I have owned this baby as (which I bought under HTC's Dopod U1000 label) for six months and it is indeed awesome as a mini portable computer. I upgraded it to WM6 (from WM5) and use it on ATT's 3G network - it is reasonably fast and the web pages come in beautifully and easy to read. The only issue I have is that, for some reason, in AOL mobile, I cannot access my email. I am not sure if it is an AOL or WM6 or other problem. When I was using WM5, I got to my AOL mail. I have not taken full advantage ot the video downloading capability but, with those I have downloaded, the speed of download is awesome and the playback is generally very clear on the screen. I too will say it has an incredible speakerphone which I use all the time. As a mobile phone it is definitely bulky and I have a blackberry which I use instead although, as a back up, I have a phone number for the U1000 and it does work well with Bluetooth. I have yet to use the GPS since mine did not come with Telenav and I do not know what software to install instead. All said, this big little device has worked flawlessly since I bought it and I even take it outside in the morning with my coffee to surf the web (instead of sitting indoors at my computer).
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As a mobile phone it is definitely bulky and I have a blackberry which I use instead although, as a back up, I have a phone number for the U1000 and it does work well with Bluetooth. I have yet to use the GPS since mine did not come with Telenav and I do not know what software to install instead.
All said, this big little device has worked flawlessly since I bought it and I even take it outside in the morning with my coffee to surf the web (instead of sitting indoors at my computer).