Best CURRENT phones on Verizon?

Hi all, Im a noob here, I currently have a (very old and beat up) LG VX6100 that served me ok in its day. It's about 4 years old and now the housing is splitting! Believe it or not it's only my second cell phone since 1999 when I started (only for emergencies, I said, hahaha). Anyhow as you can tell I'm not one to be constantly exchanging my phones for the latest and greatest toy. Once I learn how to use it I keep it until and unless it doesn't work right! My first phone was an old Motorola bar-shaped phone, also on Verizon. Anyhow, basically I have read through a lot of posts here and it seems that none of the highly acclaimed phones that operate with Verizon are actually available through Verizon anymore. I read a lot of posts saying that Moto phones get the best reception with Verizon but none of the models mentioned in those posts are available. So my very long-winded question here is what CURRENT phones on the verizonwireless.com site would anyone recommend? The main things I need are better reception, fewer dropped calls (esp in my own freaking house!), good quality pictures for work, and I do want a qwerty keyboard as I'm a textaholic. I'm considering a navigation program but I could live without it. I would like a decent battery life or else be able to buy a bigger battery for it. Lots of memory for texts and contacts and pics would also be great. Any recommendations? One of my friends is pushing me to get a smart phone but I'm not so sure I need all of that. I'll just feel lucky enough to have something bluetooth compatible! lol I have an upgrade coming so most things on that site won't cost me extra (except the few most expensive ones). I just feel like I'm choosing blind at this point, reading feature lists doesn't help much. Thanks for any help!

--the new chick

 

I want to thank all of you who replied, your comments were very helpful! After spending quite awhile checking out the phones and reading reviews, etc, I have to say that I agree with leafsfan that the Voyager's touchscreen is iffy. I could seldom get the thing to scroll. The same seems to be true of the Samsung Glyde, and although I didn't spend much time on that one, the sales rep at the store told me it's one of the most returned phones they have, because the screen isn't responsive. I don't know if she may have had an ulterior motive for saying that, but it seems likely. I really did want to check out the Blackberries and the PDA phones but in the end the extra monthly fees involved made me back off, especially since the rest of the people on my share plan didn't want to deal with sorting out our bill...maybe next time. I also looked at the Samsung Alias, which my niece just got. It seems like a decent phone and she usually has pretty good judgement in electronics, having worked in a Frye's for some years, however the qwerty seemed a little quirky for me (ha! a quirky qwerty!). Plus I wanted the 2.0 megapixel cam instead of the 1.3. I actually saw a phone that had a 3 mp cam but it didn't have much more going for it. I really wanted to try going back to a MOTO but none of the current models at Verizon seemed to stand out. Anyhow, I decided to try out the LG EnV2. One reason I chose that one is because it reportedly has such a long battery life. Because I've had an old phone for such a long time, I'm sure it will take getting used to, but I'll try to give a thorough report on it when it arrives and I mess with it for awhile. Thank you, all of you, Buickman, Jodi, Leafsfan81, nKrypteD1, and Charlyee!