I decided this year that it was time I joined the smartphone generation. I would only use it for personal use and went looking for a deal that matched my low phone usage - I am never going to send 7 billion texts a month. I found it with O2 (my current provider) and this phone which I got on a 24 month contract for £25 per month. Vodaphone offered the same deal, but not all providers offered this phone at the time I believe you can get a cheaper contract now also. It could have been bought sim free for about £220, but it is worth researching this - to get the best out of it you would need a data allowance tariff and most sim free tariffs or Pay As You Go deals don't  Read the complete review

I have now been upgraded to a Blackberry 9300 as a contract phone after having a 8520 curve for two years on an orange contract. I have only had the phone a few days so am going to upgrade this review as I go along but thought I would start now while the comparrison is fresh in the mind. The layout of the phone feels more sturdy and has bigger buttons that makes typing using the blackberry ABC keyboard layout easier to use compared to my previous model. There are simple little things that make this phone easier to live with such as the sms that lists the conversation above so you can keep track of what has been said before without leaving the message and back ...  Read the complete review

I opened a contract with carphone warehouse in September 2011 and picked the Blackberry curve as the gentlmen on the other end of the phone recomended it and all reviews i read were all good. I picked the pink limited edition one. When my phone arrived i was quite excited, i was beautiful, shiny and modern (unlike my last phone). After 3 weeks of having and may i add taking care of my new phone, the buttons kept sticking and the screen froze every other day, eventually it just did not work at all, so i returned it to the shop and got a replacement. After about a month the same thing happened again, because it was over the 28 days it had to get sent away for a ...  Read the complete review

I purchased my new Blackberry Curve last week from eBay for just over £100 and it arrived yesterday in the post, I must admit it has took me a while to express an interest in Blackberry's as I have been very happy with my I-phone over the last year and haven't felt a need to explore anything different. And from what I had heard in the early Blackberry models users had constant complaints about one thing or another.. The first factor that swayed my decision in to purchasing one of these impressive smart phones is the Blackberry Messenger service, with over 70% of my friends now using a Blackberry as their main phone it seemed sensible to jump on the band ...  Read the complete review

There are plenty of pluses to the Blackberry Curve, but for the fatter-fingered amongst us, it can be a bit of an ordeal trying to find them. As clever and handy as it probably is having a whole keyboard tucked in beneath the screen, composing a message or e-mail tends to be a chore. My thumb covers half the keys, and mashing out a sentence takes a while. In the absence of a dialling wand, filing your nails into pin-sharp points also does the job. The tracker-pad's equally frustrating. Less than a centimetre square, it torments you with silent glee. You know the icon you want; you can see the icon you want; you can skim over the icon you want twelve times in ...  Read the complete review