As a Sprint ATS rep, I can (totally unofficially!) attest to the fact that it doesn't earn more than its share of tech support calls. We very rarely get calls on it at all. That does lead me to believe it doesn't sell very well, though. Calls on the 6800 Mogul are the majority of our PDA calls. The 6900 comes in second, and the Treos are close third. I think there are more Qs out there than Q9Cs, and even taken together they're both like maybe a tenth of our total call volume, if that much.

Heh, I took that training just yesterday. You can tell Palm wrote it, rather than Sprint.

As long as we're listing MS products that don't suck, how about Windows Server 2008? Apache it ain't, but it has most of the (relatively few) good features of Vista without most of the bloat.

The mobile, voice-activated version of live search is pretty sweet. And they did a good job on Windows Live Maps or whatever it's called, too.

Just to confirm again, that definitely is the phone.

I work for Sprint, and Palm just sent us a pre-release model that looks just like that, complete with the test serial number in the top right corner. Release data is supposed to be June 14th unless they change it again. Runs WinMo 6.1, looks like the Centro's older brother. Otherwise pretty much what you would expect. Nothing revolutionary, sadly, but nowhere near as bad as I thought it might be.

They still sell the 1022, but only to people who bundle their Dish service with AT&T. Well, they did until recently, anyway; I guess they don't any more. There are probably a lot of independent dealers who had a lot of those in inventory and won't be too pleased about this.

The others really are pretty old, though, and they haven't been selling those models for several years.

The 501 and 508 are older than any of the now-decomissioned models, oddly enough. They're a lot more common, though, so that and their similarity to the 510, which they do still sell, is probably how they managed to survive.

The probability of winning this is significantly greater than the probability of winning the lottery, I suspect. Also: want.

Nobody likes a blowhard.

Especially One Who Capitalizes Unnecessarily and Trots Out His Degrees To Make Himself Sound Important.