Is The Blackberry Curve Worth Buying?

Blackberry’s innovative smartphones have long been the preserve of the power dressing professional types, who saw them as the ultimate corporate fashion accessory as much as an essential business tool. The Curve is one of a new breed of phones from Blackberry that is designed to take advantage of the everyday consumer’s demand for smartphone functionality and interesting looks. But can the Blackberry Curve make the jump from business to pleasure, in an already crowded and competitive market?

The first thing you will notice about the Curve, is that it has stuck with the typical design of the majority of Blackberry handsets and has a full QWERTY keyboard. Designed to make it easier for business people to send emails, Blackberry hopes that the millions of texters and tweeters will find it just as useful. The rather unique landscape screen is a good size, thanks to the Curve’s wide body, which comes in a choice of colors for those who want to make sure other people know their Blackberry is for play not work.

If you put the new Curve next to some of Blackberry’s business phones, you’d also notice a few other subtle differences. The chrome trim on the business versions has been replaced with rubber edges, and the trackball has become a track pad. Designed to cut costs as well as make the Curve a little more down to earth, the phone still looks and feels like a quality smartphone.

Blackberry hopes that consumers will love the Curve for the same reasons that business users have loved the other Blackberrys, and that’s for keeping in touch. With more and more smartphones being used for email and social networking, the Curve’s software and QWERTY keyboard, plus it’s WiFi connectivity, mean it’s ideal for this purpose, even if it lacks the 3G and GPS features of it’s more expensive smartphone competitors.

Blackberry’s intuitive operating system works well on the Curve. The user interface is nicely laid out and simple to use, and there is access to a wide range of applications via Blackberry’s App World, to add even more of the features that you need. Despite its business roots, the Curve has a very good music player, with dedicated keys for the main functions, and the technology inside the Curve keeps everything running at a decent pace.

It seems that Blackberry has been able to come up with a smartphone that will be as popular with consumers as it has been with business users, for much the same reasons. Easy to use, great for what most will need, and not as expensive as the other big names, the Blackberry Curve offers a real alternative.

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