I say good for Verizon! This should be a sign of things to come, and only the beginning of RIM branching out. This phone was most likely built for the Verizon network, and them only. Just like the Bold was for at&t. From the looks of things, RIM is pissed at at&t for putting the Bold on such a back burner, especially when they had no plans of building a 3G BB to run on the GSM network. And when they did, at&t kicked em in the nuts and still haven't released it, while the rest of the world has.

Well Karma is grand, because now we'll see just how this stacks up against the iphone. If the build quality is there, and the virtual keyboard is very usable, at&t is going to have a problem. I use both networks (at&t & Verizon) and have to say that in the past at&t has held it's own with dependability against Verizon.

Not the case these days, while Verizon continues to just simply work great, at&t's network has slipped. 3G is a disaster right now! And because of an overload of iphone devices bouncing back and fourth on 3G and Edge, I believe it's affecting the whole network. Verizon might have a real winner on it's hands, and if RIM really did it's homework this time, everyone else will just have to deal with being out of the spot lite for a while! You listening at&t??