If you type fast like me, this darn trackball right above the T and Y acts pretty much like one of those touchpads that you bump and move your cursor around with.

So I’m typing the word "your" and find that I’ve typed "yo" and then scrolled back esven or eight characters, finishing the "ur" in the middle of some poor word in the last sentence.

Ugh.

So after 8 months with the 8830, I’ve finally developed a poor habit that I might as well not try to shake.

You see, this thing picks up more background noise than a $1500 lapel mic.  If I’m sitting in a restaurant and take a call, the callee can tell the following just by listening:

• - The song playing over the restaurant’s elevator music speakers
• - How close my table is to the kitchen
• - Whether or not the lady two tables away has indigestion
• - My innermost thoughts and feelings

Yikes.  Way too much stuff picked up by the phone.  So I’ve been forced to regularly hit mute on my phone every moment that I’m not talking.

Kinda feels like a walkie talkie.

10-4 Good buddy!