I don't think they are in the same category at all. The comments above from posters happy with their RIM devices are generally talking about a reliable phone that gets emails and has a calendar. The people buying iPhones seem to be attracted to games, videos, downloading music, style, etc in addition to (or maybe in lieu of) the above communication activities. That is great, and not a criticism, but it doesn't sound like the RIM target market.

My benchmark isn't CPU speed, which I don't understand the relevance of, but rather functionality for what I use it for.

Good link BGM.

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2007 X3 3.0si, 6 MT, Premium, White

Retired:
2008 535i, 6 MT, M Sport, Premium, Space Grey
2003 X5 3.0 Steptronic, Premium, Titanium Silver
2002 325xi 5 MT, Steel Grey
2004 Z4 3.0 Premium, Sport, SMG, Maldives Blue

I should have made my point clearer...the weakest part of the BB OS was their web browser which finally with BB OS 6, they have rectified with a web-kit browser. However, either the current version of BB OS 6 is not fully optimized or their CPU is on the slow side, the web browser rending is not a smooth or fast as iPhone's or Android's web-kit browser. Using the internet for business use is important. So maybe their CPU is fine, though anything less than 1GHz is on the slow side today. I hope with newer version of BB OS 6.x, the web browsing experience will be smoother. Anyhow, if you like BB OS, stay with BB OS.

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