BlackBerry Curve 8320 Phone, Pale Gold (T-Mobile)

BlackBerry Curve 8320 Phone, Pale Gold (T-Mobile) Features

Additional BlackBerry Curve 8320 Phone, Pale Gold (T-Mobile) Information

The Curve's full QWERTY keyboard and the innovative trackball navigation system (placed above the keyboard) makes accessing your data and writing email a breeze..

The 2-megapixel camera makes it easy to capture pictures to send via email or upload to your online photo collection. T-Mobile Service Options
With T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service, you'll effortlessly transition between Wi-Fi calling and T-Mobile's wireless network while you talk. You can get unlimited nationwide calls over Wi-Fi--at home via your wireless router or at any U.S. T-Mobile HotSpot. You can also use the HotSpot @Home service via most open, or unsecured, wireless routers, as well as any secured wireless router for which you have access to the password from the owner. This phone is compatible with the 802.11b/g Wi-Fi standard as well as the following wireless security protocols: WEP, WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES-CCMP), LEAP, PEAP, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-FAST, EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA. Whenever you're not using a Wi-Fi network, the Curve works just like a regular mobile phone, using your Whenever Minutes under your T-Mobile voice plan.

This phone also includes compatibility with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile.

Staying Connected
With BlackBerry's push email technology, your email will find you without having to initiate a connection. BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, notifying you as new email arrives. In addition to the text, you can also receive and view attachments in a wide range of popular file formats, including Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect, and Adobe PDF.

Browse the web with the integrated, full-featured browser, which quickly and efficiently displays HTML pages as well as enables you to set up RSS feeds to stay connected to up-to-the-minute news and blog posts. And keep up with your contacts using a variety of instant message (IM) networks, including the integrated Blackberry Messenger as well as downloadable clients for Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, and Lotus Sametime.

For corporate users, the Curve delivers all the enterprise email and messaging capabilities you've come to expect. It's supported on BlackBerry Internet Service, giving you access to up to 10 work or personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts), as well as BlackBerry Enterprise Server, enabling advanced security and IT administration within IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise environments.

Phone Features


Click for larger view. The Curve is fashioned in a liquid silver finish with chrome highlights and subtly curving corners. Measuring 4.2 x 2.4 inches, the Curve is just as slim as the Pearl (0.6 inches) and weighs in at 3.9 ounces--just 0.7 ounces heavier than its predecessor. It features a bright 2.5-inch color TFT screen that provides 65,000 colors and a 320 x 240-pixel resolution, and it includes a light-sensing feature that automatically adjusts backlighting for indoor, outdoor and dark environments. Like the BlackBerry 8800, the Curve includes a trackball navigation system located on the top of the QWERTY keypad, and it also features an integrated spell checker with a customizable dictionary to help maintain accuracy while on the go. It has 64 MB of internal ROM memory, and is expandable using MicroSD memory cards. The battery provides up to 4 hours (240 minutes) of talk time and up to 17 days (408 hours) of standby time.

You can snap vivid photos (though no video) using the 2-megapixel camera on the back of the Curve, which also features a 5x digital zoom, built-in flash, self-portrait mirror and full screen viewfinder. It can capture images in up to three picture quality and size resolutions that can be shared instantly by email, MMS or BlackBerry Messenger, or even uploaded to your Flickr account with the Yahoo! Go service. Photos can also be immediately set as a unique caller ID or Home Screen image. You can edit photos and create albums within the Curve using the PhotoSuite application. Pictures can be cropped, rotated and straightened, and flaws can be fixed by removing redeye or changing the brightness, contrast, and saturation levels.

Listen to your favorite music and watch downloaded videos using the included stereo headset, or use an optional wireless headphone thanks to the Curve's support for the Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP). The Curve is compatible with a wide variety of file formats, including MP3, WMA and AAC/AAC+/eAAC+ audio and WMV, MPEG4 and H.263 video. Dedicated volume controls are conveniently located on the side of the handset.

With the Voice-Activated Dialing (VAD) feature, you can initiate a call just by telling the Curve who to call from your contact list--either via the integrated speakerphone or using an optional Bluetooth wireless headset. Other advanced phone features include advanced sound technology that cancels out background noise and echo, dedicated volume and mute keys, and the ability to customize the Curve with polyphonic and MP3 ringtones.

Vital Statistics
The Blackberry Curve 8320 weighs 3.92 ounces and measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk time, and up to 408 hours (17 days) of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies.

What Customers Say About BlackBerry Curve 8320 Phone, Pale Gold (T-Mobile):

The curve has great potential. It could be such a nice phone if it was not so tempermental. I do not heavily push the limits of my phone but I have it freeze often once a day.

As it turns out it is very sensitive to having multiple things open at once. Tech support told me this "you have to close every other application before opening up a new one". Many available applications, internet, video, pictures, music.but it is a very limited device.

Which means I have to remove the battery and wait for a long reboot. This can mean internet and photo, photo and text, etc. If you have a few things open you stand a great chance of it freezing.

I thought this was supposed to be a smart phone.I can tell you I will not likely buy another blackberry, at least until they fix it. Oh also, forget about running blackberryapps program, it slows down the system so much.

Called for replacement and they offer a "used" blackberry. Received the curve as open box and call tmobile to figure out what happened. So in a 30 day period, I had to argue with customer service to get a used phone as a new customer. They said it's ok "the phone is brand new". 1 month later, I get flash errors (risk of loosing my contacts). Suggestion: if you want a blackberry head to another mobile provider. Now where is that 0 star option.

This phone was the answer to almost all of my needs. The camera on this is great. For those whom have primarily EMAIL needs, do not even try others. This phone lets me keep up on employees and others I work with while I am out. I have been through countless Blackjacks, Dash's, Wizards, Pocket Pc's, Treo's and others and no one can compare to Blackberry's instant email push. Responding to clients needs is very simple and they appreciate me being able to get a hold of them and to respond to requests in minutes. Being in the Real Estate Industry, I rely on always being available.and when I cannot be available I must still be in contact with the working world. Not close to a Nikon and definitely would not use for property photos for advertising, but driving by a smoking deal and being able to send the mls info and some "decent" quality pictures to a client to get the "OK" is priceless.

Taking a few hours off to golf and not feeling guilty. I am literally still in the office with full access to all of my documents, contacts, tasks, calendars and more. Blackberry has nailed it as they always have. Don't hesitate; the only decision is what blackberry you want.

I have been erasing all calls, texts etc every day since. I bought the blackberry in December 2007. The problems have continued.It is now June 1, 2008, I am demanding that T-Mobile replace an obvious defective handset and I am being met with resistance. Within a month, there were problems with memory, recalling numbers, keypad etc.In March, I spent much time with T-Mobile technical support to fix these issues. They suggested I needed a memory card even though I was emailing very little and was not downloading applications, data. They want me to buy a memory card and I am refusing. ( Two other family members have this same Curve and use it to collect data much more than I do and have had not issues)I would suggest to all buyuers to go with another carrier to avoid the problems I am having.

But this flaw can easily be overcome by buying an optional portable GPS receiver that costs anywhere from $45 - 100 bucks. Very impressive Blackberry.

I love the ease of set up - I have yet to even glance at the manual. Before I knew it, I was surfing the internet and dowloading Google Maps (a must have for every blackberry user - the satellite views are amazing).

This is by far the coolest phone I've had. The screen is beautiful.

Camera is the best I've seen on any cellphone thus far. With a memory card you could load up to 2GB (unsure if a larger card will work) of music, ringtones, videos, and pictures.

The only negative aspect that I could find, was the fact that T-Mobile's version does not have GPS (AT&T does). Overall - this is one awesome phone.