This CDMA WinMo Treo is called the 800w and should appear in the next few months as a potential follow-up to the Palm Centro. Can you feel the excitement in the air?

Giz reports that the phone will have Wi-Fi, GPS, and EVDO and will use a mini-USB plug instead of a standard micro-USB.

Reader Will sent us this iPhone Knowledge quiz he put together in a matter of minutes using something called SomeTests.com. I figure it’s a Friday, you guys might be bored, and you might enjoy doing a test, so here you go.

AT&T has lifted the ban on purchasing more than one iPhone at a time, although they are requiring you to use a credit card when paying in the “West Region,” wherever that is.

But there’s a catch. We quote:

“Directors or VPGMs must approve customers who would like to purchase more than 3 iPhones via the exception process as defined by the market where the purchase is occurring.

This means someone in a nice dress shirt at an AT&T store can arbitrarily state that you can’t buy an iPhone for any number of reasons including, but not limited to, terrorism, your ability to dance, or sense of style. I look forward to reports of managers telling folks they can’t have iPhones “because it’s in the rules.”

From the hordes of rabid Mac fans to the cheering employees to the famous musicians and professional athletes, here are fifty photos from today’s Apple Store opening.

Mike Oh owns a store called Tech Superpowers. Guess where it happens to be located? Right across the alley from the new Apple Store. You may or may not have heard about the New York Yankees organization digging up a Boston Red Sox jersey that a construction worker buried under Yankee Stadium, but while that was making headlines, Oh slipped over to where construction workers were about to pour cement for the new Apple Store and buried one of his company’s work uniforms.

The whole story is here in the Boston Globe and explained in further detail on the Tech Superpowers web site. I ran into Mike outside of the big opening today and talked him into showing me where he buried the shirt. Good stuff.

The Ortiz Caper, Explained [TechSuperpowers.com]

Who knew Jennifer had such an advanced gadget sense? Or, and I think this the more likely situation, she’s secretly dating a blogger and he turned her on to Amazon’s angular e-book reader. Here’s another shot in case you’re a doubter (she’s even accessorized with a case).

You may have read that the Kindle is expected to generate more than half a billion in revenue for Amazon by 2010. They may want to revise those numbers now that supermarket loiterers everywhere will be seeing a picture of a nearly naked Aniston hefting the device. That’s called viral marketing, people.

Today’s Top Posts:

• Android vs. LiMo: What’s the difference?
• From all of us at CG…
• Samsung F400 music phone: It’s good because it’s Bang & Olufsen
• T-Mobile officially adds text message blocking
• Daily Crunch: Flight of the Touchwall Edition
• Atari to sell Wii Fit clone
• Hackers will track conference attendees’ movements using RFID
• CrunchGear’s handy iPhone rumor confirmator
• Fujitsu U2010 Atom-based UMPC will cost $1,300
• OCZ offers DIY gaming notebooks, some assembly required

This is pretty funny. If you Google the term “Bluetooth” with “douche” using CrunchGear as the main site, you get a lot of hits. Why? Because we’ve been leading the charge against this stupid fad. Because if you wander around wearing a Bluetooth headset, you are a douche, it’s that simple. You might think you’re being futuristic, but you’re not. They are the 2000s’ equivalent of fanny packs in the late ’80s.

They’re so bad, I’m actually on a kickball team named Bluetooth Fannypack. Really.

Don’t take our word for it, though, as Holy Taco has compiled a list of ten things that you think make you look cool but don’t, and a few entries are gadgetastic.

Like Bluetooth headsets. And the iPhone. And ringtones. Now will you please take that off and act like a human being?

Thank you.

There have been lots of stories of Comcast technicians screwing off, falling asleep, helping themselves to food, and other odd behavior, but this is just horrible.

Two Comcast vans were street racing in Huntsvill, AL, when one lost control and wrecked, hitting a car. Inside the car was three-year-old girl who’s now in a coma, and may never come out.

Comcast as thus far been mum on the issue, but eye-witness accounts say the vans were driving up to 75 miles per hour in a 50 mile per hour zone, each trying to outdo each other. One driver was not as skilled as he though he was and crashed.

The story’s horrible enough, but so far no charges have been filed. Expect reckless driving at the most lenient, or vehicular homicide if the poor little girl doesn’t make it.

What do you get when you take one guy with more balls than brains, an area known for crazy tornadoes, and a budget you wouldn’t believe? You’d get this insane armored vehicle made to be driven into a tornado.

It’s called the TIV2 — Tornado Intercept Vehicle, second generation — and it weights 16,500 pounds, has bulletproof glass for the windows, and extra armor everywhere.

What’s really clever is the movable side panels that shunt down into the ground when a tornado approaches. They prevent the wind from getting under the vehicle to make it airborne.

The best part is it’s being constructed for an Imax documentary about tornadoes, and will get us the first shots from the inside of a twister. I will see this when it comes out.