Close but not Quite Perfection
With mobile phones seeking to slim the space all of the time among themselves and the committed PDA handsets available on the market – the Apple iPhone springs to thoughts – producers like Research In Motion (RIM) are having to strive even tougher to make their merchandise stand out. Enter the brand new Blackberry 8300 Curve, with a number of new functions but, extraordinarily, a few glaring ones too.
The fact this new Blackberry has pop out so soon after the 8800 model says the whole thing there’s to recognise approximately just how right cell phones are in the mean time – RIM is obviously involved approximately the diminishing market. However, PDA’s like the Blackberry 8300 Curve can nevertheless offer a few features cellular phones can’t, and it’s these capabilities that make this such an exciting product.
The foremost distinction between this model and the currently released 8800 is that the Curve is a lot slimmer. In truth, with the trade in length that RIM has given the Blackberry 8300, you’d be forgiven for wondering which you’re maintaining a regular mobile phone for your hand. The best component that gives it away is the same old QWERTY keyboard just under the large show screen.
Design-smart, the 8300 Curve benefits from a black and silver color scheme, which offers it just the right quantity of futuristic styling that PDA customers appear to love. It’s extraordinarily lightweight as nicely, as a minimum for a PDA, and is full 1.5 ounces lighter than the Treo. It feels true to preserve as nicely, way to the small addition of rubber grips at the side, making it feel more relaxed and much less vulnerable to slipping out of your grip.
A neat little trick is that the 2.5-inch screen has sensors that detect what the lights conditions are like. Too dark or too vibrant, and the Blackberry 8300 will routinely adjust the brightness and contrast. This makes it lots less difficult to navigate your icon-pushed menus, and is a particular step inside the right course, now not just for Blackberry but PDA’s and cell telephones in fashionable.
Unlike a few comparable models, the display screen isn’t touch-sensitive; but, there may be a little trackball nub which you use to move across the display. Using the keyboard is a lot easier on this version as properly, with RIM reverting again to the bigger areas among every of the QWERTY keyboard factors. The clever screen permits pix taken on the 2.0meag-pixel digital camera to appearance just that little bit sharper, mainly if you evaluate images from an equal specced cellular smartphone digicam. However, there’s still no video playback option.
If there may be one aspect that forestalls the Blackberry 8300 Curve from being nearly best, it’s that it’s no longer a 3G unit. This seems nearly criminal whilst you examine the capabilities it does come with, yet for a few motives, RIM haven’t visible suit to supply the 8300 with 3G features. There’s no Wi-Fi guide both, and once more it looks like a ignored possibility. It does make up for this a bit by means of being quad-band, but Wi-Fi might had been nicer.
Yet the Blackberry has continually been about its workplace suite and greater expert technique than an insignificant mobile telephone can offer. In that appreciate, it doesn’t disappoint at all.