This was the original TP design from 6 months ago, some european tp's are like that too. Nobody really knows why VZ decided to stick with the older design.
Its not so bad in my opinion, you get used to it after typing a few txt-msgs. If you cant get used to it then something is wrong with your brain
ADDITIONAL KEYS FOR XV6850 ONLY:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=453974
This was posted by Skywing, he was able to remap a few keyboard buttons to allow underscore, ctrl, left soft-button, right soft-button, etc...