Gadget Guild

Featuring a liquid silver finish, clean lines and soft edges, the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 smartphone is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry® smartphone ever to come with a full QWERTY keyboard. It’s packed with incredible features*, including a camera, BlackBerry® Maps, a media player, expandable memory, Voice-Activated Dialing, tethered modem and trackball navigation. Plus you get all the core functionality you’ve come to expect in a BlackBerry smartphone — email and text messaging, instant messaging, web browser and advanced phone functionality.

The BlackBerry Curve 8300 is the latest chic smart phone to sashay down the cell phone runway. Petite and gently rounded at the corners (as its name suggests), the Curve does for Research In Motion’s line of QWERTY-keyboard-equipped handhelds what the Pearl did for RIM’s standard keypad devices: Add a badly needed dose of style.

The Curve really shines as a mail and data device. Its 320-by-240-pixel screen is gorgeous–gone are the bad old days of muddy BlackBerry color displays. I also liked the small, marblelike trackball; its fluid movement substantially improves on the jog-wheel approach of yore. The trackball was particularly useful for skimming through Web pages on the embedded browser. But sometimes the trackball’s fluidity moved the cursor more quickly than I anticipated it would–so I did a lot of backtracking through data entry fields.

Source: PC World

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