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BlackBerry 8330

BlackBerry Curve 8330 Reviews

Mobile Magazine reviews the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and writes, "Aside from the rubber, the rest of the Curve is primarily made of silver and black plastic, as well as a chrome piece on the back that surrounds the 2.0 megapixel camera. I like the inclusion of the camera, just for the sake of convenience, but enterprise users may want to look for a camera-less version to adhere to their company's restriction. The overall build quality is stellar and not once did I think that the Curve felt "cheap" in my hands. Make no mistake; the Curve is for people who mean business."

PCMag reviews the BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) and writes, "A 2-megapixel camera features autofocus and an enhanced LED flash but no optical zoom. Still, it takes nicely detailed pictures, but they have a slight orange tinge. It also captures decent-looking 240-by-176 videos at 14 frames per second."

PCMag BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon) and writes, "The Curve's microSDHC card slot is still inconveniently located beneath the battery—that's getting old—but an 8GB SanDisk card worked fine. There's a 2MP camera sensor along with an enhanced LED flash and autofocus capability. This adds up to surprisingly detailed and balanced pictures, though it's still not the equal of a low-end point-and-shoot camera. It also captures decent-looking 240-by-176 videos at 14 frames per second."

MobileTechReview has a review of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and writes, "As with all Curve smartphones, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 has a 2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, and LED flash and a self portrait mirror. However, the camera on the Curve 8330 can record video while previous Curve models didn’t offer this feature. The quality of photos the Curve takes has also advanced. We didn’t find any difference in camera performance between the two CDMA Curve versions. The camera lens isn’t terribly wide and you can have the LED flash turned on automatically or manually. The Curve takes sharp photos by 2 mp camera phone standards both indoors and outdoors with a good amount of detail and very good color balance. The images look good even though overly sharpened like many of today’s camera phone photos, but the high contrast works well with the images. Indoor shots have some noise but not bad at all, and in very poor lighting conditions the camera will turn on the flash. The camera phone can shoot photos in three resolutions: 1600 x 1200, 1024 x 768 and 640 x 480 with three quality settings and the camera software also has white balance and color effects settings. You can use photos as screen image and caller ID or send them to email and Messenger contacts."

CNET reviews the BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) and writes, "The BlackBerry Curve 8330 comes with a 2-megapixel lens with video-recording capabilities. For still images, there's a 5x zoom and flash, as well as three picture sizes and three quality options. You also get white-balance settings and several color effects you can add to the photo. Video options are limited with just two video formats (normal or multimedia message), three color effects, and a video light...Picture quality was less than stellar. Though images had good definition and we could make out each object in the picture, there was a grayish overtone that kind of ruined it for us."

InfoSync reviews the BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) and writes, "The camera lens on the Sprint version of the Curve seems similar to the lens on the Verizon Wireless version. There was a time when RIM didn't include a camera on their BlackBerry devices, and perhaps that was for the best. Image quality on the 2-megapixel camera was dismal. In our test photos, there was hardly an edge left unfeathered or blurred. Details were almost non-existent, and colors looked washed-out. The video recorder was no better, with a watery quality to videos and compression artifacts that marred the recording."