- Item Weight: 109 g
- Boxed-product Weight: 662 g
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Find out more about our Delivery Rates and Returns Policy - Item model number: 8300 Curve
- ASIN: B00187RC8W
- Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 21 Dec 2007
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,186 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
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Product Description
Product Information
The Blackberry 8310 Curve delivers the legendary BlackBerry email experience. With BlackBerry service plans from AT&T, you can receive emails instantaneously from up to 10 email accounts (personal and enterprise). With BlackBerry push technology, you don't need to retrieve your email. BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, allowing you to be discreetly notified as new email arrives. Support is also built-in for viewing email attachments (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, and PDF formats).
Product Identifiers
Brand RIM/Blackberry
Model Curve 8310
MPN CURVE8310RED
Key Features
Display Technology Color
Family Line RIM BlackBerry
Band EGSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, GSM 850
Style Smartphone
Input Devices Supported Keypad, QWERTY Keyboard
Phone Design Mobile
Connectivity
Wireless Interface Bluetooth, Built-in Wireless
Battery
Battery Type Rechargeable Li-Ion Battery
Talking Battery Life 4 Hours
Standby Battery Life 408 Hours
Hardware
Processor Speed 0.312 MHz
Phone Screen
Screen Type 64K Colors (TFT)
Memory
RAM 64 MB
Memory Card Supported MicroSD
Digital Camera
Camera 2 Megapixels
Display
Display Technology Color
Features
Security Features Keyboard Lock, Security Password
Included Functionalities/Items
Bundled Items USB Synchronization Cable
MP3 Player MP3 Player, WMA Player
Digital Camera Built-in Digital Camera
Computer Link Bluetooth, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi
Dimensions
Depth 0.61 Inch
Weight 3.91 gr
Miscellaneous
Audio Output 3.5 mm Stereo jack, Headphone Jack
Cradle type USB Cradle
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
The way of the future.... virtually everything you need in your mobile life =
- decent camera
- email, calendar and contacts database all synchronised with your desktop
- browse the internet
- text messaging
- great phone (excellent sound quality)
- GPS
- music player (has micro SD card to expand capacity)
- can open most attachments including pix and word documents etc,
It also has the most amazing battery life - 7-10 days on medium use.
Setting up the email accounts (up to 10) was very straightforward (more so than Outlook). I have a blackberry and a laptop, and would probably rather lose the laptop.
Very user friendly and intuitive. Their nickname is "crackberries" and with good reason: once you've had it a week you'll be an addict. Amazingly capable.
Downsides: lots of faffing about learning about the difference between business blackberry (uses company server) and personal blackberry (uses 'blackberry internet service'). Someone needs to write a brief guide for the uninitiated.
Had to do a lot of trawling the web to work out a way to get email sent from blackberry to appear in the sent items of my PC. For some stupid reason the desktop software synchs everything EXCEPT email when you connect.
Ubiquitous - everyone's got them and they're a major irritation in the cinema / theatre coz people think emailing is OK even if actually calling someone isn't. Its NOT!! The keys 'click' when you're typing. Quite irritating if you happen to be sitting next to a user.
Roxy media manager (part of the desktop software that backs up and synchronises your music and photos) is painfully bad. But you can sidestep it.
Pre-loaded GPS software is also appalling but you can download Googlemaps for mobile - hey presto, works fine.
Apart from these minor niggles, very highly recommended. Quite simply the best, most user friendly, most accomplished piece of kit I own.
- decent camera
- email, calendar and contacts database all synchronised with your desktop
- browse the internet
- text messaging
- great phone (excellent sound quality)
- GPS
- music player (has micro SD card to expand capacity)
- can open most attachments including pix and word documents etc,
It also has the most amazing battery life - 7-10 days on medium use.
Setting up the email accounts (up to 10) was very straightforward (more so than Outlook). I have a blackberry and a laptop, and would probably rather lose the laptop.
Very user friendly and intuitive. Their nickname is "crackberries" and with good reason: once you've had it a week you'll be an addict. Amazingly capable.
Downsides: lots of faffing about learning about the difference between business blackberry (uses company server) and personal blackberry (uses 'blackberry internet service'). Someone needs to write a brief guide for the uninitiated.
Had to do a lot of trawling the web to work out a way to get email sent from blackberry to appear in the sent items of my PC. For some stupid reason the desktop software synchs everything EXCEPT email when you connect.
Ubiquitous - everyone's got them and they're a major irritation in the cinema / theatre coz people think emailing is OK even if actually calling someone isn't. Its NOT!! The keys 'click' when you're typing. Quite irritating if you happen to be sitting next to a user.
Roxy media manager (part of the desktop software that backs up and synchronises your music and photos) is painfully bad. But you can sidestep it.
Pre-loaded GPS software is also appalling but you can download Googlemaps for mobile - hey presto, works fine.
Apart from these minor niggles, very highly recommended. Quite simply the best, most user friendly, most accomplished piece of kit I own.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
I've now had my phone long enough to find out the weak links. First
the good points - it's a nice size, the battery life is REALLY good, even if you use it a lot, the qwerty keyboard makes it easy to type and the e-mail function is excellent. If you want a phone mainly to keep in constant e-mail contact, this is the one for you. And the camera is pretty good although it only has digital zoom.
Now the not-so good points. It doesn't come with much in the manual, and it's a darn pain to set up. As already pointed out in another review, the GPS software is dreadful, but the Google software is really easy to download and EXCELLENT. Secondly, there is no predictive texting, so if you write a lot of e-mails you're going to get arthritis in your thumbs pretty quickly. Then there is the bluetooth - easy enough to set up to pair with bluetooth devices, but if you use it for handsfree in the car and are used to them automatically syncing when you get in the car, you're in for a nasty shock. It takes a couple of minutes each time you get in the car to reconnect the BB with handsfree as it has to be done manually. And bad luck if you forget - you'll have to ignore that important call. Then there's BB messenger - sort of like Microsoft Messenger, only it doesn't seem to add your contacts even if you accept an invite. It doesn't work.
The settings for the phone profiles don't do what I set them to. The ring tone hasn't changed to what it has been set as, and various other functions (alarms, reminders) don't behave as per settings - silent when should be bleeping or vibrating and vice versa. And there is no explanation as to why or how to fix.
If you want to view attachments on e-mails, you're going to have to buy additional software. spreadsheets do not display correctly, and neither do pdf's. I haven't tried word processor documents yet.
And then the next problem - installing additional software, (especially if you desktop is an Apple) is a bit of a problem. Currently,the installation is not supported by the Sync software for Mac so if you want to add programs, you have to find a Windows computer and install the sync software on that. I haven't tried it so I can't comment on the reliability but I've had endless problems with the Mac sync software crashing and freezing.
I haven't really tried out the multimedia software either but the music software seems to be unpopular.
And finally, although you can add in an additional memory card (microSD) it's not on a convenient side slot, it's underneath the battery so you can't just take it out to synch files without resetting the phone each time (and it takes a good 5-10 minutes to boot up after a reset)
It should be a great phone, with all the features. If only they worked as well as the e-mail system does!
the good points - it's a nice size, the battery life is REALLY good, even if you use it a lot, the qwerty keyboard makes it easy to type and the e-mail function is excellent. If you want a phone mainly to keep in constant e-mail contact, this is the one for you. And the camera is pretty good although it only has digital zoom.
Now the not-so good points. It doesn't come with much in the manual, and it's a darn pain to set up. As already pointed out in another review, the GPS software is dreadful, but the Google software is really easy to download and EXCELLENT. Secondly, there is no predictive texting, so if you write a lot of e-mails you're going to get arthritis in your thumbs pretty quickly. Then there is the bluetooth - easy enough to set up to pair with bluetooth devices, but if you use it for handsfree in the car and are used to them automatically syncing when you get in the car, you're in for a nasty shock. It takes a couple of minutes each time you get in the car to reconnect the BB with handsfree as it has to be done manually. And bad luck if you forget - you'll have to ignore that important call. Then there's BB messenger - sort of like Microsoft Messenger, only it doesn't seem to add your contacts even if you accept an invite. It doesn't work.
The settings for the phone profiles don't do what I set them to. The ring tone hasn't changed to what it has been set as, and various other functions (alarms, reminders) don't behave as per settings - silent when should be bleeping or vibrating and vice versa. And there is no explanation as to why or how to fix.
If you want to view attachments on e-mails, you're going to have to buy additional software. spreadsheets do not display correctly, and neither do pdf's. I haven't tried word processor documents yet.
And then the next problem - installing additional software, (especially if you desktop is an Apple) is a bit of a problem. Currently,the installation is not supported by the Sync software for Mac so if you want to add programs, you have to find a Windows computer and install the sync software on that. I haven't tried it so I can't comment on the reliability but I've had endless problems with the Mac sync software crashing and freezing.
I haven't really tried out the multimedia software either but the music software seems to be unpopular.
And finally, although you can add in an additional memory card (microSD) it's not on a convenient side slot, it's underneath the battery so you can't just take it out to synch files without resetting the phone each time (and it takes a good 5-10 minutes to boot up after a reset)
It should be a great phone, with all the features. If only they worked as well as the e-mail system does!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I have this phone with a couple of weeks and while it took a bit of getting used to it has now become an extension of my arm.The screen is huge and with a full qwerty keyboard the first impression is "oh oh too big" but this phone is surprisingly slim and neat.I ll leave the techno-jargon to the other reviewers but needless to say it has all the bells and whistles that you come to expect with a Blackberry
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Amazoning! :)
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The Tracker Ball.
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