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Blackberry Curve 8320

heard about the Blackberry Curve 8320 a few weeks and and got very excited about it. It is of course a phone with a keyboard and PDA type functionality. It has one killer feature, it can make calls over WiFi and normal cellular networks and this feature is being offered by T-Mobile (who I am already with). This works great for me since I get a very poor cell signal from any of the carriers at my house.

This week Leo Laport posted a review of the phone. Of course, he compares it to the iPhone describing the Curve as not nearly as easy to set up or pretty to look at but has more functionality than the iPhone.

It meets some of my requirements to combine my phone and PDA into one, and has the killer wifi VoIP feature but it's missing things that I use with my current phone. Sailing Clicker doesn't yet support Blackberry devices, instead the developers are "holding out for RIM to add JSR82-support (Bluetooth) to Java in their devices". Whatever that means, I doubt it will happen anytime soon. I not sure how well cross syncing between Outlook on a PC and a Mac will work. Finally, can you use make voice calls over wifi systems that require browser authentication?

Amazon only has two reviews, both positive so far. This indicates that it's a very new phone. As tempting as this phone was to run out and buy right away, I think I will hold off and see what happens in the next month.