Have fun with that slow boot up time when you have to access the card frequently. The reception in strong coverage areas is usually 4 bars out of 5 bars max and in spotty coverage areas is bars.
The Curve has not dropped a call on either Verizon or Sprint and voice call quality is quite good, and the built-in speakerphone is loud and clear. The voice quality was much clearer and louder on the Plantronics than on the Nokia. The DSP worked fine via both headsets and reduced most road noises except wind noise. Voice dialing worked very well without pre-recorded voice tags or voice training and also worked flawlessly over Bluetooth.
Page rendering is good once you turn on all the page layout support options in the browser, but not as good as the Safari-based browser found on the iPhone and Nokia S60 phones see photo. It has full page view with a cursor to navigate the page and zoom, and has support for Javascript, cookies, cache and more. The BlackBerry devices have the undisputed advantage in push email and corporate backend email integration.
The BlackBerry Curve offers all that push email goodness: email set up is easy, sending and receiving email is very fast and has support for a wide variety of attachment formats. BlackBerry Bold, anyone? The navigation features features and options are very similar. The routes, maps, directions and voice guidance are also very similar and very accurate on both Curves. But the map rendering and speed are inferior to the excellent 3D maps on TeleNav and routing and rerouting are slower using the BlackBerry Maps.
Performance and Multimedia. The nice thing about getting the Qualcomm chipset is you get the built-in GPS but the slower speed gets in the way of good performance when running CPU intensive applications. Video playback suffers using the slower CPU, so make sure to use mobile level encoding when ripping videos for the Curve. Large web sites take longer to download. Not all is bad news for the Curve the internal flash memory is now at 96MB, a bump from the 64MB on previous Curve.
Sure, you get a media player for music and video playback and on the Sprint Curve you even get Sprint TV! The audio quality is excellent through the built-in speaker and the included stereo headset, and the volume is loud. Audio playback through the Samsung SBH Bluetooth stereo headset sounded excellent with very good channel separation.
The media player has basic playback controls, shuffle and playlist support. We also loaded some popular Web site home pages: Update: With a 1xEV DO connection on our replacement unit, we loaded the same streaming m. Verizon is looking into the problem and we will report back. Update: Our replacement unit was able to obtain an EV-DO connection and our updates scores are listed above. Sprint Sprint was able to load a streaming video from m.
The same Web site home pages loaded a bit more quickly: CNN. However, like all BlackBerry Curves, you can load your own music, video, and pictures via a microSD Card behind the battery, and it supports up to 8GB of additional storage. Sprint TV gives you access to a host of streaming television channels, including E!
Some stations, such as Spike TV, offer only clips of certain shows. Sprint TV also includes Sprint Radio, which provides 10 radio stations in a variety of genres. Video quality when we streamed Fox News at full screen was decent with only some initial artifacts, and we were able to make out the news crawler.
Sprint, it's time to offer MP3s like Amazon. Winner: Sprint Simply put, the Sprint Curve goes the extra mile in this category and the Verizon version doesn't. TV and over-the-air music sweeten the deal. We just wish it had MMS capabilities, too. Bluetooth handset and modem drivers. Blackberry internal storage and mass storage device management.
Enables Phone-as-Modem capability with Dial-up networking connection. BlackBerry Desktop Software is an integrated suite of applications that manages the link between your BlackBerry smartphone and various applications on your Mac. Keep your Mac and smartphone data organized with synchronized email, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts. Back up information from your smartphone to your Mac or restore previously saved files. Easily transfer files, music and data between your computer and your BlackBerry smartphone's internal memory or optional media card.
Mac OS X Download 47MB. Related links Support for this device. Find the latest software from Sprint for your Smartphone. Installs BlackBerry Handheld Software version 4.
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