[jbearamus]

well yeah i understand that problems happen but again with blackberry theres just one more system to complicate the whole thing if something does go wrong. vs windows mobile, webos, android, symbian, and osx mobile all you have to worry about is the exchange server.
and from my understanding of the outage it killed everyones email and web. i know the voice and text still worked because those systems run gsm or cdma, not hspa / evdo so they have nothing to do with the data side of the phone so yes while data dies you can still use the phone. the paperweight mode was a joke that didnt work i guess