Umm well lets see..i have a blackberry curve & it took like forever for my parents to buy it for me because our whole contract & stuff with verizon is messed up..but anyways it wasn't time for me to get an upgrade so my blackberry cost about $569 + the $30 monthly for internet which you must have on a smartphone...so it pretty much is alot of money..but totally worth it..im so grateful.
My Blackberry was free with the 3 year contract at 30 a month for he plan....you might want to do some shopping around...$569 seems pretty extreme.
around 600 bucks