9700 versus E72

somehow or rather i am caught with my proposal to my DDG regarding the office phone. I asked him to allow me to buy official phone other than BB. My options are either E72, N97, TP2 or Epyx. BB certainly has its own advantage from the messaging capability as pointed out by DM. This service apparently does not suffer the need for a good 3G line with IM of the like MSN or Yahoo Messenger. If it is an office phone so better with BB then. I still dont like Storm though.