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For the past 5 years or so I've been a Treo person, and while I tried over the past year to move to another smart phone that included more fun multimedia features, everything came up short - until the Blackberry Curve 8320 came out.

Why I love it:
-Super fast trackball and navigation between apps. The phone book is smart. On the Palm if I started typing a phone # while in Contacts, the Palm assumed I was trying to find a contact and didn't start dialing if no contact was found. RIM gets that it should be an all in one experience.
-2 megapixel camera is very decent.
-Voice dialing and voice messages. Fun fun fun.
-Fast awesome browser. I'd tried a Windows phone earlier this year and it used to freeze up all the time.
-Alarms on Tasks! Imagine that. Something I had missed with Palm OS.
-Feels substantial in my hand - not too heavy or light. Definitely easy to type if you came from a Treo especially.
-Phone plan on Tmobile is $60 for 1000 minutes plus all you can eat email and web.
-Even my major "end user" sister was able to make phone calls without asking me how. Somehow the Palm OS and Treo navigation always stumped her.

What I'd like to see:
I am not an Outlook person and so I have yet to sync the Blackberry with a desktop client. That's kind of worrisome but hopefully I will figure out a solution soon. Except for a problem with the address book sync being broken I think I can keep syncing with Palm Desktop (as I had imported my Palm data that way, using the Blackberry desktop manager)

Today, I reveal to you the Blackberry iPhone.

Google Maps for Blackberry (with GPS integration, and my location for those without GPS)

Google Sync It only works with the Blackberry Calendar and GCal right now, but I would imagine they're going to extend this to the whole BB organizer suite. Hmm, iPhone doesn't really do this, does it?

2 megapixel camera (with flash), check.

Pocketmac, Synchronize all the stuff with your Mac. Supremely janky looking, but It's free and distributed by Blackberry.

Listen to music, watch videos, organize ringtones, view photos in neat and organized rows. Yes it is being done. Get a microSD card, plug the Blackberry into computer and dragdrop all these files into the card. Works like a charm, actually.

In a little more detail on Satisfaction:
Is the Curve a Mass Storage device?
How to Transfer Photos to a Mac from the Blackberry Curve

Opera Mini is great, you move the mouse around with the ball, click, and it zooms into the full page. Renders very nicely and optimizes data on the way to your phone. I'd love it if Apple would try something like that for EDGE.

Push mail with IMAP, check.

Telenav navigator is great is you want spoken directions in the car. Here's their Blackberry site.

What am I missing? iPhone. You are expensive and late with all kinds of great features.