BlackBerry® Curve™ 8350i Smartphone ????

[gary wilson]

Hello, is anyone familiar with the Curve?

I would have one of my guys use it, with Nextel push/talk.

I'm looking for an opinion on the push/talk feature paired up with the Blackberry phone itself.


Thanks for any comments,

Gary

[MB1211]

So far so good except.... Blackberry claims that the "servers" keep "burping" causing the text, internet etc not to work and you have to reset the phone. I've had one for a week so far and had to reset it twice so far. Now I know how to do it so I shouldn't have to call next time. "They" say "they" are working on the problem but we'll see. I never buy the "New" thing but this time I needed a new phone and they offered an "upgrade".

[marauderx]

In November we went with the HP ipaq, which has a blackberry competitor, as it was cheaper. It has a nice GPS map that includes traffic too. The nice thing is everything the blackberry advertises as 'new' the HP already has. I was worried that cheaper would mean crappier... but so far it's been stomping all over the blackberry.

[gcastillo]

Don't know about Hp ipaq I wouldn't be interested in that phone. I have a Blackberry Curve but it doesn't have PTT. I still have my personal Blackberry Curve 8330 and my work phone a nextel i730. I hate nextel and love my blackberry but I don't know about the Sprint ones with PTT.

[gary wilson]

In November we went with the HP ipaq, which has a blackberry competitor, as it was cheaper. It has a nice GPS map that includes traffic too. The nice thing is everything the blackberry advertises as 'new' the HP already has. I was worried that cheaper would mean crappier... but so far it's been stomping all over the blackberry.

Is that a phone??? or a pda????

[gcastillo]

They have both phones and PDA's depending on the model number of the ipaq it tells you what you have.

[gary wilson]

So, a PDA without a phone service that does internet?? Is it wifi or does it have its own special internet connection??

[gcastillo]

I believe he brought up ipaq because that's what he uses as a cell phone. It has windows mobile. It uses an internet connection like other phones do. I like the curve. Yes sometimes you have to "reboot" a curve when something isn't working right. Alt + right shift + del key and it restarts. Nothing complicated about that.

[jrbenny]

You have to reboot most smart phones to keep 'em going. I simply pop the batter on my HTC Wing every day or two.

Back to the OP...

I also carry a Nextel i800 for the office. I'm interested in the BB Curve with PTT. So, I'll be riding along to see some of the other reviews.

[SmallBlockCoupe]

im going to wait till april to get the new nextel BB. basicly so i can get a discount on ugrading and hopefully by then they will fix that server problem..

right now i have that i902 the "hybrid" that works on the sprint servers for reg calling and texting and nextel servers for direct connect...

[midhvac]

There are 3 or 4 different Blackberry Curve phones. Each has a different chipset. They are specially built for each carrier. Some don't have WI-FI capabilities, like my 8310 for AT&T, nor do the 8330 Verizon models. The WI-FI capabilities and GPS capabilities are controlled by additional chip sections in the phones. The T-Mobile Curves have WI-FI chips built in. And I think the Sprint Curves do too.

The Curves are killer phones and even have spreadsheet capabilities. I just bought an Office package for mine.

The built-in camera is better than the ones in most phones too.

[chillrdude]

Try http://www.blackberryforums.com/ everything about BlackBerry you ever wanted to know.

I am currently using a 7520 and may upgrade to the 8350i, the Nextel 2 way feature has had me hooked for years, but it seems that fewer and fewer people have it than before.