Thank Q,

Having secured a phone from work which does a nice job with our mobile mail clients I ventured out on the Verizon network and set it up  for RSS and Podcasts given that most site content sucks for mobiles and /or the browsers inbuilt parsing options ( 

Initial thoughts:
Battery life is way too short: The trade off re size comprimises the device to the point that I can't really  use is for a day. A day = standby, check mail 6-8 times  and downloaded  an  18mb file, play that file in  winmedia =  flat battery.

I have a hard time managing to push in the click wheel without it jumping to the above or below selection , ended up using "back" soft button.

Cradle is insufficient for belt/pocket carry and I've caught it twice on the way down 
Display is legible, audio intelligible and  as to call quality? 

I'll tell you when I make one