"The iPhone user manual is 123 pages... the Blackberry 7100 is 146."
A better piece of information is that in those 146 pages of manual for the BB 7100, there is NOT ONE GRAPHIC, not even a picture of the phone or a map of the keyboard and function keys! The iPhone's manual has full color graphicsk, some times up to 4 per page, on 64 of it's 123 pages.
The Blackberry's is almost all dense prose... two columns per page... and lists 5 to 15 steps long to accomplish most of the Blackberry's functions. The iPhone's has only one column per page a good use of white space to make it easier reading.
The other piece of information useful to someone asking the benefits is that most people don't need the iPhone's 123 page manual... and everything is accessible with several taps on the touch screen.
A manual comes with these things?
An iPod Touch has 90% of the iPhone's software. I seem to remember some paper coming with it, but I haven't read it. All the software was perfectly easy to learn by touching around.