this seems to be the easiest to find link on this phone on google, so i'll post my experience so far here. been using this for the week now, can't say i find it at all thrilling. best feature is the video - qvga video direct to the sd card is impressive, not something i've seen anywhere else. the 2mp camera would be impressive if it wasn't for the fact that 100% of all photos i've taken with it are blurry because of the time it takes to make an exposure. lame. autofocus is slow as well. that said, the ui is average, and not my favorite. current SE ui's are much better to look at and easier to use. there are some real bad faults concerning photos and editing them in phone. you can take your beautiful large res images, but you can't edit them or scale them down ("size too large. cannot show" - crappy). what's the point of a resizing utility if the large images you want to resize can't be used by it? the font is obviously the fixed width font from the japanese version of the phone and is ugly (can you tell i'm a graphic designer?). wish there were themes, as the vodafone graphics are quite unimpressive and boring. one feature that could be promising is that you can seemingly use java screensavers. however, where are they? are there any? looks like no so far, so what good is that feature. the stereo speakers are a novelty. sounds nice if you listen looking straight at the screen, but for ringtones, you never are just holding your phone looking at the screen waiting for a call (unless you really do have nothing to do). tried copying an mp3 and an aac encoded m4a files to the sd card. neither showed up in the media player. sad, because the adaptor for headphones is actually a real minijack - meaning i could use my high-quality earphones, since my ipod suddenly decided to evaporate all the files on it (with at 512 or 1mb sd card, this could be an ipod shuffle (though obviously not near the same size!). it's said that japanese phones are somewhat difficult to use, because the japanese market takes some pride in being challenged by technology then figuring out. i don't like that, being from the west. it's a waste of my time. vodafone live is quite crap as well. wanted to look up a restauraunt's phone number. after spending 15 minutes looking for the right way to search for it, still wasn't close to finding it. would be nice if i could just enter the name of the restauraunt in a directory - seems obvious to me, but not to vodafone. streaming new clips could be decent, but the couple i tried to stream stopped before the end. lame. i'm looking to trade for the V800 in the office and use that instead. looking forward to it. there's my firsthand experience with using the phone so far. anyone find any java things to use as screensavers, please post. cheers!