While I thoroughly love my Sidekick II and I never said I'd go back to Verizon and I'd stick with a Sidekick from now on, there are few phones better than the Sidekick II or III, and I've managed to find one on Verizon 2 weeks ago. I told Puff about this, and I feel bad about letting my fellow Sidekickers down, but I may switch to the following phone in a month.
It has a touchscreen. You can write in a journal on it with a pen. You can control anything that has a remote with that phone. Windows Mobile. Etc etc. That phone does just about anything.