By not getting an iPhone for iPhone sake your shooting yourself in the foot!! i would have agreed with you before but my girlfriend got a blackberry storm and it was very chunky and not that easy to use, the touch screen was ok but you have to click the whole screen down (like one large button) to select things. She sent it back and now has a 3rd gen iPhone and i can honestly say its awesome!!

It does email just as well as the storm and you just wait till you see all the different applications you can get !!!!