Cell phones: i'm a homer looking for smartphone recommendations

i'm a homer looking for smartphone recommendations

i'm graduating with a finance degree this december. i'm lucky because i most likely have a job in a nearby big (relatively) city as a "financial services professional" for a massmutual sales company which basically means i'll be selling life insurance and also acting as a full service CFP- depending on which one i sell more of.

i'm excited and currently looking for a phone to get when i move out of my parents house early next year. i need something with great internet, email- all that. There's lots of great phones for that out there but one thing i really want is some good sales apps to keep up with clients and keep myself organized.

the phone that i know will work is the iphone. i would pretty much pick it and call it a day except for one thing: while at&t does have 3g coverage in the aforementioned big city, it only has edge in my hometown where i could potentially have many clients to visit with. i've used an iphone on the edge network and it's definitely something i'd like to avoid.

verizon does have 3g in my hometown so i've looked around for a comparable smartphone for verizon (with tons of apps for sales and other such things). the front runner right now is the Motorola Droid- i love the screen and i've heard that android has just as many good apps as the iphone. i've thought about blackberry but i like the touchscreen+physical qwerty keyboard combo of the droid.

i'm sure tons of topics are created around about this topic (this is obviously my first post here) but i wanted to get some advice for my needs in particular. thank you for any advice.