New VZW HTC TP2 - Disappointed, Need Help, Multiple Areas

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OK, I've been greatly looking forward to this convergence device. Arrived yesterday, been playing/reading a lot. I have to say I'm pretty disappointed so far. I will say this is my first Windows Mobile device, so I'm hoping there will be things I'm missing, or ways to customize it more to my satisfaction. I'm coming from a Palm TX - very efficient device, which I used with a Razr V3c.

1. Opera - this is almost an exercise in futility. Trying to click on a link, access a field to enter data, is almost impossible, with my finger, stylus, and even when zoomed in. And speaking of zooming in, the zoom bar is flakey at best. Sometimes it works, sometimes if I slide it a few mm to the right of the bar it works, and mostly it doesn't work at all.

Am I expecting too much? Are there better options?

2. Touchscreen itself - I also find this very hit and miss. Even when there are large settings icons present, activating those icons is yet more frustration. Sometimes extreme pressure is required to get a response, other times a simple touch will do. I've done a Calibration, but still no joy. Again, am I expecting too much? My TX touchscreen was much more consistent and responsive.

3. User Interface - I found the TouchFlo3D to get in the way, and figured out where to turn it off. So I have the "Today" screen active, but I am very limited in what items I can put there. Why not links to Email, whatever Program I want, etc.?? What better more customizeable options are there for the UI? Again, with my TX, I had a single page of "Favorite" links. A hard button brought me there, and I had immediate access to more than 2 dozen programs on a single screen, no scrolling required.

4. Contacts - I haven't entered many, but there seems no way to show them by Category. Again on my TX, if I went to my Contact List, I could select a Category by a drop-down list, and show only those Contacts in that particular Category. Is that an option on the TP2? It might be there and I haven't discovered it yet.

5. Also when selecting Ringtones or Wallpaper - there doesn't seem to be a way to have the Ringtones autoplay as I select them to try them out. I have to select it, hit Play, and if I don't like it, have to drop down the list, try another, rinse and repeat. Any other phone I or a family member has ever had will just play the dang ringtone as I scrolled the list. Same with the Wallpaper - there's a list, with no graphics, no way to preview it or see what the heck it is. Just select it, go to the Today screen, and see what it looks like. What the heck??


That's about it for now. There are other matters, but these are the biggies so far, and unless I can figure out ways to get this thing working more consistently and efficiently, as hard as it is for me to believe it, I may have to return it.

Hopefully it's just me and my lack of familiarity with WM and available apps to tweak it.

Any info, advice, links appreciated.