RIM has piled on quite a few of fututuristic technological inputs into this all-encompassing smarpthone . Thus, you have the full QWERTY keyboard, the 3.2 mega pixel camera, and the mobile phone is run on RIM's latest operating system – version 5.0.

The Blackberry 9700 Onyx affords an internal memory of 256 MB and this can be easily expanded using an memory card to up to 16GB. Then there is the optical trackpad that is sure to leave users mesmerized.

It is only very recently launched. Very soon the network carriers here besides Vodafone and T-Mobile are bound to come out with some very lucrative price plans and deals. 

Now let us see how the Samsung C3510 Genoa compares with this latest member to the ever incrading Blackberry family.

The Samsung C3510 Genoa is the latest member to come out of Samsung's Genio series. The smarpthone obviously has the young easy going fun loving set as its chief customer base. Though this is not at all to state that it lags behind the Blackberry 9700 Onyx in any way. The  Samsung C3510 Genoa affords state-of-the-art technology that are completely cusotmizable. Of course, there is plenty of features that caters to your entertainment, visual experience and social networking needs.

The smarpthone's touchscreen has the kind of  high resolution and crystal clear display that is sure to remove any thought of other touchscreens completely out of your minds. It is so good that even the novice first time user will find it a delight to use. 

It may thus be safely stated that both the martphones compare very favourably with each other. Come to think of it, even the prices are similar. As you can have either of the smarpthones for free under contract deals for about  £ 30 or so as monthly payment from any of the network carries here.