I just extended my T-Mobile contract for another 2 years and because I've been a Tmo customer for 7 years they give you a VIP status so I only paid 50 bucks for the newest BlackBerry Pearl 8120. The suretype keyboard isnt as good as a full blackberry keyboard, but its miles ahead of regular keypads. It took me about a day to get used to and within a week i was texting and typing emails with speed that rivals that of my computer typing skills. The integrated wifi helps indoors and the media player is alot better than i expected, its comparable to that of a fifth-generation ipod with album art and basic track info showed via id3 tagging. After wanting an iPhone for so long, I gotta say i think thisll keep me happy for a while.

And btw, I have owned a treo 650, but while it was nice, the pearl is much more of a daily phone and media/productivity device that overall is much sexier than anything else out there... besides the iphone

This happened at school to a kid who just bought a MacBook. He left it there overnight to do some raytracing rendering withmaya under windoze and when we got back in the morining the computer was off, the room that held the laptop was shut off by the circuit breaker, and on th floor was a puddle of cooled rubber and plastic.

I think the power management under winblows has something to do with this.