Alltell and Verizon are on the same team now, so you should have pretty good coverage. The blackberry is nice, I have the storm and freaking hate it, the battery life is pooh and the screen will freeze up all the time. On occasion I will get a text message and when I go to see it the screen turns white and the whole thing reboots. This never happened with my 8830. I am on a 1 year plan at work so I am thinking of going to the curve, it gets pic messages (big mama) and is still reliable like the 8830. The 8830 'world edition' had great battery life (a week) but no camera, so if anyone sent me a pix message I had to go to vzpix.com to view them (sucked).
I have been thinking about getting stoned lately but there is always so much BS involved obtaining with it that I'm just like "blah, whatever".