Blackerry Pearl

POSTED FROM INTERNT I love by Blackberry Pearl (8100) but a few things drive me NUTs and make the phone unusable.

Somehow, I keep putting the keyboard in a different mode and I can't figure out how to get it out (buttons are probably getting pressed in my pocket).

- When dialing a number in the phone application, the keypad will only dial letters - you CAN'T DIAL A NUMBER! There is no menu for setting the keyboard mode, so you have to know to hit SHIFT-ALT to turn on Num lock. Type ALT to turn off num lock.
- The phone will get out of multi-tap mode making me type two keys for every letter. To get it back, you have to press and hold the SYM button.

Isn't it ridiculous to not be able to dial NUMBERS on a Phone!??? SO FRUSTRATING!

To make matters worse, the documentation refers to the ALT key, BUT DOESN'T show what key that is! I didn't think my phone HAD an ALT key until I found this PDF with a keypad diagram (the ALT key is the lower-left button, with a arrown up/down on it; the SHIFT key is the 4th button on the bottom, with the ^aA on it).