Finally received a Jasjam... within 3 days I had changed the firmware for the Black 3.01 Windows Mobile 6 firmware.  WHAT A DIFFERENCE!  It's so much faster!  Having said that, I still had 2 sleeps of death.

 

Jasjamming has done a great job with this.  It's compact, FAST and reliable for the most part.  Either way it's better than the old XDA IIs - geez that was a piece of junk when I look back.  Sure, the technology was good, but O2's support was atrocious.  The good thing about sticking with the Jasjam (AKA HTC HERMES) is that the installed base is so much larger - there's bound to be someone who will spend the time getting the firmware right.

Just built my new Dell D620 with Vista.  Actually, I didn't build it - it was pre-installed.  As with most Dell builds, it's full of crap which needed some mucking around with.  And then I received my first BSOD within 24 hours of putting the machine into production.  But what was great about that experience was the fact that Windows pointed me to the culprit and I was able to get a newer driver for the wireless adapter without too much fuss.  Unlike XP, Vista knows what causes BSODs these days.  So that was a pretty positive experience.

 

Looks nice, will it play well with my crazy working habits?  Who knows...