Isn't one of the biggest factors in thickness the touch screen? As you may know I am using a BB now and I have to confess, I have found the battery life to be far superior to the Treo. I get an average of three days of pretty hard use where the Treo at best gave me a day and a half. I have to believe some of that is related to running the touchscreen. My BB8830 is about half the thickness of the Treo650 I carried for three years, but no touchscreen. I will also say that because of no touchscreen I am using the BB as a one-hand device much more than I did with the Treo (because I have to) and it is doing pretty well with that, trackball and all. I certainly preferred the Treo's qwerty keyboard over the 8830, but even that is better that it was in the beginning for me.
However, I sure do miss the touchscreen and the familiar Palm OS. The BB interface is pretty spartan in many ways, especially the Calendar. I know there is a whole bunch of complaining and whining about Palm not updating their OS, but I was quite comfortable with it. It was like an old friend since 1997. Sometimes I think some people want change just for the sake of change. I just wish the stability could have been resolved and if it was, my company probably wouldn't have made the move to the BB platform.
For me, the reliability of the BB has been awsome. Not one reset, not one crash or lock-up in an almost two months. It just works. Very impressive.
<sigh>
SteveTaz
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