Jenn, I just did a test post using TP Mobile. It’s a pretty good way to do text only posts that have no links.

No, you can do full posts too (not sure about extended entries and categories, though). You can publish and delete posts, but you can’t edit them for some reason. Crave recently wrote up a little piece about it here: http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9750190-1.html

If full TypePad is reasonably manageable (lots of horizontal scrolling and unresponsive drop-down menus, I would imagine), then there may not be any reason to use the mobile version. Seems like a waste of the Advantage’s lovely screen estate :-)

Mike, no YouTube, a real bummer. Adobe hasn’t updated the Windows Mobile Flash in a long time and it won’t play YouTube stuff.

Jenn, I have been using the full TP although Mobile TypePad might be worth a try. Doesn’t it just do photos, though? Full TP does have some issues, it works better in IE than it does in Opera which has big problems with TP.

What are you using to blog from the Advantage? Mobile TypePad, full TypePad, or something else?

Oh, James, what’s the diff between how Opera behaves on the HTC vs the N800?

I forgot, did I ask about Flash video and YouTube?

Did I mention I Hate You? Ha!

I still haven’t found a place to fondle it. Have others found it easily in CompUSA? Is it anywhere else?

Yolanda, you’re right you can assign tags to programs. I forgot that.

Fernando, you can touch it with your finger like the iPhone.

James/Yolanda: do you touch it with your fingers (aka, more ala iPhone) or with your nails (more ala stylus)?

James, haven’t played with it yet, but according to the help documentation on Voice Speed Dial, you can also create voice tags to launch programs.

Mike, Voice Command is not included but it does have Voice Speed Dial for making phone calls only.

Looking at that picture, you fiend, you know the three words I have for you: I hate you!

Hmmm… about that BT mic. Shift can do voice rec at all? Wasn’t that built into WinMob somewhere along the line?

“Anyone have a recommendation for a “pendant style” bluetooth stereo headphone, to compare with the Sony Ericsson HBH-DS980?”

Had them… hated them. I found the sound pretty lousy and that they weren’t all that comfortable. I am using the Sony VGP-BRM1BC bluetooth dongle. I like it because it allows me to not only use my own headphones but I connect it to my car stereo’s “aux-in” and can send the bluetooth signal over the car stereo.

So James… Buying one or not?

Yvilla, I’m pretty sure you will like this device based on what I know about your past gadgets. You’re right, I hardly ever take the stylus out and instead just touch the screen to run it.

Forgot to answer about the weight, it is negligible. Even in the case with the keyboard it’s about a pound I guess. Without those the device feels very light indeed. I have carried it frequently in the front pocket of Dockers for short walks and it’s not heavy.

Frank, I haven’t run any conclusive battery benchmarks but it lasts all day with heavy usage. It uses a little phone battery and if I owned this unit I’d pick up a second one for emergencies, but I always do that. Note that I don’t use it as a phone that much but heavy on the data side.

eReader would no doubt work as well as MobiPocket does. The larger screen makes reading a real joy, and a side benefit it how much easier it is to read PDFs. I get a lot of reports via PDF and they are easy to read on this screen.

Ok, between the blog posts here and the MoTR Podcast I am getting the itch to buy an Advantage, but that price tag is really a big hurdle. :(

I don’t believe that I have read much about the battery life, what is it like?

I got to think that eReader works nice on the Advantage so it would be a good ebook reader, but what is the weight like?