And possibly the best thing ever.. I don't like the home screen either.. Guess what.. it's just an application like any other, you can buy/download/write one and replace it. I'm hoping someone will come out with a palm-ish one. I still think the grouped icon pages is the best UI for a small handheld touchscreen device out there. If one doesn't show up, I suppose I could try writing one.

The pull down window-shade notification area is amazing.

A lot of the missing features didn't make it for the 1.0 release. It's a real shame, but that's the way product releases work. Even the empeg wasn't perfect in 1.0. Although 2.0 is close to perfect, considering I still use mine. (3.0alpha never proved to be stable enough for me)

I can't say much more about the G1 until my NDA stuff is over, but I can try and answer some questions about it.