It ’s cheap , it ’s ball - less , it’sthe BlackBerry Curve 8520 . Oh , and it ’s the first BlackBerry carrying the trackpad that ’s credibly gon na twist up on every BlackBerry eventually .
https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-curve-8520-officially-cheap-and-ball-less-5323639
The Price : $ 130 w/ 2 - year contract bridge and rebatefrom T - Mobile , or $ 48.88 with the same strings attachedfrom Walmart
The Verdict : Was this cobalt - project by Fisher Price ?
It ’s not that it ’s badly make — the grammatical construction is enough tough , like all salutary Fisher cost toy dog . But it ’s like RIM tookthe excellent Curve 8900(which is also on T - Mobilefor $ 30 more ) and re - plan it for a very sophisticated 6 - year - erstwhile .
https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-blackberry-curve-8900-first-impressions-5140597
you’re able to feel and see the corners trim — well , more like rounded — to get to this budget BlackBerry all over the position . The blue resolution ( 320×240 ) screen is flat - out depressing compare to every other BlackBerry display in the last twelvemonth ( just face ) . Instead of the great door latch chemical mechanism for the bombardment door from the Tour , Storm and 8900 , it ’s a manifest slab of plastic you toss off out with a fingernail . It ’s also lacking GPS ( though Google Maps will triangulate your position via cell towers ) , and the camera ’s only 2 megapixels . Bizarrely , T - Mobile is n’t send it with BlackBerry App World — which got right with the recent 1.1 update — you’ve got ta go download it yourself .
Hey , it ’s got the time to come of BlackBerry stuck in the middle of its aspect : The trackpad . pinch your digit over it , and the pointer moves . It ’s about 90 percentage as good as the trustworthy trackball . The missing 10 percent is that on the occasion the earphone lags , the want of tactile feedback somehow progress to it more jarring when the phone fails to respond . But otherwise , it pretty tightly approximates the dominance of the trackball , so you wo n’t drop it , especially when you pull in pocket lint is no longer your headphone ’s mortal foeman . Also new are a triplet of media keys on top of the headphone , but I kinda choose a dedicated curl button .
Even though the BlackBerry platform is starting to feel a piddling creaky compare to Android , iPhone and webOS , it ’s still middling useable , and while the 8520 might have shaved off some hardware features , RIM did n’t gimp anything that would strangle performance , so it feel about the same in that regard as the 8900 .
Overall , I do n’t think you should pay more than $ 100 for the Curve 8520 . For $ 50 , it ’s a upstanding pile , but if you could spare the extra $ 50 buck , the screen alone on the 8900 is worth it .
A BlackBerry for $ 50 , if you grease one’s palms it at the right smear
Trackpad just as upright as trackball ( almost )
Keyboard is great ( if you like peppy keyboards )
Every novel BlackBerry makes BlackBerry OS feel a chip more tired
feel kinda cheap , like a $ 50 faux smartphone
Worst BlackBerry screen in a tenacious time — dim , schoolbook look bad
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