I'm watching "BlackBerry". I like this movie, as I loved those devices. I had a Pearl, a Curve and a Bold. I sold the Pearl and the bold but I still have the Curve, as it's been my favourite one.
While I didn't love the centralization of the services (and the fact that their servers knew my IMAP password), those were solid and reliable devices.
While technology has advanced, I think we lost much of their convenience. Battery life, for example, is totally incomparable.