The Verizon 8330 that I bought is my first as well, and I am LOVING it. I never thought I'd like a phone more than "old faithful" LG VX8300, but I think this is better. If it holds up half as well as the LG did, I'll be happy.
I just got mine (8320) a few days ago. Was smart and got the wife (8120) her's. It's as cool as discovering hi speed internet for the first time. I miss some features of my WinMo phone but so far I love the stability of my BB. I would have done a hard reset atleast a 100 times on each of our WinMo's. Welcome to the addiction.
Just got mine(Verizon 8330) 3 days ago and it is easily the best phone I've ever even seen. Coming from the Motorola Q there is no comparison. The Q did lots of cool stuff, but if you actually tried to do any of those things, it suddenly became an unstable brick with no battery life(and I had the giant extended battery). The Curve JUST DOES everything. And is as reliable as the simplest cell phone. I'm BB from here on out.