BlackBerry Curve 9380

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The new BlackBerry edition from the house of Research In Motion Limited is like a boon for the economic buyers who crave to have the BlackBerry experience, but dread the cost. Stated to be announced in the month of November, BlackBerry Curve 9380 has been introduced as the entry-level BlackBerry. After its prequel blackberry-curve-9360, this one has been made slightly smaller and slightly better with a wide touchscreen panel. Released at an astoundingly low cost for a BlackBerry device, the company is strongly promoting the gadget by its ultra-light price tag. Delivering solid performance, the unit has been predicted to meet a huge success in the market due to the absence of career subsidy. The phones look appears to be laden with resemblance with BlackBerry Curve 9360.

BlackBerry Curve 9380 – The Design and Built

With a slight frame weighing only 98 grams, the device is encased within a dimension of 109 x 60 x 11.2 mm. Brandishing a slender, sleek body, the phone is remarkably small and ideal for female users in terms of its size. Even though the standard design goal of RIM is not exactly small, but the Curve 9380 is a deviation from the commonly followed trend. Almost as thin as the BlackBerry Torch 9860, the Curve 9380 is only in a much tighter shape with the front face fully covered with the immense display. Curve as the name suggests, bears a rounded, curvaceous look on all the sides and angles.

However, it has managed to retain a look that is pertinent for both males and females. Unlike BlackBerry’s traditional executive look, this one is petite and can be flaunted by teenagers. BlackBerry Curve 9380 is an exemplary departure from the North American trend of colossal touchscreens. On questioning the company, RIM has revealed that this step has been taken to meet the growing need of small and portable telephones among the users.

In terms of appearance, Curve 9380 is certainly not a luxurious phone, but is not cheap either. Even though the conception of lightweight is automatically connected to cheapness, the handset has maintained to exude quality through it’s build. Face-down, the back panel of the phone is identical with that of 9360, while at the front, it appears to be another 9360 with the keypad removed. Until now, the handset has only been introduced in the color black. Further color options have not been reported of, but, the handset will look equally cool in white. Prospective buyers are hopeful that the company pays heed to their color requirements of the users and introduce a wide range of shades on this cool handset. In short, the phone appears totally clean, and neat in terms of design both from the front and back, and even on the side.

BlackBerry Curve 9380 - Display

The display screen of Curve 9380 is very different from that of its brother. The earlier one had a smaller display paired with a QWERTY keypad, while this one is fully touchscreen, encrusted with a 3.2 inch display. With the size of the phone being small, the display has taken up entire frontal space leaving a slice below for the optical trackpad. Unlike the earlier touchscreen BlackBerry´s that didn’t feature navigation trackball, this has it. The trackpad is one of the highlights of the phone as it enables one-hand operation. BlackBerry Curve 9860 has touch-sensitive controls, geared with a proximity sensor to save some extra battery. Accelerometer sensor and multi-tasking have been chopped off the list of features to level the costing with the pricing. The phone touchscreen is TFT capacitated, which gets it a step downward from the grade of BlackBerry phones. The screen resolution is 360 x 480 pixels which is standard, although not a very high configuration for a BlackBerry.

BlackBerry Curve 9380 – Multimedia Performance

Being a member of the BlackBerry family, Curve 9380 has been endowed with a 5 Mega Pixel camera which is pretty good. The picture quality of the phone is remarkable as the 5MP snapper captures frames at 2592?1944 pixels. To add greater clarity to the pictures, the camera has been equipped with further features of autofocus and LED flash to illuminate the subject as required. Some high-end camera features of face detection, Geo-tagging, image stabilization, etc. have been loaded with the camera so that moving images do not appear blurry or hazy.

Contrarily, the phone has fallen short on its video quality, which again is a compromise to manage the low pricing. The device is not gifted with a secondary camera that could have supported video calling. However, the phone’s wide screen is good for watching videos of high quality, even though it cannot record them. The in-built media player of the mobile phone is compatible to almost all commonly played files. You can simply lay it back on a prop and enjoy watching videos. The built-in memory of the phone has a meager storage space of 512 MB. However, with a microSD™ card, it is expandable to up to 32GB that is ample for large and heavy media files. Even the sound performance of the handset is appreciable that adds to the video-watching experience.

BlackBerry Curve 9380 – OS

The operating system of BlackBerry Curve 9380 is the BlackBerry 7.0. This OS, patent of BlackBerry is high on performance and has thus, added a lot of power to the handset. Unfortunately, the phone has again lost its potential in the processor slot. Awarded with a moderate 806 MHz processor, the phone has managed to keep up the speed and performance remarkably. However, RIM has been quite thoughtful with the mobile processor as the compatibility of the operating system with that of the processor gives a major boost to the hosting device. To support it all, it is packed with a 512 MB RAM.