Its hard to understand why, with so many shortcomings, things that are very practical and day-in-day-out issues, the author remains positive about his choice to switch from the blackberry to the Pre. I have seen, but not owned one so miss all the little things that make or break a device. The device choices seem to remain the same, with a new contender in the middle:

[keyboard centric activity, little browsing] - Blackberry

[some keyboard, some browser] = Palm Pre

[little keyboard activity, heavy browsing, gaming] - iPhone