Maybe..but email is better on Blackberry and mine has a real qwerty keypad.
The malware thing is a draw though..
no, not really. Email works great on the iphone. Plus if i lose my iphone, i can track it online, send alerts and texts to the iphone, even lock it or erase it online.

malware isn't a draw, not even close. PCs are the most used OS so people write malware for them.