Phone Issues - Matrix reviews?

My three year old (Barbie pink)Razor cell phone finally bit the dust on Sunday.  Actually, it will make phone calls as long as I know the number, and it will answer phone calls and I have no idea who's calling.  The caller ID thing doesn't bother me, in fact it was almost thrilling to go "pre-ID" and just see who's calling when I pick up the phone.  I find it interesting for all the things I have in storage I do have with me here at my friends my hard-copy old-fashioned rolodex.  It got thrown in the box to come with me at the last minute.  Now I know why.

Sunday afternoon I found the local provider store for my service and found a phone that appeared to fit my needs.  ACK!  It's a LG "Shine".  I was not a big fan of the Razor - but it worked ok.  This hunk o' junk has frustrated me more than I ever thought a phone would.  As soon as the store opens this morning I'm off to replace this phone.  That little button in the center is driving me out of my mind!  (quit giggling - you're thinking of the wrong button) This button is supposed to navigate left, right, up & down.  It is also supposed to approve functions and to "send".  This jumpy, jittery, miss take happy button has me sending and searching and approving more wrong moves than I care to deal with.  When I think I am navigating, it thinks I am approving.  That one frustrates me the most.  Battery life?  What battery life?  To be fair two days of semi-usage does not fully determine battery life.

I'm heading in to exchange this "Shine" (up my a@@) for a Pantech Matrix.  The Matrix has regular arrow keys for navigation and a pull down qwerty keyboard - I like my texting.  Anybody out there have one?  Any reviews or thoughts you want to share?  I'm open to suggestion...