So, everyone's tossing their input in. So here's mine.

The flash upgrade went just fine. I backed up all my settings to the mmc card, took it out. And then flashed the device. It rebooted, went through the settings and Im up and running with no problems. Does Opera seem a little faster? Maybe. Was there a sketch pad before? Guess I never used it or noticed it. The mail client, I'm still not sure about. How-ever I did notice something very cool though. I have mine set to check my mail every 15 mins. And just now I got a new e-mail, and it chimed at me! Again, I'm not sure if it did it before, but I don't think it ever made a noise on new mail arrival before. And yes, the mail does appear to be a little faster. Nothing really significant.

Now, the clock issue. I set my language for English (US), set the time according to my time zone (PST) and so far after two reboots, the time is still correct. Its not 3 hours off or anything like that. So I'm not sure why thats working and it hasen't for anyone else.

Am I glad I upgraded? Sure. I noticed on boot that the kernel version is newer. So I'd assume (hope) that some fixes were put in there. There was also an updated setting for Cingular mMode GPRS (which is what I use). Not that it matters, but that was one less thing I had to type in before I could get online with my phone's internet.

So far....so good....