[HD2 General] cugel:
First of all, I will present myself. I'm a typical business smartphone user mixed with a bit of geek. I've been tied to blackberry for several years due to my company policy but also used maemo devices mostly for recreational purposes. In the computer side its the same history, windows in work laptop and linux in home computers and netbook.

During christmas I decided to change my phone, tired of blackberry phone. I considered n900, droid and hd2, at first nokia was the preferred one but its delays and lack of capacitive screen finally send me to hd2 arms (droid was discarded because I didn't see too much sense in having a capacitive screen and a keyboard)

I want to share with you mi firsts impressions about windows mobile and HD2. It's strong points and lacks from the business user point of view and casual or recreational user point of view:

Business User: GOOD

- Mail and Calendar, this is the key factor, first of all i was greatly disappointed by lack of Blackberry Connect support in this device (our company security policy doesn't allow other access method to our exchange mail server) but Systems Seven was a wonderful discovery, same functionality than blackberry terminals (using standard web access) and minimum bandwidth and battery usage. GREAT, even search in corporate directory is possible.

- IM, yes this is important in corporate environments ;) We use Microsoft OCS, is supported, lacks the possibility of VoIP calls over OCS but this is not a terminal limitation but a Microsoft decision. GREAT

- Web Browser, most of our company systems are web based, the browser is great, i can work with better productivity that Blackberry terminals (great screen resolution and touch responsiveness). GOOD

- Office Integration, of course, in our company we work with Microsoft Office, Documents viewing is great with the suite and i never thoguht about editing complex powerpoint or excels with the phone. Anyway word editing is possible and quite potent feature, this point is related about keyboard. GOOD

- Keyboard, used to Blackberry and n810 keyboards i was afraid about capacitive screen keyboards, first impressions where not very positive, i could type accurately but with less productivity than previous phones. Several weeks ago i discovered swype and right now i can type even faster than with a phone physical keyboard. GREAT

- Security, still trying to find a solution to establish a VPN with my CISCO concentrators, I've tried several solution but none really worked. Closer one was AnthaSOFT but it has stability problems. BAD

- Others, GRemotePRO is a great solution to use my phone as a pointer in presentations lacking the possibility to see next slide or presentation notes but still better than anything in Blackberry. Still searching for a good SVN client and a really touch adapted mindmaps editor.

Casual or recreational user: EXCELLENT

- Music player: Really good it only lacks some utility to rate albums or songs and build playlists based on personal ratings (MediaMonkey style), MySpot is a good application, great effort bud still lacks the ability to locally cache songs, this is problem when you are in a 3G networks (still no unlimited data plans on my country). Sound with good headphnoes (i use Shure) is great. Still searching for a player with flac and cue support. GOOD

- Video Player: CorePlayer and TCPMP are nearly perfect, they play 480p quite good with subtitles. I don't need to convert movies or TV series for watching on long travels. EXCELLENT

- TV Player. Really good, i can see sopcast channels at home (streaming from my HTPC and TCPMP as client) and TVUPlayer in the go. EXCELLENT

- Book Reader: AlReader with minimum screen contrast and right colors can be used during hours without eyes fatigue. I've read about 10-15 books during this months and i'm not considering to buy any book reader. EXCELLENT

- Feeds Reader: RSS feeds are basic for me, i use Google Reader to be able to access feeds in home, work, traveling, etc. I'm using SmartRssTouch in my mobile and is really impressive. Fast and really good touch interface. Excellent

- Web Browsing: Nothing to add. GOOD

- Camera and Video recording: I'm not into photo, i suppose that quality is usual for a phone but quality in photos with movement is not good (maybe i don't have the knowledge to adapt the settings ....). MEDIUM

- GPS Software: Really excellent, nothing to add, i use iGo and i've replaced the dedicated device in my car. EXCELLENT

- IM and Social: Good clients. I use Palringo (mostly gtalk user) and the interface is great. Lacking the hability to establish call with gtalk but i will talk about that later. GOOD

- Phone and SMS: I forgot, HD2 is still a phone ;) Good call quality, no problem with SMS. I use skype for VoIP calls. Lacks integration into contacts of different comunication mechanisms, Maemo is providing a really nice way to do this kind of integration. Out of the box voice dialing is a failure but Cyberon Voice Dialing is a great tool. GOOD

- Interface Customizing. I'm really impressed, great customization capabilities. I use several cabs provided by the community and the interface has really improved (HTC Sense is a great base) just to mention three of them (BattClok, Dutty Task Manager and Co0kie). EXCELLENT

- Games: No comments, i'm not really into gaming .....

- Others: Some surprises, great backup software SPB, nice utilities like Torch or SPB Wireless Monitor. Good SSH client (pocketputty to control my HTPC and work servers)

- Shop: Who really need a shop having XDA ........

Other Topics: EXCELLENT

- Battery: No concern, GOOD

- Stability: Good, some hangs but nothing unusual. At the end, we are using a windows smartphone :p

- Community: Last but not least. When i was considering N900 or HD2, community support was a concern, i was used to the great maemo community but after discovering XDA community i think that you are doing a really great job. EXCELLENT