BlackBerry 8900 Curve QWERTY Keyboard mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

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Score: 8.7/10

429 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

+ This mobile phone scores high on features. - It has no outstanding negative points. “Fabulous phone,internet,email and facebook are superb and if you like music on…” David, Purfleet View all 429 real customer reviews

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429 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
88% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (427)
Battery life6.7
Design8.9
Ease of use8.3
Features8.8
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.7
Overall rating8.7
Basic text and chat user (96)
Business or web user (57)
Style and looks come first (29)
Music and entertainment lover (14)
Other (231)
 

*not all purchasers provided a score or review

Roddy, Streatham , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ Best mobile phone I have ever owned! The BB Curve is bursting with great features and applications - also gets massive kudos for its professional design.

- May make non-BB Curve owners green with envy!

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74 of 86 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Feb 2009

stephen, southend-on-sea , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ First blackberry I've had and definately will not be the last. The email is perfect, keypad takes some getting used to but works extremely well, web browsing and gps are great, and every other feature that you would expect from a mobile is there!

- The only bad point so far relates to the holdster that comes with the phone. Wheb holdstering the phone it does not enter standbye mode automatically because the case depresses the buttons which prevents standbye. So as long as you manually enter standbye mode then the battery will last days, as opposed one day.

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38 of 41 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Mar 2009

James, Brewood , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ Brilliant for email, facebook and camera. Looks great too!

- Complicated to sync with my windows PC, and the keypad is too small.

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20 of 22 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Dec 2008

nabila, london , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ Reviewer left no comment

- cant hear it when it rings and it doesnt vibrate and ring at the same time.

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20 of 23 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Mar 2009

Nyssa, London , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ Its fine but should come with a lot of the common downloadable stuff like MSN as standard
The organiser is better than the last model
Easy to navigate around and use
Looks great

- Nothing bad but battery life could be better. With use all day needs to be charged every evening.

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16 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Mar 2009

Florian, Fleetwood , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ Mobile Internet, easy to use,and many additional features to dowload such as messengers etc.

- The short battery life, if u use the phone full time!

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14 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Mar 2009

stacey, port glasgow , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 3.0/10

+ Its very modern and smaller than you would think.

- Everything was 5clicks away, you couldnt just press the 1 button to get or do what you wanted.

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14 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Mar 2009

ANN-MARIE, LUTON BEDS , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ I love the phone it is small and compact and I love having my e-mails on the go. Also has a good camera so taking a picture and sending it as an e-mail to yourself makes easy printing on home computor have not used the video yet.

- Haven't really got any I love the phone

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13 of 14 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 May 2009

danielle , cheshire , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ i love the phone it has bin the best 1 i have ever had,it looks good,easy to use,superb cam,

- the bad point it that i find it hard to send stuff n recieve it takes so long to find a person and for them to find me

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 May 2009

dawnb, birmingham , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ everything you need in a phone it has

- the buttons are very small. sometimes it is very easy to lose the signal

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10 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Mar 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ I love this phone!!

- Nothing much!!

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11 of 13 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Mar 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ Qwerty keyboard makes texting easy...nice design, great for web-browsing, many nice features.

- Low battery life.

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Apr 2009

Ann-Christin, Renstrom , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ I love it as I now can check my mails on the go

- I cannot get it to ring long enough.

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Apr 2009

Nichola, Hull , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ looks nice, works easily and quickly

- keys bit small

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Mar 2009

John, Glasgow , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ ease of operation, all the different features

- I find that the battery life isn't what it should be and I sometimes find the keyboard hard to operate due to size and also when using the alt command

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Feb 2009

IAN, WARWICK , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 6.0/10

+ GOOD ORGANISATION FACILITIES

- BATTERY LIFE AND BROWSING LIMITED

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8 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Feb 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ Texting is really quick when you get the hang of using the small keyboard on the phone.
The web browsing is reasonably quick and quality of pictures are good.
I personally think that the setup up of the phone is very good and design

- The camera does not have amazing quality especially if you transfer them onto the computer.

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Mar 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Battery life is really poor. It MUST be charged every night otherwise it will die early the next morning.

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Mar 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ Screen size, internet, messenger,

- Bit difficult to use at first, keypad keys very close easy to make mistake, battery life very short

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Feb 2009

david, bridgend , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ lots of feautres

- nvigation is a little annoying with the touchball

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Apr 2009

Louise , Edenbridge , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ Very stylish and extremely useful in keeping up with email whilst on the move.

- Battery seems to run down very quickly, Have to put on charge every night.

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Mar 2009

Karen, Oxted , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ I like the e-mail and browser, the camera and video take reasonable quality.

- I don't like the small icons, the touch screen has much bigger icons and is easier to read. I also don't like the case provided. It is too small and all the buttons get pressed when it is put into the case and the design does not cover the whole thing. It is also not very easy to get out of the case quickly

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8 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Jul 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ Keypad, battery life

- Music player UI not very good.

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7 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Feb 2009

Nick, Sunderland , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ very functional, email, web, text, contacts etc. etc. are all great and easy to use!

- calendar is alkward to use. It is hard to syncronise the device with a laptop

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Mar 2009

Naomi, London , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ Email, facebook, IM chat, the design, the caledar/organiser

- Battery life isn't great and sometimes the internet is really slow

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Jul 2009

steven, aylesbury , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ v good overall good signal coverage-cant fault it

- not really bad points-little keyboard but thats to be expected

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Jul 2009

scott, kingswinford , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ its great its everything i need

- needs longer battery life and needs better Synchronisation for bluetooth

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 Oct 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ lots of good points, love everything about it.

- needing a pin to bluetooth photos to kiosk annoying

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 Jul 2009

lesley, keith / scotland , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ luv the phone , best phone i have had yet, and i change my phones a lot...

- none

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Jul 2009

Glenroy, Ipswich , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ very good product no problems, i'm very happy with the features and the phone is one ofm the best i've seen and used.

- none so far

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Jul 2009

Felicity, leeds , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ really happy with my phone - emails, texts and internet are accessible quickly and with no hassle.

- internet can be slow sometimes, phone has frozen/crashed a few times already

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Oct 2009

Lisa , Mitcham , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 9.0/10

+ camera great and most other features are also very good all in all very pleased with the phone.

- Battery Life

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Oct 2009

Lucy, Crawley west sussex , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 7.0/10

+ Ease of use.

- Battery has a poor life. Needs charging daily.

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purchased 14 Sep 2009

john, hounslow , “Basic text and chat user”

+ the phone is very compact, so its easy to store away,

- trying to manage the qwerty keyboard after using the old way of texting

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purchased 17 Sep 2009

Annette, Catford, London , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ instancy of emails etc

- not being able to access my work emails at all!!

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purchased 23 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ Nice and compact considering all the features.

- Took a bit of time to get my head around all the features.

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purchased 12 Oct 2009

nizia, london enfield , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ looks great the camera and video have very good qualiyt

- the battery is the worst have to charged every single day sometimes twice a day

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purchased 24 Oct 2009

lou, prestwich,manchester , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ bb messenger is fantastic ,the phone has many usefull features,excellent camera ,very proffessional business phone

- i have always been a nokia man for ease of use ,so the blackberry takes a bit of getting used to but once mastered you wouldnt go back

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purchased 31 Aug 2009

chris, york , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ as an overall buisness phone it is very usefull and meets all my needs keeping my clients in order.

- the internet is slow when your not in a wi fi zone

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purchased 02 Sep 2009

pauline, egham , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ Easy to handle and backup staff at shops obliging

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 15 Sep 2009

Lisa, Plymouth , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 8.0/10

+ Emails and internet.

- Battery life and texting.

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purchased 05 Oct 2009

Vanessa , Essex , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ meets all my needs

- none

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1 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Jul 2009

Sara, Eastbourne , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ All of it!
the camera is surprisingly amazing - excellent focus and the photos are really clear for a camera phone.
The sound quality is brilliant too and is a lot easier to use than some MP3 players.
Web browsing is fantastic - nearly always have a connection too.
The buttons are great too once you get used to them! When I first got it I ended up typing with my nail until I learnt how to use it properly...
The screen is brilliant - I've dropped the phone way too many times yet the screens not dented or scratched once.
LOVE it!

- Scratches easily!!!!
I dropped my phone the day after I got it and it dented really easily and I've since dropped it about 20 times (I've barely this phone a month so I'm a bit gutted!) and I've scratched it to bits!

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14 of 33 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Jul 2009

roy, worcester , “Basic text and chat user”

Score 10.0/10

+ its a nices phone but hi will not have it next time as next time hi will have the n97

- all of it

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1 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Aug 2009

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Expert reviews for BlackBerry 8900 Curve

PC Advisor expert review - by Rosemary Haworth

Research In Motion came out with some brand-new BlackBerry handset designs last year that diverted attention from what it does best: make solid business smartphones for businesspeople. The BlackBerry Curve 8900 returns to the original remit, having picked up a few neat tricks along the way.

This BlackBerry 8900 Curve review continued on PC Advisor

reviewed 12 Mar 2009

Product Features

3G No
Touchscreen No
Type QWERTY Keyboard
Band Quad
EDGE Yes
WiFi Yes
Camera Resolution in MegaPixels 3.15
Screen Resolution (pixels) 480x360
Bluetooth Yes
XHTML Browser No
WAP No
FM Tuner Yes
SatNav Yes
MP3 ATRAC Playback No
Operating System BlackBerry
Memory Card Slot Yes
Weight (g) 109.9
Talk Time (hours) 5.3
Standby Time (hours) 356
USB Port Yes
Video Recorder Yes
Instant Messaging Yes
Built-in Camera Yes
Dimensions (mm) 60x109x13.5
Java Yes
Games Yes
HTML Browser Yes
Phone book capacity (names) 2000
Colour Multi
Networks T-Mobile
Networks Orange

Also known as: BlackBerry Curve

Mobile Phone Buyers Guide  

Manufacturer's Description

Thinnest and Lightest Full-QWERTY BlackBerry Smartphone

A sleek new twist on a classic style. You can keep your finger on the pulse of what’s important to you with the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 smartphone.

The striking 480×360-pixel screen offers up crisp on-the-go video, images, text, maps and more. With a refined design, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone is an easy-to-use device that delivers expanded functionality and reliable results.

  • Camera (3.2 MP)
  • Wi-Fi® Support
  • Built-in GPS
  • Enhanced Media Player
  • Video Recording
  • BlackBerry® Maps
  • Wireless Email
  • Organizer
  • Browser
  • Phone
  • Corporate Data Access
  • SMS/MMS

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