Who has a blackberry curve?
 

Reviews? Like it? Hate it? Switching my plans around and thinking about adding a curve for second phone on my plan. Is good? Is bad? Sure few people have one. Bout to do some research on it now. Give me the 411. :thumbsup

depends what you want... i have an iphone and blackberry

blackberry : Nothing comes close to it, when it comes to managing your time, and texting and email etc...

as a phone : nothing competes with the iphone right now..

i hope the curve is good i just ordered one for the next 3 years

It's everything you need + a shitload more..

oh... and brickbreaker is addicting

I have the pearl and plan to upgrade to the curve.

Well I have a sidekick III now so doubt it would touch that texting wise. Really fast for me to type on that, but the Wifi connection, plus the tmobile home wifi ability is what is getting me to consider switching over for both lines. Going to test out curve as second phone and see how I like it. Gain a lot of stuff. Just wish they would make a sidekick with all the features that the curve has. Sigh.. lol

i heard the GPS is smokin'

Mine is starting to do some weird stuff like not update my recent calls list properly and it constantly displays that I have a missed called. I'm hoping the next OS update will fix it.

Well after looking at reviews and here looks like Ill grab a new one on monday.

Does the wifi work fine for going online with? And anyone on tmobile that has used it for wifi calls?

I've got the curve - my biggest cellphone so far but I am loving it :)

I find the numbers hard to type on when your driving for curve... Oh, another problem is when it freezes for no reason and I lose my high score of 450,000 with 47 lives on brick breaker.

Other than that I love it.

Oh the guy at the Tmobile store seemed to think that instant messaging via icq aim ect counted as text message messaging and would cost per message, but looking online he seems to be wrong. Can anyone confirm this for me? Dont want to use up a ton of money texting :( May end up buying 2 of these and replacing my sidekick on monday too.

I have an ATT version without WiFi. I might have to upgrade it.

It should be free if you have unlimited internet.

Ok good hehe. Would kind of suck to have the phone to make sure I can IM and get charged for every LOL lol

I know several people with the Curve and they all like it. I can't stand the version of Windows Mobile on the Tilt. The scaled-down version on the Blackjack and newer Motorola Q isn't too bad. The iphone is pretty badass for web browsing, I just can't get used to the virtual keyboard.

Blackberries -can- have the annoying habit of running low on memory and wiping out your recent call list, messages, etc.. This seems to mostly effect people that keep a bazillion messages in their inbox.

Ok bought 2 of these buggers today. So far so good. Learning all the tricks now. Wifi @ home option (or on the go) is awesome. Can browse AND make calls via wifi. Saves on phone minutes for sure. Some of the things are a bit quirky, but looks like a super solid piece of hardware. Have to go buy 2 4gb micro sd cards tomorrow to load up with music and maybe a movie or two. Ill update this thread as I learn more. They will get tested on the hotel wifi in costa. Hope their router supports uma.

I have the Curve, its a big large, but its still not TOO big, its easy to handle, fits comfortably in my back pocket or in my hand. Texting is easy, the email is great (it actually gets my emails before my desktop sometimes). I have several email accounts on it, and its easy to go between them and select which one I want to send from. The internet is pretty fast as well.

Ya digging it so far. To me its way smaller and lighter cause I had a Sidekick III which is wide and heavy. Figuring out best applications etc for it now. Bit harder to maneuver around than the sidekick was. Texting is def easier on the sidekick, but gave that up to get hotspot at home and wifi capabilities. Ill take pics of mine and Danas today sometime. Went with Gold ones. :winkwink:

I've had the curve for a while, works well when you don't drop them in pools at the Palms ;)

DH

It's a kickass phone for data and email and msging.. the iphone is the better phone. Brickbreaker is fuking addicting!

i'm on T-mobile and have the curve
the icq/msn... is billed as an sms everytime you hit enter or recieve a msg.
i pay $5 / month for unlimited yxy'n
you may wanna check that out

Think it depends on what plan you have setup. I have the unlimited blackberry plan on both of them. Made a few messages and nothing has shown up as a charge yet.

Here are pics I just took.

http://www.stickyboxbucks.com/blackberry1.jpg

http://www.stickyboxbucks.com/blackberry2.jpg

I've had mine since the summer and love it. :)

The Curve is hands down, the best phone I have ever owned.

Got the Wifi version.

Does the GPS burn bandwidth on the curve? In other words, do you get charged for downloading the maps in realtime or are the maps pre-installed?

There are maps on it, but I dont think the Curve has gps. If Im wrong it would be good hehe. :winkwink: On my way out to get some micro sd cards for them.

I have had the non wifi one since last June, it is a very solid business phone. I have had basically 0 problems with it, the only thing that is slightly stupid is that they have a camera, a huge screen, a flash but no video recording? I probably wouldn't ever use it.. but doesnt hurt to have.

Think the new curve has gps built in ...

hmm not from what I can find. At least not on the 8320 looks like it is setup that I can hook a gps to it, probably tether via bluetooth, but not built in. :(

i have the 8310 i like it

it has GPS built in , its actually more accurate then one in my car :(

Ya looks like if you have wifi you cant have gps and vice versa sigh...

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/0...-gps-not-both/

ya but you dont have wifi right? Think only 8320 has wifi.

It's a program. I can't remember what it's called but you download it and voila, you have GPS :) IIRC you get it free for a trial period then it cost $X per month, but I didn't look into it that much since both my cars have GPS on them.

At the very worst you could always go to mapquest.com on the browser. :thumbsup

I use the browser and email more than I use the phone.

Well as far as I can see the 8320 does not come with gps since it has wifi. So any calls I make within distance of connecting to a network dont use up my minutes, and data service jump through wifi too then. Faster on wifi than edge. Going to try opera mini which looks like supposed to work better. I hate the font sizing since Im used to my sidekick 3 which is a wider screen.

its called Telenav

I just got one 2 days ago, it was an upgrade from my 8700g.

How do you get GPS to work with it??

I like the new track ball in the middle much more than the old one on the side.
Was really easy and fast to import data from my old phone to the new one.

I want to bling out my curve. What do you guys think of this? Don't laugh

http://www.letscrystalit.com/gallery.cfm

bwwwuuuuuuuahahahahaha they are all tacky as shit :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:error

I think the Curve 8310 is fantastic. Absolutely brilliantly done. I really get the feeling that the phone has been tested and refined until absolutely every feature and small minute detail perfected. It isn't, however, without it's quirks. The other day I upgraded to the AT&T Unlimited plan and somehow that killed my data access, and I spent the next two hours rebooting the phone (15+ times) and standing around the store waiting for the problem to be resolved. The other day the phone wouldn't bring up the main menu options. Had to reboot the phone to fix that.

But aside from these minor issues, the phone is really an amazing productivity tool that lets you stay in touch in a way that I never realized I couldn't live without.

The GPS with Google Maps is great. It's been a life-saver finding bars downtown and I can literally get anywhere using only the phone to guide me. BTW the GPS chipset is the SIRF Star III. Best GPS on the market.

http://serialmedia.com/curve.jpg

the pearl is hardly a blackberry

i have a curve and i would say its the best phone i have ever had, the battery life is good and its pretty easy to use and work with.

i love mine

Ya I did some more research on the whole 8310 8320 thing. the 10 has the gps but no wifi, the 20 has wifi but no gps, but you can buy a 89.00 bluetooth gps to go with it that goes on your keychain. So to me that is better. Since you cant add wifi to a 8310. :winkwink:

Battery life is crazy for me cause I was used to the sidekick 3 which wouldnt make it 24 hours before going dead on me. From what Ive seen the curve will go 4 days even with fairy heavy use. :winkwink:

As a Tmobile crackberry 8320 user, hotspot at home user, and gps user on top of it, here's some frustrations that'll help clear now should you run into them.


Assuming you're using their router (which was free after a rebate for awhile, which is nothing more than a wrt-54gs, but w/ the multi-media device extensions in it)

wireless advanced settings -
Beacon = 50 ms
DTIM = 2
Frag and RTS = 2304

That should help phone find hotspot faster and also hang onto it a bit better with UMA.

Make sure you have latest firmware version in the phone, as of current, it is 4.2.2.180 (go under the wrench and about, it should be 3rd line down). If you don't have it, you can get it on tmobile's site, it fixes some hotspot@home issues.

Bluetooth + wifi = dropped calls. If you plan on using your hotspot at home, bluetooth headset works, but it will drop some calls too "call failed". Since I quit using my bluetooth unless i switch to edge, i haven't had any calls failed. Supposedly this will be fixed more in newer software versions, which 4.3 is in testing and i had read it should be rolling out sometime during Q2.

GPS - If you don't need a keychain one, i found a holux gps receiver on ebay for $40. Google maps is also available for blackberry (and supports gps). Unfortunately, there is no navigation software that you can install the maps onto the card, it's all streamed/cached over the i-net/edge, so if you lose connectivity, your navigation is lost. I have a an old MDA which I loaded some nav software on and keep it around as my navigation suite.

Starbucks - used to be your friend, but they're pulling out and switching to AT&T. Enjoy UMA there while you can for phone at least.

Opera mini - alternative browser, sometimes handy to have two different browers for page rendering purposes. It seems to act a little more normal than the blackberry one.. opera.com for that, it's free.

If you haven't used the voice recognition for dialing, it works pretty well and doesn't require training. Handy when driving. "Call <name> <type>" "call netpimp mobile" "call netpimp home" etc.

Good stuff. Im set on the firmware, and installed opera mini and google maps already. Trying to install Skype from www.Iskoot.com being a bit tricky, but Ill get it.

One thing I want to change is what icons are displayed on the first screen. Still researching that one.

I have the Curve and Tmo's @home service and have been using it extensively since early fall. It's the cat's ass.

Love the fact that I have unlimited minutes anytime of day or night as long as I have Wifi. Also means I have rock solid 5 bars type coverage anywhere in the house now including basement. Works exactly as advertised, it's very common that I'm on the phone as I leave the house or on the phone as I roll into the garage, it switches between wifi and tower seamlessly.

The wizard to setup wifi connections is also amazingly easy. I'm amazed at how many places I can find to leach wifi now. ;)

For phone quality, the voice and radio quality is better than any previous phone I've had. I dont think I've had a single dropped call since I bought it.

Tmo also just started test marketing a version of @home in a couple of markets that has RJ-11's on the router (ala vonage), so you can dump your wireline completely and have basically unlimited calls on all your home phones via your cell service. I await it's availability here with baited breath.

Do u have to buy any additional software or programs to get the gps to work?? i dont think mine works out of the box

I've installed a bunch of various GPS software, but the best one I've found by far is Google Maps. It includes support for the integrated GPS.

My biggest gripe about Google Maps for the Blackberry is that it doesn't verbalize the directions turn by turn. Also, it doesn't recalculate your route when you miss a turn. So it makes navigating while driving quite difficult. But really if you had to rely on it, you could get away with it. It's just not really too easy to use while you're driving. Garmin has a software package for the Berry that costs $9.99 a month that gives you the same nav features built into their nav units. I'm considering buying it.