Finish selling our souls to communism. Then we can all be poor together, and the economy won't really be bad, it'll just be what it is.

Needs a Capacitive Touchscreen and a Accelerometer to compete with the IpOD Touch.

I don't think they would have everyone sign up, hoping for a free Pre, and then release it before the winner is selected.

Everyone would wait to buy on the one in a couple million chance of winning a free one.

iPhone lovers only compare the Pre to the iPhone in an attempt to keep the iPhone relevant; The iPhone doesn't have a physical keyboard or the ability to stream video over the 3G connection like the Bold can. Also, RIM and Palm won't lock their phones into one crappy provider for years.

It seems that the Bold is a much more suitable comparison.

It's funny you say this, I have been saying the same thing in reverse for the iPhone. I work for a CDMA carrier (though, admittedly, we also have a GSM overlay) and I personally turned up our EVDO network last year. With the only 3G wireless in the state being CDMA, I've been waiting for something to be comparable to the iPhone for quite a while.

It has always bothered me that CDMA has the last pick of good phones. It makes sense though since GSM was adopted world-wide. GSM seems so open by comparison to CDMA - but not the iPhone. They locked the thing down and, even though I was excited about the product, I couldn't justify purchasing one - 1.) I'd either have to buy AT&T service or crack it for my 2G GSM network and hope the next update doesn't break me - 2.) Apple and AT&T would have to go to you know where and get frostbite before I would give them money for a product and service that they have manipulated into being exclusive when there is no other reason besides blatant greed to make it so. Consumers in support of a free/open market that purchased an iPhone should be ashamed of themselves.

Sprint's 6 month exclusivity is relatively reasonable, or at least consistent with other phone releases. They don't have service at my home, but it doesn't look like that is going to be a problem when the Pre comes out as I should be able to pick one up and program it myself for my own network.

Pure communism could solve our economic issues (you know, everyone equally sharing everything, including the work), though it has sadly been shown that communism leads to horrible gobs of inequality and corruption - and thus is not practical. If only we could all pretend to be perfect for a while...

Iphone, or trying to beat out the Palm Pre.

Fixing the world economy will be easy once the nuclear war ends. Those who survive will have mutant children that are immune to the effects of economic disasters.

"Rootkit hack taps Greek prime minister's phone" was the first post that I can recall realizing that my job was important. I guess you can say it is one of my favorites.

Thanks for being a great technophile site, and happy birthday!

The first post I can remember making me laugh was: When good toys go bad X: Elmo makes death threats to toddler SO we'll call that my favorite. Thanks for 5 years of great technophile reporting!