Well, I've been a Blackberry fan pretty much my entire life, had the Curve, then the Bold, then finally recently the Torch. The Torch REALLY let me down 3 times. I got the Torch, it was DOA (dead on arrival) Nothing was working, no boot, nothing. Took it to ATT store, had it replaced, was loving it so far. Then, it died too. Full charge, battery pull about 10000 times, nothing. Went back to ATT, had it replaced again. This was about a week timespan. The 3rd phone worked for 4 days, then started turning the wireless network off randomly, then finally died. I took it back and said I wanted something different, and was fed up with the Torch's. I looked over the Android and Windows Phones, of course they were pushing the iPhone, which I had previously owned and didn't care for. I opted for the Samsung Captivate, cost to me 149.99 instead of the 500.00. So far I'm absolutely in love with the phone, and with the Adroid OS. My only concern is battery life, I'm a pretty heavy user, browsing, music, games, email, texting, facebook, etc. We'll just see how that goes.