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:	post by ArrowHead Logged In .... Or NOT! at 2010-06-25 20:13:17

Fast, multitasking, and better than I expected. Huge display, 1 gig processor, and the thing is smart as hell.

For the rev, who hates not having a keyboard when he's trying to kill himself and others while texting behind the wheel - don't worry, the speech to text is amazing. One flaw, it censors dirty words when you do text to speech, so some little kid looking up "can't" doesn't get "cunt", etc... so all the fun words come up as ####. Otherwise, it recognizes everything I've thrown at it.

Furthermore, with a couple free apps I can speak text, then have the phone translate it into any language, then read it back. This would be IMMENSELY helpful in foreign places, like T Stations.

In addition, I've got an app that allows you to use GPS to look up at the sky and instantly turn into a personal planetarium, labeling planets, constellations, and stars in real time.

I got google goggles running, fucking AMAZING. Took a picture of the bottle of tobasco on my table, and it instantly recognized it and brought me to a search page for the product, company, and places locally and online to buy it. Took a blurry photo of my open laptop running in the background from about 6 feet away, it got the brand, model, and even knew it was the IBM thinkpad and not the identical LENOVO version.

GPS and nav is awesome, can even layer satellite photos over the nav map in real time, for landmarks and such. Something I've always wanted.

Unlike the iPhone, pandora is fucking FREE and runs seamlessly in the background.

There are full NES, SNES, GBA, etc... emulators available, but the touchscreen controls are a bitch for anything that requires quick movements. However, it's great for shit like Zelda. Also, there are some really cool games that use the internal gyro-gizmos, like the labyrinth game.

Battery life is pretty short (although I am playing with it a lot, too), but I got a spare battery, charger, leather case, car mount, sync cable, wall charger, and car charger for $20 off ebay. Can EASILY make it through a full day of heavy usage with the second battery.

I could keep going and going. I'm most amazed at how all the google apps integrate, being able to photo something, ID it, find the store nearby that sells it cheapest, then get directions via GPS, etc...... I could find a gazillion uses for that shit!

Drawbacks: No qwerty, but onscreen keyboard is pretty great, and swype is coming! Also, voice to text is tit! Also, battery life is awful, but a spare battery is CHEAP. Actually takes the same battery as the Touch Pro 2. Finally, no real flash, so no embedded videos or Hulu or Redtube, etc... However, FROYO is coming soon, and will fix this problem. Meanwhile, I notice Opera and Skyfire are both available in the app store free, which can handle most of this. (but still no hulu, sadly)

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