[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ninja12innotts:
My two penny's worth :-

There are a few different types of people who use this phone/pda and expect different things from it.

It meets my requirements in every way, I moved from a PDA and phone combination to one device. If I want something smaller to take out with me on a night out I take a small phone, change the sim card.

To me it is a PDA with phone capabilities, it synchronises my contacts, calender, notes and tasks with my PC, No Problems. The limitations of different numbers you can keep for each contact exist with MS Outlook. If you want something else buy some different functional software that suits you.

Everything works fine for me, no problems. Yes I have to do a soft reset every now and again but I did with my PDA.

There are some features missing I think should be standard on it, phone profiles for one, but there is software out there that fills the gap.

I have loaded a few other software apps to help in things, no different to what I would do on my PC.

A better media player, a few games to keep me amused, today plugin to view caleneder and notes better.

I can customise it to my own personality, with today screens, phone dialler screens, loading screens. ring tones and message tones.

I like tinkering with it, tweaking this and that.

Yes I sometimes feel silly holding a brick to my ear while talking on the phone but I have broad shoulders and dont mind the comments.

The phone functions work ok, yes the gap in the call being recieved and starts ringing can be a problem but nothing I can not live with. If its important they will phone back or I can call them.

GSM and UMTS bands, I leave it on GSM and have no problems with signal strength.

Text functions are excellent due to the keyboard.

Standard pop3 email works well, sending and recieving.

Now for those people coming to it as a phone with a PDA, yes I bet you will be slightly disappointed with its functionality. It can be slow on the phone side, but to me it is a small price to pay for such a usefull device.

Then there are the more technical people that some seem to slate it and some dont.

Some people come to it, and from reading the threads start uploading new ROMs and radios expecting great things. They have read threads saying this radio rom will solve this that and the other. But in reality alot of them shouldnt be even attempting it as they havent a clue in what they are doing.

On the microsoft front, they have provided an operating system no different to those that they supply for a PC. We are all aware how many problems are associated with the PC side, so do you in all honesty think that the Windows Mobile 5 platform from them would be any different.

If you think that they would make a better attempt at the Mobile side you are kidding yourself. Software developes, it changes with percieved needs of the customer, i.e. us.

Im tired of hearing about how this phone should be able to do this or do that i.e. play stereo over bluetooth, to name one thing. It doesnt if you dont like it you have a few options, develope your own app, wait patiently for some one else or microsoft to ( with the odd email etc to give them a kick ), or change the phone to one that does.

If the phone/pda combination doesnt suit your needs get something else.

I could go on but that will do for now.