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HTC Touch PRO Phone Black Sprint
Get down to business and stay close to all your most important contacts and documents while on the go with the HTC Touch Pro Smartphone for Sprint, which combines a slide-out QWERTY keyboard paired with HTC’s intuitive, graphic-rich TouchFLO 3D touchscreen user interface. The TouchFLO 3D user interface responds perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media–all vividly displayed as photos and artwork on the 2.8-inch screen powered by the 3D graphics processor. And with the power of the updated Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, you’ll stay easily connected to your business and personal data on the go with support for a wide variety of email accounts as well as the ability to edit Microsoft Office documents.
With the TouchFLO 3D interface, album artwork, calendar items and snapshots are brought to life for you to interact, play and launch at your fingertips. |
The HTC Touch Pro for Sprint provides a mobile Internet experience that uses the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (EV-DO Rev. A). You’ll also enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV’s video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. Other features include built-in Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g), a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, and up to 4 hours of talk time. Compatible with MicroSD memory cards for expansion up to 16 GB, this package includes a 1 GB MicroSD card to give you the room you need for larger work files, presentations, reports, documents or fun files like photos and music.
Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO Rev. A connectivity provides peak network download data rates of up to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates of up to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds range from 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps and average uplink speeds range from 350 to 500 kbps.
With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive service allows you to access your favorite channels and networks within seconds to watch live TV or video-on-demand with full-motion video. Choose from more than 50 live television channels and watch programs such as CNN mobile, FOX sports and E! Entertainment; access NFL Network and special programming via Sprint Exclusive Entertainment.
Sprint brings you closer to this season’s NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.
The slide-out, backlit QWERTY keyboard makes sending email and editing documents fast and familiar. |
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This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone–by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, “Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street.” As you approach the turn, you will hear, “Turn right on Elm Street.” Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it’s easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.
The Sprint Mobile Sync service enables you to store and manage up to 5,000 contacts in your Sprint Mobile Sync address book, including phone numbers, addresses, notes and other fields. After your phone is activated, every change you make to your address book will be automatically saved on the Sprint network and every change you make online will be updated on your phone. Create and manage personal Group Connect groups to instantly reach up to 20 other users, at the same time, via Nextel Direct Connect or texting. Import contact fields to your address book or synchronize them with your Microsoft Outlook contacts.
Phone Features
With the TouchFLO 3D interface, HTC has taken a great leap forward in touchscreen innovation. It’s designed for one-hand operation using simple, gesture-based navigation, allowing you to simply touch, hold and slide along the screen tabs. A quick slide on the home screen quickly activates the most used features such as e-mail, text messaging, music player and camera. This instinctive interface extends to the powerful Web browser, where a useful “zoom in, zoom out” feature makes it especially easy to access the Web via the included Opera browser, which provides for desktop-like Web page renderings and user interactions. An integrated accelerometer senses when you change the position of the phone from portrait to landscape viewing, and it auto-rotates the screen’s orientation.
The HTC Touch Pro features a sharp, 262K-color 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen (480 x 640 pixels) for touch-sensitive navigation control, complete with three-dimensional animated transitions. For email, messaging and other data input, the HTC Touch Pro also comes equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the smartphone’s side.
Business users can choose from several popular platforms to access your corporate e-mail. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform offers seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook information including email, contacts, calendar and to-do lists. You can access and edit email attachments using mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.
In addition, the HTC Touch Pro supports scores of industry-specific applications as well as Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM), an enterprise-grade mobile device management solution that also provides security, mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) and software distribution for Windows Mobile devices enabled for Windows Mobile 6.1. For maximum flexibility, customers can choose to use either the classic Windows Mobile interface or HTC’s acclaimed TouchFLO 3D graphical interface, which makes popular applications easily available at the swipe of a finger.
This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You’ll also be able to access open Wi-Fi networks in offices and hotspots via the integrated 802.11b/g wireless connectivity.
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Other features include:
Vital Statistics
The HTC Touch Pro weighs 4.94 ounces and measures 4.17 x 2.04 x 0.71 inches. Its 1340 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.0 hours of talk time, and up to 350 hours (14.6 days) of standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint’s EV-DO Rev. A data network.
Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 offers a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.
With Windows Mobile 6.1, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC’s Microsoft Office suite. You’ll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting–without affecting tables, images or text–as well as view PowerPoint presentations.
All Windows Mobile 6.1 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.
1 Star Do Not buy this phone!!!
Had mine a little over a year and when I bought mine I paid way to much for it. It has been a problem from the time I purchased the first one and a week later had it replaced due to issues. The slide out key board was my biggest buying point and I use it very little, just not comfortable for me. Everything about this phone needed to be proven before it was released to the market last 2008. Just to many things to even mention that is a pain to deal with, the other negative reviews fairly well nailed it. The biggest problem is it freezes up daily, can’t handle the extended use that it was intended to be used for business. I am going to a blackberry, keeping it simple and proven. The pro 2 is to dam expensive, and don’t want to take a chance of having another nightmare like the current model touch pro.
1 Star Not going to spend a lot of time but this phone sucks!
1. Locks up very frequently
2. Multiple touches needed to execute commands
3. Not intuitive
4. Mysterious error messages
5. Scrolling through emails is impossible. It keeps opening them when you’re just trying to scroll.
6. Deleted photos for no reason
7. Depletes battery life quickly some days for no reason
8. Settings change for no reason
Don’t buy this phone!!!!
2 Stars Great phone…when it’s not freezing up on you!
I have had this HTC Touch Pro phone for nearly a year now, and I am thoroughly familiar with all of its features.
The phone has some great qualities:
* Big screen
* Slide out QWERTY keyboard
* Adobe PDF capability
* Numerous Programs
* File manager
** HOWEVER **
The poor qualities are just as many:
* The phone is extremely finicky, and freezes often - even with 4 or 5 bars of 3G service, the Opera browser would just not connect
* Don’t waste your time with the Internet Explorer browser - it is always slow no matter what
* The battery life is terrible - a charge won’t last the day, and I’m a light user, maybe 15 minutes talk time a day plus maybe 1 hour Internet browsing
* If you turn the screen off, the screen turns on by itself if you miss a call - NOT GOOD when you’re trying to conserve the battery life
* The screen takes forever to lock
For my next phone I will make absolutely positively sure that the phone is responsive and has at least an acceptable battery life.
Because, what good are features if you can’t use your phone?
5 Stars Very Nice Phone…Look for Apps!!!
I love this phone. Ive had it for almost a year and I still find new features now. The TouchFlo 3D is nice. It allows you to slide your finger on screen to select apps (Music, Internet, Pictures, Settings, Contacts…). TouchFlo 3D is very nice, but i highly recommend upgrading to Windows Mobile SPB Shell 3.0. I wouldn’t compare this phone to the IPhone at all…2 totally different phones. Touch Pro is a business phone. It has Office Mobile so you get Excel, Word, Power Point, and OneNote…Another nice thing is that you can do video conferencing and show power point presentations from your phone, connect it to TV or Projector using the TV out Feature. Another nice feature this phone has is the note pad. You can either Type in quick notes, save them and reopen them later. If you are on a call and need to write something down, all you have to do is pull the stylus out. Notepad will automatically come up so that you can write note on pad. You can use the stylus as a pen to write on Notepad. I can sit here and Type a book about many of the nice features this phone has. Its a Windows Mobile Phone so it very much is a pocket size PC. I even have a torrent app so that I may download torrent files directly on to my phone. It’s great! the internet speed on it allows a 5mb file to be downloaded in like a minute…sometimes faster. Opera browser is nice…better than IE mobile. The Media player is nice…it has a cover flow to it, you can flick scroll through the library very nicely.
Now…on to the negative stuff. The shell has a nice chrome/mirror finish, but it’s plastic. Its starts cracking right away. Even if you don’t drop your phone. Also, the battery does suck!!! With a phone like this where heavy use is very likely, the battery should last you about 10-15 hours with out having to charge. I don’t do a lot of business on it, just regular day to day activities and the battery drains on me. I can imagine people who are on the go every single day!!! The phone also tends to lag at times. Not that often, but sometimes it does. A quick soft reset fixes the problem, but it can be an inconvenience. I also wish it had more buttons. I know its a “Touch” phone but having a few buttons to access some of the features would be nice.
Anyways, overall this phone is a very nice phone. People are always very impressed with the features it has. If I had to choose between this phone and an I phone, I would very much so pick this phone. I phone is a very nice phone, but it lacks features…features you would get on this phone. Hope this helps…good luck
1 Star Three words . . . this phone sucks!
I wanted to like this phone, but it let me down in every way. I bought it because of all the rave reviews on this board, but to my dismay, I find myself trying to understand if I bought the same phone! I’ve used “smart phones” since before they were “smart phones.” Having tried my hand with the first motorola windows powered phones, the palm treos, and before this a blackberry. I think I can say I have enough experience with these types of phones such that I would not find myself bewildered by a new one.
However, that’s exactly how this phone leaves me. From the simplest things like locking the phone, to changing the alarm sound,or ring tones in this phone, nothing is either quick or intuitive. I’ve read that if I spend time online “googling” for solutions, I should be able to find everything I need. Well, it’s a “smartphone” for crying out loud - I should haven’t to spend hours trying to find answers to the simplest of tasks! Sure, I can understand having to research some of the cutting edge features, but not the simplest. For example, locking the phone can be done by pushing the power button on the phone. However, it unlockes if the power button is pushed again. Well putting the phone in your pocket is likely to result in “ghost” calling folks. Now you can spend 10 minutes setting a lock code for the phone which takes care of this problem, except that if you use the lock code feature the phone will require you to unlock it when it rings in order to answer. Really? That’s intuitive. This usually results in missed calls.
I have many other examples of how this phone is completely immature, like handling email, text messages, and the “touch” features of the phone, but I don’t have the time. It seems to me that if the simple feature aren’t intuitive, you can bet the more technical feature will be equally as ridiculous.
The only positive thing on this phone is how fast internet use is on it - otherwise it’s all thumbs down!
I am actually breaking my contract and buying a new phone, that’s how crappy this phone is.
Posted by Smartphone Review on January 22, 2010
HTC Touch PRO Phone Black Sprint
Get down to business and stay close to all your most important contacts and documents while on the go with the HTC Touch Pro Smartphone for Sprint, which combines a slide-out QWERTY keyboard paired with HTC’s intuitive, graphic-rich TouchFLO 3D touchscreen user interface. The TouchFLO 3D user interface responds perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media–all vividly displayed as photos and artwork on the 2.8-inch screen powered by the 3D graphics processor. And with the power of the updated Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, you’ll stay easily connected to your business and personal data on the go with support for a wide variety of email accounts as well as the ability to edit Microsoft Office documents.
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With the TouchFLO 3D interface, album artwork, calendar items and snapshots are brought to life for you to interact, play and launch at your fingertips. |
The HTC Touch Pro for Sprint provides a mobile Internet experience that uses the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (EV-DO Rev. A). You’ll also enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV’s video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. Other features include built-in Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g), a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, and up to 4 hours of talk time. Compatible with MicroSD memory cards for expansion up to 16 GB, this package includes a 1 GB MicroSD card to give you the room you need for larger work files, presentations, reports, documents or fun files like photos and music.
Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO Rev. A connectivity provides peak network download data rates of up to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates of up to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds range from 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps and average uplink speeds range from 350 to 500 kbps.
With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive service allows you to access your favorite channels and networks within seconds to watch live TV or video-on-demand with full-motion video. Choose from more than 50 live television channels and watch programs such as CNN mobile, FOX sports and E! Entertainment; access NFL Network and special programming via Sprint Exclusive Entertainment.
Sprint brings you closer to this season’s NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.
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The slide-out, backlit QWERTY keyboard makes sending email and editing documents fast and familiar. |
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This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone–by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, “Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street.” As you approach the turn, you will hear, “Turn right on Elm Street.” Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it’s easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.
The Sprint Mobile Sync service enables you to store and manage up to 5,000 contacts in your Sprint Mobile Sync address book, including phone numbers, addresses, notes and other fields. After your phone is activated, every change you make to your address book will be automatically saved on the Sprint network and every change you make online will be updated on your phone. Create and manage personal Group Connect groups to instantly reach up to 20 other users, at the same time, via Nextel Direct Connect or texting. Import contact fields to your address book or synchronize them with your Microsoft Outlook contacts.
Phone Features
With the TouchFLO 3D interface, HTC has taken a great leap forward in touchscreen innovation. It’s designed for one-hand operation using simple, gesture-based navigation, allowing you to simply touch, hold and slide along the screen tabs. A quick slide on the home screen quickly activates the most used features such as e-mail, text messaging, music player and camera. This instinctive interface extends to the powerful Web browser, where a useful “zoom in, zoom out” feature makes it especially easy to access the Web via the included Opera browser, which provides for desktop-like Web page renderings and user interactions. An integrated accelerometer senses when you change the position of the phone from portrait to landscape viewing, and it auto-rotates the screen’s orientation.
The HTC Touch Pro features a sharp, 262K-color 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen (480 x 640 pixels) for touch-sensitive navigation control, complete with three-dimensional animated transitions. For email, messaging and other data input, the HTC Touch Pro also comes equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the smartphone’s side.
Business users can choose from several popular platforms to access your corporate e-mail. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform offers seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook information including email, contacts, calendar and to-do lists. You can access and edit email attachments using mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.
In addition, the HTC Touch Pro supports scores of industry-specific applications as well as Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM), an enterprise-grade mobile device management solution that also provides security, mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) and software distribution for Windows Mobile devices enabled for Windows Mobile 6.1. For maximum flexibility, customers can choose to use either the classic Windows Mobile interface or HTC’s acclaimed TouchFLO 3D graphical interface, which makes popular applications easily available at the swipe of a finger.
This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You’ll also be able to access open Wi-Fi networks in offices and hotspots via the integrated 802.11b/g wireless connectivity.
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Other features include:
Vital Statistics
The HTC Touch Pro weighs 4.94 ounces and measures 4.17 x 2.04 x 0.71 inches. Its 1340 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.0 hours of talk time, and up to 350 hours (14.6 days) of standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint’s EV-DO Rev. A data network.
Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 offers a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.
With Windows Mobile 6.1, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC’s Microsoft Office suite. You’ll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting–without affecting tables, images or text–as well as view PowerPoint presentations.
All Windows Mobile 6.1 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.
2 Stars Great phone…when it’s not freezing up on you!
I have had this HTC Touch Pro phone for nearly a year now, and I am thoroughly familiar with all of its features.
The phone has some great qualities:
* Big screen
* Slide out QWERTY keyboard
* Adobe PDF capability
* Numerous Programs
* File manager
** HOWEVER **
The poor qualities are just as many:
* The phone is extremely finicky, and freezes often - even with 4 or 5 bars of 3G service, the Opera browser would just not connect
* Don’t waste your time with the Internet Explorer browser - it is always slow no matter what
* The battery life is terrible - a charge won’t last the day, and I’m a light user, maybe 15 minutes talk time a day plus maybe 1 hour Internet browsing
* If you turn the screen off, the screen turns on by itself if you miss a call - NOT GOOD when you’re trying to conserve the battery life
* The screen takes forever to lock
For my next phone I will make absolutely positively sure that the phone is responsive and has at least an acceptable battery life.
Because, what good are features if you can’t use your phone?
5 Stars Very Nice Phone…Look for Apps!!!
I love this phone. Ive had it for almost a year and I still find new features now. The TouchFlo 3D is nice. It allows you to slide your finger on screen to select apps (Music, Internet, Pictures, Settings, Contacts…). TouchFlo 3D is very nice, but i highly recommend upgrading to Windows Mobile SPB Shell 3.0. I wouldn’t compare this phone to the IPhone at all…2 totally different phones. Touch Pro is a business phone. It has Office Mobile so you get Excel, Word, Power Point, and OneNote…Another nice thing is that you can do video conferencing and show power point presentations from your phone, connect it to TV or Projector using the TV out Feature. Another nice feature this phone has is the note pad. You can either Type in quick notes, save them and reopen them later. If you are on a call and need to write something down, all you have to do is pull the stylus out. Notepad will automatically come up so that you can write note on pad. You can use the stylus as a pen to write on Notepad. I can sit here and Type a book about many of the nice features this phone has. Its a Windows Mobile Phone so it very much is a pocket size PC. I even have a torrent app so that I may download torrent files directly on to my phone. It’s great! the internet speed on it allows a 5mb file to be downloaded in like a minute…sometimes faster. Opera browser is nice…better than IE mobile. The Media player is nice…it has a cover flow to it, you can flick scroll through the library very nicely.
Now…on to the negative stuff. The shell has a nice chrome/mirror finish, but it’s plastic. Its starts cracking right away. Even if you don’t drop your phone. Also, the battery does suck!!! With a phone like this where heavy use is very likely, the battery should last you about 10-15 hours with out having to charge. I don’t do a lot of business on it, just regular day to day activities and the battery drains on me. I can imagine people who are on the go every single day!!! The phone also tends to lag at times. Not that often, but sometimes it does. A quick soft reset fixes the problem, but it can be an inconvenience. I also wish it had more buttons. I know its a “Touch” phone but having a few buttons to access some of the features would be nice.
Anyways, overall this phone is a very nice phone. People are always very impressed with the features it has. If I had to choose between this phone and an I phone, I would very much so pick this phone. I phone is a very nice phone, but it lacks features…features you would get on this phone. Hope this helps…good luck
1 Star Not going to spend a lot of time but this phone sucks!
1. Locks up very frequently
2. Multiple touches needed to execute commands
3. Not intuitive
4. Mysterious error messages
5. Scrolling through emails is impossible. It keeps opening them when you’re just trying to scroll.
6. Deleted photos for no reason
7. Depletes battery life quickly some days for no reason
8. Settings change for no reason
Don’t buy this phone!!!!
1 Star Three words . . . this phone sucks!
I wanted to like this phone, but it let me down in every way. I bought it because of all the rave reviews on this board, but to my dismay, I find myself trying to understand if I bought the same phone! I’ve used “smart phones” since before they were “smart phones.” Having tried my hand with the first motorola windows powered phones, the palm treos, and before this a blackberry. I think I can say I have enough experience with these types of phones such that I would not find myself bewildered by a new one.
However, that’s exactly how this phone leaves me. From the simplest things like locking the phone, to changing the alarm sound,or ring tones in this phone, nothing is either quick or intuitive. I’ve read that if I spend time online “googling” for solutions, I should be able to find everything I need. Well, it’s a “smartphone” for crying out loud - I should haven’t to spend hours trying to find answers to the simplest of tasks! Sure, I can understand having to research some of the cutting edge features, but not the simplest. For example, locking the phone can be done by pushing the power button on the phone. However, it unlockes if the power button is pushed again. Well putting the phone in your pocket is likely to result in “ghost” calling folks. Now you can spend 10 minutes setting a lock code for the phone which takes care of this problem, except that if you use the lock code feature the phone will require you to unlock it when it rings in order to answer. Really? That’s intuitive. This usually results in missed calls.
I have many other examples of how this phone is completely immature, like handling email, text messages, and the “touch” features of the phone, but I don’t have the time. It seems to me that if the simple feature aren’t intuitive, you can bet the more technical feature will be equally as ridiculous.
The only positive thing on this phone is how fast internet use is on it - otherwise it’s all thumbs down!
I am actually breaking my contract and buying a new phone, that’s how crappy this phone is.
1 Star Do Not buy this phone!!!
Had mine a little over a year and when I bought mine I paid way to much for it. It has been a problem from the time I purchased the first one and a week later had it replaced due to issues. The slide out key board was my biggest buying point and I use it very little, just not comfortable for me. Everything about this phone needed to be proven before it was released to the market last 2008. Just to many things to even mention that is a pain to deal with, the other negative reviews fairly well nailed it. The biggest problem is it freezes up daily, can’t handle the extended use that it was intended to be used for business. I am going to a blackberry, keeping it simple and proven. The pro 2 is to dam expensive, and don’t want to take a chance of having another nightmare like the current model touch pro.
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BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone Titanium Sprint
Adding a fashionable touch to Research in Motion’s formidable arsenal of telephonic, PIM, and media tools, the BlackBerry 8330 Curve for Sprint is also the smallest, lightest BlackBerry phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. This amalgam of the svelte BlackBerry Pearl and the more business-oriented 8800 combines RIM’s long-valued corporate email and messaging platform with a host of advanced multimedia features, including a 2-megapixel camera and stereo Bluetooth (for listening to music via wireless headphones). It also offers GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service. Compatible with MicroSD memory cards for expansion, this package includes a 1 GB MicroSD card to give you the room you need for larger work files, presentations, reports, documents or fun files like photos and music.
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Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.
Sprint brings you closer to this season’s NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.
The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song–one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that’s right for you.
The Curve’s full QWERTY keyboard and the innovative trackball navigation system (placed above the keyboard) makes accessing your data and writing email a breeze. |
The 2-megapixel camera makes it easy to capture pictures to send via email or upload to your online photo collection. |
This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone–by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, “Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street.” As you approach the turn, you will hear, “Turn right on Elm Street.” Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it’s easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.
Phone Features
The Curve 8330 is fashioned with subtly curving corners and chrome highlights. Measuring 4.2 x 2.4 inches, the Curve is just as slim as the Pearl (0.63 inches) and weighs in at 4 ounces. It features a bright 2.5-inch color TFT screen that provides 65,000 colors and a 320 x 240-pixel resolution, and it includes a light-sensing feature that automatically adjusts backlighting for indoor, outdoor and dark environments. Like the BlackBerry 8800, the Curve includes a trackball navigation system located on the top of the QWERTY keypad, and it also features an integrated spell checker with a customizable dictionary to help maintain accuracy while on the go. It has 96 MB of internal ROM memory, and is expandable using MicroSD/MicroSDHC memory cards (up to 8 GB in size).
You can snap vivid photos (though no video) using the 2-megapixel camera on the back of the Curve, which also features a 5x digital zoom, built-in flash, self-portrait mirror and full screen viewfinder. It can capture images in up to three picture quality and size resolutions that can be shared instantly by email, MMS or BlackBerry Messenger, or even uploaded to your Flickr account with the Yahoo! Go service. Photos can also be immediately set as a unique caller ID or Home Screen image. You can edit photos and create albums within the Curve using the PhotoSuite application. Pictures can be cropped, rotated and straightened, and flaws can be fixed by removing redeye or changing the brightness, contrast, and saturation levels.
Listen to your favorite music and watch downloaded videos using the included stereo headset, or use an optional wireless headphone thanks to the Curve’s support for the Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP). The Curve is compatible with MP3 and WMA audio files, and dedicated volume controls are conveniently located on the side of the handset.
With the Voice-Activated Dialing (VAD) feature, you can initiate a call just by telling the Curve who to call from your contact list–either via the integrated speakerphone or using an optional Bluetooth wireless headset. Other advanced phone features include advanced sound technology that cancels out background noise and echo, dedicated volume and mute keys, and the ability to customize the Curve with polyphonic and MP3 ringtones.
The BlackBerry Maps application enables you to view maps and driving directions as well as email maps to other BlackBerry users and launch maps from your address book. It also includes a local search capability that allows users to find local businesses, such as banks, hotels and restaurants, within a short driving distance.
Other features include:
Vital Statistics
The BlackBerry Curve 8330 weighs 4 ounces and measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.63 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.9 hours of talk time, and up to 264 hours (11 days) of digital standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
4 Stars Sweet phone
Loving my Blackberry Curve 8330. I’ve had a BB 8700g before and liked it very much but this phone blows it and my Palm Centro that I upgraded from right out of the water. I’m quite pleased with the BB Curve 8330. Not for nothing, Sprint’s Curve is the best one to have because it has far more features than any other cell phone carriers’ Curves. Sprint didn’t hold back featurewise. My friends are a bit jealous because of the amount of features my phone has compared to their Curves. Here’s the breakdown of what I like and dislike.
Pros:
- Attractive looking and the titanium or charcoal color looks great
- Very clear and vivid video and pictures
- Great call quality
- Nice, loud speakerphone
- MP3 sound quality is superb
- Has standard 3.5mm headphone jack which is great. No need to buy those special 2.5mm headphones.
- A USB port
- Snappy bluetooth pairing with my bluetooth headset when with many other phones it seemed like it took forever for the two devices to find each other
- Expandable to 16GB with 4.5 OS
- Speedy email retrieval
- Camera and video camera is pretty good especially outdoors but the indoor photos are not too shabby
- Decent battery life
- Trackball makes for easy navigating
- 96MB of internal ROM memory which is a nice amount of storage and I’m able to fit a lot of third party software with room to spare
- A lot of awesome features and apps that came with the phone plus plenty you can download
- Nice rendering of doc, pdf and ppt files
Honorable mention: The Sprint GPS TelNav(which I thought I didn’t need)on this phone rocks. It really can go toe to toe as far as navigation with my Garmin GPS plus it finds signals a lot quicker than my Garmin. I’ve used it while driving and while walking and it has been on point with fantastic accuracy.
Cons:
- Internet videos, particularly YouTube, displays very small and doesn’t take up the whole screen and there’s no way to make it full screen like I was able to with my Palm Centro
- Video camera does not shoot videos using the whole 320×240 screen. It only takes the videos at 240×176. Therefore the videos you shoot never take up the whole screen.
- The browser could be a bit faster
- Hangs and freezes on some websites
- Rebooting is way too slow
- Wish the camera had more features
- Voice dialing is bad and doesn’t register spoken names very well. Luckily I use another app to handle that.
All and all…this is a very nice phone.
4 Stars Very Nice!
This is my first time purchasing a smart phone and after much searching (I read and watched hundreds of reviews on various smart phones) I decided on the Blackberry Curve 8330 from sprint. After using it for the past month or so here are some of my thoughts.
FIRST THE GOOD:
I am quite happy with my purchase. The Curve does a splendid job of nearly everything it promises to do. Setting up email was a piece of cake and they show up in my phone in real time. Call audio was crystal clear (probably the best I’ve ever heard). It syncs easily with my Lotus notes which is a huge plus for me since I can never remember what meetings I am supposed to be at and when when I am out of the office. It also syncs very quickly with my Bluetooth and my headset can go probably 30+ feet from my phone without hearing a lot of crackling. The battery lasts for a long time, even when using Bluetooth. I find that with my use, (about 90 minutes a day of talk time and another 20 minutes using the internet and maps functions) I can get about two days, possibly more on one charge. The OS works pretty quickly, I never feel like I am waiting on programs to open or anything. The camera is stellar. It is so nice to have a flash but don’t count on it lighting anything beyond 5 feet when it is dark out. The video is pretty cool too. GPS is functional, though it refreshes rather slowly compared to a Garmin (I’d say once every few seconds or so) and of course the voice commands cost extra from sprint. The QWERTY keyboard is sufficiently sized and I have no problem using it with my somewhat large fingers (my thumb is a little wider than a nickel).
NOW THE BAD:
I have to say that the user interface for Blackberry is not the most intuitive. I consider myself a pretty techy guy but customizing a lot of the options was a pain and took a while. I find the track ball skips at times when moving side to side which can be annoying when it happens but not too annoying. The curve that comes from sprint does not come with the handy dandy holster like the other curves (shame on you sprint). I also don’t like the reminder functions on the blackberry. It reminds you one time for each calendar entry. ONE TIME! I need something that will keep reminding me and reminding me until I say it’s done. I have heard there is an application out there for this, but haven’t bought one yet. Sigh. Lastly, the phone automatically turns off when you drop it (which is good) but sometimes it is too sensitive. For example: if I place the phone down on the desk to hard while I am on my headset it thinks it has been dropped and shuts off. This is annoying but I am slowly getting used to being more gently with it.
NOW THE UGLY:
I can’t stand the voice activated dialing from Blackberry. It is the WORST thing about the phone. The phone has the hardest time determing which person I want to call and gets it wrong about 70- 90% of the time depending on the name of the person. My old sprint Katana was ten times better. I tried adjusting everything from my voice tones and vowel sounds to setting different levels of sensitivity on the phone (nothing worked). FYI I have a very normal voice. I spent hours on the web looking for help, all to no avail. Blackberry would have done better by their customers had they stuck with the old voice software which allows you to program in your own voice for peoples names. This was a deal breaker for me and I nearly returned the phone had it not been for finding an awesome and free application (see next).
Applications worth getting:
1.OperaMini (free internet browser that replaces blackberry’s crappy one)
2.GoogleMaps (its free and does a better job of finding businesses then
the blackberry maps app.)
3.VLINGO (this voice recognition software is absolutely incredible, it recognized any command I could give it without a problem and gets better over time. It will even convert your audio into text messages or emails and is completely free and improves the curve experience drastically. This app made me truly love my blackberry. Even if it guesses incorrectly which word you used once you correct it, it almost never gets it wrong again. I have tried sending progressively more and more complicated texts and emails to friends and it gets the words right about 90% of the time)
OVERALL:
I give the phone 4
Posted by Smartphone Review on January 21, 2010
BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone Red Sprint
Adding a fashionable touch to Research in Motion’s formidable arsenal of telephonic, PIM, and media tools, the BlackBerry 8330 Curve for Sprint is also the smallest, lightest BlackBerry phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. This amalgam of the svelte BlackBerry Pearl and the more business-oriented 8800 combines RIM’s long-valued corporate email and messaging platform with a host of advanced multimedia features, including a 2-megapixel camera and stereo Bluetooth (for listening to music via wireless headphones). It also offers GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service.
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Sprint Service Options
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.
The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song–one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that’s right for you.
This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone–by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, “Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street.” As you approach the turn, you will hear, “Turn right on Elm Street.” Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it’s easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.
The Curve’s full QWERTY keyboard and the innovative trackball navigation system (placed above the keyboard) makes accessing your data and writing email a breeze. |
Staying Connected
With BlackBerry’s push email technology, your email will find you without having to initiate a connection. BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, notifying you as new email arrives. In addition to the text, you can also receive and view attachments in a wide range of popular file formats, including Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect, and Adobe PDF.
Browse the web with the integrated, full-featured browser, which quickly and efficiently displays HTML pages as well as enables you to set up RSS feeds to stay connected to up-to-the-minute news and blog posts. And keep up with your contacts using a variety of instant message (IM) networks, including the integrated Blackberry Messenger as well as downloadable clients for Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, and Lotus Sametime.
For corporate users, the Curve delivers all the enterprise email and messaging capabilities you’ve come to expect. It’s supported on BlackBerry Internet Service, giving you access to up to 10 work or personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts), as well as BlackBerry Enterprise Server, enabling advanced security and IT administration within IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise environments.
Phone Features
The Curve 8330 is fashioned with subtly curving corners and chrome highlights. Measuring 4.2 x 2.4 inches, the Curve is just as slim as the Pearl (0.63 inches) and weighs in at 4 ounces. It features a bright 2.5-inch color TFT screen that provides 65,000 colors and a 320 x 240-pixel resolution, and it includes a light-sensing feature that automatically adjusts backlighting for indoor, outdoor and dark environments. Like the BlackBerry 8800, the Curve includes a trackball navigation system located on the top of the QWERTY keypad, and it also features an integrated spell checker with a customizable dictionary to help maintain accuracy while on the go. It has 96 MB of internal ROM memory, and is expandable using MicroSD/MicroSDHC memory cards (up to 8 GB in size).
The 2-megapixel camera makes it easy to capture pictures to send via email or upload to your online photo collection. |
You can snap vivid photos (though no video) using the 2-megapixel camera on the back of the Curve, which also features a 5x digital zoom, built-in flash, self-portrait mirror and full screen viewfinder. It can capture images in up to three picture quality and size resolutions that can be shared instantly by email, MMS or BlackBerry Messenger, or even uploaded to your Flickr account with the Yahoo! Go service. Photos can also be immediately set as a unique caller ID or Home Screen image. You can edit photos and create albums within the Curve using the PhotoSuite application. Pictures can be cropped, rotated and straightened, and flaws can be fixed by removing redeye or changing the brightness, contrast, and saturation levels.
Listen to your favorite music and watch downloaded videos using the included stereo headset, or use an optional wireless headphone thanks to the Curve’s support for the Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP). The Curve is compatible with MP3 and WMA audio files, and dedicated volume controls are conveniently located on the side of the handset.
With the Voice-Activated Dialing (VAD) feature, you can initiate a call just by telling the Curve who to call from your contact list–either via the integrated speakerphone or using an optional Bluetooth wireless headset. Other advanced phone features include advanced sound technology that cancels out background noise and echo, dedicated volume and mute keys, and the ability to customize the Curve with polyphonic and MP3 ringtones.
The BlackBerry Maps application enables you to view maps and driving directions as well as email maps to other BlackBerry users and launch maps from your address book. It also includes a local search capability that allows users to find local businesses, such as banks, hotels and restaurants, within a short driving distance.
Vital Statistics
The BlackBerry Curve 8330 weighs 4 ounces and measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.63 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.9 hours of talk time, and up to 264 hours (11 days) of digital standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.
2 Stars GOOD PHONE, POOR CALL QUALITY
I have been a Sprint customer since 2001. I have always felt they had great service and good coverage. For four years I have been using a Palm Treo (650 and then 700wx) and experienced the phone locking up on a regular basis requiring me to remove the battery. My colleagues were getting great results with Blackberry so I switched to the Blackberry Curve 8330 with Sprint. I immediately noticed a couple of negative features that have overshadowed the positives of this phone and Sprint.
The quality of voice calls is no where near as clear as the Treo. With the Treo I had people constantly tell me that I sounded like I was in the room with them speaking. I could also hear crystal clear on all my calls. The Blackberry has a muffled sound on voice calls both for incoming calls that I hear and how I sound going out. This has caused me to constantly ask people to repeat themselves in some cases two or three times.
The second major negative that became apparent immediately is that on the Sprint network, from my home office where I used to get great service from the Treo, my Blackberry could not get a good signal. For three months I have been dropping business calls daily from my home office simply by switching from a Treo to a Blackberry on Sprint. According to Sprint I am in a ‘Fair to Great’ service area but DAILY my calls are dropped because of the Blackberry.
I have had the phone tested to ensure it is working properly, I have had a free AirRave device sent for home office use, I have taken all the steps possible to stop dropping calls. Sprint finally has agreed to let me out of my contract with no penalty even though I did not ask for this. I just want a phone that will work without dropping calls. I have subsequently realized that all my colleagues who recommended the Blackberry are either with Verizon or AT&T.
The phone works excellent for everything that I needed it to do with the exception of voice calls. All the features in the world cannot compensate for the most basic function of performing great as a phone.
5 Stars Amazing Phone
I’ve had this phone for 4 months now and I believe I’ve had it long enough to write a review. First off, let me just say that I found a way not to pay for any web services because I don’t use them, so this review will not be for the internet, BBM, or applications (which may be why I have not had any problems).
The mp3 player is very easy to use, and it has an extremely useful search feature: when you just go into your music and you start typing, it will automatically search for you. I have also recently found that, if you hold the “volume up” button on the right side of the phone for about 3 seconds, it will go to the next song, and if you hold the “volume down”, it will go to the last song (once again, very useful). The speakers on the phone get a little blurry when at full volume, but then again, what phone doesn’t? It is also very convenient that the phone accepts normal 3.5mm headphones, so you can just plug your iPod headphones or any other standard headphones into the jack and listen to your music, and the same if you have headphones with a microphone.
The user interface is very nice and easy to use, and the best thing I have found about this phone is that it DOES NOT FREEZE. This is a HUGE deal for me since my last phone used to freeze practically every time I went to the mp3 player. However, on my Blackberry, I play Brickbreaker while having music play on the speakers and it works seamlessly (there is a little bit of a lag when the song changes, but it’s not too big of a deal).
The thing I like most about this phone is how text messaging shows up. It puts all of your conversations in one thread (similar to the iPhone) so that you don’t have to keep going between messages to find something you said to your friend, or vice versa.
It also has a decent camera with flash and zoom. The camera is not as clear as the iPhone’s camera, but I’m very satisfied with it because I take a lot of pictures at night when flash is absolutely necessary. I’m not sure why the review says it does not have a video camera, because the phone actually does have a decent video camera that I have used at least 10 times so far.
Also, battery life is AMAZING. As I said before, I play a lot of music and Brickbreaker on my Blackberry, but I only need to charge it every few days.
The keys are a bit small to type with sometimes, but I have adapted and I put up with it because the small keys are what lets the phone be so small.
I have also dropped this phone many times and it is still LIKE NEW. However, I would recommend buying a silicone case for it (you can find them for as low as $5) to protect it.
5 Stars I Am In Love!
I’ve been a T-mobile customer for over two years. I finally decided that it was time to let them go when my contract end & I promise I won’t look back. I was gonna get a Blackberry curve with them, but I thought about the horrible reception & service I would have to deal with for another year or two. So I went to Sprint & I haven’t regretted it. I’ve been a sidekick user that’s all I’ve owned so a blackberry is a major upgrade for me. I got my phone yesterday & I am in love with it! It has everything for a person who’s on the go, a business person, a college person (like myself). I love all their features & what Sprint has to offer. I feel if I would have purchased a curve from T-Mobile I wouldn’t have been as happy. I’m still playing around with it & getting adjusted to it. Even tho ill be paying more money being with Sprint I feel its worth it. You won’t regret buying this phone.
5 Stars Finally, a real “Smartphone”
I’ve had my Blackberry 8330 with Sprint for a couple of weeks now. With the many different units I have had over time, I have a good comparative baseline to note the Blackberry’s performance against. My prior phone was a Motorola Razr with AT&T. I loved the phone and the service I had. Concurrently with the Razr, I had numerous PDA’s, aka “Smartphones” which my workplace provided me. All these units had issues, quirks, and downright irritable tendencies. I still have one of these PDA’s; it’s a Verizon 6800 - one of the most aggravating PDA’s I have experienced to date. I have also had two Palm units and an IPAQ.
I got this unit as a replacement for my Razr as the plan I was on wasn’t conducive to texting/web. The switch from AT&T wasn’t easy as I had a long run with them as a carrier and would recommend their customer service. Sprint had a better data/phone plan so I went with them and got this jewel of a unit.
The Blackberry is lightweight, comfortable to hold and unbelievably easy to use. I love the QWERTY keyboard, there is no ‘lag time’ in typing words as I suffer with the Verizon unit. The screen is bright and easy to see even outdoors and with sunglasses(!). Not so with the Verizon - I have to take off the sunglasses, position the unit ‘just so’ in order to use the touchy (not in a good way) touch screen and also to read emails. The Verizon has a slide out keyboard which I thought would be a good thing - well, if it worked as it should.
I have downloaded a multitude of free apps from the numerous Blackberry websites. The unit comes with a decent amount of apps already built in. I now use OperaMini for the browser as I find it to be faster than the pre-installed one. It came preloaded with Blackberry Messenger, Yahoo, AIM and much more. I have email coming from three different accounts, each nicely in its own folder. Emails come quickly, I don’t have to synch all the time as I do with the Verizon unit (yes, even with the settings set to download on a timed basis).
The battery life is good. No complaints at all. I call, use the web all the time, download apps all the time and the battery holds up. The Verizon unit? It sucked wind within hours of unplugging from a full charge. I also spent hours with tech support for the Verizon unit both on the phone and in a store. But those are stories for another time.
The sound quality is great. I haven’t tried it my Bluetooth earphone as yet. Texting is a breeze. I haven’t lost the phone signal or had delayed emails anywhere I’ve gone yet. The PC software to synch and backup the software works like a charm. The unit is so easy to use right from the box. I may go and read the manual at some point and see what else it can do I haven’t discovered on my own.
There are a multitude of covers, accessories and software (free and fee) for this gadget. I can’t say enough about it. I am thrilled I bought it and I guess I am now officially a Crackberry member. I wish I got the real “Smartphone” sooner. As a techno-geek, I love this gadget. For non geeks out there, get it - you don’t have to be a techie to use or appreciate the work it does. I now have two phones in my purse, but only ONE that IS a SMARTPHONE.
Terrific product. Kudos RIM.
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4 Stars Very nice phone
Loving my Blackberry Curve 8330. I’ve had a BB 8700g before and liked it very much but this phone blows it and my Palm Centro that I upgraded from right out of the water. I’m quite pleased with the BB Curve 8330. Not for nothing, Sprint’s Curve is the best one to have because it has far more features than any other cell phone carriers’ Curves. Sprint didn’t hold back featurewise. My friends are a bit jealous because of the amount of features my phone has compared to their Curves. Here’s the breakdown of what I like and dislike.
Pros:
- Beautiful ruby red color
- Very clear and vivid video and pictures
- Great call quality
- Nice, loud speakerphone
- MP3 sound quality is superb
- Has standard 3.5mm headphone jack which is great. No need to buy those special 2.5mm headphones.
- A USB port
- Snappy bluetooth pairing with my bluetooth headset when with many other phones it seemed like it took forever for the two devices to find each other
- Expandable to 16GB with 4.5 OS
- Speedy email retrieval
- Camera and video camera is pretty good especially outdoors but the indoor photos are not too shabby
- Decent battery life
- Trackball makes for easy navigating
- 96MB of internal ROM memory which is a nice amount of storage and I’m able to fit a lot of third party software with room to spare
- A lot of awesome features and apps that came with the phone plus plenty you can download
- Nice rendering of doc, pdf and ppt files
Honorable mention: The Sprint GPS TelNav(which I thought I didn’t need)on this phone rocks. It really can go toe to toe as far as navigation with my Garmin GPS plus it finds signals a lot quicker than my Garmin. I’ve used it while driving and while walking and it has been on point with fantastic accuracy.
Cons:
- Internet videos, particularly YouTube, displays very small and doesn’t take up the whole screen and there’s no way to make it full screen like I was able to with my Palm Centro
- Video camera does not shoot videos using the whole 320×240 screen. It only takes the videos at 240×176. Therefore the videos you shoot never take up the whole screen.
- The browser could be a bit faster
- Hangs and freezes on some websites
- Rebooting is way too slow
- Wish the camera had more features
- Voice dialing is bad and doesn’t register spoken names very well. Luckily I use another app to handle that.
All and all…this is a very nice phone.
