im not a phone person by any means. I dont like to speak on the phone id rather speak in person. So phones have never meant anything to me. I broke my old nextel which is now sprint and they offered me the blackberry for free since i had never upgraded to a new phone after like 6 years of using there service. I went with the blackberry because just about everyone i know has it so i use the bbm feature a lot. I know a few die hard iphone fans but its never really appealed to me.