Ok, I played with one today. Someone came up to me at work and showed me. I immediately snatched it out of his hand because I had to see it. You know what?
It's AWFUL. I couldn't believe how bad the screen functions were. I mean, it takes the idea of a touch screen and makes it completely unusable. I had better luck working with my old Treo 700wx with a finger than with this thing.
The "click" is gimmicky and feels laborious. I would NEVER want to do it all day long. Plus, the screen slid back and forth like it was loose underneath the housing, and he assured me "it's supposed to do that". It felt totally cheap! I told him to take it back for another one, because that didn't seem right at all.
There was also some tacked-on app-store-esque function, which of course lacked in even the most basic functions, and made me just want to hand it back to him, which I promptly did, saying "pretty cool man" because I didn't want to tell him what I really thought about it. (He might have run away crying.)
Overall, it's by no means in competition for the iPhone's status as top smartphone (and now phone!), and is not even a worthy substitute for a good BlackBerry Curve, or even the Bold, which is a day late and a dollar short, as my mom used to say, when it comes to this race.
