The Curve is the third new BlackBerry I've seen in almost as many months, having been preceded by the mobile phone like Pearl and the GPs-toting 8800.
The Curve is another keyboarded BlackBerry, and like its two predecessors has no scroll wheel, instead using the small round navigation pad, the pearl. I'm still not entirely comfortable with this. It seems to require quite a bit of rolling, but have to admit that it is ideally positioned for both right and left handed users which a scroll wheel can never be, and does look very cool especially in dim lighting conditions when its white backlight makes it shine out.
This is a fairly small and light BlackBerry, and it does the usual mobile email stuff as well as ever. I tested the BlackBerry Internet Service and had no problems except for having the eternal wish to be able to flag items throughout the inbox list for immediate delete in one swoop, which no BlackBerry offers. This would make ditching obvious spam from the device and my Pop3 inboxes so much easier. As it is emails have to be deleted individually or you can go for all prior to the one you've selected.
RIM has decided to go for broke as far as luring consumers is concerned, and this BlackBerry has a new aspect to its desktop client. As well as synchronising your email and contact book there is a utility for managing media (music and videos) and getting them across to the device, where a new and slightly under-featured player can play them back. A 3.5mm headset jack even means you can use your own earphones.
If you want to know more about this BlackBerry, read my full review at TrustedReviews.com, here.
The Curve is another keyboarded BlackBerry, and like its two predecessors has no scroll wheel, instead using the small round navigation pad, the pearl. I'm still not entirely comfortable with this. It seems to require quite a bit of rolling, but have to admit that it is ideally positioned for both right and left handed users which a scroll wheel can never be, and does look very cool especially in dim lighting conditions when its white backlight makes it shine out.
This is a fairly small and light BlackBerry, and it does the usual mobile email stuff as well as ever. I tested the BlackBerry Internet Service and had no problems except for having the eternal wish to be able to flag items throughout the inbox list for immediate delete in one swoop, which no BlackBerry offers. This would make ditching obvious spam from the device and my Pop3 inboxes so much easier. As it is emails have to be deleted individually or you can go for all prior to the one you've selected.
RIM has decided to go for broke as far as luring consumers is concerned, and this BlackBerry has a new aspect to its desktop client. As well as synchronising your email and contact book there is a utility for managing media (music and videos) and getting them across to the device, where a new and slightly under-featured player can play them back. A 3.5mm headset jack even means you can use your own earphones.
If you want to know more about this BlackBerry, read my full review at TrustedReviews.com, here.