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Curve 8530 is considered as a great entry-level smartphone, especially with MetroPCS’s inexpensive unlimited monthly plan.

General

• Product Type
• Smartphone With digital camera / digital player

Service Provider

• MetroPCS

Width

• 2.36 in

Depth

• 0.55 in

Height

• 4.29 in

Weight

• 3.7 oz

Body Color

• Black

Cellular

• Technology
• CDMA / AWS

Band

• CDMA 800/1900 (Dual Band) / AWS 1700/2100 (Dual Band)

Phone Design

• PDA

Caller ID

• Yes

Wireless Interface

• Bluetooth

Additional Features

• Speakerphone, Voice command, Internal antenna

Communicator Features

• Operating System
• Blackberry OS

Messaging & Data Services

• Short Messaging Service (SMS)
• Yes

Internet Browser

• Yes

Messaging / Data Features

• Text messages, Multimedia messages (MMS), Picture messages, E-Mail, Instant messages, Voice mail

Display

Diagonal Size

• 2.5 in

Miscellaneous

Included Accessories

• Battery, desktop charger, USB Cable

Battery

Talk Time

• Up to 270 min

Standby Time

• 252 Hrs

CrackBerry has posted the first live shots of the new BlackBerry Pearl 9100 (codename Striker) 3G smartphone. As you can see, the the 9100 gets a touchpad and a SureType keyboard, like other Pearls. It has a color display and a camera with LED flash.

The original BlackBerry Storm was RIM’s first smartphone with a touch-screen, and the company went for broke with a full-frontal screen that used an innovative technology, SurePress, in which the entire display area depressed as you pushed at it. Here at ZDNet we were less than sure of the touch-screen mechanism’s long-term viability, and were puzzled by the Storm’s lack of Wi-Fi.

Undaunted, RIM has produced a second generation of the Storm, the logically named Storm2. Wi-Fi is now present and correct, and the whole approach to the touch-screen has been rethought. Like its predecessor, the Storm2 is only available via Vodafone in the UK.