I agree with you Kevin, however, I think that Microsoft could improve on the current situation by making the left softkey user definable. I have always advocated that really personal devices like PDAs ought to be highly tailorable to a person’s preferences.

Take the infamous X button. Microsoft says they won’t force it to close applications because program startups from Flash ROM are slow. Fair enough, but how about letting the user decide on the trade off between a possible slow down in performance by letting them define the behavior of the X button.

There’s a reason for this. Everytime the Wall Street Journal reviewer Walt Mossberg reviewed a Windows Mobile device versus a blackberry, he would state that the Windows device takes twice as long to carry out common operations, and then give the example of deleting email. By changing this, it will force Mossberg to find another example. :)

Now how about they let the Delete key on my Dash actually delete messages instead of having to use menus at all…..

*sigh*

sometimes I reeeeeaaaally miss Chatter on my treo.

Personally, I’m thinking an archive button would be better. ;-)