My bb progression. Got a 8830 world phone at release from vzw, had a curve after that. (Iphone concurrent with bb for a year) Storm 1, 2, curve 8330, bold 9930.
tried out a moto droid razr m, disliked it and reactivated my 9930 until the z10 came out.
very impressed with bb10, stable after we got the 10.1 leak, love the swipe/flow. Hub obviously. Toast notifications were a killer addition in 10.2
so from this you get im a fairly diehard bb user, and I would bleed blackberrys if you asked my wife or friends lol
When blackberry for whatever the reason botched the cross platform bbm release that was oddly enough the straw that broke the camels back for me, if they couldnt get even that right I have little faith left in them.
I picked the note 3 up the day after launch and am throughly impressed.
Solid build on the phone, light weight, amazing screen, decent speaker. Love the s-pen features (picked up a note 8 a few months ago after bb cconfirmed no new playbooks.)
So there was prior s-pen experience there.
I can type as fast or faster than on the z10
grabbing messages from the shade works well for me.
amazing battery life compared to my last two blackberrys.
I would strongly recommend this phone if you are happy with the size of this phone