I own an iPhone for personal use, and I use a Blackberry Curve for work, but have used the Blackberry Storm quite a bit as well. I MUCH prefer the iPhone, for a number of reasons.

First, the user interface is much, much better. Apple obviously spent a huge amount of time working to make a user friendly, simple, and intuitive interface. RIM (makers of the blackberry) did not. I don't like the interface at all.

There have been a lot of knocks against the iPhone's touchscreen keyboard. But for me, once I got used to it, I could type way faster on the touch screen than on the Storm's click screen. The automatic spell checker on the iPhone speeds up the typing speed quite a bit, but when you have to physically type a key (as you do on the Storm's click screen) it slows you down quite a bit.

The browser is also a huge problem for me on the Storm. The iPhone has Safari built in. It's a real web browser, and you can see web pages the same way you see them on your home computer. The Storm's browser is just sub par. The Blackberry browser has never been very good, and though the Storm does improve upon it, the rendering engine still screws up the alignment of text and images, and it just doesn't show the web page like it's supposed to show up. The iPhone does all this seamlessly.

There are a number of other reasons, but those are the big ones for me. I would highly recommend the iPhone over the blackberry any day of the week.

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