i'm planning on doing that...

i'm the opposite, i'm so used to my bb keyboard i'm not sure if i could get used to using the iphone keyboard.

2.1 is out for the milestone (telus) version, upgraded earlier today, nice to have live wallpaper, and 9 home pages and other 2.1 goodies

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are there any leaks yet as to what telus is going to have to offer in the future? Im considering the droid as its telus' best offering right now, but if a Winpho7 phone comes out next week or something that isnt garbage im gonna be really pissed

what do you all think of the backflip?

the motorola backflip seems like innovative phone, but the fact that the keyboard is on the back bugs me, it's easily scratched/touched when u place it down, but it's a varies for people. It is only one of few phones which have the quad band 3g radio. Not a fan of the motoblur since it is @ 1.5 will take awhile to receive updates and a tad slow on the processor end.

There aren't gonna be WP7 phones at least until 3rd-4th quarter let alone next week..

yah i know what you mean, i dont like the design of that part either...

I'm hesitant to buy a phone with a slide/flip out keyboard, I'm thinking they would get loose after a while if i use it alot...

I was being sarcastic using wp7 for an example. I just mean something new and innovative or just something that does not suck in general.

since the shadow and droid 2 are supposed to launch this quarter

android 2.2 otherwise known as froyo seems to be where it's at
to name a few big features: full flash 10.1 support, open gl graphics improvements, automatic app updates, new JIT complier (apps will run 3x faster)

I can't remember where it was reported, but it seems that the BIG thing with 2.2 is that after it's released, android updates will be more far apart, the reason being that 2.2 seeks to fix the brand fragmentation with different phones on different versions of android. After 2.2, individual components will be able to be upgraded separately, meaning that phones will continue getting updates, just that updates incompatible with it's system limitations will simply be left out. Whereas now, a phone must be made to work with ALL the new components of a new version of Android before the update is released for that phone.