Review of Verizon BlackBerry Curve 8530

The Blackberry Curve 8530 is the capable smartphone offered for $99.99 on a 2 yr contract. However for a few dollars more you can get the other one with better keypad, camera, display as well as international support, the Blackberry Tour 9630. Further more you also can find both devices for free on contract. The 9630 more price seems to be for WiFi and optical trackpad.

Compared with 8520, the Blackberry 8530 offers you the GPS and runs on EV-DO Rev. 0 networks.

Hardware

The built is well designed with only 105 g of weight and feels solid and comfortable. It has the rubberized sides along with battery cover made from faux carbon fiber plastic that result in nice grip without moans and creaks. Having the similar keypad to 8300 and 8900, it is easy to adjust. Unfortunately this phone has the poor camera without flash as well as the wobbled trackpad.

A/V

The Blackberry 8530 has the good call, however it has more hiss than the other handsets. The speaker is relatively good in its price range. However, we can’t say it is a good idea to see YouTube video on its QVGA size.

Performance & Software

The OS 5.0.0.337 seems to run smoothly with 528MHz processor. However it has an issue of freezing up on some occasions. So we can wait for the first maintenance for fixing. The browser looks not so good. The QVGA display can’t help out this.

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