BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a go for US, says FCC
By Ross Miller 
posted Jun 30th 2009 9:17PM
posted Jun 30th 2009 9:17PM
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Who cares?! Is it just me, or are BlackBerries just so boring?! Same ol' design, horrible OS, etc.
have you ever used one other than the 5 minutes you spent fondeling one while your mom argued with the sales rep about how you went over on your text messages?
I have to support you Alex.
Blackberries are really boring in the cookie cutter sense. They all seem to be plagued by the same style over and over. The only BB that was made a splash was the Storm as it drifted away from the same cramped keyboard, vertical position handset and gave as a new facet of RIM using a Touch-screen - even if it failed, on my view, to deliver a good touch input.
When I see a "new" Blackberry, I really roll my eyes as it is basically the same thing as the one before. They are surely reliable handsets, but, I think it is time to start making some more innovative deals. The same path the iPhone is undertaking. Are they ever going to make anything iPhone where you can choose? "Hmm, I want the one with the keyboard.... or maybe the one with only touchscreen. Well, maybe this clamshell" Or Palms identical Treos.
I am so glad companies like Samsung exist.
The Pearl and Pearl Flip also have different form factors to your standard BlackBerry...
This BlackBerry has the "classic" form factor, but it DOES introduce the optical trackpad, which is new...
yes! thank you! I totally agree that all the Blackberries look the freakin same. I've never used one, and I wouldn't disagree about how great it works. If it works so well already why create (so many) newer models??? What's the point of that? And I don't mean just model numbers, but all the lines of Blackberries (e.g. Curve, Tour, etc.); they all look the same (maybe raised keys here and there, less curves right there...)! everytime i see a new post with a supposedly new Blackberry I kept thinking it's the exact same thing as before. yawn.
o yea, why did people diss Motorola's styles when I'm sure it was more varied than RIM's? I can understand criticism on the OS, but Moto's phone at least looked different from one another...
Yep.
Agree. What else can you see with this tiny screen beside a few lines of text?
Well, sure its coming to T-Mo. Its got EDGE data & is an entry level device isnt it??
T-Mobile is a good company that has good plans, but their phones & data network are quite pathetic.
Look at it this way. AT&T has the iPhone & a couple high end Blackberrys, Sprint has the Pre, Verizon has the Storm (Storm 2 is supposed to be much better) and T-Mobile has...the G1. Oh, and those cool Sidekicks. :-/
I wouldn't really call T-Mobile a good company. Sure their prices are good, but the coverage and data is just abysmal.
Seems to me sales louder than words. If people like boring, then so be it. Only money is what any company listens too. So till its not profitable, boring and safe seems to be the business model every where.
That is the precise strategy Motorola took with the Razor. Releasing the same thing over and over until you file Chapter 11 or get bought out for pennies on the dollar is not a viable business model.
What are your thoughts on Apple? Not counting different sizes, they have released 3 iPhones, and each one has an identical operating system and you cannot tell the difference between two of those three by looking at them. Thoughts?
Apple doesn't look boring to me.
just sayin'..
do you also bitch that cars always have four wheels and either two or four doors? same old design? maybe becuase it works so damn well that there is no need to change it and the legions of followers prefer the design?
and yes it is just you
That is why now there are cars with:
4 wheels, 3 wheels, and even amphibians.
Electric motors, air-pump motors, gasoline motors, solar engines, water engines.
1 door, 2 doors, 3 doors, 4 doors, 5 doors!
Red, green, blue, yellow, silver, really?
Many different designs. The Scions that immersed us into the world of square boxes. The Volkswagen Bettle with its bubbly design. The Honda Fit that ignited the mini-car frenzy.
I think we are over the early motor-vehicle development were cars tended to look alike - not even then it was a true statement. Product differentiation has always been a key. Most companies tend to create a wide range of products available from them to cover as much market as possible.
another centro?
No touchscreen, so the Centro has more features than this... ;)
u gotta be kidding me!!
Its like the other blackberries, but with an optical track pad. Its the same idea as car companies that make a few changes to their cars every year to keep people from losing interest.
I don't understand blackberry puts out a phone that looks like their other phones and they are boring. But Apple puts out the SAME phone 3 times and everybody loves it. Sound like a bunch of apple sheeple to me. BAAAAAH
Yeah, I wish they would release a blackberry that's innovative, instead of releasing the same thing over and over.
Right like apple who releases an iphone 3G and an iPhone 3Gs, only insignificant hardware changes. It looks the same phone that cant quite do mms.
Here's the thing... Blackberries just plan work... with the exception of the Storm... but thats another story. The day that Blackberries take a **** and call it a Centro then change is going to be neccesary, until then, Blackberry > all.
The Centro is a good phone with solid reviews, and available for ridiculously cheap. What have you got against it?
Blackberrys are the best communications devices bar none. Efficient and streamlined at staying in contact and keeping organized. It obviously can't compete with multimedia oriented phones or portable handhelds but it isn't meant to.
I can't and have never been as efficient at my work as when I am on my Blackberry. Without a doubt the multimedia capabilities of Blackberrys suffer, so switching from its communications to playing music in my car feels clunky, inefficient, and downright dangerous, but that's not its primary function for me. Web browsing is clunky as well. However, the key here is that it does, in fact, perform as a media player, and you can in fact browse the web.
Frankly I am sick and tired of phone reviews that focus on how many games a phone plays or how pretty its interface is or how well it plays video. If I can't multitask and stay connected with multiple people at all times all that is just useless. And that said, Edge is enough for 90% of my needs, only time I wish I had better speeds is when I tether.
I am looking forward to this phone, the optical trackpad is awesome, although I still think the old school thumbwheel was more efficient.
I love the curve. I have been using it for a few months now. It is fricking addictive.
It's not an iPhone. It's aimed at a different crowd. For business use it is nearly perfect.
I do not understand why RIM keeps this thing limited to 2.5 G. Put a 3G chip in it already!
This is an entry level phone. If they put 3G in it, it would cannibalize the Bold and Driftwood/Tour/Graphite/whatever other names they're giving it.