Blackberry 8330 Alltel Phone Review

The sleek and easy to hold design with a simple to use QWERTY keyboard is what makes the BlackBerry Curve 8330 popular. BlackBerry push technology is meant to deliver emails to your phone as they arrive so you read and respond to them. And its applications work together so you can email an internet page to at one of your contacts while you are browsing the net, or listen to music as you read and respond to your emails. Additionally to the push technology reliability, the Curve also offers a 3.5mm headset Jack, microSD Memory Card Slot, Bluetooth connectivity, 2MP Camera, Music Player, support of full web pages, E-Mail and plenty of more. These powerful features round out the overall package that the sleek and elegantly-designed Curve offers.

Blackberry 8330 Alltel Phone | CellularCountry

The Curve 8330 has the same 2.5” landscape LCD with QVGA resolution as the previous Curve models. The LCD looks bright and color saturated. The very useable QWERTY keyboard, the call control buttons, menu buttons and the trackball control remain unchanged also. The same goes for the side buttons and the camera cluster on the back. It’s worth mentioning that the Curve 8330 has a 3.5mm headset jack and comes with a stereo wired headset for your MP3/AAC playback pleasure. The Curve’s microSD card slot is convenient for expanding memory but isn’t convenient to get to. It’s under the battery and you must power down the phone to access it. Have fun with that slow boot up time when you have to access the card frequently.

The GSM Curve models have slightly above average reception and good voice quality, and the CDMA Curves continue that trend. The reception in strong coverage areas is usually 4 bars (out of 5 bars max) and in spotty coverage areas is 1-3 bars.

Like previous Curves, the Curve 8330 has a full HTML browser that works with not only mobile sites but also full HTML sites. Page rendering is good once you turn on all the page layout support options in the browser, but not as good as the Safari-based browser found on the iPhone and Nokia S60 phones (see photo). It has full page view with a cursor to navigate the page and zoom, and has support for Javascript, cookies, cache and more. But it has some trouble loading relatively uncomplicated layouts such as MobileTechReview’s web site where the Curve rendered only 2 columns out of three correctly while the iPhone and the Nokia N95 browsers render the page in true desktop fashion.

The BlackBerry devices have the undisputed advantage in push email and corporate backend email integration. The BlackBerry Curve offers all that push email goodness: email set up is easy, sending and receiving email is very fast and has support for a wide variety of attachment formats. In almost all aspects the BlackBerry devices are still the kings of email except in one area: rendering HTML email. While the iPhone, some Nokia smartphones and Window Mobile smartphones with Exchange support can display emails in HTML format, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 only shows unsightly links and broken pages when displaying emails with HTML without third party software like BBSmart or Empower solutions.

The BlackBerry Curve can also record video with audio, a feature that’s so far enjoyed by BlackBerry Pearl users. You can take video clips in 240 x 176 and 176 x 144 resolutions, but oddly can only save them to a storage card not the phone’s internal memory. The videos look reasonably good, and the LED flash can illuminate subjects within an arm’s length well.

CDMA users who admired the BlackBerry Curve from a distance can now get their hands on this messaging smartphone sprinkled with a touch of multimedia. Despite the complicated backend server support for everything under the sun (Lotus Domino, MS Exchange, Novel GroupWise, etc.), the email is extremely easy to set up and use for a regular Joe. The web browser, though not top notch, gets the job done, especially if you turn on all the options for tables and etc.

Sanyo SCP-7050 Sprint Phone Features

Sanyo declared a tough new phone from CTIA Wireless 2007 today known as the SCP-7050. Sanyo SCP-7050 is so tough that it adheres to military standard 810F for dirt, shock, and vibration, a first for the company.

Obviously tooled outdoor lovers or those that work in less than ideal environments for electronics, the Sanyo SCP-7050 includes a textured rubber grip on the surface of the phone for a strong hold. The device has been designed with external side buttons that are easy to use once wearing gloves to access the speakerphone, call list, Sprint Ready Link, and volume control. The external LCD is high-contrast to ease use outdoors.

People in construction, maintenance, transportation, and other field operation industries will appreciate the advanced GPS capabilities provided by the Sanyo SCP-7050. Autonomous GPS will continue collecting position data despite the presence of a network connection, and the combination of Java MVM and location-based GPS allows the phone to support advanced navigation, tracking, and management applications.

Sanyo SCP-7050 Sprint Phone | CellularCountry

FEATURES

• High-quality SANYO speakerphone for hands-free operation (24mm diameter)
• Dedicated internal and external speakerphone buttons
• 2.0" QVGA-resolution TFT LCD display (65K-colors)
• Large, easy-to-read external LCD display -- high contrast for viewing outdoors
• External "Call List" key — allows you to quickly access and make calls from the Recent Call list without opening the phone
• 2-way SMS (Text, Voice)
• Instant Messaging (IM) capable
• Web-based Email capable (e.g. AOL, MSN, PCS Mail)
• Voice-activated dialing (up to 30 entries)
• Caller-ID capability (Number, Picture, Ringer)
• Call Screening (Pre-recorded or custom 12-second announcement)
• Voice Recorder (Recording time: up to 3 hours, 52 minutes)
• Phone Book (500 name entries with 700 total phone numbers, 1000 Email and 500 Web Addresses)
• Call History
• Voice calls: 20 outgoing calls, 20 incoming calls, 20 missed calls
• Ready Link calls: 20 outgoing calls, 20 incoming calls, 20 missed calls
• Sprint Radio capable
• Calendar
• Alarm Clock
• World Clock
• Stop Watch
• Vibrating Alert
• T9 Text Input
• 72-Chord Polyphonic ringers
• TTY Capable
• M4/T4 Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) Rating
• Digital Dual-band - 1.9 GHz, 800 MHz

Security Features

• Limit Use — A great business management tool, the Limit Use feature allows you to pre-determine the allowed incoming and/or outgoing phone numbers. Also can be used to restrict Sprint Vision and/or Sprint Ready Link usage.
• Remote Lock — If your SCP-7050 is ever lost or stolen, you can erase important personal information (such as contacts, call history, and messages) and lock the phone remotely from any computer using a special SMS text message sent through the Sprint website.

HTC Touch Pro2 Phone Design

The HTC Touch Pro2, the killer sequel to the already fantastic HTC Touch Pro, brings back the tilted screen found within the original AT&T Tilt, and adds some new features additionally. With an outsized, comfortable keyboard, a beautiful 3.6-inch display, and a brand new version of TouchFLO 3D that tightly integrates your contacts along with your social life, the HTC Touch Pro2 could be a feature-packed Windows mobile phone. This device conjointly takes oral communication seriously, with integrated noise-cancelation technology, and the ability to activate the speakerphone by placing the phone face down on a table. You can get this HTC Touch Pro2 Sprint Phone at Cellular Country for $109.99, and it’s not the most pocket-friendly smart phone, but the Touch Pro2 is powerful enough to let you leave your laptop behind and an honest selection for business users requiring a Windows Mobile phone.

HTC Touch Pro2 Sprint Phone | CellularCountry

The HTC Touch Pro2 packs a great deal of bulk, to the purpose that it’s not the type of phone somebody wearing tight jeans will wish to carry. The Touch Pro2 is greater and heavier than the original; it measures 4.6 x 2.3 x 0.7 inches and weighs 6.3 ounces, whereas the Touch Pro measured 4.0 x 2;0 x 0.7 inches, and weighed 5.3 ounces. The Nokia N97, that incorporates a similar sliding keyboard, measures 4.6 x 2.2 x 0.6 inches, and weighs a lighter 5.2 ounces.

The large 3.6-inch, 800 x 480-pixel resolution screen is beautiful and bright, and the spacious slide-out keyboard could be a pleasure to sort on. HTC moved the microSD from under the battery cover to a more convenient location on its left side. Volume controls are simply higher than the microSD slot, and a power button is on the top left; a microUSB charging port at the bottom of the phone doubles as a headphone jack. Underneath the massive display, you’ll notice a touch-sensitive zoom slider bar, Send/End keys, additionally as Home and Return buttons. On the rear of the Touch Pro2 is a speaker and a 3.2MP autofocus camera without flash.

The phone’s slider function is solid and smooth, and it reveals a 5-line QWERTY keyboard. You’ll be able to swivel the screen on a hinge to prop it up at about a 30-degree angle, which means you'll rest the phone on your table and still read the screen easily while watching videos or surfing the web. In contrast to the Nokia N97, that incorporates a hinge that locks into a single position, the HTC Touch Pro2 can be tilted forward or backward, allowing much easier screen viewing.