I just got a new Samsung Moment from Sprint to replace my Blackberry Curve 8330. The primary reason for the change was the Blackberry had a bad scroll ball.
I have had a Blackberry for quite a while (about four and half years) through work. I was used to the aging interface. As a messaging device, the Blackberry was pretty good (send / receive email, calendar, etc). However, although there is an app store, the Blackberry is not very modern. For example, the web browser is extremely slow and does not render most normal pages correctly to be usable. The browser is not very modern and does a poor job of dealing with Web 2.0 sites. A number of sites end up with the left side navigation bar being on top of the content requiring scrolling several pages down to get to the content. In addition, the Blackberry devices I have used have not had touch screen interfaces (although I know there are a couple that do now support the touch screen interface).
I have had the my new Android device and I love the interface. The interface seems responsive and easy to navigate around in. The on screen keyboard is also not very difficult to get used to (although I have a physical keyboard, I am trying to use the on-screen keyboard to see how it works). For normal conversation and email, the on screen keyboard works well. When entering non-words (passwords, industry jargon, etc), the keyboard is a little cumbersome to find the special characters.
I am just waiting for the Android 2.1 update (supposedly going to be released anytime from last Monday until March depending on which site you read). That will enable the use of voice to text entry in any of the text fields (as opposed to just using the keyboard for text data entry).
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