I picked one up last weekend.
Installed the apps I wanted, configured the looks and feel how I like it, and so on. It's a wonderful and, yes, fast phone.
I only have one complaint with it and that's the horrible battery life.
After removing some things from start up, removing a few of the HTC widgets, adding the power control widget, adding the mobile network widget, plus some other tweaks, I've got battery life OK now. Certainly won't last very long if you really push the phone... but let's just say I went from going to 85% to 4% in about 7 hours (while sleeping) to only losing about 10-15% overnight now.
I charged my phone to 100% yesterday at about 10pm, went to sleep around 11:30pm, it's now 2:36pm now and I've got about 20% battery left. (Edit: Darn, I thought it was 30% 'cuz I just checked about an hour ago, but now it's in the 20s.. Looks like some people will have to charge this twice a day.)
It's nothing stellar, but adequate. I'm patiently awaiting the official extended 2150 mah battery coming later this month. (Hopefully it's coming this month anyway...) Going from 1300 mah to a 2150 mah should definitely solve my issue.
Just FYI, the top things that drain battery life on this phone are:
1. Mobile Network (this kills the battery the most... but you usually need to leave it on unless you're at home, in which you can leave Wi-Fi on and mobile off, however Wi-Fi will cut off some time after the display goes to sleep... not sure the exact amount of time, but I think it's within an hour or so... A happy medium is to uncheck the "Always on mobile network" option, but this will slow down your push notifications for gmail and things from instant to about 15 minutes instead... though some people report they don't get their new mail until they activate the display from sleep... I just leave the always on mobile network on anyway... I can't live without instant notifications...)
2. Location service (Turn this OFF if you're not using any location programs... this also zaps battery like a mofo)
3. Bluetooth (I keep this off since I don't have a bluetooth headset or really any use for bluetooth right now, you could turn it off and on as you make calls, but that's entirely up to you...)
4. Some of the HTC widgets have been pointed at for draining the battery life, the Weather app in particular, but that's probably because it needs the location service on to work properly. (I've pretty much removed all HTC widgets from my home screens with the exception of Favorites, FriendStream, configured to sync every 2 hours, Calendar, and Bookmarks...)
There were more things I picked up on, mostly from this thread here: http://androidforums.com/tips-tricks...ry-thread.html
I also turned off Haptic Feedback...
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