Mine's been on preorder from Amazon since September 19th. The way I remedied the $$$ issue was to sell some of my unused gadgets... N810, got soem gift certs, and now I even got the $50.00 Nokia rebate to look into so my final cost will be $70.00.

Go gadgets..

I think the OS as customized by Sammy looks like garbage. It's a merger of Android, which has its own style, and TouchWiz, which has no style. You put them together and you have a nice looking device with not so good looking phone. For example the drawer sliding from the left...and the mini player having its own standard widget size just doesn't fit right. I think this phone will call for a FAST makeover by XDA or Cyanogen. Then it will be perfect.

Down in Chicago but seems it's getting fixed.

Go to Chicago store and ask nicely. They have one hidden in the back. Don't be a hog though... play quickly or you'll have the device prayed out of your fingers (like I did :-) )

Thanks Rob of Chicago store for giving me the joy.

Then get Fonera 2.0. MUCH more versatile and does the same trick.

or better yet... straight porn.

@theefman

Or what's the point of getting a 3G phone if the network is over saturated with bandwidth hog crap such as iPhone?

Hmm... Magenta and Yellow... doesn't that turn into brown...the color of crap? Anyway I'm a bit confused but from all we've been hearing T-Mobile US is supposedly one of the subsidiaries that is profitable but what do I know.

Why would it make a difference where the money comes from???? We're talking about a purchase of a US carrier which would be fused into T-Mobile US, not T-Mobile DE. T-Mobile US is a subsidiary of a German parent company, which obviously at some point was approved by FCC and others to buy VoiceStream, Powertel and merge them into one company called T-Mobile US. If the government approved such ownership at some point, I don't think there was a clause that said "It's ok for Verizon to bid on Sprint but it's not ok for T-Mobile to bid on Sprint". If the US government would suddenly say that T-Mobile US can not bid on Sprint but everyone else can, then T-Mobile could file a complaint with WTO regarding an unfair treatment and uncompetitive practice.

Below is a little excerpt I found on the web..

Full article.. http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20081103/WIRELESS/811039989/t-mobile-usa-foreign-ownership-dust-up-145-much-ado-about-little-or


"The FCC has the discretion under the more relaxed statute to actually allow 100% foreign ownership in a U.S. wireless carrier, with deference given to acquiring firms located in countries — like Germany — that are members of the World Trade Organization."

Ken,

To clarify (UNFORTUNATELY) Verizon would not be the only one left. We have new players on the market.. Cricket, even though it's small, it also operates as CDMA carrier (yet on AWS band..1700 Mhz...but their phones still can roam on VZV, Sprint).