Digitec has now changed the delivery date to mid November and lowered the price to 759.- (which is about the same as it costs in Germany). I pre-ordered one now as they won't be cheaper anywhere else. This had better be good - this is definitely the last phone I'm buying for the next year or so (or my wife is going to kill me - and I think this time, she actually means it :-)

I temporarily felt tempted by the HTC HD 2 that's about to be unleashed in Europe, but as I swore to myself to never again buy a Windows Mobile 6.x phone (and 6.5 reportedly isn't much better than 6.1), I decided against it.


EDIT: for those who are worried about the physical keyboard: the phone also has a (reportedly excellent) virtual keyboard that does actually work in landscape-mode as well. As it's pretty thin (unlike the G1), the physical keyboard is nice to have but you don't actually notice it much if you don't use it.