Could do better... | BlackBerry Curve 8320 Smartphone Titanium (T-Mobile)

You could do a lot worse | BlackBerry Curve 8320 Smartphone Titanium (T-Mobile)

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	• BlackBerry Curve 8320 Smartphone Titanium (T-Mobile) BlackBerry BlackBerry, 2007 average customer review:based on 64 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Phone! - (from previous Treo owner)

I've been a happy Treo 650 owner for the past several years. But the phone has become dated and slow for my needs and my att contract was up so I started the search for a new smartphone several months ago. Nothing out there was doing it for me and I almost settled for a Treo 755p from Sprint, though it was just a faster version of the same old palm OS. I wanted wifi, but ATT doesnt offer much there. Love the iphone but its not ready for business use yet, nor is it 3g.
I've never owned a blackberry and have never liked the ones I've played with. Nor have I ever used t-mobile...always thought they sucked. But after playing around with my neighbors Curve with wifi I hit the buy button. He's a global marketing guy and travels all the time without any T-mobile reception issues.

What a great phone! I paid about $100 dollars and the phone was delivered in 2 days. Setup with T-Mobile was easy. The wifi works great with my existing linksys and the airports at work - no hassles.

The trackball is a little weird, but you can adjust the sensitivity to your needs. Everything on this phone is adjustable and you can hide features and icons you dont use. Using email on a blackberry is sooo much easier. YIM and AOLIM set up was easy to.

Call quality is great through the cell network, not so great through wifi but still good. Internet speed is as good as I've seen.

Ordering through amazon is easy and I figure I saved about $150 versus going to the store, plus amazon usually makes it right if the order goes bad.

I only gave it 4 stars because unlike the Treo, the construction is a bit flimsy and plastic. My treo went through the wash machine OK- i doubt the Curve would. I bought a $10 skin for it and that helps.

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Could do better...

I owned this for exactly one week before returning it and canceling service. I will say of this phone that I liked the interface and the little trackball, and I didn't have any problems with the keypad. Sound quality on calls was fine.

My issues were: 1) I could never get the wifi to connect to anything, not even once, not even while standing in the middle of T-Mobile hotspots. 2) I couldn't receive text messages from anyone not using T-Mobile, and a solid week of calls to T-Mobile could not resolve the issue. 3) They signed me up under the wrong name and the wrong billing plan - a minor issue compared to the phone not working right, but I was not going to risk going through two whole years of nonsense.

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You could do a lot worse

The title is a joke; right now I love my phone.

Okay so let's start with the confession: I'm a serial gadget lover but I don't need to be the first or own the most expensive thing out there. A phone is a just a tool, not a social or fashion statement.

I felt the Berrys were overpriced and was quite hesitant to go lemming and buy one. However, I wanted to retire my prepaid Sidekick and my contract Nokia 5300, the latter mostly because while I could hear people if I strained - missing every nuance of their tone, sometimes to my deep detriment - they often complained about not being able to hear me. That's just annoying and really unnecessary.

Most of the phones I see in the stores are overpriced cheap plastic things that will not stand the test of time. The Curve keys are pure plastic but the unit itself felt solid and the screen is bright and lovely. I was kind of boxed in on that front because I want a browser I can actually see, not a teeny square to squint at. Please.

I was all for the Pearl (so small and pretty! and on sale!) but the swervy keyboard gave me motion sickness and I didn't even want to try Suretype. I have enough stress in my life, thank you very much. I want a real keyboard, like my Sidekick has.

Enter the Curve. Handset is darn expensive if you are re-upping BUT T-Mobile's great service and really friendly 24/7 customer service is really hard to beat so I am staying with them for now. Tried out the Curve keyboard in the store - easy peasy, even with my redeculous long nails - and finally gave it a go.

So far the Curve seems worth the investment. In the past, when I've switched phones, along with the painful learning curve was a period of mostly using the old phone while figuring out the new one and feeling, um, slow. This meant two phones for two weeks. This time, it took ... exactly one day. And I never cracked the manual. That's just not for me. (If I can't figure most things out on my own, I don't need the phone.)

The calls are clear and I can make them LOUD. I can hear the enthusiasm or the hesitancy, not just the words. The speakerphone is simply phenomenal. I don't need a bluetooth hedset in my car because I just mute the radio and use that and leave the phone in the console. No pairing. No fiddling. No drug dealer ear jewelry. Perfect.

I wanted a Wi-Fi phone this time. The Wi-Fi connections are blazing fast for surfing, erm, I mean, checking a site. Bing, the page is up. Edge surfing is fine too ... but of course not as fast. However, you can get to what you need to.

I won't talk about e-mail; it's been done to death, except to say it is too easy to set up and you get it all, right on your phone. Ugh. As many as ten accounts, if you are a dedicated masochist. (I stopped at five. Enough.) So now I am thoroughly in touch, for better or worse. Do note that the phone DOES NOT show you your HTML mail with picture links; just the mail and gibberish links you must visit, and you are on your own after that. Thank goodness.

The music player sounds as good as my Nokia Music express.
Pretty impressive. Photo storage is only limited by your memory.
The camera takes decent shots, at least on the screen.

Again, note: There is a learning curve, no pun intended, and there are MANY MANY menus and submenus. Bring stale popcorn if you have it. The pound key is NOWHERE NEAR where it should be, and all of the keys are Lilliputian. You will lose your way in the beginning. But this is why the device is small and light in your pocket, and I think the tradeoff is more than worth it. Also, the ringtones are quite lame, but you can use any song you like so that's not a deal breaker.

I'm not a gamer especially on a mobile so don't go there because I just don't know. I do know that this is one of the few phones you can use with Hotspot at Home, and also as a modem for your laptop, although I do not use this feature.

I don't miss my old phones and that's a very strange thing for me. I have moved on, happily. Take a look; it may work for you, too. Check out the bright, clear widescreen display. Niiice!

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So far so good, but how am I paying for Wi-Fi?

I picked up the phone yesterday from the local T-Mobile store, and everything has been too easy up to this point. The people at the store didnt really know all the details for the Wi-Fi calling, and told me I had to do the hot spot at home. This turned out to be not the case as when I get home I just hooked up to the closest Wi-Fi network and started calling away. My question now is, how am I paying for my Wi-Fi calling if it isnt a hotspot? Ive seen the people mention the 9$ unlimited Wi-Fi calling option but I am not seeing it as an option on my Tmobile web page. I will try to call tmobile today and delve deeper...

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