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.
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You the RIM addicts may wait for the latest info on Blackberry Tour 9630. The Blackberry Tour 9630 may be available on Verizon on that date. The info comes from kevin from HoFo. There some other infos regarding this launch date of Blackberry Tour 9630. One of them says that the launch date could be on July 15th and the other says on July 17th. As Kevin Byrne has a good reputation of this issue, so we prefer to choose his opinion on this.

So this may become your hot news for the coming summer. Isn’t it?

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