The placement of the jack is totally fine, but we experienced far more hiss while listening to music than we've grown used to with recent music-capable phones by and large, manufacturers seem to have gotten the hang of noise suppression, and the myTouch is a marked step backwards. We wish we could be a little more excited about this, but HTC seems to have rushed this one - it obviously shoehorned the jack into a device that wasn't designed from the start to support it.

So, let's take a quick look at the Fender's other big deal: that 3.5mm headphone jack. It's the same one you find on the Hero, and apart from graphic transitions being a little laggy, it works very well and looks a whole heck of a lot better than anything Google has done so far. As the Fender name indicates, everything that has changed with this version is music-oriented, starting with the jack and leading through to the bundled apps T-Mobile has (wisely) swapped out Android's default music player and replaced it with HTC's, for example. Once you turn the phone on, you'll notice that you're right back into familiar myTouch territory with a few key differences. It's silly, but it's fun and makes for a great conversation piece. Honestly, we'd probably carefully remove the phone itself and zipper everything else back up and put it away as though it was a treasured collectors' item, but anyone who plays an electric guitar understands the awesomeness of the inside of a Fender case if you're the kind of person who never leaves home without a six-string, we can see why you might want to carry the pouch around, too. Fender clearly took the partnership seriously, too - it's not just the wood, but everything about the package from the zippered case with a pick-shaped logo to the crushed velvet pouch has an awesome, chic, high-quality feel.

Backwards tugs are some prolevel strats