Ryan's Currently Unnamed Blog

W0000t: DarkPanic lives!
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Wooot!! Got some time to play my new wizard on the new progression servers last night... almost 200 people in Nektulos! crazy stuff! Halfway through level 5 already though!

Not too bad for a few hours work!

DarkPanic! lol

Ok... so, I mainly let my SK charge last night and today is my first full day with it....

Two slightly negative thoughts so far... among many things that just impress me. Tons of people have raved about the cool new things... the trackball is actually really nice.. and the speed of the menus is noticably faster and the fact that things are grouped in the main menu makes a lot of sense. Briefly played with the mp3 player which seemed cool but not too useful for me and the internet (when i had decent service outside of my office) was noticably faster, especially when dealing with text based pages. I haven't played with the camera yet so can't really comment.

My two concerns though are... the device in general 'feels' more fragile then I was expecting. Maybe its just because I want to be careful with it, but I dunno. Secondly, and more importantly, the keyboard bothers me a bit. I liked the feel of the rubberized keyboard on the SK2, and I often typed with the tip/nail of my thumbs. That doesn't feel quite as right on the new keyboard because the keys are harder. So instead, I use the pads of my thumbs and find that i often press adjacent keys when I don't mean to.

Maybe it will just take some getting used to.... Otherwise, I'm quite pleased!