Yeah, they are. *0* I could've spent hours in the phone section...
I've never owned a BlackBerry or any smartphone cause I've seriously never used my phone for anything other than alarm and making calls that were usually less than a minute (unless it's from the school, etc).
But the BlackBerry Storm looks promising, has a touch screen too. And there was this other phone I've seen on the commercials... by htc (
http://www.htc.com/ca/product/herotelus/overview.html).
Dunno if that's only for Canada... I've only noticed it in the last few weeks.