Mobile Phone Haven

The BlackBerry Curve (8520), released on T-Mobile, combines a full QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive optical trackpad in lue of the traditional trackball. The 8520 is the first smartphone to offer dedicated media keys to control music and videos. It has a 2.0 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom and a video recording. Customers can use Wi-Fi for fast Web browsing and T-Mobile’s unlimited hotspot calling. The smartphone is compatible with Apple computers right out of the box. I’m interested in seeing how the trackpad works out.

The first phone in the US with an e-ink keyboard that morphs between numeric, QWERTY, and other layouts. This follow-up to the dual-flip Alias also steps up to a 2 megapixel camera, large QVGA display, and support for business email and visual voicemail. Other features include EVDO data, memory card slot, and stereo Bluetooth. If you ask me, the E-ink technology is super cool enough.

The Nokia Surge packs a lot of features for its young targeted customers. The phone offers a full HTML browser with Flash Lite support, 3G support, GPS, and access to social networking sites. All at an affordable price of 79.99 with a 2 year agreement.

Even though the phone packs some punch you’ll notice a few design flaws. For one, the phone doesn’t seem to be made of the best quality and two, you can’t dial numbers without opening the keyboard.

Overall, for the price you can’t complain, or can you? Go to a store and check it out for yourself.

Specifications:
OS provided: Symbian S60 3.2
Talk time: 240 min