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Honestly I'm really torn on this phone...

The good:
- it's pretty
- the screen is amazing
- lots of RAM
- great camera
- much better keyboard

The bad:
- screen sensitivity is poor
- battery life... this just can't be emphasized enough... what was HTC thinking
- no IR - used to use this all the time on my Mogul
- TouchFlo is just eye-candy bloat ware. In about 2 days I found it to be very limiting and off it went

...and that brings me to the real problem. If you don't like TouchFlo and turn it off (and it doesn't take much to exceed it's capabilities)... then all of a sudden it's like someone tied a hand behind your back. This is a great Touch device but it sucks interface wise as a WinMo device primarily due to it's complete lack of hard buttons. Already I am cursing the following:

- no hard camera button
- no hard comm manager button
- no scroll wheel or OK button
- no tactile edge to the screen (you can't find the corner with out looking at it)
- no hard option buttons
- no Windows button... period... anywhere.
- no messaging or browser hard buttons

It's like HTC purposely tried to strip this thing down as much as possible and they succeeded in making it completely dependant on TouchFlo. With it disabled the device's productivity drops significantly. I have yet to figure out when in Remote Desktop / full screen mode how you can get out of it without disconecting from the remote (on the Mogul you only had to hit any of the hard option buttons.. on here you have none) That is just one example. What I could do in 2 clicks with my eyes closed on the Mogul I now have to "swipe and tap... crap wrong item... back... tap again then flick" to get to.

I love the basic specs of the device, it is loaded beyond my dreams in most ways, but when you strip down the functionality of it just to make it pretty it's a huge mistake. I suspect there will be a TP up for sale very soon and I'll look for something else.