I actually held one of these just a couple of hours ago. I have a friends who works at HP. The handset I tested had a vodaphone startup screen, not sure about other carriers...
Pros imo: Nice and large screen, and the handset feels really solid even though the back cover feels very plasticy once taken off.
Cons: The optic laser navigation key (of whatever it's called) isn't seemless, at least not on the software version I tested, and I couldn't find a setting for it. What does this mean? You'll be draging your thumb up and down/sideways like crazy, cuz it never seems to go more than one step (in the menus) at a time. That really defeats the purpose as far as I can see it.
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I actually held one of these just a couple of hours ago.
I have a friends who works at HP.
The handset I tested had a vodaphone startup screen, not sure about other carriers...
Pros imo: Nice and large screen, and the handset feels really solid even though the back cover feels very plasticy once taken off.
Cons: The optic laser navigation key (of whatever it's called) isn't seemless, at least not on the software version I tested, and I couldn't find a setting for it.
What does this mean? You'll be draging your thumb up and down/sideways like crazy, cuz it never seems to go more than one step (in the menus) at a time.
That really defeats the purpose as far as I can see it.