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When I asked - from the reasons I could pick up - the best I can figure is it's essentially due to network effects:

* they said blackberry was smart - they had the most active presence and support locally out of the smartphone groups

* the pin service of course

* the dataplans are most sane on blackberries and for a while the network operators only offered a dataplan to blackberries

* They just plain think they are cool. Even in England among the urban youth and erm hip hop crowd blackberries are most dominant.

It certainly was a revelation amongst many of how much of a world there is out there and how much it can differ.




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