BlackBerry Curve

The Curve brand continued the "consumer-oriented" philosophy of the BlackBerry Pearl and 8800 series, and included multimedia features and a built-in camera.

[2] At the end of 2007, Research in Motion announced the 8320 featuring Wi-Fi but lacking a GPS receiver.

The Blackberry 8900 was released in November 2008[4] with OS version 5.0 as a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone and named the Curve 8900.

The BlackBerry Curve 8500 series was announced in July 2009 and released the following August with OS version 5.0.

The 9300, and its CDMA counterpart, the Curve 9330, also contained some minor improvements over the 8500 series including a faster processor and the ability to upgrade the OS to BlackBerry 6.

Unique features include a dedicated BBM convenience key and FM receiver.

The series of phones includes a 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash and uses an 800mhz single core processor.

All the phones include NFC, Wi-Fi Calling and FM radio with the OS 7.1 upgrade.

TechRadar gave the Curve 9380 three out of five stars, complimenting its affordability, the quality of its screen, its design for being more comfortable and not as fragile as other smartphones, and the improvements in the 7.0 operating system.

However, reviewers also felt the device felt unstable, its social networking integration was of inconsistent quality, the implementation of BlackBerry OS on a touchscreen device wasn't as elegant or mature as other smartphone platforms, and concluded that the phone "[isn't the] best option in its price range.