Ok, so I have a 9700, and I love it. I have played with my friends I phone and its ok. to me the iphone is a mp3 player on steriods and overkill for anything realy, although my BB is also. almost everyone I know that has the iphone gets it and plays games, and downloads realy useless apps (ok there is the odd good one) and hardly uses it as a phone.
I bought the blackberry storm the day it was released and have no regreats, the new storm 2 is even better and has wifi. now I had a few requirments when I bought my phone. the first being it had to do e-mail, and msn anywhere in the world. second is it had to be a good organizer and third it had to be a good phone. it plays movies, mp3s, games ect.. BBerry has a useless app store also which is realy starting to gain steam.
now for the people who have curves, bolds, ect there is no comparason to the storm. the storm has no trackball, has just as big of a screan as the iphone and is just as high quality. my buddy who has a iphone was actualy impressed with the quality of the storm playing a movie and the sound the built in speakers put out.
but my theory is if you want to play games buy a game box, if you want to listen to music buy a music box, if you want to comunicate buy a comunication box.. I have a good MP3 player,, I have a computer to play games, I wanted a phone and comunication when I was traveling so I bought a cell. I have never used the mp3 player function ectept to try it out and show people but I do have 8 gig of mp3 loaded on it. I have downloaded a few apps, games but only one useless one
its a level and I thought it was neat how it uses the accelaromiters and wanted to see how accurate they were. when I bought my Storm, the iphone was better for multimedia but the storm was a better phone/e-mail/msg unit, and I haven't seen any real improvment in the iphone in thoes areas, but the new one comming out looks good.
so I recomend sit down and decide what you realy need/want your phone to do. then see what will do it. BB has a few perks, especialy if you have a lot of friends with blackberry. I use blackberry messenger a lot, it is nice to be able to talk to people anywhere in north america for free and not use your plan, but you can do that in a wi-fi enabled unit also with even less restrictions.
Steve