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| Brand: BlackBerry
Category: Wireless
List Price: $399.99
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 30
Color: Silver
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
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Model: 8310
UPC: 843163018655
ASIN: B000WP91XK
Release Date: October 11, 2007
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| Features:
| • | Smallest, lightest BlackBerry with full QWERTY keyboard in exclusive red color--weighs just 3.9 ounces | | • | Internal GPS receiver with support for TeleNav software; AT&T exclusive push-to-talk (PTT) walkie talkie-style communication | | • | 2.0 megapixel camera with flash and 5x digital zoom; Bluetooth wireless connectivity with with stereo headset support | | • | 1100 mAh rechargeable battery provides 240 minutes of talk time, 408 hours of standby time | | • | Includes: Battery, Charger, Handsfree Headset and USB Cable |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Swelling the Blackberry Curve's already formidable arsenal of telephonic and connectivity tools, the titanium Blackberry 8310 Curve now adds an internal GPS receiver with support for TeleNav GPS Navigator software and push-to-talk (PTT) capability--an AT&T exclusive. An amalgam of the svelte BlackBerry Pearl and the more business-oriented 8800, the 8310 Curve is the smallest, lightest BlackBerry phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. And it combines RIM's long-valued push email and messaging platform with a host of advanced multimedia features, including a 2-megapixel camera and stereo Bluetooth (for listening to music via wireless headphones). This quadband phone operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via AT&T's EDGE network, with availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. It also offers global voice roaming in over 190 and data roaming in over 130 countries. Staying Connected
The svelte, titanium BlackBerry 8310 Curve offers a full QWERTY keyboard, innovative trackball navigation system (placed above the keyboard) and large 2.5-inch screen. | 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). If your company has a BlackBerry Enterprise Server installed, you can also take advantage of the power of wireless calendar synchronization. Your calendar events are exchanged wirelessly and automatically so that your desktop calendar and BlackBerry handheld calendar are synchronized. All your Outlook meeting requests, changes, and updates are instantaneously synchronized instantaneously with your desktop. Make meeting requests, invite new attendees and more, all on your Blackberry 8310 Curve. Users without BlackBerry Enterprise Server support can manually sync with their desktop calendars and contacts via Bluetooth or USB using the included BlackBerry Desktop Software. BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is complimentary with the activation of a AT&T BlackBerry service plan (additional charges apply) and provides customers with the ability to have their personal or work email pushed automatically to their BlackBerry phone from multiple Internet Service Provider (ISP) email accounts. BIS provides automatic wireless synchronization of read, deleted, and sent email from the your BlackBerry phone to their desktop email account. Users with multiple accounts can choose from multiple "sent from" addresses when sending an email. You can also download ringtones and other content via AT&T's popular MEdia Net service or browse the Web using the BlackBerry HTML Browser. Wireless text messaging and multimedia messaging (MMS) are also supported by the BlackBerry 8820. AT&T Exclusive Features
Among the unique features of the Blackberry 8310 Curve are AT&T's Push-to-Talk (PTT) service and TeleNav GPS Navigator. AT&T Push-to-Talk boasts the largest push to talk coverage area in America. PTT features on the BlackBerry 8820 include "availability" icons, quick group calling, and the ability to easily convert a PTT session to a regular wireless voice call. You can use your 8310 Curve to Push-to-Talk to communicate with individual colleagues or friends, or set up groups for broader communication. The PTT button, on the left side of the device (noted by three raised dots), easily facilitates each PTT call (simply press and hold to talk after the chirp and release when finished). In addition, the AT&T service offers such standard PTT features as call waiting, contact alerts, as well as text, picture, and voice messaging to anyone in their contact list. You can also take advantage of the TeleNav GPS Navigator software, the full-featured premium navigation application that includes audible turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates and re-routing options, and 3D moving maps. It comes as a 30-day trial version, and it can be downloaded via the TeleNav web site or via virtual pre-load icon (VPL) after activation. Phone Design & Features
This 8310 Curve is fashioned in a titanium finish and subtly curving corners. Measuring 4.2 x 2.4 inches, the Curve is just as slim as the Pearl (0.6 inches) and weighs in at 3.9 ounces--just 0.7 ounces heavier than its predecessor. It features a bright 2.5-inch color TFT screen that provides 65,000 colors and a 320 x 240-pixel resolution, and it includes a light-sensing feature that automatically adjusts backlighting for indoor, outdoor and dark environments. Like the BlackBerry 8800, the Curve includes a trackball navigation system located on the top of the QWERTY keypad, and it also features an integrated spell checker with a customizable dictionary to help maintain accuracy while on the go. It has 64 MB of internal ROM memory, and is expandable using MicroSD memory cards. The battery provides up to 4 hours (240 minutes) of talk time and up to 17 days (408 hours) of standby time. You can snap vivid photos (though no video) using the 2-megapixel camera on the back of the Curve, which also features a 5x digital zoom, built-in flash, self-portrait mirror and full screen viewfinder. It can capture images in up to three picture quality and size resolutions that can be shared instantly by email, MMS or BlackBerry Messenger, or even uploaded to your Flickr account with the Yahoo! Go service. Photos can also be immediately set as a unique caller ID or Home Screen image. You can edit photos and create albums within the Curve using the PhotoSuite application. Pictures can be cropped, rotated and straightened, and flaws can be fixed by removing redeye or changing the brightness, contrast, and saturation levels. Listen to your favorite music and watch downloaded videos using the included stereo headset, or use an optional wireless headphone thanks to the Curve's support for the Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP). The Curve is compatible with a wide variety of file formats, including MP3, WMA and AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ audio and WMV, MPEG4 and H.263 video. Dedicated volume controls are conveniently located on the side of the handset. You can also subscribe to the AT&T Music service, which includes access to online subscription music content from eMusic, XM Satellite Radio and more. With the Voice-Activated Dialing (VAD) feature, you can initiate a call just by telling the Curve who to call from your contact list--either via the integrated speakerphone or using an optional Bluetooth wireless headset. Other advanced phone features include advanced sound technology that cancels out background noise and echo, dedicated volume and mute keys, and the ability to customize the Curve with polyphonic and MP3 ringtones. Vital Statistics
The BlackBerry 8310 Curve weighs 3.9 ounces and measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches. Its 1100 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk time, and up to 408 hours (17 days) of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Looks smart and great to have. Works good with data plan, as it has no wireless feature. July 4, 2008
S. Tanuboddi (NJ USA)
BB Curve 8310 is good to have and works well with data plan. It would be good if it has wireless feature also.
 Too little... July 1, 2008
S. Oktavia
I bought this phone for present.
The lightess is perfect. The only thing, if you have perfect eye sight, this phone perfectly fine. But if you buy it for someone like my husband, who has bad eye, ha....ha..sorry hubby....the keyboard is too too small. Now, he switched back to his old Nokia N76.
For blackberry, I just keep it for charm, because is free anyway with two year contract.
OS needs redevelopment June 26, 2008
Andrew
Aside from the problems that numerous other reviewers have already noted (such as the slow 2.5G browsing speed), the operating system needs to be upgraded. Password fields are truncated (compared to how they would appear on a typical full-size laptop), which may be one reason why the device doesn't seem to be fully interoperable with the some of the mobile platforms found on the Web (Google Mobile, MSN Mobile, etc.). You certainly can't beat the price, though (a penny). I guess we had better enjoy free technology while we can, as many states may follow the lead of New York and California by introducing state legislation requiring online retailers to collect taxes in their states even if the e-commerce portal lacks a physical presence in those states (which would raise the total price charged to the consumer, with tax included).
 Great phone, and lost of nice features but net service too much! June 25, 2008
Bone (South Florida)
I got this phone a little over a month ago and have since had much time to play with it, learn it, and so on.
Pros:
Full qwerty keyboard makes for very easy typing for me to get things out as fast as possible. I have big fingures and this works pretty good for me.
Easy navigation: it's so easy to move from one program to the next and you can creat folders and more to organize the programs for how you want things to be
Right size: it's not too small and not too big.
Voice recognition: I recently started using this with my BT headset (H681) and wow, this makes things so easy, no pre programing like older system used to require. I can access just say what I want it to do and it does it. Sometimes it doesn't fully recognize what I said but a restating normally fixes that.
Camera: better than average quality as far as phone cameras go, but could be a lot better in my opinion. It'll do though for the time being until I decided to get a different phone.
Web: The browser does a great job of displaying full internet pages and you can switch from mobile style to Desktop style with a mouse cursor (needed for some pages). I like how you can easily select text and copy to the note pad or whatever else is needed. The browser is definatley setup well.
Cons:
Screen size: could be a little higher resolution/larger The could have definately taken up a little more space with the screen. yeah there isn't a whole lot of space to do so, but every little bit counts and it seems like they could have done a little better with this.
The ringer volumes: You only have 3 levels to choose from, low-medium-high. Granted the High is quite loud but the low isn't really that low at all. It's still kind of loud in my opinion. It would have been nice to just give levels like most other phones were you can have a nice rather low volume especially when you might be in a meeting or a library were you don't want a loud ringer at all. You can do it to the volume of the caller and such so why not the ringers.
Trankball sensitivity: ( yeah you can adjust it to be really sensative or not, there are like 10 different setting but it seems that when you get to the more sensative side it is a major difference in how fast the selection moves instead of being milder changes. Seems like they dropped the ball on that aspect.
Headset Jack: Not happy with the 3.5mm 4 contact jack at all. You can't just go out and get a headset to have voice conversations with people via a wired headset (99% of these headsets are 2.5mm 3 contact jacks. It would have been nice if a 3.5mm 4 contact - 2.5mm 3 contact adapter would have been included or atleast more accessible. No one seems to carry them at all anywere locally, can only get them online and then you have to be sure it's not and adapter to go to your car stereo.
Included headset: it's extremely uncomfortable in my ears, the ear pieces are huge! they bairly fit in my ears, I feel sorry for most women or other men who have smaller ears trying to use this headset.
Now on to the service comment made in the title:
AT&T currently charges 30 dollars a month for interent service with the BlackBerry phones (it's required if you get this phone). But then you have phones like the Iphone (though the same carrier!) and internet service is only 20 bucks a month. I'm getting ripped a new one for the next 2 years it seems, I could have just paid they extra money to get an Iphone and then saved that much in service costs over the next couple years! I'M EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED BY THIS! I wish I would have found that out only 30 days ago when I ordered this phone.
I'd still rather have my pocket pc June 13, 2008
liverleef (louisville, Ky United States)
I've been using a Sprint Mogul pocket pc running the latest version of Microsoft Windows Mobile. I love this phone. Unfortunately, my new employer has a policy that all consultants must participate in the corporate blackberry program. I was somewhat concerned because I rely heavily on my pda to keep me organized. So I put in my request for my blackberry curve and hoped for the best.
After using this phone for a few weeks, I'm rather disappointed. I still have not figured out how to add a meeting invitation to my calendar. When I got the .vcs attachments in my pocket pc it was easy to add it to my calendar. I cant see any way to do it in a blackberry. Maybe one of the blackberry users here can help me out.
Although I can accept a meeting invite in outlook and it will sync to blackberry, if there is a large amount of data in the note of the appointment, it won't all sync to my blackberry. There must be a character limit of some sort. I didnt have this problem with my pocket pc
Editing word or excel documents was also easy in my pocket pc. I can't find any way to do it in a blackberry. This thing is inferior to a pocket pc in so many ways that I can't understand why they are so popular. A pocket pc does all the things that a blackberry does and more.
The blackberry is also more difficult to navigate. What would take one or two clicks on my sprint mogul takes several more on the blackberry.
The music player on the blackberry is horrible. Also I can't get my blackberry to recognize an sd card over 500 megabytes. I had 4 gig micro sd card in my pocketpc. It held all the mp3s and videos I wanted. Frankly I want a phone that is both a toy AND a business tool. The blackberry curve does neither especially well. I suspect that most of the people recommending the blackberry are people with limited experience with pda phones who are recommending what they happen to have used.
On the plus side, I like the web browser, it is more readable than the one my the sprint mogul. I also like that you can sync your notes from outlook. Thats awesome. I use that feature but it wont sync to a pocket pc using activesync OTA. The size of the curve is also impressive, very small and light. It also accepts a standard headphone jack instead of just the mini usb like many other pda phones.
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