Even the folks in cities like Chicago, with good Sprint coverage, are waiting for "the network" to get the Pre... I know a family member/Palm loyalist who still uses a Treo 700p who has been waiting for a Verizon Pre. He and all his family members are on VZW due to the VZW mobile-to-mobile calling, as he convinced them to switch eons ago to save on cellphone bills.

As soon as this legendary family cheapskate heard that the Pre was initially a Sprint exclusive, he was madder than when Toyota upsized the current RAV4 to, in his words, "not fit in Chicago traffic and parking" (and doubled RAV4 sales as a result). Never mind that Sprint has better-value plans and good coverage in Chicago, too. For him, Any Mobile, Anytime is not the same as VZW's mobile-to-mobile, as "the meter would then run on my relatives with VZW if I switched to Sprint", and he wants his relatives to get the cheapest plan possible.

Until a Verizon Pre/Pixi comes out, he's keeping his Treo.

Yes.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915304,00.html

I would guess that the Pre Plus (which would probably be the Pre+ in ads) probably has a microSDHC slot like the GSM Pre for Telcel and Claro, and a combo CDMA/LTE radio, which would make it one of Verizon's first 4G LTE handsets to coincide with the initial LTE rollout in Q1 2010.

I can imagine the ads:
Sprint: "We have the Pre, and 4G"
VZW: "We have an actual 4G Pre"

@MRPysnik
BlackBerry e-mail has been very sporadic in Fort Wayne, IN today since shortly after 2 AM EST. It comes in big chunks, and on some phones it doesn't come at all.

So I called VZW a few minutes ago. The lady on the phone from Pennsylvania told me that yes, RIM's servers were down nationwide. And she had a BlackBerry and couldn't send/receive e-mail, too.

@BBrooksSux Sprint has a 10-year affiliate agreement with Shentel, and settled all lawsuits with Shentel a while back.

I see a Windows key... They can't even copy the keys correctly!

@The Indusrty Standard

What will be left after the first week? I have visions of these lappies without their screens, motherboard, hard drive, keyboard, battery, etc., within two weeks... soon, I wonder what people will think when people will see when they see bare HP Pavilion, Dell XPS, and Sony VAIO chassis sitting on small tables in front of a Windows 7 display. The former Duncan Hines Brand Manager (a.k.a. Steve Ballmer) won't be proud, but at least he won't mess up those laptops with his cheeseburger... because there's no components!

And I happen to like Saks for their fragrance selection (albeit in the Indianapolis store)...

But didn't Telus, up in our friendly neighbor to the north, sue Rogers over their own ridiculous network reliability and speed claims (you know, the one where "Rogers is Canada's most reliable network... twice as fast as any other") recently?

What makes Rogers' claims funny is that Telus just rolled out HSPA+, which made Telus faster than Rogers everywhere but Toronto (where it's a tie), and Rogers kept using the slogan.

I tried the CLIQ at a local T-Mobile store recently just to see what it was like, even though I have "the test guy", and was quite impressed. Personally, I think that blur is a great idea for today's "information age", and it works quite well once you try it in person, even if your T-Mo market doesn't have 3G yet (like my hometown of Fort Wayne). It's a good low-end Android device for average to heavy Facebook/Twitter users... and that's exactly what it's supposed to be.

No need to change it right now, except maybe make the price tag a bit lower to not cannibalize the similarly-priced Moto Droid. Still, T-Mobile's rate plans make it a smart buy.

Sorry to dash your Falcon hopes, but I read the words in the press release: "engineered and built in America".

Unless they decide to build a global RWD sedan here, it sounds like a stretch Taurus SHO with EcoBoost to me...