Ditching QWERTY: The keyboard on RIM's new Charm handset

One of the commenters responding to our post about the "Charm" (RIM's new, slimmer, more cellphone-like version of the BlackBerry) says that he's currently beta testing one and that while the predictive text function is intuitive and works fairly well, he still would have preferred separate keys for each letter (to shrink down the size of the handset RIM took a little bit of a design risk and put two letters on each key, using software to guess which one it is that you want). Still not entirely sure when this is coming out, but it can't be more than a couple of months or so.