Blackberry Curve 8900 Vs Blackberry Curve 8300 Review:

The Blackberry Curve 8900 is said to be released on February 11th withT-mobile. This phone is a pretty good upgrade from the original Curve 8300. It’s a mix of the Curve, Bold, and Storm built into one. The back of the 8900 has the brushed look like that of the Blackberry Storm, but it’s plastic not metal. The layout of the main buttons along with the trackball look like the Blackberry Bold’s layout as well.

The immediate differences of the Blackberry Curve 8900 are the size, color, layout and design. The Blackberry Curve 8900 is slighty longer and thinner (a bit more than a half inch thick) than the Curve 8300. The Curve 8900 is black with sort of a chrome rim around it. The top front half of the 8900 has more of a flat look than that of the 8300 which looks more curvy and bubbly. Hence, the Curve 8900 screen looks bigger and more sleek than the on one the 8300. Both phones seem to weigh the same, almost no noticeable difference there.

On the back, the Blackberry Curve 8900 has a 3.2 megapixel horizontal camera and the Curve 83000 has a 2 megapixelvertical camera. The Curve 8900 camera does not include a mirror, unlike the Curve 8300, but it does have a slot for a speaker. The QWERTY keyboards also remain mostly the same, with a few keys being smaller in the Curve 8900. The Curve 8900 is said to be one of the thinnest smartphones to sport a full QWERTY keyboard. The main buttons including the trackball have more of a discreet look on the 8900. Both phones have a 3.5mm headset jack, usb port, volume toggles and 2 command buttons on the sides. The Curve 8900 has a micro usb port, the headset jack, a command button, and the volume toggle on its right side and the Curve 8300 has a mini usb port, the headset jack and a command button on the left side and the volume toggle and second command button on the right side. The Curve 8900 offers two buttons at the top, a mute button and a lock button.

Other than these physical differences the only other things these phones have in common are Bluetooth 2.0, Edge support, a few apps like media player, calculator, organizer, etc. Everything else is different due to the updated version of Blackberry OS on the Curve 8900. In my opinion this phone should be popular, since its sort of a hybrid version of the Curve 8300 which has held a top spot in the most popular handsets of the US since it launched. Then again, the smartphones of today have higher standards and the popularity might not be as high as before.