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5 REASONS WHY I LOVE THE NEW BAT-PHONE (AKA Blackberry Curve 8520)

My first instinct was to do an excited post about my new 8520 as soon as I got my hands on it back in early January (barely a month after it came out), but upon further thought, I figured “Let me use it for a while and then I can really let people know if it’s worth the trouble…”. Almost two months later, the answer is a resounding YES! In my humble opinion the Blackberry Curve (8520) is one of the best handsets I’ve ever owned, PERIOD. As such, READ ON for my Top Five quick reasons as to why YOU might want to get your hands on one too. *wink*

The TRACKPAD is the greatest thing to hit this planet since OXYGEN. Seriously, if you’re a longtime Blackberry fanatic like me then I’m sure you’ve had a BB long enough to have had annoying trackball problems. The trackball was the single reason I ditched my old Bat-phone (RIP Pearl 8100: July 2006 – January 2010), and I’m happy to report that upgrading to a phone with a TRACKPAD was seamless and WONDERFUL. The trackpad functions on the same principles as the ball did… just with less room for error and less friction (thus less wear and tear in the long run) since it’s touch sensitive. Trust me – when you go TRACK, you’ll never go back lol.

The screen is much more brilliant (and bigger) than my old Pearl… great for day to day use (BBMing, texting, web-surfing, etc), and even BETTER for viewing photos and video. Frankly, I’m dying to finally get on a plane so I can load it up with a movie or two and fully enjoy the beautiful LCD screen’s brilliant picture for a whole film. Bottom line – only the Blackberry Bold has a bigger, better screen than this one, and just barely at that!
Speaking of movies, the 8520 is GREAT for multimedia. It has Play, Fast-Forward and Rewind buttons up at the top for easy access to all your mp3s and videos, and it takes great photos too. The only down side for me is that I can’t see how RIM declared this their “multimedia” phone but neglected to add a FLASH to it. As a result, taking pics at night is tricky if possible at all, but I’ll overlook that in favour of all the wonderful other multimedia bonuses listed above.

Continuing on the multimedia path, I’m happy to report it has a STANDARD earphone jack instead of one that only fits RIM-issue headphones. So now you can plug your fancy-shmancy professional headphones into your BB and get brilliant sounds for your music mp3s or watch a video with crisp psuedo-surround sound. Been waiting for THIS for a while and it delivers BIG TIME. Try it and see for yourself.
There’s like a ZILLION great apps for Blackberry but almost all of them work better on a newer BB like this one with its faster processor and better graphics quality. The only negative thing I can really say overall about the 8520 (other than lamenting the absence of a flash) is that I really wish it included GPS. Certain apps (like Google Maps for instance), do work using Cell-Tower approximation (bouncing a signal off the closest cell-phone tower to ascertain your current location) but it’s not as accurate as GPS, and there’s many apps that don’t work because they assume a modern phone has GPS built in – which it SHOULD. Fix that RIM.

All in all I can’t say enough good things about the Bat-Phone 2.0, AKA the recently-released Blackberry Curve 8520.Great application of technology, good call quality, very user friendly – all around and great product, especially if you’re a BB lover like myself.

I’m still very curious about the 8520′s big brother, the Bold 9700 which is a little more powerful (and has the built-in flash and GPS that I now crave), but I’ll hold off on upgrading to that because NOW I’m hearing there will be a new upgrade to the touchscreen Storm…

Anyway, that’s my two cents on the Blackberry Curve 8520, so I’m off to send a BBM to Management to say that this blog post is done. Mista Vybe OUTTT!!!

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