Dude that's what I was thinking. The 9850/9860 is all streamlined then eeeeew the buttons :/

I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that. I'm pretty dead set on the 9930 but if i had to choose between the 9380 and the 9850/60 I know what I would choose if I based the decision solely on looks. The curve just looks smoother and better crafted.

and you can hear the buttons clicking when he presses them. f*cking! awesome! lol. non of that old school torch 9810 bull-ish.

Why does it have the Wikitude app then? That app needs a compass to work.

It really does look like storm blackberry models. I like it though.

lol. love it!

That's what I was thinking too. I don't know if the guy was not holding it correctly but it took a couple of seconds for the screen to switch.

I'm thinking it doesn't have the dedicated memory for graphics. It should "work" with the RAM they have given it then. I hope it doesn't end up like my 9700 on OS6...

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if you look closely the wallpaper makes the screen look smaller, because of how it's blurry around the edges and focused in the middle. goofy in my sexy opinion.

because of the big screen on the 50/60. if you're using the phone with one hand, it's going be very difficult to depress a button that is that far away from the screen. your thumb will be fully extended and will not have much strength in it, therefore making it very difficult to press hard for a button. whereas with buttons that stick out, you can probably just even tap on the corner of that button and it will register. that's much easier to do with a fully extended thumb and make it count. Because people have different sized hand, they tried to appeal to people with cute baby hands, awwwww lol, and giantgentor(1st "t" is silent) who can crush that phone in one hand. neither of them should have problem pressing anything on it. :)

Just remember, this is a low end device for novice users and people new to smartphones. It's nothing more than a Storm with more horsepower to attract low end buyers.

This is an entry-level curve model and the resolution is just fine for that, it is the same as the other new curve, beats a number of the entry-level android devices like the wildfire s or those facebook phones.

While this device is entry-level, the specs and design clearly destroy the 9520 and you would be a fool to choose one of those.

its proly an edge device which will really suck. lets hope they make the other one edge and this one a 3G curve.

IMO, having the NFC on the low-end curve and the smoother looking buttons (compared to the 9850/60) makes this curve appealing. If the 9850/60 were to have both these features (+ the bigger screen), who would really want the curve? I know I wouldn't...

you have your facts completely backwards. are you paying attention to what's happening? Both the low cost Curves HAVE NFC and so does the flagship BOLD. it's at the 98xx devices that DO NOT have NFC. come on man. read a bit, lol.

The bold and the curve are new designs so nfc was probably fully included from the outset, the 9810 reuses a lot of the 9800 so redesigning that one to include the extra antennas probably wasn't feasible.

As far as the 9850/60, the earliest leaks of this generation of devices were of the storm 3 so perhaps it was simply the last new design to not include nfc.

there's a really good reason for this phone because as a torch owner you can bet ur bottom dollar this will be my next phone. The torch is giant (when extended), bulky, heavy, and unconformable to use. i'm surprised it survived 2nd round but will not be here for the 3rd because with the 9900 and the 50/60, the torch 9810 becomes irrelevant. and if you're talking about the torch 9850/60, this is for people who don't want a giant phone. i don't want a shoe in my pocket. i want tiny ass small mean f*cking phone...intro the curve 8930. As long as it's 3G. otherwise it's the 50/60. :(

It depends on the markets where it is sold, in most european countries the carriers like the curve models on pay as you go tariffs so this in combination gives them an updated range at that level, which will be popular with them because a number of those carriers continued to sell the 8520 alongside the 9300 so they had a range.

Additionally, this device will tend to work as a gateway smartphone in a similar manner to the pearl did in the past, it is similar to the typical feature phones people are still using so it makes for an easy transition.