Reviewer: I love the BlackBerry Curve's keypad

Simon at BlackBerry Cool has just emailed me to let me know they've just posted a hands-on review of the just-released BlackBerry Curve (8300).

A buddy in the BBCool office named RogersDude69 likes the keypad. Really, really does.

"Actually, so far, the keypad is one of my most favorite things on the BlackBerry Curve," he writes. "The keys are not spongy like the Pearl’s or side-by-side like the BlackBerry 8800’s — they remind me of smaller versions of the 8700’s keypad: hard to the touch, but very responsive when texting."

The responsiveness is underscored by "the fact that you can still text with one hand like the Pearl, only now it’s full QWERTY!"

"So far it looks like it’s the perfect middle ground between what Pearl users love about their device and an improvement upon what non-Pearl users hated," writes RogersDude69, who promises more info about feature upgrades really really soon.