When I asked - from the reasons I could pick up - the best I can figure is it's essentially due to network effects: * they said blackberry was smart - they had

When I asked - from the reasons I could pick up - the best I can figure is it's essentially due to network effects: * they said blackberry was smart - they had the most active presence and support locally out of the smartphone groups * the pin service of course * the dataplans are most sane on blackberries and for a while the network operators only offered a dataplan to blackberries * They just plain think they are cool. Even in England among the urban youth and erm hip hop crowd blackberries are most dominant. It certainly was a revelation amongst many of how much of a world there is out there and how much it can differ.