Well, with the discovery of a crude but acceptable tethering solution, I ran out of excuses to avoid taking the Pre plunge. Every store in the area was out, so I'm 7th on the list at the local Sprint store.

The hacking community for the Pre is really coming into its own, and so far, Palm's been pretty laissez-faire about it. So far folks are tweaking the built-in apps, messing around with the device's internals, and all of the other fun things we used to do on the empeg so many years ago. I think it'll be a fun device to play with, and hopefully it works okay as a phone, too.