[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] EvilDaifu:
Hi Father-Ryobi, I'm going to have to go a bit of memory here, but here goes.

1. All TouchFLO features are there. Love em or hate em. The only TouchFLO feature I find useful is the dial short cut screen that shows the pics of who you want to call.

2. I think it is easier to make a video call. I found it frustrating sometime that I couldn't make a video call from the soft keys or menu options available to me. I think seth2006 or someone else may have put a bit more thought into what menu options will be needed when you are in phone mode.

3. Battery life better - though this is a bit perception rather than scientific measurement. Might have something to do with me using a bright pic as the wallpaper background with the Telstra ROM and now everthing is like white chalk agianst black (less energy to power the screen?). I actually prefer that cos its my business phone and the display, in my opinion, looks very business like now.

4. Runs oh so gloriously fast now. I friend compared his Telstra ROM'ed dual with mine yesterday and we played race the finger up and down the A-Z side bar in Contacts. He was still displaying the change from K to J and I'd already done the alphabet twice ha ha ha.

5. I don't remember being able to watch YouTube but I think that was because of my proxy settings rather than the ROM now that I know a bit more about setting up Foxtel. Now I can watch YouTube and Foxtel. But to set up Foxtel you have to do a few extra steps that are not native in NEON V3.

6. Google maps is a handy addition. Uses Telstra suburb cell location I think rather than any fancy triangulation and does not use GPS (though I haven't tried bluetoothing my GPS to it yet).

7. Bluetooth works fine - can Bluetooth my headset to easily.

8. The calc skin was missing in my download of the NEON V3 so I had to add that. That was easily done.

9. Task Commander is a nice addition in NEON V3. Built in registry editor helped me to poke around.

10. NEON V3 had the bands names wrong but the data values in registry were right. So had to regedit the correct band names based on what was in the Telstra ROM. I think there was a .reg file that did that but when I ran it, it didn't seem to work, so I ended up manually doing it.

11. Has Office 2007 Word, Powerpoint and Excel (why bother LOL). Powerpoint is good though. I was surprised at how legible powerpoints rendered on the small screen in landscape mode.

12. I think the video camera has changed. Feels different whilst taking videos now. Can't put my finger on it though.

13. Has USB to PC to allow the PDA to be used as a Disk Drive. I have not used this yet though. Always go through ActiveSync to date.

14. Has Opera and it renders websites quite clearly in full screen mode.

15. Has Task Manager which I never noticed before.

16. I added the following programs to make it more useful to me - vxUtil (to do pings and see my IP address), Skype (to make international phone calls) and PocketScreenCapture (to do the screen shots for those interested).

17. There is something called Domain Enroll in Settings / connections which I don't use but notice it's there. Looks like something to make it easier to get your PDA into Windows domain.

18. Long press of the Hang Up key by default Locks the phone so stray button presses don't actually dial a phone call :)

I like seth2006's NEON V3 ROM so far:

- phone used to run sloth slow / now runs useably fast

- phone used to self soft reset of its own accord / has not done that yet

- phone used to not allow me to dial all international digits sometimes / can dial whatever digits I like everytime I use the phone function

- phone used to freeze on me i.e. not respond to any button presses (you wouldn't know until you went to use it or like me missed a plane because the alarm did not go off LOL) / has not frozen at all once so far

I've only had it running since last Friday - that's about 4 days of normal usuage.