Dave @ Oct 15th 2008 11:50PM

I totally agree with you about the fact that if Windows Mobile was on the Lotus it would be a killer phone. Don't get me wrong it is a solid phone and I'm considering carrying one myself. I did have an opportunity to play around with a pre-release version and I was quite impressed with the form factor. At first though I was a bit reserved because it was so square, since I hadn't yet flipped it open, and it was the purple flowered model which was cool looking but not for me. I do have a standing offer for a free one of these units in black but I'm kind of torn. I currently carry two Sprint phones. One is the HTC Touch and the other is the new HTC Touch Diamond. I use the Diamond as my main phone and mostly appreaciate its texting and multimedia capabilities. The touch I'm mostly using for two apps, Sprint Navigation and my SlingPlayer. I like being able to use these apps on my second phone and still conduct business and take calls on my primary phone. If I did start carrying the LG Lotus I would make it my primary phone and put the HTC Touch Diamond on my secondary line. I usually carry both phones but it's nice to have all of the features and apps I use on my primary phone for those rare times when I'm carry just the one phone. When I'm out trining for the Ironman on my bike I usually only have my primary phone in the saddle bag. So the fact that the Lotus doesn't run on Windows Mobile and therefore can't connect to my SlingBox is kind of a bummer. On the bright side however I'd still have access to live television and my video/music/photo collection through the orb app that I use to run on the LG Muziq that I recently retired when I received the Diamond. To wrap things up I would say two things. You can't fault Sprint for their phones as they have the best lineup of phones of all of the US carriers (yes, that includes AT&T with their iPhones). Secondly, if we could only get LG and HTC working together we could have one awesome device.