I'm with you on the lack of 3G on this phone. All the ads are showing blazing speeds for accessing maps and other things that are just simply SLOW in reality. While Jobs will clearly do a good job on the hardware and simplicity, I just don't believe reality will come close to expectations - in fact, I think they're trying to 'pull the wool' over people's eyes when it comes to speed. Now of course Wi-Fi is a lot faster, but usage is just not practical (you're not really in hot spots that often, not to mention battery life tanks with Wi-Fi on phones, I've owned several)...

I've got a friend that works at Cingular/ATT who says that the Apple displays in their stores will be connected via Wi-Fi - again, to mask the fact that the iPhone is SLOW... talk about 'pulling the wool' over buyers' eyes - I wonder how many will return the phone after realizing that it doesn't work like the ads or the store demo unit???

I've used the unlocked HTC version of this device - it feels very nice in the hands, went on a serious size diet from the MDA, and Windows Mobile 6 finally makes making phone calls easy from a Pocket PC. Obviously, a slide-out keyboard means that doing some things requires the extra step of sliding out a keyboard, but when you have two hands available the big keyboards on the HTC phones are the way to go.

Add 3G and this thing would be one of 'my favs.'

Not working for me either. But I got an hour with the Advantage last week as well and I guess I'm a nerd: I loved the thing. The VGA screen is sharp and the information very large: on one hand it would be great to increase the dpi so that you could see more on the screen; however, I found myself able to really use the touch screen effectively with my finger (not a finger nail but a full finger). This was way cool because I could use the Advantage as a slate Tablet and only use the keyboard for serious typing (kind of the promise of the iPhone but with a keyboard, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, etc. to boot!).

That's the real question isn't it: is anybody making anything 'thin and powerful' that isn't using Windows Mobile? (Yes, this question will bring every heckler out of the wood work).

Interesting that the full-length review says that Nokia, with the E61, started this craze (of 'thin and powerful'): I think some serious credit needs to go to Motorola for starting it with the Q. I'd also argue that the E61 is not quite that 'thin' as the dimensions (outside of the thin bottom section) are nearly identical to the HP 6500/6900 series - hardly a device folks would call 'thin.' But if you do agree that the E61/62 is thin then the 'who started it all' crown should probably go to the Canadians... but then we could have a discussion about 'smart' :)