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| BlackBerry Curve 8310 Smartphone Titanium (AT&T) | 
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| Brand: BlackBerry
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $0.01
You Save: $399.98 (100%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 53
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: 8310
UPC: 843163018655
ASIN: B000WP91XK
Release Date: October 11, 2007
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great phone, and lost of nice features but net service too much! June 25, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this phone a little over a month ago and have since had much time to play with it, learn it, and so on.
Pros:
Full qwerty keyboard makes for very easy typing for me to get things out as fast as possible. I have big fingures and this works pretty good for me.
Easy navigation: it's so easy to move from one program to the next and you can creat folders and more to organize the programs for how you want things to be
Right size: it's not too small and not too big.
Voice recognition: I recently started using this with my BT headset (H681) and wow, this makes things so easy, no pre programing like older system used to require. I can access just say what I want it to do and it does it. Sometimes it doesn't fully recognize what I said but a restating normally fixes that.
Camera: better than average quality as far as phone cameras go, but could be a lot better in my opinion. It'll do though for the time being until I decided to get a different phone.
Web: The browser does a great job of displaying full internet pages and you can switch from mobile style to Desktop style with a mouse cursor (needed for some pages). I like how you can easily select text and copy to the note pad or whatever else is needed. The browser is definatley setup well.
Cons:
Screen size: could be a little higher resolution/larger The could have definately taken up a little more space with the screen. yeah there isn't a whole lot of space to do so, but every little bit counts and it seems like they could have done a little better with this.
The ringer volumes: You only have 3 levels to choose from, low-medium-high. Granted the High is quite loud but the low isn't really that low at all. It's still kind of loud in my opinion. It would have been nice to just give levels like most other phones were you can have a nice rather low volume especially when you might be in a meeting or a library were you don't want a loud ringer at all. You can do it to the volume of the caller and such so why not the ringers.
Trankball sensitivity: ( yeah you can adjust it to be really sensative or not, there are like 10 different setting but it seems that when you get to the more sensative side it is a major difference in how fast the selection moves instead of being milder changes. Seems like they dropped the ball on that aspect.
Headset Jack: Not happy with the 3.5mm 4 contact jack at all. You can't just go out and get a headset to have voice conversations with people via a wired headset (99% of these headsets are 2.5mm 3 contact jacks. It would have been nice if a 3.5mm 4 contact - 2.5mm 3 contact adapter would have been included or atleast more accessible. No one seems to carry them at all anywere locally, can only get them online and then you have to be sure it's not and adapter to go to your car stereo.
Included headset: it's extremely uncomfortable in my ears, the ear pieces are huge! they bairly fit in my ears, I feel sorry for most women or other men who have smaller ears trying to use this headset.
Now on to the service comment made in the title:
AT&T currently charges 30 dollars a month for interent service with the BlackBerry phones (it's required if you get this phone). But then you have phones like the Iphone (though the same carrier!) and internet service is only 20 bucks a month. I'm getting ripped a new one for the next 2 years it seems, I could have just paid they extra money to get an Iphone and then saved that much in service costs over the next couple years! I'M EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED BY THIS! I wish I would have found that out only 30 days ago when I ordered this phone.
 I'd still rather have my pocket pc June 13, 2008
I've been using a Sprint Mogul pocket pc running the latest version of Microsoft Windows Mobile. I love this phone. Unfortunately, my new employer has a policy that all consultants must participate in the corporate blackberry program. I was somewhat concerned because I rely heavily on my pda to keep me organized. So I put in my request for my blackberry curve and hoped for the best.
After using this phone for a few weeks, I'm rather disappointed. I still have not figured out how to add a meeting invitation to my calendar. When I got the .vcs attachments in my pocket pc it was easy to add it to my calendar. I cant see any way to do it in a blackberry. Maybe one of the blackberry users here can help me out.
Although I can accept a meeting invite in outlook and it will sync to blackberry, if there is a large amount of data in the note of the appointment, it won't all sync to my blackberry. There must be a character limit of some sort. I didnt have this problem with my pocket pc
Editing word or excel documents was also easy in my pocket pc. I can't find any way to do it in a blackberry. This thing is inferior to a pocket pc in so many ways that I can't understand why they are so popular. A pocket pc does all the things that a blackberry does and more.
The blackberry is also more difficult to navigate. What would take one or two clicks on my sprint mogul takes several more on the blackberry.
The music player on the blackberry is horrible. Also I can't get my blackberry to recognize an sd card over 500 megabytes. I had 4 gig micro sd card in my pocketpc. It held all the mp3s and videos I wanted. Frankly I want a phone that is both a toy AND a business tool. The blackberry curve does neither especially well. I suspect that most of the people recommending the blackberry are people with limited experience with pda phones who are recommending what they happen to have used.
On the plus side, I like the web browser, it is more readable than the one my the sprint mogul. I also like that you can sync your notes from outlook. Thats awesome. I use that feature but it wont sync to a pocket pc using activesync OTA. The size of the curve is also impressive, very small and light. It also accepts a standard headphone jack instead of just the mini usb like many other pda phones.
Excellent product and great price May 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Curve is Blackberry's best product until the new 9000 Series is released. The price was originally 49.98 but than was reduced to .01 (Yes, one penny)a week later and Amazon provided a refund for the difference. I am extremely satisfied with this purchase.
 Bad choice. Crashes all the time May 18, 2008
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
It looks nice, but the buttons are very small and hard to press. Besides, they do not look like they will last for 3 or 4 months after using the phone. Does not capture video.. So??
The worst thing is the white screen. Very often, you are talking on the phone, you hang up, and here you go.. Surprise, you get a white screen vertical blue columns.. The phone still works though, but when you get a phone call, you are not able to tell who is calling.. So you either have to reboot the phone, which is long.. Or you have to wait for like 5 minutes..
Nothing like Nokia.. Canadians??? please.. they say thx to the ATM machine.
 Don't buy this phone! April 27, 2008
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
GPS is $9.99 per month subscription, PLUS a data plan from your wireless provider. You can browse the internet, but again you HAVE to have a data plan, or YOU WILL PAY BIG! Changing your ringtones and SMS message alert tone are DIFFICULT. There is no option menu to do this simple task from; You have to do it from the media folder. I am VERY dissapointed with this phone!
The camera is nice and of good quality. No video recording capabilities though. I upgraded from an OLD nokia phone and regret it.
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