It seems to me that it is a design constraint dictated by a political decision from Blackberry.
Don't forget that there is a direct competition between BB and Nokia and recently Nokia announced their own competing email service while BB discontinued their support for Nokia business phones.

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- Battery life is poor (3-4 days max). This is typical of most 'smartphones'. Solution: simply charge it every night. I bought a charger for in the car, for the holidays.

- You'd hate the interfaces. Yes, multiple, because you've got a mirad of ways to start any application. They all suck.

Then again, being a Euro-phone the N95 doesn't mind SMSing. It also includes Nokia maps, which isn't as hip as Google Maps it does work disconnected. I tend to use it every so often, it isn't bad. I've had a few forced reboots in the half year I have the N95, not enough to be bothered about.

The normal browser (Webkit-based) is OKish, but you can install Opera Mini which I've heard is much better. Email client supports POP and IMAP + encryption, which is good enough for me. In all the rest (HSDPA/UMTS, 5MP camera) it's a decent boring all-rounder. Plug in a 8G miniSD card, and you'll toss your ipod even, it's good on the music side as well.

Then again, you don't want to email much with the normal keypad. If you email a lot with your Crackberry and seriously want to switch to a N95/96, get a bluetooth keyboard (or don't switch).

Biggest plus for me is being able to code natively for my phone, or Java or Python. Geekgasm!

P.S. thanks for linking.