Nice review. Makes me more impatient for its release on Verizon.

I did a hands-on with the Pre at a Sprint store. My first impressions after years of Treo 650 use:

Nice hardware! Fits the hand perfectly.

"Gummy" keyboard not great; keys not raised enough. Can be overcome.

Gesture area is awesome.

Intuitive UI, once you remember about gesturing.

Multitask is fast, intuitive, and simply awesome.

A tiny bit slow to respond sometimes.

"Weighted" momentium scrolling is too fast/light. I always prefer absolute input (keyboard shortcuts) over relative input (mouse and weighted scrolling).

Retained some classic design elements, like choosing appointment time from a vertical list.

"EDIT > COPY", first entry on every menu.

Small web text looks fine.

Haha, "self portrait mirror" stashed behind slide out.