[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] psneddon:
I'll mainly list the negative points... Heres a very unstructured review.

The device seems slightly slower than the jam, sometimes its really quick - other times it crawls along. One reason for this could be that WM5 seems to never close a program - when my device slows to a crawl i usually check the memory manager and there are like 15 programs running!

It is a little to thick for my liking and I'm not using the keyboard as much as I though I would. When I go back to holding my Jam it seems sooo thin and light.

When I install pocket plus 3 and soft reset my device freezes and i have to hard reset which is a pain - even tried installing it without any other software installed.

The side and top buttons on the device (e.g. power, camera) are all now recessed into the unit, which is good for stopping accidental presses but sometimes its hard to feel where the buttons actually are and its hard to know if your actually pressing them when you try.

The build quality is very good - better then the jam. However getting the miniSD out is a bit of a struggle - it seems to be sticking on something.

When you use the camera you can ONLY use it landscape - which is a pain.

Wm5 does seem a bit buggy here and there and yesterday my device was soft resetting itself every few hours although after a hard reset it is not doing it anymore (must have been a software problem).

Having all the storage space for apps/file and all the memory for running programs is how it should have always been.

Battery life is great compared to the jam, however if you have wifi on it does eat the battery a bit.

The wifi works no problem with my belkin router - no problems at all. Only think is that if you suspend the device (or it time out) the wifi gets turned off (thus saving battery) but you have to manually re-enable it. Would be good if it would automatically re-enable when you un-suspend the device.

The bt headset works much better then the jam. You can change a registry key to change the program that gets loaded when you press the headset button. Also the problem with the audio getting left open when you use ms voice command is fixed as you simply press the headset button again to close the audio (however its hard to tell that my headset it active in a noisy enviroment.

I remember when I first got my Jam, it had LOADS of bugs with the inital rom that were fixed in the next rom. I suspect it will be the same with the k-jam.

Another nice feature is that you can press and hold the "comm manger" button on the left side of the device and this switches the device between "sound on" and "vibrate" modes.

The keyboard it quite good although the backlight doesnt really light the alt-keys (each key has two uses).

There is now a little batter meter on the bottom of the screen which again makes it feel more like a phone :)

Overall the k-jam is a nice evolution of the jam - the speed is a good compromise between processing speed and battery. On the whole I would rather have a slightly slower device and a greatly improved battery.

I only wish it didnt feel so chunky - if you could detatch the keyboard and leave it at home - now that would be fantastic :)

Paul