Answer: I’ve been using the iPhone the first day it arrived and haven’t used any other phones with a physical qwerty keyboard for a long period since then. I acclimated to Droid’s physical QWERTY keyboard quickly with ease. That being said, the keys are rather flat but that’s a small price for keeping it super thin.

2. I don’t use facebook but if I wanted to pull contacts down onto the phone from a friends account and then delete the ones I don’t want in my contacts list, is that possible?

Answer: Yes. There’s an option under settings in Facebook app to sync contacts.

but thanks for the suggestions, it might be something we can standardized in the future

When on a call with someone on a landline how is the reception? Is there any hollow echo? Can you swap phones with the caller and you (the reviewer) LISTEN to the Android yourself during a call while you are on the landline. Does the reception get better or worse with a headset. How about voice clarity in slightly breezy conditions. Maybe in a moving car. Speakerphone clarity? Does the phone get hot because of all that metal during a one hour call?

Do you get reception in a typical windowless office surrounded by cubicles and computers? How about in stores at the mall? Basement one level underground?

Thanks!

Is this the normal Android Market on the phone or is it a special market from google? I’m a little bit confused, just read both variants.

The one thing that really annoys me about Android (1.6) compared to Sidekick/HiptopOS is that when you go to the Dialer (Phone) screen and start typing letters, it interprets them only as numbers. So if you want to type “bo” and have it search your contacts and display Bo, Bob, Bonnie, Bozac, etc you have to first switch to the Contacts tab. If you type “bo” on the default Dialer screen it just displays “26″ and leaves the rest of the screen blank instead of simultaneously searching your contacts and displaying partial matches. Similarly, if you type “123″ it doesn’t show you any partially matched phone numbers that contain “123″. Completely frustrating coming from Sidekick where dialing was smart & intuitive. Hopefully Android 2.0 is different but I’m not holding my breath.

2. I don’t use facebook but if I wanted to pull contacts down onto the phone from a friends account and then delete the ones I don’t want in my contacts list, is that possible?

3. This device does not work out of the U.S right? Why didn’t they make it a world phone like other verizon phones? It seems silly not to have that functionality for such a high end device…

As for GPS, incoming call works just fine while GPS is active.