Iphone and exchange public folders

I have a small company and needed to share contacts with my colleagues. It seemed the best option is having a hosted exchange account and using public folders to share the contacts.
The only thing is that I have an iphone and those folders are not accessible on it. I think you can on the blackberry so, I was thinking of getting rid of the iphone for blackberry but otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the iphone...
I can wait a bit so, my question is mostly if anyone has any idea that a future update would be able to access the public folders?
Otherwise, I'm not married to exchange so, if anyone has a suggestion how I can easily share contact and other info like exchange and have it accessible on my iphone and MS entourage, I'd be willing to consider a switch...
(btw, i see how in entourage, you can select a contact public folder that is a favorite and have it sync with sync services. But I also have my personal contacts in my local folder and don't want to mix them...)
Any suggestions would be most appreciated, thanks!

my question is mostly if anyone has any idea that a future update would be able to access the public folders?
Nobody here would know that.

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