I work at RIM... so thanks for the feedback guys! lol. I can't say much else besides that so don't bother asking for anymore information.
I'm not big on BB either but I can't deny the absolute dominance of their organizational tools and keyboard. BBM is cool too. The durability of their devices are also often overlooked or taken for granted. I've thrown my 9700 at walls and on the floor multiple times just to show off its durability. No difference in functionality.
My personal favourite (and current) phone is the Nokia n900 (and I have a Bold 9700 from work). I am currently triple booting OS's on the device (Android Froyo, Maemo and Meego). It's also been made to boot Mac OS, Windows 98 and Ubuntu, albeit with incredibly bad performance. It has emulators for everything up to and including PS1 and runs games very very well. It can also natively run Palm Pre games. It's the perfect geek phone. I've also OC'd it to 900 MHz. The only thing that sucks about it is the battery life (even at stock clock speeds it's only 15 hours with any level of usage).