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Blackberry Curve 9360 Local
Description
Among the recent glut of BlackBerry, the Curve 9360 is the one that sits closest to the classic style, with its full QWERTY keyboard sitting beneath a 2.4-inch screen.
Design
This screen offers an okay resolution of 480x360 pixels. It's not touch sensitive, but that's not too much of a problem because the optical trackpad beneath it does a very good job of navigating menus and web pages. You can control its sensitivity too, to suit your own preferences. The square-ish shape of the screen lends itself to browsing, though the small size can be an issue, so video and films tend to look cramped.
The QWERTY keyboard is a little marvel of compact usability. The 35 keys are distinctive under the thumbs thanks to BlackBerry's trademark ridges, though they would have been even easier to use with just a tiny bit more space between each of them.
Software, apps and BBM
The latest BlackBerry 7 operating system tweaks the look of the interface, allowing you to scroll across different screens for lists of apps arranged in categories: All, Frequent, Downloads, Media and Favourites. It includes Near Field Communication NFC so it's ready for mobile-based payment schemes when they become available (almost none exist in the UK currently). The latest BlackBerry Messenger 6 is also here, and now adds the ability to trade free instant chats with your mates from within some apps and games.
But while this and other recent BlackBerrys have many good qualities, the lack of additional apps in BlackBerry App World is beginning to look more like a problem. Lots of the basics are covered, with some okay games, some good business apps and some fun stuff too, but the choice now looks embarrassingly far behind what's available for Google and Apple's platforms.
Performance and camera
Internally, the 800MHz processor backed by 512MB of RAM may not be the fastest on paper, but it feels very nippy in practise, due in part to the streamlined OS, which isn't held back by fancy animated graphics or active widgets. Overall, it's a decent performer.
The 5-megapixel camera includes a single LED flash, as well as image stabilisation and face detection. It can deliver some sharp and detailed pics in good light, but noise creeps in quickly in less than ideal light conditions and there's no autofocus. Video recording drops the quality to VGA level (640x480 pixels), with no HD option.
There's only 512MB of memory on board for saving your pics, videos and tunes but you can bump this up to 32GB via microSD card if you need it.
Battery-wise, the 1,000mAh model held up very well indeed, delivering a solid day and a half of heavy use.
Specifications
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