My friends think I’m some kind of iPhone fanboy, even though I don’t own one, but I recommend the iPhone all the way.
I have used lots of SmartPhones, running almost all of the important SmartPhone operating systems. I’ve never used Nokia’s, but I hear I’m not missing much.
Features are a really important thing too, but I don’t think the value of a fast, usable interface can really be undervauled when you’re talking about a device you primarily manipulate with your thumbs, and the iPhone is leaps and bounds ahead of everything else I’ve used, even the Android-based phones.
Virtually every other phone I’ve used, BlackBerry 9000, Droid, HTC Touch Pro—the interface was clunky at best, slow, and difficult to get used to. I have been able to use an iPhone since the first time I picked one up, and I don’t think one bit that it’s because the iPhone is in anyway less featured than the BlackBerry 9000. On paper, yes, but I’ve never phone the capabilities of the iPhone to be limiting at all.