I picked up an AT&T Tilt last week, though I was really hoping to get it before we left for Japan. The phone is capable of a couple of nifty features: GPS, connects to Wifi networks, 3G High Speed Cellular Data, and the 2100Mhz cell band (which is used in Japan for GSM phones). I had hoped to at least get to use the wifi capabilities so we could check email (and maybe even make a phone call or two using Skype), but that didn’t pan out as the phone was released the week before we left - not enough time for the stores to actually get any in stock.
Anyways, so I have this Tilt thingy. I did some serious reading over at XDA Developer’s forum and picked up the ROM used to flash your phone back to the original Windows Mobile setup HTC (the manufacturer) had rather than the messed up garbage AT&T gives you. The HTC ROM has a nice touch-screen graphical homepage that makes it easy to get to the basics that Windows Mobile has to offer.
Since HTC is one of the manufacturers who joined the Google Open Handset Alliance (a joke? We’ll see), I hope to eventually get a ROM that loads and runs Google’s Android phone OS. Windows Mobile works but, eh, it’s Windows and it already erased all of my contacts once.
All in all, a nice set of features in the hardware, but I think I like the Blackberry OS that my wife has on her Blackberry Pearl better. Windows Mobile is very serious/business-like - certainly not aimed at the same market as, say, the iPhone which is very much a “smart consumer” device. But I will say Opera Mobile seems to run pretty darn well on it (though I’m starting to think Opera Mini is going to by-pass Opera Mobile soon).