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Which phone do you have or specifically is there something about the web experience that "kinda sucks"? Starting with the Torch last summer the Blackberry's one by one have stopped shipping with the home grown java browser and switched to WebKit which has been tons better. While the browser can be better it is far better than what RIM has had in the past.

Disclaimer: I'm on the WebKit team at RIM.

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One of the reasons I ditched my Torch was I would often get "java.lang.NullPointerExceptions" dialogs when I received SMS's. Pretty bad from a user experience standpoint.

Also lots of other quirkiness in the OS drove me batty.

BTW, the RIM webkit browser implementation is excellent, just the horsepower of the phone letting things down. And I miss the physical keyboard!

8520

Ah ok,the 8520 came out in August 5th, 2009 and ships with the Java browser which did have some shortcomings. If you get a chance to checkout one of the newer Blackberry's or the Playbook you should find a much better browser experience.

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