BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone, Titanium
Posted by admin | Posted in Blackberry | Posted on 31-12-2009
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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
- Up to 5.9 hours of talk time and up to 264 hours (11 days) of standby time
- What’s in the box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, 3.5mm headphones with microphone, 1 GB MicroSD card, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
Adding a fashionable touch to Research in Motion’s formidable arsenal of telephonic, PIM, and media tools, the BlackBerry 8330 Curve for Sprint is also the smallest, lightest BlackBerry phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. This amalgam of the svelte BlackBerry Pearl and the more business-oriented 8800 combines RIM’s long-valued corporate email and messaging platform with a host of advanced multimedia features, including a 2-megapixel camera and ste… More >>
BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone, Titanium
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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.
If it were my money, I would have bought an iPhone or the Google phone. I have tried them and they are much more elegant and user friendly. The Blackberry is crude tool at best, and at worst it’s a lot of frustrating scrolling and clicking trying to find what you are looking for.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is a terrible phone for a man to try to use. the keyboard is too small. the smart keys try to do too much for you and you end up calling people you never intended. I hate it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve been an user of cell phones from a long time ago, and I owned 6 different brands (Siemens, Nokia, HTC, Hyundai, Motorola & Sony Ericcson), and I got a new offer from my cell phone operator giving me this Blackberry. So far, after one month using it, I can’t be more surprised (and pleased) of the capabilities and the functioning of the cell phone. I highly recommend this Blackberry.
Rating: 5 / 5
Maybe the reason you’re looking the Blackberry Curve(BR) is your dissatisfaction of your cell phone system like mine. Perhaps you don’t care if it is Windows based program or not as long as it will satisfy the very core of your needs.
BR is not Windows based but I think it is better. I was not convinced until I switched from Palm Treo 700 Windows to Blackberry Curve. BR system is quick, logical, intuitive, and productive. During office breaks, I accomplish a lot in BR than in my Palm.
BR has many heavy duty extras like Internet, Free TV/music, Camera, GPS, Calendar, Alarm, MMS, Text, Appointment, Tasks, Word, etc but all of it has no use if the core need is not covered. My needs are push email technology, E banking, dependable phone, Wake-up alarms,& Contact management. BR fully covered it and who would complain for those extras? Seriously, while standing in the line for postage, grocery, etc, I watch TV. My network is Sprint and it is solid in its delivery. I used BR for more than 3 monts now and below are the brief lists that separate it from others.
Advantages
1. Email System – the best and when you have multiple email addresses, the more it gets best. You can send/receive email in 3 ways by 1) through Yahoo web site for example; 2)using your email addresses in the blackberry phone; 3) go to Contact Lists and send/read email directly from there
2. Email Set-up – no brainer and blackberry will configure intuitively in few minutes. Mine was ready to go in less than 3 minutes.
3. Contact Management – it is as near good as my Palm Treo. 1 field default for email address but the system will add more field if needed.
4. Screen Video is superbly rich – reading the text under the sunlight is pleasing and the TV video is amazingly rich too. In the dark, I used it as flashlight to see the theater steps and seats.
5. Adjustable fonts
6. One Stop Access – the missed calls, in/out calls, in/out emails, in/out MMS or text are in one icon folder. Very productive to quickly glance especially in the office time.
7. E-Banking convenience – easy inquiries for incoming/outgoing funds, pending/clear transactions. Transfer of Funds and Bill Payments are avilable but I did not use such option so far.
8. Clearer natural sound – the phone calls are clearer, seemed closer, and strong volume. From office/home drive, I just use its speakerphone (no wire or bluetooth) and it’s more than clearer to both parties.
9. History of the Contact – it’s the best. Whatever is not deleted, will show up the in/out calls, MMS, text, & emails complete with time & date.
10. Home Screen – Critical info are there like time, day, date, number of unread emails, battery meter, signal strength, calendar, contacts, email folders, speaker, GPS signal, & menu command. Your own phone number and duration of call are added info on top of above during your phone conversation. If emails/text arrive, sound/icon alerts will pop up to notify you even during conversation.
11. Handy shortcut – play with Control Key and push the Trac Ball to execute the copy/cut command in all fields.
12. Excellent Communications Tracking – the Contact’s in/out calls and in/out emails are tracked generously
13. Strong speakerphone volume – just 1 key stroke and it is available. Often times I don’t need the wire just the speaker phone and so far no complaint from the callers.
14. Small Computer – I used my BR to surf the net, to shop, yahoo chat, and instant messaging. I used it also to watch multiple free TV shows during out of town trips. I listen to its free radio music in the office too.
15. It is packed with practical multiple applications = Facebook, My Space, Voice Notes, Video, Music, Instant Messenger, Entertainment, Pocket Express,etc. I put-in the icons of my ebank, amazon, Google. It always remember my Garmin bluetoth.
Disadvantages
1. Battery drain – BR is designed not to turn it off to allow instant messaging. Mine needs every night charging.
2. Key pads are poorly lighted – hard to dial at night and to execute speed dials especially when driving.
3. The oral voice command instruction is partially Japanese lingo and then to English. It does not work.
4. The charger and the BR phone do not have a led light. You really need to investigate that your phone is being charged. A small arrow icon targeting the battery icon means it is charging – what a joke!
5. Commands are organized by icons and it needs patience to get acquainted. You’ll learn it quick because it is self explainatory too.
6. Users Guide Manual is incomplete but it is not needed anyway
7. One free boring game
8. Appointment Schedule – Big disappointment. You need to remember it because BR will display it only ONCE.
8. Additional Applications – I discourage you to add more apps for music/TV because it will considerably slow down the system. I deleted mine and be content with Sprint fast offerings.
9. SD Card – included is 1Gig HD card. I upgraded mine to 8 Gig (for $20 Transcend Amazon store) but the install took me 3 hrs. It will break if you forced it & you need 1 pair of small twizer. Is it worth it – not really.
10. Wire phone – my bluetooth is Garmin and occassionaly I need the wire. You can talk but the wire will not turm off the phone no matter how you depress the button.
Rating: 4 / 5
There are a few phones I will compare this phone with to prove to you that it is the best phone out there in the market. Since this is a Sprint phone, I won’t bother with phones other carriers carry because I am a Sprint user. Sprint has the HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Treo Pro, Palm Centro, Samsung Instinct and the Blackberry Pearl.
The Curve is an improvement over the Pearl because it has a better trackball in the center which doesn’t fall out after a few months of use. The keyboard is a full fledged QWERTY. Now, I haven’t used the other curves but there is something annoying about the way the icons are displayed. The Sprint curve however seems to have a better icon/font display. While the Curve does not have windows like the HTC twins and Treo, the blackberry comes with it’s own software which is much faster, has an efficient battery life and is very fast and easy to customize with every possible feature.
Remarkable Features – The call quality on this phone is superb. Sprint’s coverage is so good, I live in New York and I’ve traveled to Las Vegas with this phone and I must say the roaming was an awesome experience. When you compare this phone to Samsung Instinct, HTC and the Palms, you will find a much better coverage and I must admit sometimes I have to decrease the volume cause people can be so loud. My previous phone was a Sony Ericsson and I must admit the volume is approximately 225% as loud as it was on the SE.
Another great feature is how you can set up your email, you can have a whole mailbox dedicated to a certain email address and the same can have over ten thousand emails. I didn’t try more you see. For texts and missed calls, blackberry’s log is almost untouchable and there is no phone in it’s league, SERIOUSLY. While the windows phones have internet explorer, I find that the blackberry browser is faster and i love the mobile layout for the phone. So internet and texting experience is a breeze and I can be so fast on the phone.
Sometimes my laptop is kept right around but I just can’t be bothered. I can write long emails and I am one of those people who hate abbreviations so the blackberry really is the phone for me because I can type so freely. And oh, it was never easier to dial numbers on the phone. I don’t use voice dialling. I simply punch in the name using the name of the person using the QWERTY keyboard and it gives me the best matches instantly. Other than that, the blackberry messenger is absolutely outstanding. It is so easy to send small pic files, it auto compresses them into 7kb files. I speak to friends overseas and we prefer this over using gtalk. If you use yahoo or gtalk or even the great AIM, this phone comes with all that.
Sprint has this phone available for a singe user (individual) for a minimum of 69.99 per month for 450 minutes. This includes unlimited data, unlimited text messages, unlimited internet browsing, GPS navigation, Sprint TV, Radio and some other features. This really is a fantastic option and far better than what the other carriers offer. You can also set up google maps on this which when I travelled to Baltimore I discovered was outstanding.
Accessories/Features – The phone comes with a little leather case that has a magnet to keypad lock your phone, otherwise you can use the standby button on the head and put the phone into a battery saving mode where it wont be disturbed unless you’re getting a call. It comes with 1gb worth of data on a microsd card, which is expandable up to 8gb I believe. A earphone set without noise cancellation. Also an important USB cable, software to back up your data and numbers.
Unlike a lot of non-techies would think this is not a business phone or a phone which is dedicated to people who have nothing but boredom on their mind. This phone can be used by anyone from the age of 18 to 60. It is easy to use. Far better than the Samsungs, LGs, Sanyos, HTCs…
The one thing I dislike about the blacberry is the camera. It comes with a flash but it really falls flat on it’s face if you compare it to the iphone or any mediocre sony ericsson camera.
An accessory that is not included but is a must have is the black rubber skin for the phone. It can cost up to $20 but it’s worth the whole shebang. It so happens that this might need changing every few months depending on how miserly you are, I am one of those people who choose quality over price. I don’t mind paying anything for a phone, anything reasonable and I would stick with the Blacberry over any other phone.
An irritating thing about the blackberry is how it sometimes takes forever to start up. Sometimes it seems the power is never fully turned off. I still haven’t figured that out. WHEN YOUR BATTERY IS LOW, the phone automatically switches the radio off because it is so annoying when your phone turns off on it’s own. The 8330 never does that. It may take upto twenty minutes of charging to use the radio to make outgoing calls again. It takes a long time to charge sometimes. I don’t drive but I know it uses a USB charger / V3.
It is lovely to hold and well built. Get this with insurance because people love stealing this phone. I’ve had my phone stolen once so I learned my lesson. Another impressive feature is the 3.5 mm jack. The speaker is average and the voice recording can sometimes be fun though I do it when I want to sing and think im singing well. MP3 songs can be set as ring tones.
Overall, this is the best phone I have ever used with an average camera. But the phone itself is so good, I stop caring about the camera which by the way comes with a flash. I love my blacberry and am transformed for good. A two day battery life you will love, a good mp3 player back up when your ipod is not around, 1000 applications for this phone, excellent Sprint service. A must have for anyone who wants to keep abreast with technology.
I didn’t mention anything about bluetooth because every single phones comes with a bluetooth. If you’re getting this phone and don’t have a skin for it, I must say you’re not very bright.
Rating: 5 / 5