BlackBerry Curve 8330 Phone, Titanium (Sprint)

There are a few phones I will compare this phone with to prove to you that it is the best phone out there in the market. Since this is a Sprint phone, I won't bother with phones other carriers carry because I am a Sprint user. Sprint has the HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Treo Pro, Palm Centro, Samsung Instinct and the Blackberry Pearl.The Curve is an improvement over the Pearl because it has a better trackball in the center which doesn't fall out after a few months of use. The keyboard is a full fledged QWERTY. Now, I haven't used the other curves but there is something annoying about the way the icons are displayed. The Sprint curve however seems to have a better icon/font display. While the Curve does not have windows like the HTC twins and Treo, the blackberry comes with it's own software which is much faster, has an efficient battery life and is very fast and easy to customize with every possible feature.Remarkable Features - The call quality on this phone is superb. Sprint's coverage is so good, I live in New York and I've traveled to Las Vegas with this phone and I must say the roaming was an awesome experience. When you compare this phone to Samsung Instinct, HTC and the Palms, you will find a much better coverage and I must admit sometimes I have to decrease the volume cause people can be so loud. My previous phone was a Sony Ericsson and I must admit the volume is approximately 225% as loud as it was on the SE.Another great feature is how you can set up your email, you can have a whole mailbox dedicated to a certain email address and the same can have over ten thousand emails. I didn't try more you see. For texts and missed calls, blackberry's log is almost untouchable and there is no phone in it's league, SERIOUSLY. While the windows phones have internet explorer, I find that the blackberry browser is faster and i love the mobile layout for the phone. So internet and texting experience is a breeze and I can be so fast on the phone.Sometimes my laptop is kept right around but I just can't be bothered. I can write long emails and I am one of those people who hate abbreviations so the blackberry really is the phone for me because I can type so freely. And oh, it was never easier to dial numbers on the phone. I don't use voice dialling. I simply punch in the name using the name of the person using the QWERTY keyboard and it gives me the best matches instantly. Other than that, the blackberry messenger is absolutely outstanding. It is so easy to send small pic files, it auto compresses them into 7kb files. I speak to friends overseas and we prefer this over using gtalk. If you use yahoo or gtalk or even the great AIM, this phone comes with all that.Sprint has this phone available for a singe user (individual) for a minimum of 69.99 per month for 450 minutes. This includes unlimited data, unlimited text messages, unlimited internet browsing, GPS navigation, Sprint TV, Radio and some other features. This really is a fantastic option and far better than what the other carriers offer. You can also set up google maps on this which when I travelled to Baltimore I discovered was outstanding.Accessories/Features - The phone comes with a little leather case that has a magnet to keypad lock your phone, otherwise you can use the standby button on the head and put the phone into a battery saving mode where it wont be disturbed unless you're getting a call. It comes with 1gb worth of data on a microsd card, which is expandable up to 8gb I believe. A earphone set without noise cancellation. Also an important USB cable, software to back up your data and numbers.Unlike a lot of non-techies would think this is not a business phone or a phone which is dedicated to people who have nothing but boredom on their mind. This phone can be used by anyone from the age of 18 to 60. It is easy to use. Far better than the Samsungs, LGs, Sanyos, HTCs...The one thing I dislike about the blacberry is the camera. It comes with a flash but it really falls flat on it's face if you compare it to the iphone or any mediocre sony ericsson camera.An accessory that is not included but is a must have is the black rubber skin for the phone. It can cost up to $20 but it's worth the whole shebang. It so happens that this might need changing every few months depending on how miserly you are, I am one of those people who choose quality over price. I don't mind paying anything for a phone, anything reasonable and I would stick with the Blacberry over any other phone.An irritating thing about the blackberry is how it sometimes takes forever to start up. Sometimes it seems the power is never fully turned off. I still haven't figured that out. WHEN YOUR BATTERY IS LOW, the phone automatically switches the radio off because it is so annoying when your phone turns off on it's own. The 8330 never does that. It may take upto twenty minutes of charging to use the radio to make outgoing calls again. It takes a long time to charge sometimes. I don't drive but I know it uses a USB charger / V3.It is lovely to hold and well built. Get this with insurance because people love stealing this phone. I've had my phone stolen once so I learned my lesson. Another impressive feature is the 3.5 mm jack. The speaker is average and the voice recording can sometimes be fun though I do it when I want to sing and think im singing well. MP3 songs can be set as ring tones.Overall, this is the best phone I have ever used with an average camera. But the phone itself is so good, I stop caring about the camera which by the way comes with a flash. I love my blacberry and am transformed for good. A two day battery life you will love, a good mp3 player back up when your ipod is not around, 1000 applications for this phone, excellent Sprint service. A must have for anyone who wants to keep abreast with technology.I didn't mention anything about bluetooth because every single phones comes with a bluetooth. If you're getting this phone and don't have a skin for it, I must say you're not very bright.

I loathe and despise this phone. It's operating system makes booting it take forever, and when it finally finishes booting it operates at incredibly slow speeds. I have to make sure to exit out of my applications after finishing any task, because if I'm running more than 2, it starts locking up on me.I'd bought a 8GB card for it; waste of money. If I wanted to access the media on it, it has a load time nearly as long as the original boot. The Sprint Store crashes my phone 50% of the time.My receiver started going out on me after two months of use; if I want to talk, I have to insert my headset, because no one can hear what I'm saying without it. This is by far the most agravating aspect of this phone.I was excited about owning my first smartphone, as I've been waiting for years for cellular technology to reach my expectations. I'd heard so much buzz about the Curve, I decided that the time had finally arrived; it was the worst $300 purchase of my entire life. I don't know what smartphone I'll end up buying next, but it won't ever be a Blackberry again. They pillaged my wallet for the first and last time.

the phone is alright. Dont get me wrong here, I liked it, but the monitor was to small for my old eyes. small package for a good price.

Battery sucks.3 hours of using GPS w/ gogle maps and the phone dies on me.On normal days, 15 minutes email checking, no GPS/Google maps, few or very short phone calls, the phone is giving me battery death alerts by 9pm. I've had it 4 months. WTF, Samsung?Extended batteries should have shipped standard with this item. If the manufacturer is going to tout all the features, they should provide a batter to support all of those features, that will last an entire work day + evening out, with out worrying that your phone will die when you're about to put that important phone number in.Look at the BlackJack II battery. It will fit.