i am thinking of buying one.

Heh... why don't you buy one and let us know how it went for you? Apple hasn't released the iPhone here in Singapore anyway - and even if they did, I wouldn't go for it. I prefer the normal mobile phones - no PDA like stuff for me.

My company wants me to have a Blackberry and they provide it at no cost to me. It's pretty cool because it allows access to my company's email. It has a full keyboard and I can type on it... but not super fast. I heard that those iPhones don't have a keyboard. That piece of info is all I need to know. No iPhone for me... I don't want one. If they ever figure out might like to be able to enter some data maybe I'll take a look at them.

yeah it looks cool having a blackberry and all, but I feel that's really nothing more than a trick to get you to do 24/7 support why else would they give you one then?

With a blackberry you can do a lot of things besides checking email you can also surf internet that means with the keyboard you can do telnet so there is no more excuse to say you have no access or claim inconvienience.

So when you watching movie with your gf or just abt to have a "close encounter" *ring ..ring* whoops sorry honey gotta go to work.

24/7 is part of my job blackberry or no. I hear there is also an ssh client for the blackberry. And it works very well as a phone.

Indeed there are quite a few. So far I like the AVIDTelnet-SSH the best(it is not free being the only problem). As long as you don't expect to run a terminal based refreshing utility like TOP it works great!