The Music player is fantastic, especially when it’s coupled with a stereo Bluetooth headset such as the Plantronics 855, can’t recommend the headset highly enough, great sound, small and most people don’t know you are listening to music.
Co-Pilot Live 7 is a dog. The phone’s GPS works well enough, as does the co-pilot software. It’s the maps that they use which I find are the problem. They are so out of date, not knowing many roads and streets that have been there for decades. It even directed my to use a 4x4 track not knowing the main asphalt road existed. Unfortunately there isn’t any other WM6 navigating software that uses Sensis maps to my knowledge. Given that the GPS was the killer app that made this a “must have” phone continues to be a thorny issue for me. The inability to change the alarm ring tones to an MP3 grates each weekday morning as the choice is either a bing bong or something that shrill that the wife thinks we are being burgled.
Having owned a TyTN11 since December 07, overall I am very happy with it. Was very solid and dependable unit until recently when the USB broke inside the unit. Just waiting for a replacement unit ATM, it’s been 2 weeks of hell waiting as I do use the features generally and have around 1500 contacts in it. Generally I have found it better to use overall than the previously owned Palm Treo 650. I am looking forward to the HTC Diamond and the other new model phones. When choosing this phone I considered a Blackberry a Nokia N95 and a Treo 750 along with the other WM6 phones.
The slide out keyboard is ok once you become accustomed to it. Although I have found that I use the stylus as it’s quicker to tap out a quick email or SMS than sliding the keyboard. Let’s face it the screen size doesn’t lend itself to long emails and I only browse the net if I really need to. The Camera is passable, although I believe they need to add a flash to make it more usable.