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I have used the mogul for the last week and find it terribly limiting having come from the Apache. Here are the only things that I think make it better than the 6700:
1. Thinner & Lighter
2. Much better keyboard
3. Extra flash memory for storage
4. The backlight now dims to a very low level instead of going off completely--which is actually a much better way to do it. On the Apache (and other WM devices) if you're reading something and the backlight timer expires, the whole backlight goes off, making the screen impossible to see--so you either have to press the power button twice, or tap the screen in a corner or something and hope you haven't activated something in the process. It's a small thing but for me one of the most impressive.
Software-wise, I think the mogul stinks. It's running an old revision of WM6 and is using buggy sound and video drivers. Nothing is optimized for speed (unlike the current 6700 ROMs). The ROM was thrown together at the last minute because Sprint wanted to have the first US WM6 PPC device--and it shows.
I will be ESN swapping back to the apache and will keep the mogul in a drawer for the time being. Most of its flaws are software related, so I fully expect them to be fixed in forthcoming ROM updates. But as of now the apache runs circles around the mogul--both in terms of speed and flexibility.
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