[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] somynex:
I'll add another chime to someone who is happy with their Kaiser, but also wishes most folks good luck with the campaign (heck, i'm also on the petition list). I skipped WM5, but before that i've had the XDA I, XDA II, and have played quite a lot with the XDA iis and mini.

Things have been generally snappy for me. Sure sometimes things do take time to load up, but nowhere near the huge amounts of time some people have been reporting, which also makes me wonder. My start menu loads up snappily under normal circumstances (i.e. When something else isn't slowing the device down), screen rotation may take maybe 5-15 seconds on a bad day, but i put that down to the complexity of my today screen. The main delay that i find least acceptable is getting the menu to switch between input methods (pressing on that up arrow next to the keyboard/whatever). But if my start menu loads up quickly, i am not so sure this is a graphics problem.

I guess if i want to be particularly picky about it, i can say that trying to take videos on the thing is useless, and the camera isn't all that great in low light. But then again, i might have the impulse to take videos on the thing maybe once every year or two, and that's about the same for pictures as i have a few "real" cameras at my disposal to take real pictures. By the way, have you seen how some of the first dslrs with live view handle auto-focus in live view mode (i.e. Nikon D300)? They may focus in tenths of a second normally, but once live view is started, the kaiser would've taken about 3-5 shots before the dslr got a live view focus lock. I don't think this is an issue with the graphics, just mostly physical limitations of a very small and dark CCD.

What i am quite happy about is, that apart from some slight delays in these "one-off" situations (for example, i may get a delay trying to change input methods when i start to write). But once i'm past that delay the kaiser works far better than any previous device i've used. I can write paragraphs on the kaiser (multiple lines over multiple lines without stopping), and at the end it would recognize it quickly and accurately. This is where productivity really improves for me. Same with running other programs. Maybe there might be a slight delay at the beginning, but once things get going, i can really see that things have improved.

GPS is nice, and has worked well. The models here came with Mapking, and refresh rates aren't the best on it. But i've also got Garmin XT on the device, and refresh rates are excellent with it. Scrolling in PIE isn't an issue as there is a fix for it. Anyway this isn't a problem with missing drivers. It seems that someone thought it would be neat to have the scrolling jump from link to link, instead of what we are used to. Anyway there is a fix for it and it's not a problem. Movies play fine on my device. I don't expect to play full resolution DVD movies on my device. I rip dvds onto resolutions and kbps optimized for my device, and they play smoothly and without any lags or delays outside what i've seen normal for the other ppcs i've owned. There seems to be a bit of detraction from the actual causes of some problems.

Anyway, all in all, i'm happy enough. Would i like better drivers? Sure, why not. But i also agree that some sweeping statements may have been made in some situations where something else may be the culprit. It takes a lot of time to really streamline such a device, and the first few months, i find myself and others i know (but especially myself!) Just cramming the device with programs and plugins, and so on to the point that their device just can't handle all the crap I put in. After that, then i start to sift out what i need and don't need, and optimize and streamline my device back to a decent condition (remember how fast the thing used to work when you first pulled it out of the box?).

And i also think that the "ante has been upped" a bit too fast and too high. No offense at all meant to Chainfire, and i have generally stayed out of the complaints thread out of respect. Chainfire has put in a lot of good work & a lot of hard work into that, and has really got this issue on the map. I would be happy with drivers & any improvements, but i just felt that the approach jumped a step or two ahead. I've signed up to the petition and i would have waited a while longer to see what came out of that first, before moving so fast. But well, just imho, and things have moved forward since then.