I type WAY too much on the BB to use the non-qwerty keyboard. Like most Blackberry addicts, I can type on my keyboard in the dark. How the heck will we do that on the suretype keyboard? I personally haven't seen the Pearl, but from the sounds of the apps it's a step (awfully late?) in the right direction. The fact that my 8700 can't play my VoIP WAV messages is silly... that feature should have been in the OS a LONG time ago.