I was a smartphone hold-out until last spring when my company provided them for engineers. Now that I'm no longer an engineer, I thought for sure I'd have to pay for it, but my boss agreed to take on the contract because of all the travel I do.

When I was an engineer, I used a VPN app and my email like crazy. I was able to log into our systems and address problems from anywhere and it was incredibly convenient.

Now that I travel so much, I find I rely on it a ton. Directions, check in and boarding passes, lists, reading, etc.

As far as iphone vs andriod? My husband and I got our phones about a week apart. He's got the Droid X from Verizon (mine is the iphone 4 from AT&T). He has had to replace his and call for service on his twice in that time. Mine has had ZERO issues.

Mine is a 16GB and I have hardly filled it (I don't keep video or much music on mine). Two of my coworkers just got the iphone 4S and wow, it's slick. It's probably got more stuff than I need though, so I'm happy with mine.