Does anyone know if this design flaw is going to be fixed with Sprint's 8330? I remember reading somewhere where a poster made a reference to how Sprint's 8330 had a minor change to the right side of the phone to perhaps prevent this issue from happening...but I don't know enough about the Curve's design to know or tell if this is relating to the dust issue...

The curve seems to be a great phone and I've had to search long and hard to find an issue I'd have with it. Though this doesn't hinder it's functionality, this is a problem I would find extremely annoying if it happened to my blackberry....

Yeah, happened to mine. I've just left it though. It's a minor annoyance.

cant compress air be used to get it out?

I seriously doubt it that it will be fixed. RIM still can't even fix the memory leaks.