Well, it looks like the 8300 still have that lovely ball that is the center of the phone's UI, and that totally stops functioning when it gets the smallest spec

Well, it looks like the 8300 still have that lovely ball that is the center of the phone's UI, and that totally stops functioning when it gets the smallest speck of dust on it. Is the ball of the 8300 removable, or is it like the 8100, where you are totally unable to use any of the menus (or most of the applications) of the phone for the 5-15 minutes that it can easily take to get the speck of dust worked out of the ball's socket? Also, nokia phones tend to be very liberal about bluetooth bonding; they'll export all their capabilities to anything. With my 8100, it will only advertise its DUN profile to my powerbook. It won't show that profile when I'm attempting to pair it with my nokia 770, which is pretty lame. Apparently the blackberry network is very fragile, and could easily be taken down by rogue bluetooth stacks using the DUN profile of bluetooth enabled phones, or something... Anyhow, I'm holding out for a nice 3G nokia, or maybe an android phone, to replace my irritating 8100.