rahmu wroteBlackberry are foremost targeted at businessmen. So unless the organization you work for provides you with one, I believe you're better off buying an iPhone (if you don't need multitasking), or an Android phone (the best on the market imho).
why? using this logic, if that was the only advantage of a blackberry, why wouldn't the company provide you with an android phone and subscribe you to 3G?
rahmu wroteNow as a manager, if you need to buy something for an employee who you need to be in touch with at all time, (and you don't want to bother into learning how to use the stuff), BB is the answer for you.
it's not true at all. companies that hand over BBs to their employees are usually companies who use BES and not BIS. BES comes with a lot of learning required. you have to install blackberry servers in your infrastructure, you need redundancy, you need security, you need maintenance, you need to configure the whole thing, ...
rahmu wroteBtw, anyone using an Android phone in Lebanon care to give us a review of the services?
i dual boot it on my htc, but i'm not in lebanon...
widgets are awesome, customizing your desktop and having the widgets you want just there waiting for you.
multiple desktops is also very nice
applications are well integrated with the notification system of the os. not as closely as in BB, just with notifications.
everything syncs automatically with your gmail account (which actually sucks when you use multiple accounts, when you try for example to login to gtalk, it automatically logins with the primary email you configured. i don't know if they made it possible to attach multiple emails in newer releases)
their app market already has 20,000 apps, so you'll probably find anything you need.
in my opinion, android is very promising, it has great potential. but it's still early, it's still in heavy development, and it's just now that the good features are poping out. that's why i think it's better to wait a year before buying one.
during the 1st half of 2010 there are around 50 new android phones planned for release, so lets wait and see. plus many companies will be customizing it like htc does, so we might see some creative stuff. the big ones are in (sony ercisson, motorolla, htc), so they will definitely not keep using android raw as it comes and will do some development of their own.
plus, google is releasing in january their own 100% google phone (the nexus 1, will be google branded, a true google phone). so google will definitely pump money and development in android like hell.
so for android, just be patient, the good things are still to be released.
