Blackberry 8300 Curve - the next big pager?
May 30, 2007
(Update 11/07/07: See my blog post referring to someone else’s thoughts about the Blackberry Curve. In a nutshell: that person liked it a lot, but seemed to prefer her Treo over the Curve.)
Blackberry’s about to come out with the first model that’s targeted toward personal users rather than business users — the Blackberry 8300 Curve.
Like previous high-end Blackberry models, it has the usual list of features:
- Email and text messaging
- Advanced phone features
- Organizer
- Browser
- Expandable memory slot (using SD cards)
But it also has a few features that personal users — especially deaf ones — would appreciate:
- Smallest and lightest Blackberry model thus far
- Instant messaging (that comes with the Blackberry, instead of you having to look for and buy a separate IM program - nice)
- Camera with zoom and flash (2mp - much better than the earlier Treo cameras — but it’s not a camcorder, alas)
- Media player (videos, audio files)
- Blackberry Maps (but Google Maps for the Blackberry is so much better, I’m sure)
- Trackball (wow, that’s new)
- Tethered modem (plug your laptop into your Blackberry Curve and use the Internet)
- Choice of games, ringtones, skins, and other accessories
- Built-in 64mb memory (nicely-sized, but if you need more like I always do, there’s always the expandable memory slot)
Want one? Want one? It’s not yet for sale, argh. Gotta wait a bit more. Probably within a month or two, tho. Price hasn’t been announced, and so far only Cingular / AT&T will be carrying the Blackberry Curve — at least for a while.
See CNet’s in-depth review for more information, impressions, and photos.
May 30, 2007 at 10:23 am
Thank you for this information! Sounds like what I have been waiting for (if it is not too complicated for me to figure out!)
Lantana, Lantana’s Latitude
May 30, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Wow, that’s cool one. It does help a lot when you post a lot information about pagers, I learned a lot so far and it helps with my decision on which one to get. I currently have SK2 however I am so ready to put it away and get better one soon.
I’m not sure if Treo is even right one for me especially paying a lot of fees for IM, etc.
-SG
May 30, 2007 at 12:30 pm
at&t will release BB 8300 Curve tomorrow. good luck.
May 30, 2007 at 5:52 pm
It’s priddy!
My old 7520 looks pretty old-fashioned now.
May 30, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Did you see the Notebook for treo?
http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobilecompanion/foleo/experience/index.html
May 30, 2007 at 7:02 pm
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May 30, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Hi!
Geo, I’m an independent contractor with Sprint Relay and I own a Treo 700wx. IM is free, so is SMS and other features. Only $29.99 a month..no additional fees. What fees are you referring to, care to elaborate?
Thanks,
Hetty
May 30, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Ha, Bill, you’re the second person to ask about this. (The first was actually a friend via email.) I’ll do a blog post tomorrow about my thoughts on the new Foleo.
May 30, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Hi Hetty,
Oh I’m not aware about IM is free. I have a friend who I work with, he owns a Treo 700wx and he has been struggling to find free IM such as aim, yahoo, etc for over a month now. Only IM free is MSN, he said (he’s Deaf also).
Is there any information I can find regarding free IM that my friend might not know of?
I must admit I almost purchase treo 700wx until he mentioned IM charge.
-SG
June 2, 2007 at 3:04 pm
hi hetty-
i noticed you said IM is free, so is SMS and other features for Only $29.99 a month?! where do i get this as i have order form from sprint relay store wireless and its only said for 29.99 get unlimited email, internet and instant messaging BUT for having SMS/TEXT MESSAGING there 3 options 300 messages $5.00/month, 1,000 messages $10.00/month and unlimited messages $15/month. are you saying there really have free sms as data plan just like sidekick? i was thinking buy treo 700wx too.
thanks,
VS
June 2, 2007 at 9:42 pm
hi hetty-
i noticed you said IM is free, so is SMS and other features for Only $29.99 a month?! where do i able get this plan? i have the order form from sprint relay store wireless and its only said for 29.99 get unlimited email, internet and instant messaging BUT for having SMS/TEXT MESSAGING there 3 options for
300 messages $5.00/month,
1,000 messages $10.00/month and
unlimited messages $15/month.
so are you saying there really have free sms as data plan just like sidekick? i was thinking buy treo 700wx too.
thanks,
VS
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June 25, 2007 at 9:38 am
http://www.beejive.com is a third party IM software provider for blackberry device only. it can be used through data (internet), not throught SMS. i learn some people are very happy with beejive program that works great on blackberry. even it runs better than Yak-on IM program.
October 7, 2007 at 11:01 am
With Blackberry Curve 8320 the audio cable has three rings (left channel, right channel, ground?). I need to connect Curve to headset for c.i. but I cannot find an adapter that will help me do this. My two ring stereo cable does not work.
October 8, 2007 at 7:06 am
BorisB - wish I could help you with this, but I don’t know anything about this. If you figure it out, please let us know!
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