Hi
Got the phone a couple of weeks ago...
The screen is gorgeous and I'm very happy with the speed of the OS in general compared to an iphone.
Swype works really well for me, although I find it easier to type on the keyboard than with an iphone, particularly because there's less lag caused by software, and partly because the keys seem slightly bigger.
In general I love the phone; everything works really well, but I'm not going to talk any more about the good stuff, I'm just going to mention the bad ...
Unluckily after a couple of days mine just died, so I had to take it back to the store I got it. I spent literally 2 hours there, most of that time was caused by Bell's tech support being really useless. The guy in the store (which wasn't a Bell store) needed me to get an authorization code from Bell to say that we'd tried everything to get it working and that it was totally dead and needed to be replaced. The first 5 people we talked to were completely clueless and did everything they could to get us off the line. The 6th person was helpful although ironically his phone was super quiet so I could barely hear him, but when he put me on hold the adverts for Bell were incredibly loud.
Anyway, the gps as far as I can tell works really well outdoors and in the car as long it is near the window, and barely works indoors.
I have had the bug where the wallpaper becomes tiny, but not for a while.
The Kies software is crappy and won't work on Windows 64bit as far as I can tell. I don't think you can get it for Mac, but my experience with it on Windows made me not worry about it, I use the USB debug mode, which feels like a hack to setup, as it's a pretty normal use case.
The headphones that come with the phone are decent sound quality but they're the kind that plug in your ears, and they fall out when I'm walking along, which means I'll need to buy another pair. Does the Apple phones with mic work with this phone I wonder?