Travel Technology - BB keyboard

was sitting on my flight home JFK-LAX on Friday and my seatmate for the next 5.5 hrs arrives and sits down. He notices me on my BB and asks me to show him my keyboard/keys. It appears that his BB instead of the Y key being where it should (ie next to T as per the qwerty keyboard), it was where the Z should be - and vice versa. I thought it was weird and he said it had taken him a while to get used to it.

Anyway I have a cingular 8700 and his was a TMobile 8700. So was his a once off or is this known on the TMobile 8700s?

German keyboard (http://www.onepoyle.net/german/support/german-keyboard.gif), perhaps? Just in case you don't know where T Mobile hails from. (http://www.t-mobile.net/CDA/about_t-mobile,2,0,,en.html)

That's a QWERTZU keyboard and like the previous poster said; it's German. So he either got an imported unit (off Ebay perhaps) or someone at RIM screwed up:D

was sitting on my flight home JFK-LAX on Friday and my seatmate for the next 5.5 hrs arrives and sits down. He notices me on my BB and asks me to show him my keyboard/keys. It appears that his BB instead of the Y key being where it should (ie next to T as per the qwerty keyboard), it was where the Z should be - and vice versa. I thought it was weird and he said it had taken him a while to get used to it.

Anyway I have a cingular 8700 and his was a TMobile 8700. So was his a once off or is this known on the TMobile 8700s?

I had a T-Mobile 8700 and my keyboard was normal--as another poster mentioned, probably a German version.

You learn something new every day :p