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Blackberry Thunder might have Haptics for screen buttons
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Localized Haptic Technology - when you press on the Thunder's screen, it pushes in "just" a little bit (the whole screen is sort of like a big button) and you get immediate "real" feedback - you hear an audible clickety sound, and can feel a buzz in your finger where you actually pressed on the display.
Full QWERTY and SureType entry - hold the phone in landscape mode and you can take advantage of a full-qwerty keypad. Use the phone in portrait mode and you can enter data on a SureType keyboard. You will be able to choose/change your screen/keyboard orientation at anytime.
As we've discussed here before, having a flat-screen that vibrates or clicks after you press a button really isn't that useful. What you really need is a way to feel the button BEFORE you press it. Who cares what it feels like after you press it since the command has already been processed. At any rate, the folks at Crackberry are extremely excited about this.
The ability to switch between a Qwerty keyboard and SureType style keyboard is nice too, but what about handwriting recognition? What about a T9 keypad or Fitaly? As you know, Windows Mobile is still one of the very few touch-screen phone operating systems that has allowed adding any variety of innovative 3rd party software input methods. Will Blackberry follow suit and also allow custom on-screen input methods?
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