This is my 4th Berry and my second favorite.

I love the clamshell, since I like to open the phone and hang up on people with a ‘snap’.
The dual screens are great, as is the ability to scroll through all unopened mails, missed calls and appointments without opening it up.

The Suretype is a better experience than other Berry’s with the limited keyboards because the keys are that much bigger… However the single letter to a button keyboard in the 8900 type machines is far, far easier to use, and I will go back to the full keyboard again when this contract allow me.

Sure Type is OK, but since most of my mails use technical or business phrases, I find that I end up making many typos with the SureType that need painfully slow correcting.

The flip does seem to suffer from periodic crashing which I have never experienced before with other Berrys which is annoying when it occurs (about once every month or two).

But for a compact and tactile Blackberry experience, it is otherwise superb.