Blackberry Curve 8520 Review
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a business class phone by the big name Blackberry which comes at an affordable price. Blackberry came up with something new this time by introducing music keys in the Curve 8520. Weighing just 109 grams and having dimensions 109 x 60 x 13.9 mm it is a lightweight business cum music phone.
The design of this phone is not very impressive as it is made almost completely of plastic. We may still accept the plastic body but the front of this phone looks very cheap which is least expected from a business class phone. It seems that Blackberry has compromised on its looks and display to give a low priced handset. It has a QVGA output 2.46 inch (diagonal) display which supports 65K colours. The display has poor contrast and colour which Is much below other Blackberry models like the Bold 9700. Considering the price range we can say that the display is reasonably good but far below other high priced Blackberry models.
This cell phone has a 2 MP Camera with fixed focus supporting an image resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. The image quality of BlackBerry 8520 is not very good. The poor camera is supported by a poorer user interface. The Camera UI has no shortcuts to change some settings and is a bit annoying to use. On the contrary the video camera is much better than its still camera supporting QVGA output. The video camera is also better than that of other expensive Blackberry models like the Curve 8900.
The mobile phone does not have support for 3G in it. On the other hand it supports other utilities such as Wi-Fi, micro USB version 2 and Bluetooth version 2.0. It consists of 256 MB of expandable internal memory and is expandable up to 32 GB with a micro SD card.
With a battery back up of 408 hours, BlackBerry Curve 8520 has 4 hours talk time. A glaring benefit of buying the Curve 8520 is the money you will save, while the main drawback is its quality, in terms of technology as well as looks. Though for what its price tag is, this is not a bad phone at all.
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