Blackberry Problems

I am awaiting the arrival of a replacement Blackberry Tour in the next couple of days. The left-right action on my Tour's trackball has always been a bit problematic but over the weekend it practically quit working left-right at all. Monday morning I went to the Verizon store and before I could a sentence halfway out of my mouth, the Verizon rep knew what my problem was. Unfortunately they didn't have any replacements in stock, so they are FedEx-ing me a new one.

It seems that the problem is defective trackballs in the early examples of the Tour. RIM apparently is aware of the problem and it was fixed in later examples.

Mac McCormick III