Thanks N8ter. I am excited, I get off in a couple hours and my phones have been waiting for me at home. Then I have to transfer pics, ringtones and contacts to the new Ion's for both my wife and I. I am REALLY excited. Our Incipio Silicrylic cases should be here on friday sometime according to fedex. I hope all goes well with transfering the contacts tonight. The only way I know how to is to save to my old sim, put it in the new phone and save to phone, then pull out old sim and put new sim in new phone and save to new sim. Usually then I end up with double contacts or something else. Oh well, I cant wait. Pete
I was just looking at those cases, but I think I wanna keep it naked and get a Sena case but they don't have one specifically for the Ion yet. The case at the AT&T store was like an Otterbox and after using one with the Vivid I'm just not cool with having something that bulky/heavy on my device. This phone is actually pretty damn light considering the materials they used for it...
I want to keep it that way.
I think a lot of the reviewers simply had no clue where the settings were for certain things (like xLoud, Stabilization for the Camcorder, etc.). The buttons aren't really an issue, IMO. I mistakenly press buttons a lot less on this phone that I have on any other Android device, so I hope they keep it that way...
Screen is gorge.
Only thing I don't like is that a few of the AT&T bloatwares can't be uninstalled or disabled (cause no ICS yet). Not really missing ICS+Sense 3.6 really. This phone runs circles around the Vivid for performance and software quality (the Vivid ICS stock ROM was the buggiest thing I've experience since my Samsung Vibrant). You will love the dedicated camera button (two stage).
Also make sure you install PC Companion and Media Go, the latter of which is one of the best Android Media Synching applications ever. Easier to use than iTunes and Zune, IMO and doubles up as a player. Also can auto-sync pictures and stuff you take on your phone to your computer - in the correct folders! (unlike HTC Sync/Zune).