4 days with the SPV E650 and I'm quite happy with the phone.

There are so many ways to connect to the Internet and the computer network. I wasn't sure which is best or easiest.
The Camera has no zoom if you use the largest image setting. You need to select a smaller final image if you want to zoom at all. I suppose that as the final photo is bigger, you can 'zoom' in with Photoshop. This info wasn't written anywhere and took a bit of hunting to find.
It seems that Wi-Fi consumes battery juice like no other service so it is best to keep that on auto cut-off. It comes on or is easy to turn on from the home screen when needed. I'm not sure if the Wi-Fi is being used for the web browsing. There is no indicator that tells you if the phone is using Wi-Fi or Edge/GSM when on the web.
I can't get the mobile phone to show up on the PC network via Wi-Fi, but it can be accessed with the USB connection.
The sync system uses ActiveSync and syncs with Microsoft Outlook. I don't use that and don't really want to start. What options do I have?
I installed Skype, it works - so my Wi-Fi must be working too. I also installed Google Maps and Gmail. Maps work fine. Gmail Java program doesn't seem to work, but Gmail is set up as a messaging service and pulls email from Google every 15 minutes without my having to pull up a browser.
I managed to erase all my contacts. Dumb huh! I transferred all contacts from Sim to phone contacts, deleted all contacts on Sim then did a Sync to PC where the PC overwrote all contacts with my empty Outlook contacts folder. Great - now I see that there was a config option to prevent that. Anyway, out of all the contacts that I had, most were old contacts that probably should have been deleted long ago. I can re-enter the important ones.
So, the phone quality is good, I can use my MBR-100 Bluetooth receiver (more on that later), my Bluetooth headset and hopefully the soon-to-come Bluetooth GPS receiver.
I can moblog and easily send and receive emails. I think the look and feel is great and I hope that I get to fully understand the workings of WM6 in the near future.
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