I was too busy lately to post any more, so a delayed report on my experiences:
I am really happy with the machine, on of the best purchases for recording I have ever done!
Since it is so small, I have it with me most of the time and use it for "snap shots" all the time. (E.g. my kids holiday singing, some piano ideas, a strange siren here in our town etc.). I know, the microtrack could do the same (and it is even smaller), BUT the quality of the machine seems to be much better then the microtrack, I love the metering (Also the green light / red light indicators are helpful), the microphones are not matched but much better then I expected (good enough for these kind of snapshots). I tested the battery life once with 4 rather old maha 2500 AA (internal mics on 5, headphones on 4), and gave up after 6 hours, when the indicator showed still batteries half full.
I got my mixpre back and the sound of the line in is great, at least as good as the marantz pmd670. So it gives me the high-profile option with an external preamp as well. (not a bit bucket since the mixpre has no a/d but I am happy with the sound of the sony a/d - though I am curious to hear some comps of that).
But for me the biggest plus is to have a small, "stealthable" machine, that is not a "toy" as the MT - to put it with Doug Oade. The sony feels to me (and sounds so far) as a professional tool adequate for what I want and not like a cell-phone turned into a audio recorder.
I am still waiting for my Church audio omnis to arrive, then I can post some recordings with the internal mic-preamp with external mics.
To sum it up: the 300 $ Difference to the Zoom H2, and the 200 $ to the MT II for me are worth having the feeling of a professional audio recording tool in the smallest possible size. I believe sonically the Fr2-le is probably better (better preamps, phantom power, remote control etc.), but I really wanted to have something small, that still does the job adequately, and when I need better sound, I hook up the mixpre and go line-in (and hopefully beter mics then the C4s will come at some point as well.)
Hope that helps ...
Udo