I'd possibly be interested in making the transition from buttons to touch screen with this phone however the whole having to push into the screen rather than touch it suggests a heavy handed person will break it sooner or later - and for someone like me that'll be a given...
I hope the OS is properly looked at so by the time this is released it'll be a proper contender for all the touch screen alternatives out there...
P.S. If RIM read these pages then it might be a suggestion to sell these phones with a styles of some sort?