Oh well shit I forgot about the Storm. Yeah I don't know what they were thinking when they released that phone, but it was a complete POS. I took one to Italy because it was a world phone (not that I ever made any calls on it though), and by the second day I wanted to throw it into the ****ing Adriatic ocean I got so frusterated by it. The keyboard sucked, there was nothing close to an electronic dpad built into it at all, so skipping around while writing out an email was MADDENING!!!
A good friend of mine had a baby while I was over there, I saw it on his Facebook status and tried to write him a conratulations message on his wall. It was just a short little thing, maybe 3 or 4 sentences long, but it took me like 45 minutes to type out with all the missed letters, trying to find all the punctuation symbols and everything (I will say that I was brand new to the phone, so that problem would have been resolved in time), and just generally fumbling around on that terrible keyboard... so anyways after nearly an hour working on my short congratulatory speach I tried to send it but hit the wrong button. The whole thing disappeared and I couldn't bring it back up again.
Oh my God I came so close to destroying that thing right then and there, I turned it off and never touched it again. Got back to the States and appologized to my friend for not sending him anything but explained to him what had happened. That was a truely horrible phone! But the other 3 Blackberries I had were rock solid phones that went forever on a charge and on which I don't ever recall experiencing any sort of freeze up, locking, crashing, or any of those kinds of things on.
So as far as say my 12 year old daughter or just about any woman I know (not very many women I've ever met have been all that much into technical stuff, most of them seem to prefer phones that 'just work' period) I would most definately recommend a Blackberry (except for the Storm/Storm2) to use. I will never go back to one now that I've fallen for Android, but I still have a lot of respect for their product.
Like I said, different strokes for different folks.