The Voq Professional Phone is ready for its close up

We're almost starting to feel a little bad for Sierra Wireless. Despite having an oh-so-fashionable fold-out QWERTY
keyboard, their new Voq Professional Phone which runs on Microsoft's Smartphone operating system hasn't gotten much love from hardly anybody apart from a few hardcore enthusiasts who've been able to look past the phone's ugly duckling exterior (we certainly weren't able to, shallow bastards that we are). To make matters worse we've heard rumors that coming out with a smartphone in the first place got Sierra Wireless into hot water with palmOne, since they're the company that made the radios for the Treo 600 (supposedly palmOne didn't appreciate the competition), and then they couldn't find a single US carrier willing to offer the phone to its customers, something which is generally the kiss of death for any handset. Anyway, yesterday the Voq finally went on sale in North America via a few places who are selling it ready for "activation on the AT&T Wireless network", though at least one is offering it unlocked you can use it with any GSM carrier.