CTIA is always a barn-burner of an event with phone manufacturers and carriers alike making crazy announcements. Also this week was a Web 2.0 event where yet still more companies made announcements. Here is my culmination of greatest hits. And by, “greatest” I mean the most that show traces of crack in their bloodstream. Here’s what’s on tap this week: The absolute very latest about the Palm Pre; The great Conficker no-show; Yeah!? It’s a Blackberry world.; and Hello, Moto.

Day two of CTIA in Las Vegas, Nevada and as is fitting the Palm Pre is leading the buzz with its announcement yesterday that it will support Palm OS and a new round of showing off of 3rd party apps. If you cut through that buzz, there are some unsung heroes that will be bumping into in your local coffee shop and on the planes, trains and if you carpool, automobiles. The Samsung Magnet represents the branch of the phone world that focuses on texting at Edge (2G) speeds. This phone though not officially priced yet, looks fantastic and is sure to be pretty affordable, I’d guess somewhere around the $49 mark with contract. The full QWERTY keypad looks nice and the phone itself will intro in orange. What is not to love?