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Have been using PDA phone's for better then 6 years. Have also had a BB. One thing that a PDA phone (smartphone) will do that a BB can't do is edit a word/excel doc. That may or may not be important to you. Surfing the web is much easier on a pda phone compared to a BB as well since they are almost always touchscreen.

I think e-mail is a little better on the BB device at times, but that just depends on which PDA device you compare it to. There isn't much I haven't done with the PDA phone I have used. Less power cables to carry around too since they are also a phone, email and mini laptop all in one.

Battery life will not be as good as BB though. Have a spare or charger with you.

But if you want something that you can at least read Word, Excel & PDF documents on, plus email, calander, Internet & phone you can't go wrong wtih most of the pda phones that are out there. Models are different by carrier though, so that might limit your options.