So far, I absolutely love it. The screen quality is fantastic and the audio has been great. However, there are a couple of quirks.

* No equalizer in the Music application. I have been unable to find a Market application with one. even a simple EQ feature would be very nice to have.
* While the camera takes pretty good photos, it’s awfully slow. This is supposed to be addressed in the next release, which is called Donut (1.6).
* Serious issues with the Mail application. There’s a market app called k9mail but it suffers from the same problems, namely the inability to deal with “self-signed” security certificates. Others have noted it as well on the Google Code site for Android.
* Some apps are inconsistent on how they quit. Some of them leave themselves running in the background to do stuff, which can be a battery drainer. There’s a Market app called TasKiller that you can use to kill backgrounded applications. The phone slows down quite a bit if you have several background apps.

Some good stuff:
* Battery life is actually decent. I walk around for several hours a day with music playing (mp3s or Pandora) and I can get through a whole work day and still have 50% battery life. This is a huge improvement over the G1. I also do a lot of texting and web browsing with the phone.
* The browser could use some work, and it lacks things like Flash, but it works quite well. I have few complaints about it.
* I’m in North Texas, and T-Mobile’s coverage has been great. This will obviously depend on where you live.

Later on, I’ll post some photos that I took with the MyTouch 3G camera, and maybe a video clip or two.

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I got a HTC Mytouch 3G yesterday to replace my ailing Blackberry Curve 8320. It’s been 24 hours, and I am absolutely thrilled with the new phone. Since I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for several years, I was due for a full upgrade, which helped out quite a bit. The 3G speeds are great, the screen is bright and easy to see, crisp graphics, great call quality, and basically everything that I’d want in a phone. I use Pandora a lot and Facebook as well, and there are plenty of cheap/free applications in the Android Marketplace.

If you’re a new T-Mobile customer, there’s a promotion that drops the price of the Mytouch 3G to $99 with a new activation. Details here, and you can also just call customer care too. So far, the phone is worth every penny. I have also not experienced the battery life issues that plagued the HTC G1 either. So far, it seems ok. I got up around 0800 and have been using the phone just like I’d use my Blackberry all day and I still have ample battery life left. (It’s now around 1730)

Awesome!

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