Advice Needed : Blackberry Curve or Iphone

Im having a tough decision, I really need to get a smartphone for my business needs and I am torn between a Blackberry or an iphone. I have a variety of friends that I have asked for advice and it seems to break down like this. All my rich business oriented friends all seem to like the blackberry. All my bohemian, hipster, bandwagon friends like the iphone. I run my own business as a freelance creative professional and keeping in touch is very important to me. I also care about looking cool. What do you guys think?

If you need reliable push email notification (by reliable, I mean consistent notification of new email very soon after it arrives in your mailbox...), and reliable email delivery, I'd suggest the BlackBerry.
The unfortunate fact is that the Yahoo Push email feature isn't dependable today (perhaps not all users are affected, but some clearly are)... Users have also seen issues sending email (myself included)... where the iPhone indicates that the email was sent without error... but it's being dropped silently somewhere, never to arrive.
There are indications that Apple/Yahoo are working on a fix, but it's yet to come. I'm hoping the predicted 1.1.2 release will address these issues, but am not depending on it.
I moved from a BlackBerry Pearl to the iPhone. While I LOVE the ability of the iPhone to render HTML email (something my Pearl couldn't do.. and an HTML email was essentially impossible to read), the inconsistent Push performance has frustrated me no end.
The availability of supported 3rd party apps was also nice on the BlackBerry... but it looks like we could have this addressed with the iPhone SDK coming out early next year. I really miss having a password vault application (Splash Data's SplashID for example) on my handheld.
If Push Email performance isn't a concern, and you have no immediate need for 3rd party apps (or don't mind working around the limitation using an unsupported mechanism), the iPhone's a great choice. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone... but Push email is currently not a strong point in my experience.
Check out the email section of the iPhone discussion for further information. Search for "push". There's a thread there with ~100 replies discussing the push email woes some users are experiencing.

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