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| BlackBerry Curve 8320 Smartphone Titanium (T-Mobile) | 
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| Brand: BlackBerry
Category: Wireless
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Avg. Customer Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 25
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: 8320 Curve
UPC: 610214614957
ASIN: B000W79GQA
Release Date: September 24, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Erica Asahan fav fon February 21, 2008
0 out of 19 found this review helpful
Erica Asahan wrote:
Okay, this phone is crazy!!!!
I dropped it in the toilet and it quit working???! Help! I love it so much I wished they came out with it in 2000, It could have come in handy!!!
Best Ever Used!!!!! February 19, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
So far I've used the Audiovox SMT5600, Treo 650, Cingular 8125 and most recently the AT&T 8525 and the Curve is hands down the best of all of them. I've never used Blackberry before and its astonishing how simple and ingenious the OS is compared to Windows. Like me, most of us gravitate towards WM because we're used to using Windows on our PCs, but its mind boggling how much more efficient the Blackberry OS is. I wonder if the Mac OS is this much superior to Windows?????
Anyway, its smaller than all the phones above, has better sound and types easier. I was a little concerned about no touchscreen, but in my opinion it actually makes the phone more efficient - instead of always having to reach up to tap the screen you quickly get used to using keyboard shortcuts. The trackball took about 30 minutes to get used to but now its like second nature. Its also much faster between screens than the WM devices, probably because its not bogged down by such a GUI intense OS.
One of the most useful items is the All-in-One inbox - you can view your messages in the program that received them like in windows (ie go into outlook for email, SMS for texts, MMS for picture messages, etc), or use the more paowerful everything inbox that shows every message you receive in a single inbox - Text, MMS, IM, email from all your accounts and even voicemails. And the inbox is activated by the default button on the side so with one press I can see, read, and respond to every message I have received through any service.
The other thing I love is the type from homescreen. I'm not sure what they call it, but from your homescreen you can start typing any number or name and it will automatically look up the contact from your address book or dial if its a new number. The OS automatically decides if it should be numberic or alpha so you don't have to shift to use the number keys on the keyboard or go into your address book to look someone up. Then from there you can call, text, IM, etc. the person.
They've also incorporated a lot of what should be obvious typing features, like recognizing when you're typing a number versus a letter and automatically doing it instead of you having to press the ALT key. Or recognizing you are typing an email address and it does the same thing with the @ symbol so you don't have to look it up. It even has spellcheck for messages. I know these sound like "no-brainers", but the other devices lacked this simplicity.
Email was ridiculously easy to set up and has workied flawlessly from day one. Compared to WM a child could set up their email on this phone!
I saw that some reviews said the camera quality wasn't that great, but mine seems to take great pics, better than my 8525.
I've never written a review before but I'm so excited about this phone I had to speak up. Good luck!
The Curve is far better than a Treo!!! February 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had used a Palm Treo for over 5 years and thought I would never switch phones... I am so glad I did!
The Curve is smaller, much lighter, and has so many great features that I am really glad I made the switch.
I thought I couldn't live without the touch screen of the Treo but the trackball is just as easy to use and works great!
I now know why it is called Crackberry! It is worth the switch! :-)
Craig Kirsner, MBA,
Author:
The Art of Telling Great Jokes & Being Funny!: -)
gui February 17, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great phone I love it, I agree with the other 5 star reviews. I'll add my experiences.... WiFi voip works on my routers with no problem....EXCEPT, well for some reason the 8320 WiFi didn't like my routers broadcasting on channel 6, I switched the work router and the home router to broadcast on channel 11 (small problem).
I got the Opera browsers to load... I had to give Opera app all permissions for internet hook ups before it would load. After I set up email and our exchange server on our blackberries my very NON tech boss took to it with out a whole lot of pain. The gui and trackball are extremely well done, my boss loves her blackberry curve.
I use mailstreet for our exchange server, for another $10.00 fee they do real time push of exchange calendar contacts to our Blackberries. So if you need push exchange contacts calendar I recommend mailstreet, (I've been using them for 4 years).... google apps are also a nice plus the apps loaded easily and they work on the blackberry, great phone.
I tested WiFi on AT&T wifi at McDonalds it worked, smile. Kind of odd making a VOIP t-mobile call on AT&T wifi.... hum.(update I just rechecked McDonalds AT&T hotspot; AT&T lets me on Wi-Fi BUT NOT UMA. sigh so it looks like AT&T is going to kill t-mobile hot spot VOIP...at least at the Starbucks hot spots) I've tested the Mp3 player and used google's app Picasa to download pictures it works... and was fun to mess with, But our main use of our BlackBerry's is for business, not the fun camera Mp3 multimedia capabilities of this phone.
I do love this phone smile.
Great phone, bad software February 10, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I wanted to have a Blackberry ever since I saw the episode of the Larry David Show (Curb Your Enthusiasm) in which a suicide note is sent by Blackberry. Maybe I should have gotten a Palm Pilot, but after waiting for a phone upgrade for two years from T mobile, (which meant I had to buy another razor in September), I got the blackberry Curve. It has been a rocky road. There are many quirks you have to work out. The first and foremost is the default browser is set to T-Mobile, and I have the Blackberry internet service and not the T Zones feature. So, I had to reset it to the Blackberry browser. Call t mobile and get on the blackberry support line. Once this is done, you will find the browser works fairly good, but it's slow. You should select "do not display images" for faster reading of text. If you want to look a photos you can do that, but it is very slow, and in that case do not set it to "no images".
The desktop software is a nightmare, and this my main complaint. It takes forever to download and then remove and it constantly corrupted so you have to download and remove it over and over. This takes a lot of time. But you can get around the problem. If you take photos you can email them to yourself, and if you download the software once you can upload your music and later delete the software from your computer. It will sync with Outlook, but you need to software, so I solved that by using the Google colander instead which I can access online with the black berry.
If you are flexible this is a great phone. I can check my email anywhere, and reply with a real keyboard, and even post a blog by Blackberry. I was not interested in the wifi or the blue tooth connection to the computer, or with setting router to access my computer with my phone, so if these things don't work, I can't say. I hope blackberry decides to retool the software in the future.
Updated I got the software working by turning off user account control and enabling a script. So, now it's actually seems to be working ok. The vista default is not the run the script so you have to enable it. You can find out instructions by searching online.
Some more warnings: Do not over load your memory card or it could fail, only use a 1 gig memory card. One more problem is I can't see how much space is left on the memory card. Do not drop your Blackberry or get a protection shell.
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