Blogs are making a big deal out of this.
This whole Google will sell Android phones and compete with their partners is silly. It's just another developer phone like the G1 dev phone or the mytouch 3g/magic that they handed out to attenders in a Google conference a few months ago. I expect this specific device to be sold by T-mobile sometime in the near future under a different name.

@kris120890
Yeah, this plus a partnership with Verizon.
Although I always thought that webos is designed primarily for power users, with the whole managing cards thing that non-techy people find intimidating. But power users want speed and apps, which the current devices lack. Will the new version be as fast as the competition? We'll see.

@flextopia
Yeah, I agree. This is very talky and boring.

This whole "they should do an Apple-like comeback with a Steve Jobs-type visionary" is being used for every company that is having problems. Palm, Motorola, Nokia, Sony etc. It's getting repetitive and unoriginal.

Super Mario Bros may be 25 years old but it's 25 times more fun than Modern Warfare 2. Who will still play MW2 in 25 years?

Symbian is dead weight for Nokia smartphones. They should only use it for s40 dumbphones. They need to transition their high-end models to Maemo now, before they become even less relevant.

Verizon looks really desperate with so much iphone trolling.
However, these ads seem very effective. They are really hitting them where it hurts.

13.7 mm according to the lady in the video vs 12.3mm in its thickest point for the iphone 3gs. That's very nice.
I think it was a mistake to include a physical qwerty with this. Most everyday people don't need a physical keyboard, or find one intimidating. Plus it makes the handset less beautiful. The only people that bitch about the iphone not having a physical keyboard are nerds and suits. With a spacious 3.7 inch display, there is even less reason to include one. I'll wait for the keyboard-less version, thanks.

Microsoft let this happen for two reasons:
1. They don't give a shit about Sidekick. Never did.
2. It's a great opportunity to discredit cloud computing and Google services for the enterprise. Which is a threat to Microsoft office products.
I bet there are some IT managers who planned to move to the cloud and are freaking out after this incident.

This video looks like it was made by a homebrew indie developer, not a multi billion dollar company.
The timing and low quality of this video tells us that it is a rushed response by Microsoft on the Apple rumors regarding the multitouch mouse. Unfortunately, one company creates videos and the other creates shipping products. And don't forget that the argument that Microsoft doesn't build hardware, doesn't apply in this case. Microsoft is a well known developer of keyboards and mice.
(I'm writing this on a Microsoft keyboard)