If your primary usage of a smartphone is email, texting, and talking on the phone, then the BlackBerry platform is still probably the best solution out there.  And in the BlackBerry family, the Curve is still possibly the best device delivered by RIM.  The Storm and other newer devices are more glitzy, but for no-nonse texting and email, the Curve is still the easiest to use.

Curve users quickly learn the excellent keyboard and can text and email in lightning quick fashion.  Typing a 500 character email on a Curve doesn't take experienced users much longer than it would if they had a full keyboard. ...