Sprint HTC Touch - First Impressions, Questions, etc.

[twospirits]

I finally got the Touch off of ebay a few days ago and have been testing it since. I must say, it is unreal how small and great it is. Picturs don't do it justice nor the countless posts. It feels great in my hands and is actually light. Small enough to fit in a pocket without felling you have a brick in your pants.

So far these are my observations, and it may or may not help anyone still deciding whether to get on or not.

As mentioned previously by others here I have to agree on the following...

• Pros:
  1. Unit is lightweight, not as heavy as I thought it would be.
  2. Thin as compared to other smart devices.
  3. Small size, pocketable.
  4. Has Windows Mobile 6.
  5. Speed and will only get faster once Rev A comes out.
  6. Good looking enough for the guys, as well as sexy for the ladies (sounds like a Secret commercial).
  7. Big enough flush flat screen does not gather any dust in the corners.
  8. Streamline look, rounded corners and not to many buttons.
  9. of course Touch Flo and being able to use your fingers.
  10. 2.0 megapixel Camera takes decent enough images.
  11. Hidden stylus plus the unit came with a spare.
  12. Loud Speakerphone.
  13. It includes a 512mb micro-sd card, but installed a 6GB one and it works.
  14. Unit can accomodate up to an 8GB micro SD card (according to Sandisk)
  15. Numerous keyboards to choose from
  16. Bluetooth
  17. The Camera Album feature, while not like the iphone, is actually pretty neat to use.
• Cons turned into Pros:
  1. No external keyboard, but I got used to the internal ones.
  2. Getting to the Micro SD card, but no need to open it after installing a big card.
  3. No headphone jack, but no need if using a BT one.
  4. Alarm was sounding low, but played with the settings.
  5. Lack of Wifi, but realized I never really used Wifi to really miss it. But if Spectec ever comes out with their wifi card, it should fix the problem.
  6. Lack of GPS, (but I like most guys, I never get lost, so I don't need it.)
  7. Kept pressing the camera button while grabbing it out of pocket to answer a call, but it stopped after I discovered the lock/unlock feature.
• Cons:
  
  1. Attracts smudges on screen especially fingerprints.
  2. Hard to read the screen in daylight.
  3. That damn Bubble Breaker game. Its so damn additive.
  4. Wish the side holster that was supplied was big enough to hold the accessories the phone came with.

Now I cannot truly compare this phone to my previous one, since that one (Samsung M610) was not a smartphone, but from the time I played around with my friends Mogul and my neices Blackjacks, I can truly say I really really like this phone. I can only imagine what HTC has coming down the pike in the future. I have been touched by the Touch and I'll never go back to a regular phone again.

TS