Sliding keyboards are nowhere near as good as BlackBerry style keyboards.

I had an E71 for a while and the reason I loved it was because the keyboard was _always there_. It was never a pain to pull it out, wait for the screen orientation to flip, enter, close again. You just typed away.

The comparison to the G1 or the N75 with pull out keyboards was huge. It just added a mental road block into every action.

The nice part IMO about the G1's slide-out keyboard is that you get the choice of both worlds: immediate on-screen keyboard for quick input needs, and a nice proper keyboard (plus full screen space) for bigger input fields. Blackberry keyboards are painfully cramped by comparison...

Oh, I have no doubt it isn't as good as the BlackBerry keyboard. But it might be a good enough compromise for people who want something that's sort of iPhone-like but need a physical keyboard.

The Blackberry's not mentioned at all, which I think is a little sad. It's the only phone that's got a solid set of features that set it apart from the iPhone. Looking at the rest of these I basically see a bunch of me-too phones with no innovation.

such as? android is way more interesting than bb. much more owerful os

Blackberry's an enterprise product. It's still one of the most reliable workplace phones you can get. iPhone's trying to compete with it, but I think BB's still got the lead.

Android's got nothing unique to it beyond its being open source. It's basically a better Windows Mobile.