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| BlackBerry 8310 Curve Red Smartphone (AT&T) | 
 enlarge | Brand: BlackBerry
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 57
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: 8310
UPC: 843163019775
ASIN: B000WPDI2K
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 Awesome! April 15, 2008
I have never experienced a cell phone as this one. With all of the features and benefits that the BlackBerry offers, it is a great purchase for what you are receiving.
Durability March 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had my phone for 3 months now and the one thing i hate the most regarding it is the casing. I dropped it one time and have two cracks in it. They are not made well, and BlackBerry doesnt sell just the casing, that to me sucks! Why pay a deductible for the insurance for a crack, and then something major happens. The plastic is horrible!
 After working with this phone for a few days, it's the best thing since sliced bread. March 19, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
After working with this phone for a few days, it's the best thing since sliced bread.
 Not for the new users of Blackberry March 5, 2008
14 out of 24 found this review helpful
Set the scene and then I can base the critism on my user profile. Note, this review is about the phone and not the service.
I get 200-250 e-mails a day and in 4-8 meetings a day. I am 35 years old. I spend 10-12 hrs a working day around a computer. I just used a small laptop for my organiser and e-mail. I have never used a PDA. Blackberry seems an obvious choice to make me more productive?
Why did I buy?
-Many people around me had PDAs either iPhone or Blackberry. I felt I was being left behind.
-Computing magazine review rated this phone the highest for e-mail
-I wanted easier access to my Outlook calendar and e-mail
-It's cool for my friends to see me with one?!
What's good about it?
It was easy to link to my Outlook exchange server and get e-mails. But the goodness stops there. It may be easy to put gas/petrol in the car but if the car is slow, incredibly difficult to steer and drive, what's the point of having easy filling?
What's bad?
-It crashes once a day.
-The keys are so rediculously small that writing text fast will not happen. You hit multiple and wrong keys. You often need the delete key and it is burried at the bottom under your thumb. Someone needs to think about usability!
-Usability is appauling!!! I expect to invest some time in learning new technology but the whole thing has been designed without a primary audience. I want a Blackberry to phone, see my calendar and read and answer short e-mails. I have an iPod for music.
You start the device and you have by default 20+ icons. I want 3!!! The first thing you need to work out is how to get rid of the usless items to make it quick to navigate to your primary use cases. (Blackberry, give me a set up wizard!)
When you want to dial a number you have to use the 9 '2' font keys on the screen. Doing this with one hand is painful. The numbers are also on the left hand side. Most of use will use our right thumb!
Then to chnage any settings most items are burried in very un-intuitive text on a 'left click' button. Further more, what you are after is often burried deep in the navigation. Read on for an example...
-The Noises!!!! The defaults drove me crazy!! 200 e-mails a day. I could have danced to the music the phone made. Every e-mail, every calendar invite the things buzzed beeped and chirped! It was killing the battery. I just needed to know if a phone call was coming in. The fun part was then turning the bleeps off! Read on for an example of crazy usability.
-Turning off beeps
I write this as an example of how bad it gets in places to do simple tasks
It took me about 15 minutes to find out how to do an obvious function.
1) Navigate to item 15 using the roller ball
2) Click using the roller- ball. This opens the drop down menu with 4 big items, normal, vibrate, Quiet and Loud. You would think you then use that 'left click' button to edit. Wrong.
3) Carefull observe there is a tiny indicator that you can scroll beyond these basic options- not obvious. Select at the very bottom 'Advanced' option. Click using the roller ball
4)Observe a new list of profiles which you just saw in just a smaller menu this time!!!
5)Navigate to the profil you wish to edit- say 'Loud'. Now click with the roller ball.
6)If you didn't realise, the 12 different items on this screen from 'Browser' to 'Tasks' are all individual functions on the balckberry with their annoying beep associations. Get this, you need to edit each one to set your desired noise. Here's how
7) Select the functionality you wish to change the noise on, say 'Messenger- New Message'. Who named it 'messenger'!!!
8) You now have a dialogue with 11 options per beep function!!! Change volumne, tune, number of beeps, LED, vibrartions and number etc
9) Click 'Out of Holster' using the roller ball, None, vibrate, Tone or vibrate plus tone.
10) Select an option by clicking with the roller ball.
11) Change any of the other 11 options per function by going to step 9)
12) Use the navigate back button to force a save. Save dialogue then pops up.
13) Select the save or discard button using roller ball.
14) Now go back to step 7 and repeat to 14 another 11 times for the other default beep and tune settings for the default 'Loud' profile!!!
...another 15 minutes later...
-The e-mail text you get back has lost all formatting so often you loose context and it is impossible to read.
-The synchronization software using default installs on XP was slowing my machine start-up by 2 minutes, locking all access to the machine! It was the first thing I uninstalled.
- I can go on but hopefully you guys get the drift and won't make the same mistake as me
Final conclusion
For new users I would wait until a decent user interface comes along that hooks up with Outlook and addresses primary needs. Also a user interface that tries to do core jobs well and not everything from navigating the internet on a 2 inch screen, playing games, GPS, music and so on. For BlackBerry, they need to clean up their usability, software performance and stability. If iPhone get easy sychronisation and backup with Outlook and Lotus Notes, Blackberry will die as soon as their contracts expire.
 BUY THIS PHONE YOU WON'T REGET IT... just from who you buy it from. February 22, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This phone is amazing. I am a high school student who has a computer repair business and this phone does everything for me. The camera is very nice. The mirror on the back is weird and makes it hard to take pictures if you try to use it. NO VIDEO (I think the service blocks it from working). It is very fast. I had a pantec duo slider that thing was slower than a short bus with three wheels full of spedz(special eds). The ball is sexy and easy to use. GPS works fast. Opera Mini browser is really cool too I recommend it over the stock internet browser. Keyboard is easy to type just give yourself a few messages to get use to it. The speaker sounds incredibly good especially if you take off the back the speaker becomes bare great for listening to music quietly and studying. SO MANY TOOLS and applications from blackberry and big name software creators. SD CARD worked like a charm. Computer software was recently updated to 4.3 and that works a lot better and looks a lot better two. Its a great phone I would totally recommend it. Syncs with tons of stuff. BUT ATT sucks they don't even understand how to hook the phone up to their systems. This is a review about the phone not the service provider so I won't get into it.
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