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Matt Miller, The Mobile Gadgeteer has had the HTC Shift over a week and has over 140 photos and screenshots in his extensive image gallery.

He has had a chance to try out most all aspects of the device. He has a brief outline if his thoughts categorized into GREAT, GOOD, BAD, and UGLY.

For a tidbit of what his thought are. here are the GOOD and BAD (you will have to check his blog post to find out the GREAT and UGLY!

Good

• Sprint EV-DO connectivity is a nice bonus
• Biometric scanner offers good security
• No bloatware loading of apps is awesome
• Integrated Secure Digital card slot is nice (when will Apple learn this?)
• Nice leather case included with device
• Included USB hub and ethernet is helpful
• Small A/C adapter is a thoughtful feature
• Origami Experience 2.0 is useful
• 1GB included RAM is adequate

Bad

• Stylus is poor since it doesn’t stay extended when pulled out
• 1024×600 software resolution is fuzzy and not good for text entry or viewing
• Can’t remove leather case if you want to travel a bit lighter
• Vista is too much for the device
• No recovery CDs are included
• No portrait mode for eBook reading, etc
• No storage card in SnapVUE, hyperlinks go nowhere, call support appears in menus, but are not supported while text nessaging is supported
• Skype is unusable, audio is shaky and video is virtually non-existent

Go to The Mobile Gadgeteer to check out the photos. I’ll keep an eye on the site and let you know when he has his full review up!

Source and photo credit: The Mobile Gadgeteer

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