Agustus 2009 ~ Smartphones, Cell Phones & Smart Phones

Selasa, 11 Agustus 2009

BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Sprint)

CHECK PRICES

$100 - $570

Amazon Marketplace	$569.99
Amazon	$99.99

Sprint now has two top-notch smartphones. The Palm Pre is the energetic, if still somewhat unformed adolescent. The BlackBerry Tour 9630 is the mature adult. Both have things to learn from each other. The Pre could learn a lot from the Tour's great power management, world-phone capability, and rich third-party app catalog. The Tour, on the other hand, could learn a lot from the Pre about fun and about browsing the Web.

Research In Motion Ltd

http://www.rim.com

Price as Tested: $199.99 - $499.99 Direct
Service Provider: Sprint
Operating System: BlackBerry OS
Screen Size: 2.4 inches
Screen Details: 360x480, 65k-color TFT LCD screen
Camera: Yes
Megapixels: 3.2 MP
802.11x: No
Bluetooth: Yes
Web Browser: Yes
Network: GSM, CDMA, UMTS
Bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100
High-Speed Data: GPRS, 1xRTT, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, EVDO Rev 0, EVDO Rev A
Processor Speed: 528 MHz

BlackBerry Curve 8520 (T-Mobile)

BlackBerry Curve 8520 (T-Mobile) : Right

$300 - $500

Amazon Marketplace	$499.99
Amazon	$299.99
J&R Music and Computer World	$319.99

Research in Motion apparently has decided the best way to conquer the smartphone market is to put their well-known OS into a dizzying array of different bodies. That's fine with me, because many of them turn out excellent—Flip and Storm aside. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the company's latest smartphone for T-Mobile, and the first BlackBerry to sport a trackpad. My guess: the trackpad will succeed the trackball on all future designs, because it's great. The rest of the Curve 8520 turned out pretty well, too. That's not bad for a smartphone that rings in at just $48.88 (with a two-year contract) from Walmart—although puzzlingly, it's $129 at T-Mobile's own stores.