BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone Reviews: Save 75 %

BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone Reviews: Save 75 %

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Smallest, lightest BlackBerry with full QWERTY keyboard features GPS turn-by-turn directions via Sprint Navigation

Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity; Sprint TV and Sprint Music Store enabled; access personal and corporate email

2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming; MicroSD expansion up to 8 GB

Includes: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, 3.5mm headphones with microphone, 1 GB MicroSD card, quick start guide.

BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone Reviews: By Natalie V. Galasso(Newark, New JERSEY) I am a very high tech digital girl, I go through about two to three cell phones a year due to the fact that I bore of them after constant daily use of them. Prior to the blackberry curve I owned a Palm Centro, in pink.. Wonderful phone by the way.. loved the touch screen. ANYWAY* Sprint offers this amazing unlimited everything plan for 99$ ( awesome deal! ) I upgraded to the Blackberry curve recently.. I will list the pros and cons.

Pros:
Beautiful, bright, large wide and clear screen

QWERTY Keyboard ( gosh I love texting, I cant use a normal cell to text on anymore after being spoiled with the qwerty keyboard)

Comes with leather case

Email Enabled

Has Pocket Express

Cheap Simply everything plan for 99.99 with sprint

Can Download AIm, MSN, flicker and a few other programs from blackberry.com

Cons:
1. no place to hang a cell phone charm from
( I felt a strange, slight withdrawal from the lack of a cellular charm. made me feel a little mental hahaha IT REALLY BOTHERED ME FOR ABOUT A WEEK, I had to find what to do with my old charms, I then just attached them to my key chain... )

2.Every time I restart my phone, my theme defaults back to the original.

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2 STARS

By D. Montgomery (Portland, OR)
This is my first Blackberry. I got it for free for work, even though I don't really need to be in contact that often.

This phone is like a swiss army knife with 50 tools. Technically, it can do many things, but it does none of them well. The menus are a jumbled mess of indistinct icons, and the drop down menus contain endless items to scroll through to get to the one or two you actually use. There are lots of options screens with lots of choices, but they are so disparate and poorly laid out you will always have to hunt around to find the setting you are looking for. Overall, the device's software seems like a project where several different teams worked separately, never talking to each other until the day before it shipped, when they hurriedly pasted it all together.

Navigation with the little thumb stick is ok, often not very precise, and frequently frustrating. The small keyboard is actually not bad, and I have big hands, though I hear others at work who have the same model complain about it. Battery life is also just ok. I don't make many calls and I have to recharge every couple days. Call quality with Sprint is good and I haven't had any problems with reception. The web speed is also ok. Email sync methods leave a lot to be desired, but I wouldn't blame RIM for that.

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BlackBerry Bold 9000 is a Global Blackberry messaging smartphone with quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G connectivity as well as Wi-Fi networking

BlackBerry Bold 9000 is Compatible with AT&T Navigator GPS turn-by-turn directions, AT&T Mobile Music, and streaming video from Cellular Video service

BlackBerry Bold 9000 has 2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth for handsfree devices; MicroSD expansion (to 32 GB); newly designed QWERTY keyboard

BlackBerry Bold 9000 is Up to 4.5 hours of talk time, up to 324 hours (13.5 days) of standby time

What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, USB cable, 3.5mm stereo headset, holster, quick start guide and user manual, CD with Blackberry Desktop software

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BlackBerry Bold 9000 Reviews
Well, this phone is much better than I thought. Much better. Excellent connections, super speakerphone, POWERFUL Wi-Fi capabilities (tried it at several locations - worked great), and it works great as a phone. As far as the criticisms many have mentioned regarding the battery, the BB Bold is far better than Palm Centro (to say the least), and it charges well with either AC or USB connectors. I've changed my mind about returning it now. And I will ask Amazon to change my mark to 4-stars. The strength of this device is its robustness and capabilities - not its intuitiveness. If you can get past that hurdle, you'll love the BB Bold.

Update: 17 Dec 08 - Confusing interface but a powerful device. Surfs Wi Fi very effectively if not intuitively. Perhaps not as delicate as I thought. Become "one" with the machine by memorizing several different nonsense commands, and it works. Blackberry could have taken some user interface cues from iPhone. Still stand by my marks for this device due to its inherent user-unfriendliness. Typical PC product.

I understand the excitement for this device - lots of technical capability, and it is a good phone. However, the form-factor & design leaves me wondering.

Design & solidness? This is an extremely wide device and the surrounding frame looks and feels like pressed metal. The back of the unit looks and feels like a vinyl top of a 1976 Chyrsler Cordoba. I've yet to own a phone where the back cover was covered with vinyl. Very strange. The control buttons built-in to the surrounding frame look and feel cheap.

Wet protection? Zero. I realize this phone is not a submersible communications device, but there are more holes in this unit's structure than several large pieces of Swiss cheese.

Software selection & soft-key buttons? Scolling using the center roller doesn't make sense to me. A touch screen would have been a better & more logical option. But there is no touch screen here. Regarding function selection and softkey use, it just doesn't make any intuitive sense. The user must become "one" with this device and it is not natural.

I will be boxing it up and sending it on its way.

On the positive side, I must commend AT&T for shipping this unit & accessories to me so quickly (within 14 hours from my phone call I received the package at my front door). Very impressive customer support by AT&T. Everything needed was included in the box: AC charger, Car charger, earphone/mic attachment (which is amazingly cheap, however), battery, new SIM car, and case.

Blackberry Bold requires too much work simply to select a function or make an adjustment.

This device reminds me of a 1980s series 286x desktop computer whereas the user needs to know DOS commands in order to quickly get the job done. Same here, and while it's not a desktop computer, this phone requires a similar degree of human-machine function in order to get the best use out of the device.

You make like it. But like I say, it's just not for me. T. K. Grimes