The BlackBerry Curve 8900 has a sleek design, a solid construction a sharp display, a faster processor, a Full HTML Web browser with support for RSS feeds and streaming media including YouTube, an integrated Wi-Fi with UMA support, and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Amazing introduction for the beginning. This smartphone has the thinnest full QWERTY BlackBerry. It measures is 2.36 x 0.53 x 4.29 inch (WxDxH) and 3.87 oz weight.
The 2.4 inch TFT LCD supports 65,536 colors at a 480×360-pixel resolution. The BlackBerry Curve 8900′s keyboard can be used as normally eventhough the phone quiet small. The buttons provide a nice tactile feedback and the keyboard is adequately backlit, with the number keys highlighted in red.
A single user-programmable shortcut key (launches voice dialer by default), a 3.5mm headphone jack, a volume rocker, a MicroUSB port, and another customizable side button (assigned to the camera out of the box) are located on the right side. The camera and flash are on the back side, and behind the battery cover there are SIM card and microSD expansion slots.
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The RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 runs BlackBerry OS 4.6.1.114 and DataViz’s Documents to Go Suite, can be used to edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. To create new documents, Standard Edition must be upgrade to Premium Edition. Some extra information management tools inside Curve 8900, such as a Calendar, a task list, a memo pad, a voice recorder, a calculator, a password keeper, and more.
Two options connections are Wi-Fi or T-Mobile’s EDGE network, and the other upside of the integrated Wi-Fi is UMA support. This means you can make and receive unlimited calls over a wireless network and not have the minutes deducted from your cellular plan. The BlackBerry Curve 8900 voice features are quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, smart dialing, conference calling, speed dial, and text and multimedia messaging.
Curve 8900 also have Bluetooth 2.0 with support for mono and stereo Bluetooth wireless headsets, hands-free kits, and dial-up networking. GPS is built in, using both satellites and cellular triangulation to find our position. The BlackBerry Curve 8900′s built-in media player able to play many kind music and video formats, such as MP3, WMA9/WMA9 Pro/WMA20, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, and MIDI music files, and MPEG4, WMV, DivX4, DivX5/6 (partial support), XviD (partial), and H.263 video clips.
The Curve has 256MB onboard Flash memory and the slot available up to 16GB cards. It’s camera gets upgraded to a 3.2-megapixel lens (from 2 megapixels) with video recording capabilities, flash, auto focus, 2x zoom, and image stabilization. When using video recorder, there are some setting such as three picture sizes and three picture qualities, white balance settings, and some effects to photos. The clips are available in two formats (normal and MMS) with sound and offers a video light and color effects.
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 can support for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise, to deliver corporate e-mail in real time, and also several instant messages such as Yahoo, AIM, windows live, and Google Talk. Attachment viewer to open Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect, PDF, JPEG, GIF, and more. Using BlackBerry Internet Service can access up to 10 personal/business POP3 or IMAP4 e-mail accounts
Plus :
The RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 has a solid design and some useful features, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, new productivity tools, a full HTML Web browser, and a 3.2-megapixel camera.
Minus :
Lacks 3G support. The body made from plastic and there is also a little plastic piece to hold the card in place. The battery cover can be lift up a little. Many icons on the screen look the same. A bit of shutter lag.
Detail Specifications :
- Dimensions (W x D x H) 2.36 in x 0.53 in x 4.29 in
- Weight 3.87 oz
- Service Provider T-Mobile
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