Like some of the pther people have said on here it's all really up to you. I had gone into an ATT store and I told them that I had the Pearl and I was thinking about switching to the Iphone. She said that they almost do the same thing. The difference is that on the Iphone you cannot send pictures via text it has to be through email only. It also does not have video capabilities, so if you wanted to do a video you can't. So, I stuck to my pearl and I told the sales person that they really need to work on those problems.