One of the issues here is whether a cellphone is a cellphone or smartphone or PDA etc., but I'm not really sure how clear that line really is, especially in the cellphone buying public at large. We, by our membership in this forum alone, can be deemed to be more sophisticated than the general public regarding smartphones and we likely have a clearer view of what competes, feature by feature.

I know when I see a new model of a "smart" cellphone I ask the holder if I can take a look at their "cellphone" not at their "smartphone," mainly because I don't know until later in the conversation if they even know what a smartphone is. I would guess that smartphone vs cellphone could certainly be arguable but does that carry more weight than the name when applied to cellphones in general? Could a company call an automobile an Explorer? Ford uses it for their SUV. But is an SUV exclusively an SUV, or a truck or is it a motor vehicle that includes them all?

Even though the Black Pearl is probably small potatoes in the scheme of things I wouldn't think that RIM could overlook it, unless of course it really must be a smartphone.