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* Smallest, lightest BlackBerry with full QWERTY keyboard in exclusive red color--weighs just 3.9 ounces * Internal GPS receiver with support for TeleNav software; AT & T exclusive push-to-talk (PTT) walkie talkie-style communication * 2.0 megapixel camera with flash and 5x digital zoom; Bluetooth wireless connectivity with with stereo headset support * 1100 mAh rechargeable battery provides 240 minutes of talk time, 408 hours of standby time * Includes: Battery, Charger, Handsfree Headset and USB Cable Swelling the Blackberry Curve's already formidable arsenal of telephonic and connectivity tools, the titanium Blackberry 8310 Curve now adds an internal GPS receiver with support for TeleNav GPS Navigator software and push-to-talk (PTT) capability--an AT & T exclusive. An amalgam of the svelte BlackBerry Pearl and the more business-oriented 8800, the 8310 Curve is the smallest, lightest BlackBerry phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. And it combines RIM's long-valued push 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). This quadband phone operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via AT & T's EDGE network, with availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. It also offers global voice roaming in over 190 and data roaming in over 130 countries. Staying Connected The svelte, titanium BlackBerry 8310 Curve offers a full QWERTY keyboard, innovative trackball navigation system (placed above the keyboard) and large 2.5-inch screen. The Blackberry 8310 Curve delivers the legendary BlackBerry email experience. With BlackBerry service plans from AT & T, you can receive emails instantaneously from up to 10 email accounts (personal and enterprise). With BlackBerry push technology, you don't need to retrieve your email. BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, allowing you to be discreetly notified as new email arrives. Support is also built-in for viewing email attachments (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, and PDF formats). If your company has a BlackBerry Enterprise Server installed, you can also take advantage of the power of wireless calendar synchronization. Your calendar events are exchanged wirelessly and automatically so that your desktop calendar and BlackBerry handheld calendar are synchronized. All your Outlook meeting requests, changes, and updates are instantaneously synchronized instantaneously with your desktop. Make meeting requests, invite new attendees and more, all on your Blackberry 8310 Curve. Users without BlackBerry Enterprise Server support can manually sync with their desktop calendars and contacts via Bluetooth or USB using the included BlackBerry Desktop Software. BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is complimentary with the activation of a AT & T BlackBerry service plan (additional charges apply) and provides customers with the ability to have their personal or work email pushed automatically to their BlackBerry phone from multiple Internet Service Provider (ISP) email accounts. BIS provides automatic wireless synchronization of read, deleted, and sent email from the your BlackBerry phone to their desktop email account. Users with multiple accounts can choose from multiple "sent from" addresses when sending an email. You can also download ringtones and other content via AT & T's popular MEdia Net service or browse the Web using the BlackBerry HTML Browser. Wireless text messaging and multimedia messaging (MMS) are also supported by the BlackBerry 8820. AT & T Exclusive Features Among the unique features of the Blackberry 8310 Curve are AT & T's Push-to-Talk (PTT) service and TeleNav GPS Navigator. AT & T Push-to-Talk boasts the largest push to talk coverage area in America. PTT features on the BlackBerry 8820 include "availability" icons, quick group calling, and the ability to easily convert a PTT session to a regular wireless voice call. You can use your 8310 Curve to Push-to-Talk to communicate with individual colleagues or friends, or set up groups for broader communication. The PTT button, on the left side of the device (noted by three raised dots), easily facilitates each PTT call (simply press and hold to talk after the chirp and release when finished). In addition, the AT & T service offers such standard PTT features as call waiting, contact alerts, as well as text, picture, and voice messaging to anyone in their contact list. You can also take advantage of the TeleNav GPS Navigator software, the full-featured premium navigation application that includes audible turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates and re-routing options, and 3D moving maps. It comes as a 30-day trial version, and it can be downloaded via the TeleNav web site or via virtual pre-load icon (VPL) after activation. Phone Design & Features This 8310 Curve is fashioned in a titanium finish and subtly curving corners. Measuring 4.2 x 2.4 inches, the Curve is just as slim as the Pearl (0.6 inches) and weighs in at 3.9 ounces--just 0.7 ounces heavier than its predecessor. 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 64 MB of internal ROM memory, and is expandable using MicroSD memory cards. The battery provides up to 4 hours (240 minutes) of talk time and up to 17 days (408 hours) of standby time. 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 a wide variety of file formats, including MP3, WMA and AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ audio and WMV, MPEG4 and H.263 video. Dedicated volume controls are conveniently located on the side of the handset. You can also subscribe to the AT & T Music service, which includes access to online subscription music content from eMusic, XM Satellite Radio and more. 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. Vital Statistics The BlackBerry 8310 Curve weighs 3.9 ounces and measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches. Its 1100 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk time, and up to 408 hours (17 days) of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies. -- Amazon.com Product Description Not For The New Users Of Blackberry -- 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. Worst Phone I Ever Have -- This is my first time to use Blackberry and it gave me realy bad experience. Dont go for Curve if you wanna to use it for call conferencing. Why Such An Offer?? -- As I am not buying, so my "star rating" is meaningless - just to satisfy Amazon's requirements. This gold box offer has all the signs of a desperate attempt by RIM, et al. to unload product inventory which is about to be made obsolete by some market-busting new technology coming online. As they say, if it sounds too good to be true, then it is. Also, a reviewer's point about GPS being a double-edged sword if always with you and turned on, is worth considering. Don'T Buy This Phone! -- 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. Bad Choice. Crashes All The Time -- 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. Binding : Wireless Phone Color : Silver Model : 8310 Release Date : 2007-10-11 UPC : 843163018655 Variation Description : Silver See also:
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