I am basing this when I was comparing a blackberry on verizon to an iphone on att with exactly the same features. Unlimited minutes, data, and texting to anyone and Verizon is not cheaper.
Also ,for the people who said that RIM was failing, they just ended up on the top 10 american IT companies.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/05/0522_americas_it/index_01.htm?technology%20slideshows
No. 3
Research In Motion
One company that has held up well against the Apple iPhone is Research In Motion (RIMM) . It’s the only company with an electronic devicethe popular BlackBerrywhose cultural cachet matches Apple’s. On Apr. 2, Research In Motion reported strong sales for its fiscal fourth quarter that ended in early March. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $1.9 billion, up 102%, from $930.4 million in the same quarter of last year. Some 2.18 million net new BlackBerry subscribers were added in the quarter, bringing the total BlackBerry subscriber account base to more than 14 million