Well, the BlackBerry is coming along nicely. I’m gradually getting it to work the way I want it to work.
So far, the cool bits are:

Google Maps uses either GPRS or GPS (you can connect a GPS receiver with Bluetooth)
Yahoo! Messenger works off the bat and can stay connected at all times. Never miss an IM [...]

Although reconnecting the bluetooth USB dongle is a good workaround for Ubuntu, it is starting to get a tad annoying.
On the Ubuntu forums, it is apparently just since the Edgy release that this occurs. There is a workaround by removing the bluez packages – although the side effect is that you cannot add other bluetooth [...]