A good friend of mine at RIM says that announcement will be made at The Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2006 in Orlando this month (May 16-18). Let's keep our fingers crossed.
I just tried a friend's 7105t suretype, and vs my 8700, the qwerty is so much easier. I know you probably need to get used to suretype, but wow, I struggled way too much and too often to even type in a web address.