He’s been glued to the Android coverage and isn’t entirely impressed.

Here we go:

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Having watched the launch video, first impression (apart from that T-Mobile & Google can’t organise a decent handset release to save themselves):

Poor man’s iPhone.

2nd impression: They have not delivered the second coming of the Jesus phone – although with all the evangelising you’d think they had just solved world hunger.

3rd impression: The apps are just lame. Nothing worth changing MNO for. The slider and look of it does not stand out at all.

4th: Hardware: This isn’t a self-explanatory aspirational device like the iPhone or N95, it could be any QWERTY slider.

No tethering! How dare you use it like you want to.

No MS Exchange support – forget those business users for now.

Push G-mail only. Again, forget business users.

No Stereo Bluetooth <8o=

Gtalk IM presence in the phonebook – nice. Finally something new.

$179 is very subsidised. Hmmmmm……

WTF were the geeks doing up there, talking about modding their phones?

Overall…..a flaming pile of mediocrity. Let’s revisit in a year.

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Oh dear. Oh dear me. It can’t be all bad though?