As with most new PCs these days, I was rather annoyed with the Start menu icons that are for trial applications; most of them being online applications.   So, I was able to delete most of the annoying icons using the File Explorer (which requires making all 'hidden' files visible.)   I couldn't, however, delete many of the annoying apps themselves due to security rights.

I find it interesting that most of the mobile applications don't have any exit buttons.   Because of this, once an application is started on the device, it just stays running in the background which can be seen by opening the Task Manager.  Apparently this is by design.  I'm assuming that the OS is smart enough to shut down some of the running applications if it runs out of memory?

Much to my disappointment, there doesn't seem to be a lot of people doing development or at least tweaking their Windows Mobile 6 devices yet.   (Perhaps the OS is too new?)   At the moment, I don't have any ideas for any new mobile apps, but I'm kind of itching to create at least one... simply because I can!

 

My first impression with the phone, after having it for a week, are pretty good.  The battery is staying charged much longer than I expected.  Perhaps that is due to not having the phone setup to automatically sync with any email accounts like my last SmartPhone did.   I also find it actually works pretty well as a phone in that the sound quality is decent.   I put my wife on speaker phone and she said she couldn't tell that I did.