TigerDirect has them In-Stock now! One caveat though; If you order through tigerdirect.com you have no choice but to get an extended warranty. Ordering the from tigerdiect on Amazon does not force the warranty $899.

The Amazon.com stock didn’t last long and all Massachusetts and Rhode Island CompUSA stores near me list it as Out-Of-Stock. I ordered one from Amazon anyway and should get it sometime between September 11th and September 27th.

Thanks James. You’ve convinced me. I’m getting one next week. I hope the stock at Amazon holds out.

Don’t Panic- I always carry the case with me and the keyboard sticks to it magnetically so even if the device is removed from the case the KB stays where it is. It does not attach to the back of the device but it does stick to the front for protection.

I haven’t used it without a SIM but no reason that shouldn’t work. It would be a shame to not use that quad-band radio though.

I’ve got a couple of questions for you James. What do you do with the OEM keyboard when you’re not using it? Does it attach to the back of the device somehow? I’m thinking of using this as a data terminal with a bluetooth link to a VZW phone. Does it work without a sim card?

Ach. I posted the wrong link! Sorry! Can delete the prior post, jk/kev?

http://tinyurl.com/2mq6fl

No instant on (yet), smaller, but killer!!

I haven’t taken many ink notes other than to test it out. I’ve used the note feature in PocketInformant and it works as advertised and isn’t too bad. I do like how WM6 lets you take notes that are attached to phone calls which you can invoke while in a call. The note is thus tagged properly with the contact and the time and date of the call.

Small note taking I’d say quite fine as such a thing relates to the keyboard. Beyond that, two clicks on the screen or on the keyboard would get you into a new note, as I recall.

How is it for note-taking?

Matt–
After you got the iphone (twice… :) ) I gave it another look and a second thought. But the closed system of it is just a “no go” for me. I had a Q1 and then tried and returned a Q1U. Fun to use but they are such “tweener” devices that they just didn’t do it for me. If you are going to carry something that size you might as well carry a P1610 which is so much more powerful.

I have had my eye on this since it was first announced and now at $850 instead of $1100+ with so many excellent initial responses from people who have been using it… it just seems like it is getting close to the “go everywhere do almost everything” handheld computer.

As I wrote earlier- It is kinda neat to see the momentum this is getting- at least in this small community. It is totally different than what happened with the iphone and its overwhelming immediate “WOW” when announced.

Oh noes! $800?! I searched Google for prices and saw it around $1150 DROOL! It’s a very neat device, and at $800 it is gotta-have!

That’s right Dan. $900 at CompUSA and $850 at Amazon. I imagine it will drop to $800 or less from places like Buy.com once it starts to roll out over the next month or so.

I didn’t give it too much thought before actually trying it, but have to admit the GPS is fantastic, the 3G HSDPA is awesome and I am trying SlingPlayer on it now for a wonderful mobile video experience, and I just used it as my only PIM, note taking, and web device the last two days at Gnomedex.

It actually has very good quality voice features using a Bluetooth headset and calls without a headset only come in as speakerphone calls so you don’t knock yourself out trying to put it to your head.

Mike– at Amazon it is in the $800 range … so… get out your credit card… :)