Fair question - the short list:

Touch keyboard, I tend to type long messages and I really gave the iPhone an honest try - went exclusive with it for about six months and just could never do it.

- Message notification - the blinking red light on the 'berry tells me I have a new message waiting. If I don't hear the "bong" on the iPhone, I have to keep checking it to see if there are new messages, and then I don't know if they are work or personal.

- Central inbox for all my email accounts, personal and work, I don't need to constantly move "up" to a different account like on the iPhone. I can have them all mixed together, or individual.

- built-in spell checker. Nothing worse than sending off an important paragraph of message only to look back and see you made a dump typo

- 3rd-party integration for mail continuity software - we use MessageOne, which allows your Exchange servers to "fail over" to a cloud service. The agent that runs on the 'berry makes it so you can't even tell your exchange organization is in failover mode

- World Roaming - AT&T has an "unlimited" (ahem) plan for international travel for blackberry only, on the iPhone I've rung up $200 bills for a weekend in Canada.

- Timed profiles, auto-shutoff at night

- Battery life - the 9700 outlasts the iPhone by at least a day or more. One of the Blackberry sites did a great battery torture test on it to see how long it could play MP3 music to see how it compared to an iPod - 39 hours! They did a couple of different tests, they are a pretty fun read:

http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/1...00-play-music/

It ran 29 hours of streaming Slacker, that's pretty impressive.

There are other things that are more nit-pick - I get all my podcasts on the Blackberry now using PodTrapper ($10) because I can update them while on the road via OTA, unlike the iPhone which requires iTunes. I have a ton of MP3 files on a 8GB card in the 9700. It's no iPod or iPhone for music and video, but perfectly fine for podcasts and music, and the battery life for the 9700 playing MP3 files is better than the best iPod from Apple (~35 hours+, search Google for the tests.)

All the travel applications like WorldMate pale in comparison to the iPhone ones.

But I'm not bashing the iPhone, I like it enough to take it with me everywhere I travel, but it is a secondary device.