BlackBerry as good as a smart phone?

[thegraduate]

My woman just got a Blackberry Pearl, had to laugh at her at first, as all the accounts guys have em at my place. Once i saw it though, have to say, pretty wicked phone, and with all the facebook, IM, and mobile internet its not hard to see why you see a lot of kids with em. Very nice, they have a fun little music trivia game going about at the moment too promoting them, you can win stuff at the end like SD memory cards and MP3 tracks. not bad at all. http://www.princeorpretender.com

[Rocco Augusto]

My woman just got a Blackberry Pearl, had to laugh at her at first, as all the accounts guys have em at my place. Once i saw it though, have to say, pretty wicked phone, and with all the facebook, IM, and mobile internet its not hard to see why you see a lot of kids with em. Very nice, they have a fun little music trivia game going about at the moment too promoting them, you can win stuff at the end like SD memory cards and MP3 tracks. not bad at all. http://www.princeorpretender.com

I've played around with the Pearl and I loved how tiny it sleek it felt but I could never justify using their service knowing that at least twice in the past year they have knocked out service to all of their customers in the US. It is just uncalled for. At least with my Smartphone, if Microsoft explodes I still get my mail pushed to me ;)

I have also always found BlackBerry's data plans to be ridiculous when compared to any other phone on the market. If you are not part of a big corporation, it is almost insane to pay more than 200% the price of a Smartphone data plan. This I actually blame on the carriers, do we really need 8 different data SKU's for the same Internet? :confused:

[radar84]

i had and still have bb perl. its great phone. i had HTC shadow and as mobile windows phone it was much less reliable it hag very often, just like windows do i customiz shadow to th point i like it, but comming back to main thread.
i hav t-mobile nad for my data plan i pay 19.99. its sam as regular data plan. on my bile they put bb unlimited but i used it for shadow as well.
I use outside e-mail addresys one is my cable other is just like yahoo. Never had a single problem with it.
i got in love with my bb when i download opera browser. its best on i ever used. on the shadow i swap ie onto opera in first day.
other than that i packed whole dvd (that 70s show) on mini sd card and load into my bb and watch it. bb took nice bating as well.
buttom line i have perl pof 3 years, tested in europe, still working great, battery is ok, still use it with my secons sim card. Shadow screen broke in about a year.