Well, I'm just a sample size of one. I bought these two at the same time, so they might have been from a bad production batch. Lots of people seem happy with them; I was too for the first 8-9 months. One more reason why long-term reviews are often more useful than reviews after a person has used a product for a few days or weeks.
Yeah, the sponsorship would have meant the default app and the anaemic codec. I don't know if this one supports RAW, but that would have been the ultimate choice.