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First thoughts on the Aria? Well I had a Black Flip for about a week before returning it. It wasn't a horrible phone it was just kinda bleh...I am also coming from an iphone 3gs.

Processor:

Ok even though this thing has "Only" a 600mhz processor it flys. It is actually smoother than my friends Evo, and if I didn't know it had a 600mhz in it I'd swear it was a Snapdragon, no BS. For some reason people say "OMG the 528mhz Qualcom is so laggy why bother with a &*%^ty 600mhz garbage". People don't get that it just isn't a slightly overclocked 528mhz chip, it's basically snapdragon under clocked which means its architecture is WAY more advanced hence why it blows the living ^%&* out of the 528mhz chip and is nearly identical if not better real world performance than the 1ghz snapdragon. Now someone is going so say "I saw a video where it showed how much higher the 1ghz chip had more bandwidth!", yes it does, but in reality if I set an EVO and the Aria in front of you I highly doubt you'd know it didn't have a 600mhz vs the 1ghz, aside from the size difference in the phones. So to sum up the CPU in this thing, WOW.

Size/Build:

This thing feels like a brick, very solid (My backflip felt creaky lol). For some reason people seem to think because its only a 3.2 inch screen that's bad? Personally I don't I find it being cramped or hard to hit buttons on it. For me I love having a small/powerful phone, I don't really watch movies or videos on my phone, that's why I have my 52" TV at home. I find the 3.2 inch screen is still big enough to watch the occasional video or movie when you're waiting for something/someone or bored. The screen looks crisp and video looks nice and it actually fits in your pocket *Cough* EVO *cough*.

Battery:

Not much to say, under clocked CPU, smaller screen, smaller phone, and smaller battery. It has decent life, not insane not crappy. I'm happy with it.

No side loading apps?

This is more of an annoyance, as it takes about 5 minutes to set up your computer to load them onto your phone and about 10 seconds per app to install them. It is annoying you have to go out of your way to do this but like I said, not hard what so ever. Actually after I started looking at websites to get some non marketplace apps I found most of them WERE on the market place so I've only loaded a few games.

Conclusion:

In all, I think this phone is bad ass. You're going to have people say it sucks because it's slow (They've never tried or used one they just see it isn't 1ghz snapdragon so OBVIOUSLY is sucks right?). Or the screen is to small so it sucks once again, it's more like it doesn't work for THEM because they want a bigger phone. I don't like how huge the EVO is and I'd never buy one, that doesn't mean it sucks by any means. The only semi-negative about it is no side-loading, but like I said it takes all of 5 minutes to get around that. AT&T bloatware? Dude it's like 5 apps that have nothing to do with how the OS works....if you're *****ing about that then the phone must be good because if that's all you can come up with to ***** about. So like I said, if you don't want a huge EVO in your picket but want power this is the phone for you.

Hope this helps some people =-)