blackberry vs treos

visited a few verizon stores (retailer and corporate) in Richmond looking for a replacement for my new Blackberry Curve 8330 to not avail, none of the stores carried a samsung saga , not even a dummy phone, aargh! I have been a Treo user for the last 5 years and maybe more(I'm a Palm OS user since 1993, even a kyocera 6530) so I know what these devices are capable of and what not, the problem is: Blackberry throw me the "app 200 error" and some "java unhandled error" also after disabling java and scripts I still got the out of memory error, never had that issue with treo 650 or 680, anyway, I discovered (after the switch to BB) that the reason for treos for sudden reboots was some kind of buffer error, like having too many SMSs (which is normal for me) it looks like the routine to get rid of the old SMSs wasn't so good after all, it's supposed to erase old messages as needed. anyway, still in my quest looking for a phone which serves me well, I might even consider some treo with non Palm OS in it. what bothers me is that customer service and sellers at the stores were SO non versed in smartphones, even the managers, and BTW, when you are buying a smartphone, you KNOW you are getting a little computer, right? then why nobody mentions the cpu speed when disclosing the tech specs about those phones? I had to search in forums , google it and research by myself (although I know in smartphones not always the fastest cpu gives you the fastest phone) to find out at which speed was a certain phone running. I was offered a "world edition" blackberry to replace mine, replacing actualy nothing because speed is the same, not a good deal. best buy didn't helped neither, and I'm not going for the too commented iphone, not ready yet, i need the actual (real) keyboard for high speed texting, not a virtual clumsy keyboard.
thank you , more posts on mobile smartphones next time.