Just an update -- I'm soooooo glad I got this phone. I love being able to check google maps when I'm out on a ride, or check the weather radar map when I'm way out in Paeonian Springs and it looks like it's about to pour down rain.

I like the camera and camcorder. The photo quality is good and it's very easy to upload photos directly to facebook, picasa, or flickr, although the transfer is a bit slow and for photos above a certain size you need a wifi connection because it won't go over the 3g network.

Yesterday my car stereo died -- naturally these things happen at the start of a holiday weekend. I need music when I drive, so I just transferred a bunch of songs from my pc to the phone's sd card so I can play them in the car. Of course the sound quality won't be nearly as good as a real stereo, but it beats listening to the car engine for hours.

Also, I found a great word game that's kinda sorta like scrabble without the scrabble board. It's addictive.

I'm still playing with some of the voice-activated stuff. There's a voice search -- you say what you're looking for and you get a google page with whatever you just said. I tried the voice dialer but it didn't work well -- need to try that again. Also need to test the voice-to-text.

I do think it's hard to see the screen when you're outside in bright sun, but this is not nearly enough of a downside to make me regret getting the phone. It's such a great tool. I love this thing.

BTW I did download a Formula 1 engine for my ringtone. It's hilarious.