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OK, my Mylo was waiting for me when I got home from work on Thursday (Sept. 21st).
It's a nice little machine. It's pretty easy to use, and I had no trouble loading it with photos and music from my Mac. A simple drag and drop into the correct folder copied them onto the Mylo for use. The Mylo excels as a music player and a photo viewer.
Web browsing on sites that are optimized for mobile devices is a joy. Sites optimized for computer screens are readable and navigable, but that's about it.
I haven't tried every Skype permutation yet, but SkypeOut does work. I called my cousin on his cell phone. There was a noticeable lag, but it was sufficiently short enough that we could carry on a conversation.
Text messages are probably going to be mostly short, because entering text on the keyboard, while easy, is much more time-consuming than on a computer keyboard.
You can read and write text files, but the Mylo is never going to excel as a dedicated ebook reader. The screen is simply too small. A short story is about all I'd be willing to read on it.
All in all, the 1st generation Mylo is a promising jack-of-all-trades type of device. While it handles photos and music extremely well, and internet communication somewhat less well, its strength doesn't lie in any of those specific tasks. Its real strength lies in convergence. I'm hoping to see other products come out with other examples of convergence...like a large-screened device that combines a multi-format ebook reader, a web-surfing device, and a photo/movie viewing device.
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