person like myself? i would like to purchase a good phone, i travel a lot so my phone needs to be able to switch from cdma to gsm and back every time depending on what country/city I'm in. if you have any other suggestions for carriers let me know as well. thanks

get one of the newer models, thats for sure.

They do look at the blackberry 8830 or go to this page and see yourself. http://b2b.vzw.com/international/Global_Phone/index.html

btw Verizon also has this thing where it rents phones out, but most people dont really like that. Still best carrier out there.