The closest blackberries get is the Storm, which is afaik their only attempt at a touchscreen bar style phone. RIM really shines in making what I like to call the two-thumb-typewriter: a wide flat candybar phone with a QWERTY keyboard right below the screen. You could call it their
comfort zone. They're not bad phones, not by a long shot, but they just aren't really
consumer phones yet. Even the newer ones still seem to be designed more for dealing with simple emails, ad-hoc group communication, and sending off fast text only replies more than anything else.