Well, the handset arrived today. I haven't had a whole lot of time to look at it as it came near the end of the work day. I'll be posting up a more complete review -- especially of the changed and now present features -- pretty soon. I may have to skip the pictures, though. It's dark in here and, well, what camera does well in the dark? I guess I'll probably post a couple anyway to show that. ;)

My first impressions are that it's not a preproduction phone anymore. A key is missing and one key changed, too. That was odd. It has file transfer on the BT. Some settings imply it should have DUN, too, but I don't see it available yet -- but I think half of that is me not knowing how to use my desktop software...

The MP3 player is great and works really well. VCast videos are scaled up versions of the ones on other video handsets. That pixelates them some, but they do play full screen on the inside -- they don't play on the outside screen. The MP3 player works both inside and out.

There is a surprising lack of applications available so far. Even less than when the 8940 shipped. I'm sure that will change soon.

Anyway, the rest can wait for a more complete review.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to post them. (I got a comment today, so comments should be working. ;))

Posted by Shane on September 28, 2005 6:34 PM | Permalink