Blackberry Curve 8320: Full Review - Review by PC Magazine

Blackberry Curve 8320: Full Review - Review by PC Magazine:

"The new RIM BlackBerry Curve 8320 ($449.99; $249.99 and up with two-year contract) for T-Mobile is the carrier's best handheld for communication addicts, thanks to its stability, e-mail verve, and its ability to make phone calls from any Wi-Fi hot spot. Texting and e-mail fanatics on T-Mobile have been flocking to BlackBerrys ever since the Pearl came out, making the once-stodgy brand sexy. The Curve is a more grown-up Pearl, bringing a full keyboard but keeping (and improving) the camera, music, and video options that made the Pearl successful.

All Shots T-Mobile's Curve adds one key feature that AT&T's version of the same phone lacks: Wi-Fi with UMA—the ability to make calls over Wi-Fi. T-Mobile calls this 'Hotspot@Home' and charges $10 a month; in exchange, you aren't charged for calls that begin on Wi-Fi networks.

You can make calls using any Wi-Fi 802.11b or 'g' network, secured or unsecured, that you can get access to. I connected easily using a ZyXel 802.11g router with WPA security, a D-Link router with WPA, at a Starbucks hot spot, and with a T-Mobile-supplied Linksys router. T-Mobile offers tweaked Linksys and D-Link 802.11g routers, designed to work particularly well with its system, for free through a rebate."