Still... everytime Zander talks about the phone, he says it will be "just a couple more months" before they release it. This time when he addresses us, he said a "few" more months.

This deal has been a year in the making... that we know of anyway possibly longer. It was supposedly going to be hear at the first of the year. We are about half way through this year now.

How long are they going to dangle the carrot? How long are we going to keep trying to bite the carrot? ummm... How long will the carriers keep saying no to the carrot?

Perhaps we're waiting for WWDC, iTunes 5, or some other announcement from Apple.

I'm bummed that this phone is not available now. If it was, I'd go get one.

I need a new phone and I want bluetooth isyncing. Rather than spend a bunch of money on a clunky razor, I'm gonna get a Motorola V551. That is unless you tell me otherwise.

If you wish to be pessimistic, all he said was that they knew when they did the deal which carriers would be interested. This doesn't necessarily mean they thought more than two US carriers would want it. But, since Nextel was purchased by Sprint, they may have lost one, making T-Mobile the only US carrier who they were confident they could sell it to. They may have asked the other carriers, as one carrier could be a little tight for justifying a new phone, and the carriers who they thought would not want the phone, did not want the phone.

This is not to say that they definitely do not have more than one US carrier with them, but just that his comments don't guarantee it. If you wish to be an optimist, you could take his comments as saying they have multiple US carriers backing them.