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To the OP, thanks for your input. It has helped me to get much better insight into the phone, so much so in fact that I forwarded to a friend of mine a link to this thread to help with his decision (he hates the Epic 2.2 update and is considering an Arrive).

It's my opinion that that the Arrive is a good first stab at WP7 by Sprint, and I hope/expect that it will only improve (mainly in the hardware dept, though the device is nicely stacked as it is). I'm inclined to say that the changes will have to come from MS if the platform is to continue growing at its current pace. Hopefully their $100 dev rebate in exchange for 2 free apps promotion will establish a better free app market as well.

With that said, I have no doubt that "biggest Windows fanboy" is referring to eric123 but I couldn't say for sure since he's been on my ignore for months.