Blackberry Curve 8330 Gray Sprint Cell Phone Review

Sprint's version of the new BlackBerry Curve 8330 takes Verizon's version and improves on it in many ways: by adding mobile TV, over-the-air music downloads a lot of robust instant-messaging options, and a powerful info aggregator. In fact, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 Gray Sprint Cell Phone may be a top-notch Smartphone—and our new Editors' alternative for Sprint, taking the title away from last year's BlackBerry 8830. The new Curve 8330's power, along with a large array of capabilities, makes it ideal for both work and play.

BlackBerry Curve 8330 Gray Sprint Cell Phone

Like all Curves, the Sprint BlackBerry 8330 appearance swish and professional; it's charcoal gray with black rubber sides. The left-hand side of the Curve 8330 contains a standard-size three.5mm headphone jack, a miniature USB port, and a voice-dialing activation button. On the right-hand side you'll find hardware volume controls and a camera button.

The star of the front panel is the beautiful 320-by-240-pixel, 2.5-inch screen that features a lightweight sensor to adapt to dimmer ambient lighting. There is additionally RIM's trademark backlit trackball, along with Send, Menu, Back, and finish call buttons, and a elegant, well-spaced QWERTY keyboard with plastic backlit keys that provide well-balanced resistance. The Curve 8330 measures four.2 by 2.4 by 0.6 inches and weighs just four ounces, a hair more than the 3.9-ounce BlackBerry Curve 8310 on AT&T. that's still a formidable feat for a phone with such an excellent keyboard. (By comparison, the diminutive Palm Centro weighs concerning identical at four.2 ounces but may be a nightmare to kind on, given its cramped, tiny keys.)

The Curve features the same old RIM lineup of hardware specs: a 312-MHz CPU and 32MB of internal RAM, along with the aforementioned LCD screen. BlackBerry OS is just pretty much as good as always: It responds quickly to commands and makes getting round the 8330 terribly simple. (If you would like a true bump in performance, you'll have to wait for the BlackBerry daring 9000, but that model will be available on Verizon.)

Sounding nearly just like the Verizon model, this Curve exhibited clear, punchy voice quality. If anything, the Sprint version had a slight quantity of choppiness, but i am going to chalk that up to the remote area of Massachusetts during which I tested the 2 phones. Both the Sprint and Verizon versions were able to hold onto high-speed EV-DO connections. The cell phone paired well with the Plantronics Voyager 520 and therefore the Aliph New Jawbone headsets. Also, the speakerphone was loud and clear enough for outside use.