My opinion about iPhone regardless what price on monthly plan. I have both iPhone and BB. There's Pro and Con to it. Let start with Con part on iPhone. If you need to type a message, you require to hold it with both hands and need to look closely to what you typed. The speed of typing on iPhone is somewhat slower because of no tactile feeling. That is the only con part whereas BB, you can hold it with one hand and use your thumb to typed, or with both hands and two thumbs, you will typed faster. As far as applications goes on both iPhone and BB, you can get more applications on iphone than BB, but BB is more of business focus hardware. You know iPhone, you can have lot of fun with it. That is the only big differences between the two. Talking about IM, or e-mail, texting and other, not much of a differences in term of speed wise, ease of use and so forth. If you get lot of Sorenson VRS signmails, you won't be able to receive it on iphone (only if you jail break it, you can) where certain model of BB can.