I got tired of waiting for the Cingular 8525 to come out so I went ahead and bought an HTC TyTn (636 series). It only came in last night so I haven't had much time to use it, but so far I'm really happy. It's definitely an improvement over the Wizard/8125. Using my Cingular 64K SIM card I got with the Wizard I was able to connect the the 3G network in the Northern VA/DC area. Various DSL Reports speed tests showed avg download speed around 500kbps. Google Maps is real snappy downloading maps, traffic, and searching. Skype works well over 3G and WiFi. I've only tried a limited number of apps so I haven't found any compatibility problems.

This is an update to my previous article (http://www.htcwizardweb.net/node/1071) on installing IBM's J9 VM on your device and running Google Maps with it. By making 2 small registry tweaks you can have any application automatically run JAR or JAD files with J9. Using your favorite registry editor, set the "(Default)" value in the following keys to point to the emulator.exe on your device. In my case it was the following (include the double quotes):