I got this phone for Christmas, and these are my views.
Basic Features - Huge touchscreen, 3" - however style is quite boring, but I keep the blue stickers on to make it look cooler. Does not come with a stylus, but this is just as well as by using my Nintendo DS stylus it left little scratches. This is not so bad though as they can be rubbed off. Touch screen is pretty easy to use without a stylus anyway, once you get the hang of it. Cool scrolly thing on the back on the camera which can also be used to zoom the camera, so scrolling is easy and there are never too many finger prints streaked across the screen. Very light, but feels a bit like a brick in your pocket. I recommend a phone sock to minimise scratches and other damage to the screen.
Messaging - Easy to use. Input modes include Keypad, QWERTY Keyboard and Handwriting recognition. I use the Keyboard, as handwriting is kind of hard to do without a stylus.
There aren't any emoticons or inserts such as moving animations, sounds, etc. for messaging.
It comes with email, but as of yet I have not set this up.
Camera - Excellent. 5mp on back with flash, allowing to take super clear pictures, and a zoom jogwheel on the back of the phone (also used to scroll and change volume). Front camera is limited to VGA camera quality but is quite good nonetheless. You can take pictures in negative, black and white, sepia and suchlike. Photo editing can be done after taking a photo.
Video camera can be done and this took me a while to figure out how to do it, and this is that there is a button on the side where you change between camera, video camera and slideshow. Video editing can be done afterwards, except for the top 2 resolutions of video quality. I like how you can put them in slow motion :)
Sound quality - good, but its not very loud. With an internal memory of 90mb, you can have, say 20 songs of similar length. I have an 8gb memory card that stores up to 1000, but on the settings in 'Memory Manager', it always says the card is full when it isn't. Sound comes out of speaker at the back, which is next to the camera.
Tools/ advanced features - has calculator, calendar, organiser, world times and a converter. I would have liked a stop watch but it does not have one.
Games/ apps - comes with 3 demo games (blockbreaker, Bejeweled and Kasporav Chess) and a Google Maps application. No full games, but you can download these from VodafoneLive!.
Internet - super fast 3G Internet which means very fast browser. It takes longer to browse regular websites than mobile websites, and sometimes it cannot fit regular websites on the screen.
Ease of use - Fairly good, but it took me a while to figure out all the uses of the jogwheel and the camrea/video switch. Sometimes it asks you confusing things, but I won't go there because I'm no technical genious ;P
Battery Life - I must admit, this is a major downside. I use my LG Viewty quite a lot and I'd be lucky if my battery lasts 2 days. You have charge it everyday because there will be 2 bars out of four gone before the end of one day.
Would I recommend it? - yes, i probably would. It suits my needs quite well, but I expected more of it tbh.
My best phone? - No. My best phone was the one I had before, Sony Ericsson W580i. So easy to use, packed with features and just an all round 5 star excellent phone. Gave it to my brother, I should have made him pay ;D
I hope this helped ;D
Cathyy x