Any road warrior is only as good as the weapons in his holster. This past few mointhsI have been road warrior extraordinaire with my new wonder weapon of mass communications by my side through several typical eastern road trips.

RIM sent me one of their new Blackberry Curves to try out.

I took a bit of time to warm to the Curve. The main issue I had was the roller ball interface. There is a small roller right above the thumb keyboard that you use to navigate. I was partial to the older Blackberry interface of a thumb-wheel on the side of the device.

At first I found the roller ball a little finicky to manage and the hand position less than optimal. After about 3 days that faded and now I do believe I prefer the roller ball.

Initial set up of the Curve was facilitated by some new additions to the Blackberry Desktop software. There is a migration utility allowing you to move all your data, settings and preferences from one Blackberry to another.