and thus controls on code quality are not tight. For instance, when you turn off the global setting for vibrate on email delivery... you would think that meant no vibration on any email delivery. It doesn't, the aforementioned app above, still vibrates. You have to dig into the settings of it to remove the vibration option. Again not seem less in design.
- Email to phone integration, there isn't any. You can't open an email, realize you have to call the individual and touch their name and have the phone dial said user. The HTC TP2, you can. I really like this feature. Maybe it will be available in the near future. Google are you listening?
- SMS... the client is horrible. Free app of a quality one is available. Given the number of SMS (text) messages sent these days, you would think they could have loaded a quality client by default.

My first impression of the device was that I didn't like it. I've grown to like it more, I have to say I don't love it. I feel about 50/50 on it. I love how fast it is, that is a nice departure from all WM phones to date. The call quality is excellent. At first I felt it took excessive amounts of time to get to where you wanted to go. It still does, you just figure out the controls so it seems to go faster.

The app store... The app store is estimated at having 12,000 apps. I haven't looked at all of them, but I can say, I've found 3 so far that I "needed". One for calendar, one for GPS and one for SMS. I did find an app that could be useful for those that travel. It syncs with flight data to alert you if your flight is on time, delayed, cancelled etc. Thus far, my app spend rate has been $4.99.

I'd love it if they hadn't missed the mark with the keyboard. Keys are tiny and the "mouse" is worthless.