Last day - goodbye Hero - and thanks!

Also thanks for all the help and advice here - it has been invaluable and help enrich the experience. Hopefully see some of you over at the Atrix forum

Just over a week in and now have the Moto more or less sorted.

The good news is that it is not messed with by Orange.I am not even sure if its locked but I haven't tried another sim. It certainly allows sideloading.

I have installed Launcher Pro and home switcher as I liked much of HTC Sense and LP lets you get much closer to that experience.

It is blindingly fast and makes the Hero look a slouch. The screen is great in my view and not too bright. I certainly haven't noticed the pentiles.

The work and play kit took a little setting up as the instructions to all the items are minimal in the extreme but now it is all working it is effective and the webtop is much better than I had been led to believe from the reviews. I have seen very little evidence of lag.

The one thing that caught me out is that the cheap car socket adaptor that worked fine with the Hero doesn't work with the Atrix. worse than that it actually drains the battery so on a long run yesterday the battery was on low before I realised what was happening and the phone was dead before I got home. I must treat myself to a proper car dock! Otherwise the battery lasts well managing a full day with ease. It has got quite hot once but that was I think because a bad app got stuck in a loop as I had to reboot.

Still waiting for the laptop dock should be tomorrow then some more tests!

The screen is quite big enough for me particularly as the case is quite slippery but I can just about get my thumb across to the far corner. So glad I didn't get anything bigger it also fits in the pocket nicely - better than the hero even though it is bigger.

The experience now I have LP is like a better version of the Hero without any constraints. I have four e-mail accounts all set up and can see them in a single field and as they are now all IMAP I only have to delete once.

So far a very worthy successor to the Hero and with Gingerbread and hopefully ice cream will not run out of puff as quickly as the Hero.

The other good point is that as I had hoped the Moto radio is much better than the HTC one so I am getting much less call issues even though I'm in a flaky area.

So now I have two HD screens in my home office with the second either giving me extra PC real estate for spreadsheets etc or easily switching to Cable TV or Webtop as needed - excellent!