BlackBerry Curve 9300 prototype gets handled on video
By Ross Miller 
posted June 25th 2010 11:59PM
posted June 25th 2010 11:59PM
posted June 25th 2010 11:59PM
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i bet theyll get taken down within 3 hours
@jrolls
Unfortunately you will be low ranked forever
If you don't want to be last forever, be first never
@RhymeMaster wow i had a comment with it if you had the time to read, i just added the first thing with it so shut up
@jrolls
Agh blackberry. Its like taco bell; same sh1t, new remix.
@jrolls
When everyone else is pumping out hd cameras, hd out, 1ghz processors, games, etc blackberry is worried about pumping out more midrange of the same stuff even their flagship currently the 9700 and soon to be 9800 seem like a year behind everyone else it sucks cause i love how easy to use, reliable, well built and stable they are. I have the 9700 had the 8900 but when i see phones like the evo, or the galaxy s pro even more so I'm thinking what reasons do i have for not jumping ship to android? I've already long since run out of reasons for not jumping ship to sprint from att
@jrolls WOOT John4lakers finally getting a feature here...
@robotlove haha if i could jump to sprint i would for the evo, but when blackberry os 6 is released its going to be big
@Failbait
But when you have it that close to perfect, why change?
All the BlackBerry needs is a new browser - and that willbe here this year.
@rederikus
agreed, similar to the thinkpads...
@clisten
Lol, both blackberries and thinkpads. As a previous user of BOTH, I do have to say that the users of these two specific products typically start with them and defend them without having spent time with other products. I got away from those 'perfect' blackberries and will never go back. The UI is dated and atrocious. I worked in IT and the email use was agonizingly painful. It was pure ugly. It was slow. It was boring.
Thinkpads? Yeah. I had use a Dell precision and simply TOUCH an HP elitebook to realize those thinkpads are bulky, overrated, outdated, and overpriced and underfeatured computers. My T series is now a download machine, and my friends (elitebook user) W500 is his media center.
And were both happy ex-bb users. Lol.
Geez, where's Doc Brown when you need him? Is it just me or is RIM stuck in the past and in desperate need of a DeLorean capable of 88 MPH with a flux capacitor?
RIM... how about some new designs?
@grumpyOldMan theyve got the 9760 and 9800 which are fairly new designs if you asked me
@grumpyOldMan yes RIM please take your amazing phone that is one of the best selling phones of all time and do something as stupid as changing its design drastically...
@jrolls Barely. It's not distinctive enough to be called new. There's tons of "different" Blackberry's out but they all look identical. They should take to a newer design, at least.
@SteveyAyo It is a great device. On the other hand can anyone seriously tell the difference in their designs? They all look alike and worst of all they all look a bit outdated when compared to just about everything else on the shelf.
There will come a time when iPhone and Android are accepted in the world of Enterprise and when that day comes, and I'm sorry to say this because I was a Blackberry dev for a while, the platform won't survive.
@SteveyAyo
i love how people confuse corporations buying their employees phones, for the phones acctually looking nice and being popular with non business users.
@grumpyOldMan
I thought we discussed this already..... Blackberry devices are not be compared to other smartphones except other Blackberry devices. Failure to do so just leads to an endless cycle of frustration.
@jrolls ENGADGET you've got the wrong PHOTO! That photo is of the Blackberry 94... no wait the Blackberry 69... oh wait I remember now it's the ....
@grumpyOldMan
meh what is there to change
the form factor is what it is, some people like it some dont
@justit It's the 8900 javelin remember
@grumpyOldMan
Agreed !! those Blackberry looking like yesterday design. Get on the road already and make some good one like iphone .......
@deadaim i had a curve, it was probably one of the better phones ive ever used... there is a reason those companies keep buying them
@codepink true but they would have a heck of a time getting new buyers because blackberry users are sooo used to trackball/pad and qwerty. the storm mostly sold to new adopters of blackberry because of its touchscreen. its like a blackberry standard ya know?
@codepink What are you talking about, that design is completely new and unique. The one on the right has a trackpad the one on the left had a trackball. You can barely see in resemblance. Clearly RIM is going after a whole new market with this one.
@grumpyOldMan
They do need to design some different looking devices, but am I the only one that actually likes the design? I know a lot of people are used to seeing a plate of rectangular glass with one button on the bottom, but as far as business phones go this is pretty darn hot.
@grumpyOldMan "They all look alike and worst of all they all look a bit outdated when compared to just about everything else on the shelf."
I am sorry, but don't ALL those full touch-screen phones look the same also? Change a few things, add this, take this out, and voila, new phone! The iPhone hasn't changed design, HTC designs are pretty much the same with some tweaking around, Motorola follows the same line.
Blackberry is like the smartphone Thinkad, it works, and evolves instead of revolutionizing the market. Those of us who have BBs either love them or hate them. As for me, I am loyal to RIM as I know my BB won't crack if it fells to the ground 3 times (pun intended). The only thing RIM has lagged is the browser, as I know it is not the best in the market, but other than that, the hardware keyboard (one of the best BB feature, therefore always present), the stability, the ruggedness, it is a trusty platform. Not an app-phone, but IMHO the real smartphone, made to work and depend on it.
@serge The OS is an epic fail.
FAIL.
@codepink
Agreed. Considering the fact that RIM make as much money as they do I expect them to be creating products that are as forward thinking as products that HTC and Apple are putting on the market. Yes, there are things that the BB does VERY well, but that is no excuse for being so slow at releasing anything that is revolutionary or competitive.
@New Reformation
Evolutionary ... For college kids and gamers? I feel a bit silly and embarrassed pulling out my iPhone in any serious meeting. I may as well come in with a burger king hat and a cedar pointe shirt.
@New Reformation
Sorry but the word Revolutionary lost it's definition when Apple kept using it with their iPhone; with it's revolutionary capabilities of:
1) cut/paste
2) video camera
3) LED flash
4) multi-tasking
5) folders - really? folders?
And yet with all those Revolutionary discoveries by Apple they still have not revolutionized the most important thing, Ca.......
oops sorry I held the phone with my left hand, here we go, Call Quality.
Are we living in a time where every mobile device on the market has to be glossy?
Rim rim rim, tsk tsk tsk.
Wow, that Curve is sexy.
I don't know, my upgrade is in two months and I'm still debating.
Android or Blackberry? All I use is Opera Mini, AIM, Gmail, and Tumblr and maybe a few Tweets here and there.
@xxjoaquin depends on what android phone
Just FYI that is Tmobile USA brand on the bottom the europe brand has two dots to the left of the T
Looks more like an 8900 replacement as opposed to an 8500.
The latter is a true entry-level model while the former is higher spec'd, closer to a bold (although not quite) but thinner and with the chicklet keyboard (for those that prefer it). The 8900 is also more immediately due for a replacement since the release of the Bold 9650 leaves it the only trackball model left.
@KeegdnaB I got the 8900 coming from a 8300 - huge shift.... The 8500 looks pretty close to mine, and the new one isn't significantly redesigned... I DO like the optical track pad, and would say (beside internal specs) that's the biggest improvement (and not really worth a 2nd upgrade at this point)
@KeegdnaB
I can't believe the guy in the video didn't even know what model he was comparing it to. It makes the whole video pretty out of context from a comparison standpoint.
The device he's comparing it to is a higher end Curve 8900 device with a significantly better display resolution. It would have been more appropriate to compare this new 9300 to an actual Curve 8500 series device.
It's cool that they got a pre-production device this early, but the video is a total wash from a comparison standpoint.
Who uses a BB any more? Its like using a Netscape browser in 2010. These are so stodgy. Someone dropped one on the sidewalk the other day and I stepped over it b/c I thought it was steaming dog poop.
@meriambeckwith Is that how you treat all your old cellphones?
@meriambeckwith Who uses BB anymore? I don't know but considering its the #1 smartphone I'm guessing that's a lot of people
@meriambeckwith
Anyone who is not desperate for attention. Because they have better things to do with their lives rather than downloading stupid apps like calculating 15% on a 20$ lunch bill.
Why does that screen look smaller? Seems like quite a step back considering how much smaller the screen already is than its other smartphone competitors.
@David Wagner
because not everyone wants a phone that cant fit inside pockets anymore (im looking at you droid x)
omg, its a jon4lakers vid. yay!
looks like technobuffalo just scooped engadget. technobuffalo is an awseome tech news sight.
Gee golly whiz, RIM's getting worse than Apple when it comes to making actual changes to devices.
These "new prototypes" look just like their old phones. When will RIM finally start making something that looks cool. I now can't tell a difference between Bold, Curve and these new ones.
@hated one I'd feel embarassed to be seen with a phone with obvious design flaws that you can't even hold normally....but then again I'm not a little kid who thinks a fart button is more important than communication.
I'll stick with my Tour, it's a phone for grownups.