I was a longtime reader of Crackberry, but never a member. I just frequently found posts there that helped when I was having issues with my Blackberry devices. I just jumped from the clearly sinking H.M.S. Blackberry after four years with RIM (Curve 8830, then Bold 9700), and last week became the proud owner of a Galaxy SIII.
My Bold 9700 was just becoming too laggy and slow, with RIM constantly pushing OS updates that their older devices couldn't handle (I think I was running BB OS 7 at the end). I'd frequently have to wait 5 seconds or longer after waking up my phone before it would become responsive. When I went shopping for new phones, the specs on the Android phones were just head and shoulders above the available Blackberry handsets, and the day I was going to go into my local Verizon store to pick up a Droid Razor MAX, pre-orders opened up for the SIII. The choice was clear, and I waited an extra month with my Bold to get what looked to be a far superior phone. I got my SIII last Monday, and have since been playing with it, tweaking it, and trying to transfer every last bit of info from my Blackberry.
I have to say, I was a little disappointed that neither the Verizon contact backup utility nor Google Sync seem to be able to bring over the pictures from my contact list, so I'll likely lose those. And there are a few other things my Blackberry could do that I have yet to discover how to implement on my SIII (which I'll probably be starting a thread about soon, so I can get some help from the experts!). But overall, I'm very happy... this phone is so blazing fast, and can do so many things my Bold couldn't. I do miss my tactile keyboard, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to type as fast on a touchscreen as I could on my Bold (I was a mad typist on that thing!) but SwiftKey is making the transition a lot less painful.