[bkaz]

I am looking forward to seeing this phone in a store. Personally, I think it looks like it was designed in the 80's - I hope it looks a lot better in person. It's like they wanted it to look different than all the others so they went to radio shack and picked up a basic project box and stuffed all TP innards into it.

If there is indeed a large amount of memory available to be optimized, I will give this a brief second look.

Regarding the lag and memory issues... I hope they can be solved, but maybe a lot of it comes from the screen. At 640x480 HTC is forcing the same titan chipset to push 4x as much screen information. Yes, hardware accel is enabled but that chipset is several years old now and I wonder how much tweaking will help it push 4x more pixels. More screen = more memory usage too. Also, depending on how well apps are coded, they may or may not use the screen buffer and/or hardware accel.

Anyway, nerfing the memory was a low blow. They just want to make it much harder to get Android to run on it and ensure that no one squeezes WM7 onto it. Heaven forbid that anyone actually use the same phone for more than a year!