Honestly, get the iphone if those are your two choices. I owned a blackberry 9000 for 2 years and I got tired of it having NO apps. There is absolutely no worthwhile apps for the blackberry. Also, RIM doesn't know how to innovate with their design, the 9700 has specs from last gen phones, all new phones are so much faster and better at mostly everything. RIM phones are not moving forward at all. The best thing about blackberry's is that they have the best keyboards, i can type without looking on my bberry and im very fast at it too. I personally am going to wait for the windows phone 7 series that come out later this year, but if you want a new phone already on then go with the iPhone.