[alacazaba]

TP2 blows majorly compared to PALM as far as contact management and user interface goes. Given that I'm stuck with the TP2 for a while until I find a suitable replacement, I'm seriously considering lugging my old treo around because the TP2 sucks so badly at contact management. With the TP2, it takes forever to just deal with the phone and unobvious and paltry menu/software arrangements - both in TF3 and Winmo6. What's worse is that it's like you're juggling two interfaces - and, in fact, you really are. Hats off to the idiots that run MS and the idiots at HTC who listen to the idiots who run MS that created the Frankenphone.

Aside from minor annoyances like not even being able to reference recently used email addresses when composing emails, or a raft of problems with Outlook and MS myphone, you are entreated to a nightmare of inoperability. I mean, are you serious, TWO INTERFACES!!?? And neither of them works well enough to stand on it's own! This is utterly ridiculous in the smartphone/handheld world whose main selling points over lugging a heavy laptop around were always meant to be ease of use and speed.

As for the TP2 community, I haven't found anything suitable cab wise to plug the gaping holes in usability with this POS or even a decent website pushing good software in a comprehensive fashion. For chrissakes, why don't you just rename the phone, "the hacky hodge podge"?? For a business phone, the TP2 learning curve sure eats a lot of time just trying to get basic functionality that you can learn in about 2 minutes on a TREO. That's time which I really don't have, Windowsdummies. PDA must mean "pretty damn awful" up in Redmond, WA.

Sadly, I wasn't that impressed with the PRE because of my big fingers so I settled on the TP2. As soon as something a little faster comes out with a hard keyboard and a wifi hack, I'm dumping this piece o' crap. I laugh in frustration when I see Balmer the schmuck out there pushing Windows 7 some sort of windows phone salvation. As for MS, I hope they fall off a cliff and rot, frankly. Activesync? WHAT A JOKE! You, too, HTC, rot in PDA purgatory for your grade school TF3 interface and pushing phones on the public with this tepid, sputtering phone OS known as Windows mobile.

my 2 cents...and I am majorly let down by this phone for which I shelled out more than a few hundred...

My suggestion? Just put up with the TP2 until you can dump it for something better, which I suspect won't be hard to do soon. Thank god for the economy being down or else I would have been reamed a new one by the weak link in my business operations that the TP2 is...