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A couple of points from me. I have had two units and two batteries in the two months since I ordered mine. Both units and both batteries failed in the same way--they go from 100% to 0% instantly, and when put on the 24 pin connector to charge, go from 0% to 100% instantly after a few minutes. On the USB charge, given that the unit takes a few seconds to shift, the fact that the battery is seen at 0% means that when the unit shifts off of external power, it shuts down (battery is 0%) and will NOT start without a soft reset. On reset, it reports battery at 100%. There is thread on Aximsite where I reported this problem, and a much longer thread at Brighthand where the problem is discussed at length. I now have a third unit supposedly on the way from HP, although I didn't get the usual confirmation email from my trouble call, so I'm not confident about the real situation.
I have also been really watching the touchscreen issue. I think the problem is not that the screen requires hard taps, it's that the HP will NOT let you control the CPU speed, and the system seems to much prefer slow speed over high speed. What I have observed is that the system responds slowly to taps, giving the impression that it hasn't seen the tap. If I wait, the system will eventually do what I tapped, but that wait may be 5-10 seconds. And in the middle of a Note, or using Calligrapher, the system will shift to some internal housekeeping task, disappearing for some time, making it look like a skip on the screen. That definitely is not a good design, and very frustrating.
One nitpick: in a couple of places you slammed the Axim series pretty hard for Landscape. I never experienced any real problem with that unit in landscape. The screen was polarized, true, but in practical use I had it in landscape every day for GPS use and it worked just fine, even with polarized sunglasses! In fact, my X50v with the PPC Tech 128Mbyte upgrade was more stable, easier to use, faster and much, much more reliable than the HP 21x is turning out to be. I got it because, as you pointed out, if you want a VGA screen and WM6, it's the ONLY choice. But the frustrations are too high for me. If this third unit goes south, I'll do one more replacement and dump it on Ebay. Then I'll go back to the X50v with WM2003 and wait for someone to come out with a VGA Smartphone I can stand. (It won't be an HP, that I can promise!)
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