The Blackberry 9300 Curve 3G is RIM's attempt to pitch a smart phone at first time users by trimming down a host of needless features, leaving a good quality and appealing handset ideal for people upgrading from a feature phone or indeed, owning a phone for the first time.
At just 60mm in width, the phone has a narrow chassis for a handset incorporating a full Qwerty keypad. This lack of width however does not make the keys feel cramped, they are still well spaced and just as responsive as those on previous models. Blackberry made this style of keypad famous on mobile phones and if this is what you are seeking, then there are no better phones available. Asides from these keys, the front of the handset features the Call, End, Back and Blackberry menu keys.
Above the keypad is the now familiar optical trackpad which navigates the user around the screen in a precise and responsive manner, which is just as well as the screen itself is not touchscreen. The phones display has not undergone too much work on this model. It still sports a fairly average 320 x 240 resolution in QVGA quality, however at 2.4 inches this is adequate for most peoples everyday phone needs and the display does produce a good image quality. Only real media fans would be looking for more, in which case it is doubtful they would be purchasing this phone as it is really aimed at people who place great importance on messaging and e mails.
Where some big improvements have been made on the Blackberry 9300 Curve 3G is in the area of connectivity. As its name suggests, the biggest change is the phones new support for the 3G network. This means users can benefit from much faster data network speeds whilst on the move. This results in an all round more pleasing online experience, plus enables the phone to support useful features such as push e mail, which can update your inbox and real time and notify you of any incoming mail. Up to ten separate e mail accounts can be supported on the new unified inbox, or if you choose you can view them all separately. In addition to this messages from the phones apps such as Facebook can also be linked, and SMS text messages can be displayed there too.
For anybody who checks there emails, and then exits to read a text before logging onto Facebook when finished, can see, the unified inbox is a time saving and convenient way way of performing multiple tasks in one place. It because of features such as this that the Blackberry is no longer just the handset of the businessman, and is becoming ever more popular with the youth market who inevitably utilise SMS and social networks more than anybody. The Blackberry 9300 Curve 3G is a fairly basic smartphone that performs very well. Messaging and social network facilities are great, and these are backed up by great network coverage allowing you to use the handset to its maximum potential.
