BlackBerry Curve 8900 (T-Mobile) Road Test Review

Respecting your opinion,these days, "buying" a smart phone is only the beginning of your travels with said phone; hence the iPhone commercial, "there's an app for it"...You associating "hacking" your phone to a download, which takes literally seconds, and an installation, which takes about 2 minutes tops isn't a fair comparison- this is not a HACK.

I do have 3G in my area, and I've used the G1. The speed in which the G1 loads its web pages is slower than the speed in which the BB8900 loads its pages when using the Opera browser - this is a fact. In fact, my in-law swears by the bank-busting AT&T, but his windows mobile-based HTC Tilt/3G doesn't load the pages any faster than the 8900 and that's with both phones using the Opera mini.

Yes, T-mobile is about value, and if value isn't important to, by all means stick to AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, but it isn't accurate to imply that installing just 1 app on your Blackberry is in essence a "hack". The entire promotion behind the G1 is geared towards the Android market and the ungodly number of apps, which are available there and I've already mentioned the iPhone.

There is nothing wrong with improving upon your smartphone the same way you would your desktop, or your laptop. Who buys a computer and "never" installs an app to make their lives a little easier? My point was to dispel the myth that T-mobile's "service" is the reason why the new BB 8900's browser lacks speed, when it is in fact RIM's fault - It is RIM who has yet to design a capable browser, not T-mobile.

All this hoopla about "real web pages" ha! Until the day comes where we're able to view flash content, embedded video (realplayer, quicktime, MS silverlight, etc) and everything else we experience on our desktops, there is NO SUCH THING as real web pages on a cell phone.

You gotta be kidding me right!? have you ever surf on the g1 browser? you can go on just about any web page and you can choose to view the mobile version or the regular pc page. And too set the record striaght with flash on the android system adobe is working on flash not only for android but for samsung and some blackberry phones the iphone will not be getting flash unfortanly steve jobbs feels like the iphone doesnt need flash its good the way it is but the iphone would of been better if flash was going to be on it but no matter the iphone and tmoble g1 are good smart phones and let me say this I have a ipod touch and I see real web pages that you would see on a laptop or pc I mean there might be alil sites where it might let you only see mobile version of the page maybe because the webpage is too big or maybe its too much stuff to load on the page so they just automaticly forward you to the mobile version of the page but no matter its better viewing that then using a nokia gprs phone tryin to surf the net or better yet a samsung behold and even noah knows it has the worst broswer yes I know about the behold I owned the rose pink one and the only way you can see real webpages on the behold YOU GOTTA HACK and even then the webpages took forever to load it and I aint with all that hackin and clackin stuff so I just switch back to my precious g1 that does what I needed it too do. what im saying to you is the 8900 is a nice phone I give it...it's credit the reason why the 8900 is better then the g1 and it loads faster on edge and noah I know he will agree with me on this one it has a much faster processor and its more exspesive to make and its a blackberry the name alone you paying alot of money for. because when you buy a blackberry phone you know your getting a good quality phone. I can say this and I can say that the bottom line is both the g1 and the 8900 are both great phone I know its cheaper to make a g1 hell just look at it? that should tell you something right away at the end of the day I can agree wit you when your saying the g1 doesnt show real webpags I totally disagree with you and its the other way around that the 8900 cannot show 100% real web pages because tmobile says its real web surfing but its realy not they just say those things to get everyone gassed to ppl with sign another contract are spend awhole lot of money buying a new phone. if you dont beleave me just ask Noah and John there a few phones on tmobile rasta that tmobile says real web browsing but once you buy the phone and you try to search you see what im talking I stood my case im not going to say anything else about the 8900 like I said ill wait until there a 3g blackberry with real htlm the renders real webpages and very fast web broswing then ill buy it till then nope dont want it sorry I dont care if edge is fast on that phone patients is a virtural remeber that!! if you want the best you gotta wait for the best take a note of that trust me it will come in handy some day

Taya :)

Tayaa said, "I totally disagree with you and its the other way around that the 8900 cannot show 100% real web pages"

Noah, please download Opera for BB 8900, and do the phonedog.com and newyorktimes.com test and show everyone the difference between how the BB 8900 renders both sites compared to the G1's internal browser. And I said before, "development" or not, today there are no true web pages as of yet.

Tayaa said, "have you ever surf on the g1 browser? you can go on just about any web page and you can choose to view the mobile version or the regular pc page."

Yes. I gave it the phonedog test, and I wasn't impressed. It was faster than edge, but slower than a Opera browser enabled phones, 3G or otherwise...

Tayaa said, "if you dont beleave me just ask Noah and John there a few phones on tmobile rasta that tmobile says real web browsing but once you buy the phone and you try to search you see what im talking I stood my case im not going to say anything else about the 8900."

...now you're talking.

Tayaa said, "if you want the best you gotta wait for the best take a note of that trust me it will come in handy some day"

There's more than one way to skin a cat...take note of that, because it will serve you well "everyday".

Until 4G is released, 3G is great, but it isn't the same as comparing dialup to a cable modem. Software designers make different and more functional browsers for a reason - Firefox loads faster than IE...fact. Opera-mini loads and renders equal to or better than any other internal browser...fact. The purpose of 3G is many, but primarily for faster data. The BB 8900 already sends and receives email, SMS, and MMS almost instantaneously over the EDGE network. The only hangup was data because of it's limited browser. All I'm trying to say is that YOU YOU NOT HAVE TO SETTLE FOR BB'S SLOWER BROWSER IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BECAUSE THERE IS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE AND IT'S NOT A HACK.

This is my fourth Blackberry with T-mobile and by far it is the best. My only hangup was the browser which, although an improvement, was still slow. However, it matters no more - Opera took care of that. I'm good, wake me when 4G comes along.