subject: The New BlackBerry 9300 Curve 3G - A Great Social Networking Handset [print this page] Blackberry have released there latest handset, the impressive 9300 Curve 3G. Maintaining the brands excellent messaging facilities, the phone will also appeal to social network lovers thanks to pre installed applications to various sites.
The Blackberry 9300 Curve 3G has many social networking features that will appeal to a younger audience than what the handsets normally attract. Native applications on the phone include Twitter and Facebook. A GPS receiver is included in the phone, meaning any tweets you add can be tagged via the location you are sending them from. This facility will also be available in the UK on Facebook soon. A very useful feature is the phones new inbox which not only handles your incoming e mails but various other messages. Up to 10 e mail accounts can be handled as well as social networking messages, SMS texts and instants messages via BBM. For such features to be effective, the phone needs to be constantly connected, which is where the model benefits from its new 3G connectivity. 3G networks offer the fastest data transfer speeds, thus giving a fast web browsing experience, and even when out of range of 3G the phones use is not impaired thanks to EDGE and class 10 GPRS support. Whilst at home the experience becomes even better thanks to WiFi, with the phone supporting even the newest "N" speed of the technology.
The Blackberry 9300 Curve 3G is unmistakeably "Blackberry" in its design. The phone measures 109 x 60 x 13.9mm. The size is perfect for incorporating the full Qwerty keypad and you can not help but feel that if it was anymore, the effectiveness of this keypad would be lost. At 109 grammes the phone does feel very lightweight for a smartphone. The standard 2.4 inch TFT LCD screen is present, still displaying a rather low specification resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, however images still appear clear and the screen does produce vivid colours. The trademark full Qwerty keypad works as well as ever, and unlike on some other models the keys do not move around when pressed. An optical trackpad provides users with precise navigation via a pointer on the screen. Battery life is superb, offering up to 14.5 days in standby and over 5.5 hours talktime thanks to a 1150mAh battery. The Blackberry 9300 Curve 3G ticks all the right boxes that such a phone should, offering great connectivity, social networking and messaging facilities.
