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Blackberry Curve
By You | January 2, 2008
We were recently issued Blackberry Curves at work. For me, this replaced the model I was issued in 1990-something, and old, good for virtually nothing piece of crap that couldn’t browse the web or make a phone call. I’d stopped using the thing years ago, and instead had my work email all set up to forward to my Treo. One device, all my stuff, no problemo.
But with all the hoopla surrounding this newest Blackberry and the number of people I’ve heard rave about it, I figured if someone wants to hand me one for nothing, I shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. After two weeks with this thing, I’m convinced that anyone who has love for it clearly has never owned or used a Treo.
Right out of the box, the lack of a touch screen is a gflat out killer for me. Perhaps it’s just what I’m used to, but it’s incredibly frustrating not to be able to just touch what you want. The scroll ball in the middle is uncomfortable, too small, and not as accurate as one would like. The camera function isn’t all that bad, but there’s no way to get the photos off the thing other than to email them to yourself — it doesn’t sync up your camera to your desktop. At least not the way this was configured by the Firm.
As for sortware, the phone came with a zillion pre-inistalled IMing programs — everything from AIM to ICQ — but not much else. There’s the email feature, the phone, and a web browser. I can do all that on my Treo. All that plus add any of the thousands of programs out there that help me calculate tips, map out directions, and look up any business or home phone and address information. All that plus tons of games of my own choice, not one stupid lame-ass 1982 version of breakout that is impossible to play given the scroll ball’s many failings.
I suppose I might like the thing better if certain of the programs and features were not disabled by the above-mentioned gift horse. Still, the lack of good third party programs would piss me off. The counter-intuitive navigation buttons are frustrating. The whole thing just doesn’t do it for me. Get a Treo instead, you won’t be sorry.
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April 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
where can I recieve more reviews?