With the iPhone expected to be announced in a short week, many are still holding out hope that T-Mobile will launch the iPhone, but it looks like that will definitely not be the case. In fact, CMO Cole Brodman issued a public blog post today explaining the details regarding the iPhone on T-Mobile and how more »

Love, Gadgetell is a series of open letters sent to industry executives, where the Editors of Gadgetell offer friendly advice to the leaders of the companies we love the most. If you have any ideas for future letters, send them to tips at gadgetell.com

Dear Ed,

Well, looks like you pulled it off at CES with the announcement of the Palm Pre and webOS. But let’s not count it as a victory quite yet. You’ve got a lot more work to do to make this happen. The Pre and webOS look fantastic, but looks aren’t everything. Let’s review the most important things for you and your team to focus on leading up to the launch of the Pre.

In a recently published open letter to the Yahoo! Board of Directors, Carl Icahn makes things pretty clear, he wants to dump the entire current board. He is not very happy with the way the current board acted with Microsoft’s offer of $47.5 billion and feels the $33 per share price was a “superior alternative” to what Yahoo could do on their own.

“It is clear to me that the board of directors of Yahoo has acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft.”

In a long and thorough letter he present a list of 10 members that he feels should replace the current board. The new list includes not only himself, but also Lucian A. Bebchuk, Frank J. Biondi, Jr., John H. Chapple, Mark Cuban, Adam Dell, Keith A. Meister, Edward H. Meyer, Brian S. Posner and Robert K. Shaye.

While Carl Icahn is going after this with full force, even if he were to get the newly proposed board in order, there has not been any word from the Microsoft camp as to whether or not they would come back and continue the deal.

Keep reading to check out the full letter…