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.

I have been getting calls from several PR agencies trying to get me to do a story on a new service for mobile phones. “Movies on you phone Steve, it will be huge!” So due to popular request, I will be happy to do a story on movies on your mobile phone.

Movies on mobile phones is without question one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard.

While this is probably not the publicity the PR firms were gunning for it is nevertheless my take on movies on phones. There is not a single thing wrong with the concept, there are dozens of things wrong with it.

Where to begin? Screen size, battery life, connection speed, cost, battery life, screen quality, battery life, did I mention battery life?

Do these people who constantly add features to our phones realize that occasionally we want to use the phone to make or receive a phone call? To do that we need the battery to be out of the red, and all these additional activities, listening to music, taking photos and watching Men in Black Part 2 suck up battery life leaving little for making an receiving phone calls.