BlackBerry Curve 8300 Review
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In a nutshell: The BlackBerry Curve 8300 is an excellent device
for keeping in touch with your email whilst out of the office. With
extensive push email support and a full QWERTY keypad, emailing on your
phone becomes a completely practical possibility. Other features such
as a 2 megapixel camera, media player, Bluetooth connectivity and expandable
memory complete the package.
Review: March 2008.
The BlackBerry 8300 is exactly the same as the BlackBerry
Curve 8310, except that it doesn't have GPS navigation. Read our review
of the 8310, since all of the comments apply equally to both phones, apart from
this one difference.
We have given the BlackBerry 8300 a slightly lower rating than the 8310 and
8320 since it lacks the more advanced features of these models. Since most people
will get it free on contract, why not choose one of the more advanced models
instead?
Features of the BlackBerry 8300 include:
- 2 megapixel camera with flash and digital zoom
- LCD display: 320 x 240 pixels, 65000 colours
- Media player
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, instant messaging, push email
with attachment viewer
- Built-in speakerphone
- Voice dialling
- Voice memo recorder
- MP3 ringtones
- Personal organiser functions
- Vibration alert
- Internet: Web browser, GPRS, EDGE
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, modem, 3.5mm stereo headset port
- Memory: 64 Mbytes plus microSD memory card slot
- Size: 107 x 60 x 15.5 mm
- Weight: 111g
- Quadband
- Talktime: 4 hours
- Battery standby: 400 hours
BlackBerry 8300 User Reviews
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Average rating from 17 reviews: 
Reviewed by Dami from England on 6th Sep 2012
The BlackBerry 8399 is amazing and its an awesome phone. The messaging
is great and also its awesome and fast making it more reliable. but
what i am most impressed with is the camera which is 2 megapixels but
also it includes a flash which enables you to take pics in the dark.
The phone is awesome and the shape is compact and also its really cute.
the keyboard is great because its large making tit easier to type and
also its really easy to see with the lights. Love the BlackBerry 8300!!!
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Reviewed by jodi from uk on 15th Jul 2012
epic bad man phone if you have enough get it trust me.
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Reviewed by Belnda from England on 9th Mar 2010
Far too complicated. Very focussed on range of peripheral applications
and making a phone call or texting is unnecessarily complex involving
lots of button pressing. I hate it.
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Reviewed by Paul from UK on 29th May 2009
The 8300 is in my opinion a waste of space, messages remain unopened
on the home screen when I have treid to delete them. Blackberry/RIM
say they are working on it...yeah right? No video recorder no WiFi will
find peripherals via BlueTooth but wont connect due to the security
of the phone. It might be fine for the FBI but not me
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Reviewed by robert turyahika from uganda on 4th
Nov 2008
i have never enjoyed aphone like the way iam enjoying blackberry 8300
i never thought of buying a digital camera cause it has every quality
of a good pictures thanx 2 the manfactures.
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Reviewed by mathu from kenya on 13th Sep 2008
The blackberry 8300 is an overated phone.the internet is slow, the phone
doesn't have 3g, you get overcharged for the internet service.I expected
much more from a blackberry.
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Reviewed by Big G from uk on 8th Aug 2008
best phone ive ever had all in one phone pc very good
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Reviewed by Roy from U.K. on 7th Aug 2008
Good solid phone I graduated to this from the Sony Erikson P900 series.
There are things I'd like the phone to have (3g communication, better
camera video recording) hopefully these will be coming in the new 9000.
In the meantime however this is a good reliable phone robust, reliable
and with excellent battery life.
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Reviewed by Dale from England on 9th Jul 2008
very good
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Reviewed by johnathan from Ireland on 2nd Jul
2008
Top class phone. Had a Nokia 9300i and it was the business but seriously
overpriced compared to this little gem. The keys are a little small
but are surprisingly easy to use once you get going. A better camera
would have got this phone a perfect 10 but it’s not bad enough
to deny it top marks here. If the next generation up's the memory and
improves the camera then I'll be first in the queue.
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Reviewed by luis g from ecuador on 14th Jun 2008
is perfect!
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Reviewed by sai from indiya on 25th May 2008
This phone is not all that bad but the weight is a problem
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Reviewed by Yemmie from Nigerian on 25th Apr 2008
This is a great device. It's really help make my life organised.
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Reviewed by Vicky from England on 7th Apr 2008
The 1 thing about it that I don't like is that it is huge.
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Reviewed by Anthony from Ireland on 18th Mar 2008
Blackberry is incredible, this is the second one ive had and cant seem
to get away from them. The 8300 is light, looks good and has push email.
Call quality is great but took a short while to get used to the smaller
keys. It is extremely fast to navigate and without a doubt the phone
to have for the extreme texter or emailer. The firmware is very available
off the internet and most importantly the phone comes with full backup
and restore software which to me was priceless. Im now due for another
upgrade and keep looking at all the new Nokia high end phones but keep
coming back to the Blackberry. So i guess its now gonna be the Blackberry
8800.
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Reviewed by NIK HILL from UK on 4th Mar 2008
I LOVE IT. ITS LIKE A MINI COMPUTER, GET MY EMAILS BROWSE THE WEB. ITS
GREAT!!!
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Reviewed by kenyan from england on 27th Feb 2008
this is rubbish
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