No-one went and bought a Palm Pre?

Bugger - I was hoping that someone on my friends list was going to go out and buy a Palm Pre so that I could live vicariously through them. There are no signs that the Pre is going to be picked up here in Australia yet, and no confirmed plans to bring it here yet in a UMTS version, either.

Now I finally understand what all those Australian people that were waiting for the iPhone were talking about. A release date for Australia couldn't come soon enough!