I’m just waiting for the Orange messages to come through to activate my new phone, but it is already much better than my HTC Touch HD (which ran under Windows Mobile). The screen is ultra-bright (vibrant colours and all) and the phone is superfast.
Just ordered some screen protectors and a leather case.
One thing that suddenly hit me just as I was about to activate it, and that was that my text messages would get lost (I’d backed up my contacts via Windows Mobile Device Center, but it doesn’t do the text messages).
However, you can use Microsoft MyPhone to do this for you – the texts are all stored on free webspace, and you can sync them back on to your new phone. All you do is enter into your phone browser and install the software, then you can run the new program and log into your new free space using your Windows Live login. Tell it what you want to sync, and it takes… well, I had over 3,000 texts to back up and it took less than 10 minutes.