Ditto, I'm not buying in at the rumoured price. On the upside, the BB specific 'specs' like the touch capacitive pkb won't obsolete quickly so it's easier to wait for the price to drop later this year. :) IF it's mostly stock Android, performance shouldn't take a big hit either longer term. AND, by then they'll have had some time with the device in the wild to further fine tune it. Win, win, win, imho.
I'm sympathetic to BlackBerry that it costs more to add things like a touch capacitive PKB but very disappointed that they're not pricing more competitively (again, if the price is so high). They should take the hit on the margins for the potential goodwill a competitively priced device would generate. That's a backdoor to good marketing, imo.
Oh well.