It certainly is not as bright and shiny as the iPhone, but frankly I LOVE blackberry keyboards. The OS was also amazing, it had honestly everything you need in a phone. You don't need youtube, facebook, an entire computer in your phone (as far as I am concerned). What you need was text messaging, being able to browse the internet/read snippets, news (if that matters to you), email, phone. It had ALL of that in a much better package then iPhone (minus the browsing that was still when dot mobi was a thing).