785BY4B95EP2   The Blackberry Curve 8900 is T-Mobile’s addition to its smart phone line and with its improvement on the Curve 8300 series, it could be the company’s top offering.  It offers a sleeker design, solid construction as well as a brilliant display.  The Blackberry Curve also offers a faster processor, WiFi with UMA support, Bluetooth, a full HTML Web browser and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

The Blackberry Curve 8900 measures 4.2in high 2.3in wide and 0.5in thick and weighs 3.8oz – the slimmest Blackberry QWERTY to date.  It looks good and feels comfortable as well. It also features a 2.4in TFT LCD that supports 65, 536 colors at a 480×360-pixel resolution that makes the display more crisp and vibrant. The Curve 8900 also runs on the updated Blackberry OS so the customer gets the latest user interface. UI is beautiful although many icons seem to look the same so you can hardly tell folders and applications from each other onscreen. What’s missing here though is the 3G.

Now that T-Mobile offers a 3G network, it’s sad that the Blackberry Curve does not have 3G. Fortunately, there are two alternatives to 3G: WiFi and T-Mobile’s EDGE network. Surfing on the Web with the Curve 8900 using the EDGE was not bad but it could be sluggish at times. There was no problem finding and connecting to a WiFi network though. While you can make and receive calls over a wireless network without having the minutes deducted from your cell phone plane, you still need to sign up to T-Mobile’s Unlimited HotSpot Calling plan along with your existing T-Mobile plan.

That’s where the Blackberry App World comes in handy. Using Research in Motion’s (RIM) application distribution service, you can load up with games, social networking, online shopping, organization tools and other fun and functional apps from one convenient location – and you can jazz up and personalize your Blackberry’s software. Both free and paid applications are available in the U.S and paid through a PayPal® account. Downloading the BlackBerry App World from your desktop computer or your BlackBerry smart phone is free.

With all its features, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is a very capable phone. Its built-in media player can play various music and video formats that includes MP3, WMA9/WMA9 Pro/WMA20, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, and MIDI music files, and MPEG4, WMV, DivX4, DivX5/6 (partial support), XviD (partial), and H.263 video clips. It also has a search function, playlist creation, shuffle and repeat, and for video playback, it’s full screen all the way. You can also create MP3s from CDs and add audio tags as well as the BlackBerry Media Sync application so you can load your iTunes library. The Curve has 256MB onboard Flash memory while the expansion slot can accept up to 16GB cards.

The BlackBerry Curve 8900 features a 1,400mAh lithium ion battery with a published talk time of 5.5 hours and up to 14.5 days of standby time. The cover though is somewhat loose so it rattles and shifts a little but it could be negligible.

As a Blackberry, the Curve remains the god-send for email fanatics. For corporate email in real time, the Blackberry Curve can sync with your company’s BlackBerry Enterprise server, with support for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise so you don’t have to miss that all-important email from the boss. The attachment viewer lets you open Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect, PDF, JPEG, GIF, and more. With BlackBerry Internet Service, you can also access up to 10 personal/business POP3 or IMAP4 e-mail accounts. Instant messaging is also a breeze because the phone comes preloaded with several instant messaging clients, like Yahoo, AIM, Windows Live, and Google Talk.

Overall, the Blackberry Curve 8900 is a phone that comes highly recommended. The lack of 3G could be a turn-off to some but it already has enough options for connectivity to be without 3G.  To date, the Blackberry Curve 8900 is just about the best handset to come out of RIM’s workshop

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