BLACKBERRY is the choice

The original BlackBerry devices, the RIM 850 and 857, used the DataTac network. BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on e-mail. RIM currently offers BlackBerry e-mail service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through its BlackBerry Connect software.

You can use the Blackberry Storm for phone and text. You don't need internet to make it work. On the other hand, if you want to use internet on your Blackberry Storm, you would need to register the device for the special Blackberry Data plan as any regular data plan would not work on Blackberry Storm or any other blackberry Phones.

My blackberry always freezes on me, all i do is take the battery out, and then its fine, try it ! should work ;-)

No. It is from RIM.