need a new phone

I am in the market for a new phone, and have been trying to decide what I want.

These are the features I definitely want:

*full keyboard
*decent camera
*good predictive text & T1
*long battery life
*durable
*good reception
*Bluetooth-enabled
*decent web browser
*integrates with GCal
*a few decent games

I am pretty sure I don't care about:

*streaming video
*streaming audio
*audio playback (battery life is a big deal, and I'd prefer to use an iPod & a phone than deplete phone battery)

The list of options is overwhelming and somewhat irritating.

I loathe handset exclusivity. The whole bullshit about not being able to get X phone on Y carrier is utterly stupid, and makes me almost wish I could avoid the whole issue entirely. I'm on Sprint right now, but my reception is painfully bad at my house. I can't tell if that's due to the age of both of our phones, or if it's actually a Sprint problem. If it's the latter, I'd rather switch carriers than continue to deal. Still, that's a giant pain in the ass and I'd prefer not to if it's actually just a problem with my phone.

Pretty much anything will be an improvement over my current phone - which I like a lot, but it's 3 years old and thus lacks a lot of the features I'd like, not to mention the degrading reception.

The keyboard is pretty non-negotiable. I've tried using the keypad of an iPhone, and it doesn't work very well for me. I realize that partly this is a learning curve, but it's also the fact that I like to press keys with my thumbs, and my thumbs have long nails, and nails can't press keys on an iPhone. I guess most people would never say this, but I actually really miss Palm Graffiti and the stylus.

Then again, the App Market for the iPhone is really attractive. I'd like to be able to use Yelp on my phone easily. Do I even need an app for that, though? Don't they have a mobile version of their website I can use with a decent phone browser?

Operating system is another issue. A lot of smartphones seem to be on Windows Mobile. I'm not an utter MicroSoft hater, but I'm also not a fan. Just how bad is Windows Mobile, anyways?

So... that leaves me pretty up in the air. I carry a BlackBerry for work already, and I am pondering getting one for personal use. At least the OS would be familiar. They do seem to have what I'm looking for, and there's a wide range available on my current carrier and also AT&T (the other carrier I am most seriously considering, for several reasons). I don't know, though. They're a little ...stodgy. Carrying two BlackBerry phones seems kind of silly too, but then I'd hate to get used to a feature I really like on my work phone and lose my job and be stuck with a personal phone lacking that feature.

ARGH. I am really not a gadget person. I enjoy shopping for clothes or groceries, but shopping for a device to cyborg with is mostly very frustrating, overwhelming and disempowering. A phone becomes a part of your brain, an immediate access point and memory store and connection to everything outside of you. Getting a new one and finding it doesn't work with your head is an almost painful experience, and yet there's really no way to try before you buy. Playing with a phone for 5 minutes in the store is not at all a good prediction of how well it will work in one's life, and while I realize you can often return something, the experience of "moving in" with setting things up and transferring contacts is so onerous as to be a total disincentive to do anything but live with whatever you don't like and just feel grumpy for a while.

Bleah.

Got any phone review sites you really like and can refer me to? I'm not really looking for personal reviews, but if you have strong opinions on phones, carriers or phone operating systems, I'm happy to hear those too.