Upon recommendation from Michael Reyes, CEO of Hardware Geeks, I picked up the T-Mobile Dash, aka HTC Excalibur right before my just-ended vacation.

I had been waiting for a price drop on the HTC Universal (iMate JasJar), but decided to go the T-Mobile Dash route since the cost of the HTC Universal remained at around $1000, and our requirement was for 12.

The rest of my staff received the Cingular 8125, of which I also have a copy as my secondary unit.

I am impressed with the Dash. (Also in contention but dropping out of the race were the Treo and Moto Q.)

Thanks for the heads-up on the Dash, Mike.

She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed got a Star Trek Communicator, also known as the Cingular 3125 and is raving about it!

BTW, the guys at Imei-Check are the absolute real deal. After getting the run-around from T-Mobile in order to unlock the phone so I can use it on the Cingular network for a week, I contacted them online and, behold, I was unlocked and on Cingular in about 3 minutes. Totally professional and top shelf, unlike the tossers at T-Mobile.