They have those, seen many blackberry "sleds".
As to the email issue, I believe HTML email has disabled DoD wide, I know USMC has done it. Which means links and such wont work, you'll have to copy/paste it to a browser.
I would love to know where to get 10$ microsoft lol. I havnt heard of this, I am currently a little south of you guys, but i would like this for when i get back to the states.