Right after unveiling the BlackBerry Davis, Research In Motion (RIM) continues its innovation by introducing the BlackBerry Curve 9320 to the market. This smartphone offers the notable BBM keys and also the long-lasting battery life for a longer time of social networking, chatting and also web browsing activities.
Design
The design of BlackBerry Curve 9320 is generally identical with Curve 9220 (Davis). In fact, this smartphone appears to be the combination of Curve 9300 and Gemini’s overall design. Measuring 109 x 60 x 12.7 mm and weighing about 103 grams, this phone is certainly built with the typical dimension and weight of BlackBerry Curve family. The display measures the same size as Davis namely 2.44 inches TFT 65K colors with 320x240 pixels of screen resolution and 164 ppi of pixel density. It comes with the usual QWERTY keypad along with the touch-sensitive optical trackpad, accelerometer and proximity sensors.
Hardware and Software
In terms of hardware specs, BlackBerry Curve 9320 doesn’t come with any major improvements as it still boasts the 512 MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM and it allows for memory expansion by using the microSD card up to 32 GB. The standard battery of Li-ion 1450 mAh will be capable of delivering the standby time of up to 18 days (432 hours), talk time of up to 7 hours and music playback of up to 30 hours. The good thing is that the phone has been packed with the BlackBerry OS 7.1 which has been added with Wi-Fi hotspot feature.
Camera and Multimedia
The main camera has been upgraded to 3.15 megapixels with single-LED flash, geo-tagging, image stabilization and the maximum photo resolution of 2048x1536 pixels. This camera can also be functioned as camcorder but unfortunately there will be no front-facing camera for video calls. The audio player supports for MP3, eAAC+, WMA, FlAC and video player can play the MP4, H.263, H.264, and WMV file formats. Also, it has been added with Stereo FM Radio with RDS as an alternative music player.
Internet Access and Connectivity Features
To access the internet, BlackBerry Curve 9320 uses the GPRS, EDGE and also 3G networks through HSDPA with the data speed of up to 7.2 Mbps and also via HSUPA with the speed of up to 5.76 Mbps. As usual, it supports for Push Mail, Instant Messaging and HTML web browsing and it also now features the Social Feed 2.0 which will allow for multiple status feeds to a number of social network accounts simultaneously. For the local connection, the phone has been loaded with Bluetooth v2.1 (A2DP) and high-speed microUSB v2.0.
Price, Pros and Cons
The price of BlackBerry Curve 9320 is £140 or about $225. The benefits of this smartphone will be the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) dedicated key, 3G network, Near Field Communication (NFC) feature, A-GPS and decent battery power. On the other hand, the phone only comes with the below standard camera spec and it doesn’t allow for video calling. [IS]
