Blackberry Curve 8900 Review

I've spent about a week now with my Curve 8900 and thus far I'm very impressed. Coming from my Pearl the screen, browser, UI, camera, music player' and just about everything is much improved.

Going to a qwerty keyboard from the SureType keyboard after 2 1/2 years has been an adjustment for my thumbs, but I think I'll get over it.

The google apps all work as expected and the addition of GPS makes the Maps app all the sweeter. I also found a nice twitter client called TinyTwitter.

The 8900 comes with wifi support and setting up my home and work networks was a breeze. The jury is still out on UMA. It was super easy to set up and I now use it both at home and work. My inbound sound quality was great but I've had mixed feedback from those on the other line. It may have been something going on with my DSL connection or wifi network.

I'm glad blackberry finally figured out that people want to use normal headphones with their phones and included the appropriate jack. I'm not thrilled about the move to microUSB, only because it means all my miniUSB cables don't work.

I would say battery life is a little worse than my pearl, but with a bigger brighter screen, a wifi and GPS radio I guess that's to be expected.

All in all, it's a great phone.