The phone has a great design.
Maybe the best design on a pocket pc ever.
Looking at the phone from the side, you don't feel that it is thick at all.
Sony Ericcson has mastered the design.
The only fault in the design in my opinion is that banana slide.
It is NOT a horizontal slide as in the TyTN II but a curved one.
This in turn made the phone unable to have a tilting screen mechanism which I got to love in the TyTN II.
For the OS, if it's a 6.1 or a 6.5; it doesn't really matter.
By the time this phone is released in the market, Microsoft will have the same windows mobile version released on other phones and you will have d ROMs with the same version (as we do have 6.1 now d).
Even that sweet UI program developed by Sony Ericcson will be available by some neat developer for us in a cab format *Crossing fingers*
It's just a matter of time.
People looking for a fancy elegant design; this is it.
People after hardware capabilities, well; your search will never stop
Firmware and programs were never the reason to buy hardware.
You have to see if that peice of harware matches your needs first...