Phone conundrums again

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I am actually pretty sure that my Blackberry is starting to send me signals of impending doom and death. Seeing as it is a tool I use religiously, every day, for what probably adds up to be an embarrassing number of hours every day (just emailing you fuckers), AND that it is a tool I carry around in my pants (can't be good for either of us), I am, pretty legitimately seriously, starting to think about my next phone.

I am not an "everybody needs a smartphone" type but for my own personal uses I am looking at smartphones only, mainly because work Internet use is so frowned upon (I can't even get my own email) (and without email I would pass away).

I am stuck back in the realm of Blackberry vs Other. The new iPhone looks very nice, but a) I don't like the thought of losing my keyboard SECURITY BLANKET and b) I still feel like iPhones are too trendy for my dumb ass. I adore the new Blackberry but still feel like I'm not getting as much for my money when compared to iPhone or Android. And I really am not feeling Androids right now, although I cannot pinpoint why (as I certainly haven't ever used one myself).

So if you're an Android user, or an iPhone user, please tell me things you like or don't like about your phone. And hey, if you like Blackberry, tell me why I shouldn't drop it just yet. MAKE THIS DECISION FOR ME KTHX

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Disclaimer: I promise, I am not a walking advertisement for any particular company, and of course, this comment only reflects my personal experience with Android OS and iOS. This is just my opinion, and I by no means am trying to speak for anyone else here. (Except maybe my mother because her opinions have been frequently and loudly voiced for me and I feel relatively safe repeating them.)

That being said...

My mother and I used iPhones for a little over a year and believe me, we loved the things to pieces. (Literally.) Since then, I have been downgraded to a non-smartphone (in an attempt to reduce the phone bill), but my mother, who, for work purposes, uses her smartphone all over rural northern Louisiana and needs access to her e-mail pretty much all the time, switched from the iPhone to an Android based phone (the Aria HTC; again, this was for phone bill purposes. The iPhone requires a $30 a month unlimited data package and for what she uses the internet for, we could use the 2gb package instead).

Neither she nor I (acting as her technical support most of the time) have liked the change. The Android OS is simply ... clunky, for lack of a better word, especially after having used an iPhone. The iPhone's OS is intuitive and far easier to use than you would expect (I had never used a Mac anything when I got my iPhone), and believe me, I would go back to my old iPhone in a heartbeat. And hey, my old iPhone didn't even have multi-tasking yet like the new ones do.