Put this on my Touch HD, it works quite well. As someone said above, the twitter app is excellent, very well integrated. Lots of other small but impressive things too.

It's nice in a way that the phone itself is essentially becoming a blank

Could be a GMA500, like the Vaio P. That can accelerate HD even with a 1.33ghz

Nice and fast to load, yes. But to navigate and actually view he had to scroll and zoom all over the place.

The only way for a decent browsing experience on a mobile is the Touch HD method: a nice large screen, and 800*480. You turn it to landscape, and most sites don't need zoomed.

Still, could do with better caching/rendering though, it's not too quick. Also use acceleramator tech a bit better, so if you give it a little tilt in any direction it scrolls that way.

Huge ugly beasty that thing is.

If you're going to stick a 4.1" screen on a mobile, it'd better have almost zero bezel, not a whacking big one.

I've still never seen a shot from 8 or 12mpixel phonecameras that can match my 2mpixel Canon P&S from 8 years ago.

Even the best aps-c dslrs max out at 10 or 11 megapixels, and that's cameras intended for $1000 lenses, with a sensor 45262634563546345x bigger. They don't go beyond that because it harms image quality.

Just too, too stupid. Optimum for this sensor size is around 3 megapixels, maybe 4 at most.

Repeat ad nauseum: above 3 megapixels = meaningless.

Duh.

Looks pretty much exactly like my Touch HD. And probably a zillion other copycat devices currently in production.

My 3yr old 1ghz laptop can resume from hibernate to XP in 15 seconds, and it's loaded with junk. A modern laptop could do it way faster, and there's no reason for a desktop to be slower.

"The Diamond and Omnia already blow this phone out of the water...."

Huh? In what respect?

I take it you're not talking about internet browsing or video playback, given the Omnia's low res screen (400*240 compared to X1's 800 x 400).