I also don't really understand this need to use J2ME for phones.  J2ME makes sense for limited-resources embedded devices like watches, traffic lights, and controllers in factories...  but modern phones have dual core CPU's and a gig of RAM.  Sure I could implement HashMap on my own, but should I really have to?  and what about all the libraries I've already written for desktop apps that I can't use in J2ME because of dependence on J2SE classes?  Isn't Java supposed to be about portability?  I understand that my phone isn't going to support AWT, but can someone come up with some kind of extended J2ME that at least gives me core classes like HashMap, for the sake of library portability to my phone?

I like the plain-old blackberry.  Forget the battery-sucking touch-screen nonsense.  You're not going to win when trying to compete head-to-head with Apple and Google.  You won't.  Please.  Stop trying.  It's a waste of money.  Every time you try, you destroy shareholder value.  Your stock will continue to be a massive short until you compete on battery life, keyboard quality, reliability, and ease of communication.  They will never be able to compete with you on these metrics.  Market these metrics, instead of letting Apple dictate the market to you.  Steve isn't even alive anymore, what are you afraid of?  What other phone on the market can last from morning until evening?  Seriously, how do iphones and android phones even sell at all?  You guys are asleep at the wheel, just put out one commercial about practical real-usage battery life.  iPhones and Androids aren't phones, they're toys.  I use my android phone to play angry birds or surf the web (until the battery dies), but the notification menu is too screwed up to use it to communicate with anyone.  When I use my blackberry phone, I type away in whatsapp, google-talk, msn messenger, or I actually type in a phone number and call someone.

Apple thinks they've improved the notification menu, but they still don't compare to blackberry.  I message someone from my blackberry phone, to their iphone, and don't get a reply.  An hour later I message again, and the response is "oh! there you are!  I saw your message, but then I couldn't find it again to reply!" .... and yet *RIMM* has a PE of 3.44 and Apple is soon to be a half a trillion dollar company.  Educate your consumers.

Blackberry already makes a good phone.  Just periodically update the hardware, fix the (numerous) bugs, reduce costs, lure developers with better tools, continue to court enterprise clients and core markets like Indonesia.  Stop pissing away money trying to be apple.