sprint touch diamond vs bb curve 8330

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marcantoinemorin

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I know this is probably something people talked about 2 years ago..but...anyone have experience with owning both of these phones who could give me their thoughts on which one they found to be better? I currently have a diamond but want a hardware keyboard and have never had a blackberry and would not mind trying something new.
 
I think that you are going to be told to forget the 8330, and focus on the Tour, as it is a far superior device to the 8330 Curve. I wouldn't consider a Curve if a Tour was possible.

As for comparing either to a Diamond, can't help you there.
 
Yes, I owned an HTC Touch Diamond for Sprint.

My overall conclusion was, it is not recommended for the faint of heart.

The Blackberry is a much more pleasant experience. But I will not recommend both the 8330 and the Tour because both are obsolete now, lack wifi and prone to sticky trackball issues. Not to mention OS 4.x has all these funny issues that OS 5 fixes, like having a software reset.

I would recommend the Blackberry Curve 8530, which is a great bang for the buck (600MHz Qualcomm processor, Wifi, OS 5.0, optical trackpad) or if you want to spend more, and just wait a bit longer for the Blackberry Tour2, which fixes the Tour's mistakes. The Tour2 has the optical trackpad, OS 5.0, Wifi, and appears more nimbler than the already nimble Tour.
 
Cool, this is what I wanted to hear. The diamond is not bad but it seems like blackberries in general are a bit more polished and easier to use as WM 6.x sure seemed dated.
 
Its a lot more than that. Blackberries in general tend to have good battery life. The Diamond eats batteries like there is no tomorrow. I always keep a spare battery in my pocket, and spare mini USB cables on my laptop so I can recharge the phone even away from the charger.

Its hell to enter text on the Diamond because of the tiny 2.8" screen. Its always two handed to enter text because you have to pull the stylus out and pick on the screen with it. I often use toothpicks for a convenient stylus too, then learned to keep a long and sharp fingernail. Because the screen may get scratched, I have to put a protective screen cover, which after all my usage, now showed its share of scratches. But still keeping the original screen underneath pristine. The screen cover is a MUST.

I tend to recommend phones that let you do basic tasks with one hand, and something that needs a stylus or two hands to work well just isn't right.
 
i've used winmo phones with and without keyboards as well as other devices like them. i hate not having a real keyboard and i HATE the lag on windows devices.

i started out with an 8330 and now have a tour and couldn't be happier. you can't activate an 8530 on boost yet, so find a used tour for 100-200, buy a new housing on cnn.cn and enjoy your brand new phone :)
 
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