Thanks guys.
I still miss the qwerty keyboard from my old TU... but the upsides of this phone are pretty notable. First app I noticed working like it should finally is the WWE app. For some reason on the TU, trying to launch the Active portion while a broadcast is going on would just kick back to the main menu. At least here it works.
But yea, I am really hoping to get root so's I can install Adfree again. That app helped a lot with the TU.