So, I realize that some of my "it's too small" vs "it's a lot like what I use now" comments might be confusing here, and over in the poll. So I thought I'd clear up my position:

The more I've thought about it today, the more I think that, as a phone, this would be a fine device for its size (not for its design, just for its size). It's comparable to the G1, which I think does just fine for a pocketable. I even do _most_ of the same things on it, that I used to do on my NIT.

The things I would NOT do on this device:

• full movie, maybe even full tv show, viewing (wouldn't do it on the N810 either)
• detailed note taking (also didn't do that on the NIT)
• VNC (did it on the NIT, but don't on the G1)
• PDF/Document/E-Book reading (I didn't enjoy that on the NIT, either)

But, just about everything else I did on the NIT, or on my G1, I'd still feel fine doing on this device's screen. Those above things are things I decided really belong on my netbook or netbook-sized-tablet. VNC would be a cute novelty on my phone, but just a novelty. Somewhere in these two threads I said I'd do light video on it, and that meant something like youtube video, or other embedded news story clips. Not movies, TV shows, and probably not 15-20+ minute clips of any sort. I'd probably be pleased as punch with a Maemo device the size of a netbook (clamshell or tablet), though.


The things I find really negative about this device are:

• 3 row keyboard (just about a deal breaker for me ... may in fact be a deal breaker for me, I'm still trying to digest that)
• lack of dpad (probably not a deal breaker, but the finger GUI better be DAMN impressive for me to be ok with that)
• Flat brick look (not a deal breaker, but a BIG disappointment, given the sexy look of the Mako).

And to give credit where credit is due:

• I'm ECSTATIC about it being a full blown phone!
• While I'm a T-Mobile customer, and enjoy the fact that it's a T-Mobile phone, I think I would have also been happy to use this as an AT&T Go-Phone (on the $1/day or $3/day options).
• 32GB of internal storage! THAT is amazingly good news.
• The camera sounds OUTSTANDING.

But, still no word, that I've heard, about SyncML for contacts and calendar (or at least syncing with Google, but SyncML would be a bigger deal for me, as I have some SyncML-but-not-Google resources out there too, and I can use GooSync to use SyncML with Google). That could be a huge one for me. Maybe even a deal breaker.