[onetwo_threefour]

Just picked up the 9700 this week, I got the three-year acquisition picing on it by extending my contract even though I have 11 1/2 months left on my existing contract. I love this phone, it's way more functional than my Pearl ever was and I can actually type on it! I can't seem to get any streaming video like m.youtube working, although I can play video on bluemobi and ontinytube (if I choose the download option).

I found an awesome theme for the 9700 and curve2 (i think) at crackberry that allows you to have your eight icons across the bottom, but then the status bar at the top has room for three more icons, plus a number of areas such as the battery indicator and the time become like icons that you can click to open various functions, but it takes up hardly any screen space. If you have your calendar or messages icon highlighted on the homescreen, it shows you upcoming calendar appointments and the headers of new emails without actually having to open the application. It's called "Section 8" and I think it's the best business oriented theme I have seen. I was a little choked when I got my 9700 that there was only one theme on it and it wasn't like the dimension L theme I had on the Pearl, but this theme so much more than made up for it and it's free too!
(I know I sound like I'm shilling, but it was just a shocker to me how well this guy implemented this stuff.)

Anyway, other than the streaming thing, this thing is great.