Seeing is Believing: The Proof Your BlackBerry Curve Can Record Video (plus a peak around OS v4.3.1)

on 2 Nov 2007 08:46 PM

Just incase you're still skeptical that the Camera in your BlackBerry Curve will be able to record video... the following video provides the proof and also takes a quick look around some of the easily noticeable improvements to OS v4.3.1.

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84 Comments

Posted by DearFloyd Friday, Nov 02, 2007 1562 days ago

Nice review Kevin. I was getting ready to bad mouth you for not having a better theme but after watching more, I understand its the new "L" theme. You got us all itching to get our hands on 4.3 now.

Posted by MrEastwood Friday, Nov 02, 2007 1562 days ago

This is great, i am a newbie to BB Curve and have loved it since i got it a few weeks ago, now you guys are telling me that it is only going to get better before the end of the year??!!! You are looking at one guy who is happy he DIDN'T go the iPhone route. :-)

Posted by mlinchik Tuesday, Jan 15, 2008 1488 days ago

I don't know why you feel better about not getting the iphone...you can watch youtube videos, watch any video/movie/tv show for that matter, email, text, record video, take great pictures and edit them, etc, etc on the iphone. And when you surf the net, it actually is the net, not some tiny screen version. Everything looks and feels exactly like your laptop/desktop. I wish my job would get me an iphone instead of a blackberry...

Posted by Anonymous Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 1479 days ago

actually the opera mini web browser for blackberrys is just as good as the iphone browser. Opera displays the whole page in tiny font and you choose which section you want to zoom in on. And its not a watered down Ive had both. I actually returned my iphone and went back to a blackberry. So with this browser, and now that it will do video, which the iphone cant (not to mention the iphone cant even do normal MMS)I would say blackberry takes the cake between the 2.

Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 1396 days ago

i know its a blackberry site and all, but having owned the iphone and the blackberry... i miss the wifi and widescreen of the mac, but the functionality of the BB is unparalleled

cant wait for flash, video, html email, and video though

if they'll ever let it go
=(

Posted by SoldatCrinale Saturday, Nov 03, 2007 1562 days ago

Kevin, you are the man! I cant wait for this OS to get released. my mouth is watering right now! C'mon Tmobile get on the ball and release it already..i want to start video recording and editing my word docs lol.

Posted by fonefreak101 Saturday, Nov 03, 2007 1562 days ago

so when is this rolling out?

Posted by Kevin Michaluk Saturday, Nov 03, 2007 1562 days ago

should be available before the end of the year!

Posted by mattmarenic Saturday, Nov 03, 2007 1562 days ago

Videos, videos, videos...

Posted by Chris Barnett Saturday, Nov 03, 2007 1562 days ago

I can't wait. 4.3 is exciting!

L theme + video capture = ftw

Posted by Darkstar3D Saturday, Nov 03, 2007 1561 days ago

Very cool. I am amazed at how fast your browser is. On my wife's Curve and my 8800, browser takes much longer to initialize, and the download is much slower, even when bars are full.

Posted by CarBob Saturday, Nov 03, 2007 1561 days ago

Hey Kevin,

This is simply fantastic!! Since I didn't go on the internet during the last two days, what terrific news to come back to.

As you said, "this is so cool."

RIM is really rocking!

Keep up the great reporting.

- CB

Posted by hyedipin Sunday, Nov 04, 2007 1560 days ago

Thanks for sharing this with us. It looks great, I am not very thrilled about Video Recording, it is OK, but I love the home view changes, and I hope that a few things in addressbook have been updated, such as looking up contacts as you type. Windows Mobile has always been superior in contact management, and I hope BB catches up to that. Otherwise, I LOVE that it now enables you to open documents directly from the menu. This is great, I have been asking about this for a long time and it is there now! :)

Posted by hyedipin Sunday, Nov 04, 2007 1560 days ago

OH AND your Curve is incredibly fast. Why? Is it just so fresh that you just updgraded and have no software installed? My curve just keeps waiting sometimes, for no reason, yours is incredibly FAST! Not just BROWSER.. I am talking about overall.

Posted by jolea Sunday, Nov 04, 2007 1560 days ago

So the video recording will not be coming to the pearl???

Posted by Anonymous Monday, Nov 05, 2007 1560 days ago

Yayyyy! This is one of the reasons I was kind of sceptical about buying the curve! Now I dont have to be! Yeayaaaaaaaa!

Posted by Conceptr6 Monday, Nov 05, 2007 1559 days ago

I cannot wait!! Can I use the new desktop manager 4.3 for my 8300 curve?

Posted by Bemon Wednesday, Nov 07, 2007 1558 days ago

I just wanna know how long you can record for, in the video it looked like the limit was 33 seconds

Posted by Anonymous Sunday, Nov 11, 2007 1553 days ago

I wanna use it on my pearl!

Posted by Anonymous Monday, Nov 26, 2007 1538 days ago

Hi, couldn't find a website to download the latest version of Blackberry handheld OS v4.3.1. Your feedback would be appriecated! Thank you

Posted by Anonymous Tuesday, Jan 01, 2008 1502 days ago

Do we have an expected release date? Now that its the new year, and its not available yet? hoping this month...

Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Jan 02, 2008 1501 days ago

JA, JA, JAAAAAAAAHHHH. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE RIM ISN'T INTERESTED FOR OLD PRODUCTS.
THIS VIDEO IS FUNNY BUT NOT REAL !!!

Posted by CHRIS PITAOULIS Wednesday, Jan 02, 2008 1501 days ago

HI THERE
I JUST BOUGHT THE BLACKBERRY CURVE 8310 AND I NEED TO KNOW HOW I CAN I GET THIS UPDATE AND HOW CAN GET STREAMING VIDEO ON THE INTERNET TO WATCH YOU TUBE
I HAVE 30 DAYS TO RETURN IT PLEASE SEND HELP I DONT WANT TO RETURN THIS
CHRIS

Posted by John K. Thursday, Jan 03, 2008 1500 days ago

You will know when OS 4.3.1 has arrived. It will be on blogs all over the Blackberry Internet as well as on Blackberry.com's site. Flash Player is possible for the Curve in the near future or some other way Blackberry decides to do it. When Blackberry sees everyone on the Net talking about wanting to view videos on You-Tube and many other locations they will certainly start working on it. It may be awhile though. Then you will have video clip recordings as well as pics and some version of Flash Player for viewing videos on all the known site.

Hope this helps you, John K.

Posted by Jason101 Thursday, Jan 03, 2008 1500 days ago

Chris,
The new OS 4.3.1 for the Curve is not released yet, I'm not sure when it will be released (I'm assuming sometime in the first quarter of 2008) so could be in next 30 days or after, but you will get this update.

For youtube videos (given you have a data plan) just go to www.google.com on your Blackberry and search youtube, it will automatically detect your on a mobile device and offer you content for your phone. A warning will pop up recommending you have an unlimited data plan. Since youtube is very data intensive for downloading video.

Posted by LJ Thursday, Jan 03, 2008 1500 days ago

does the update work for the curve 8320 please hit me back

Posted by John101 Thursday, Jan 03, 2008 1500 days ago

The Blackberry OS 4.3.1 update is for the 83xx line which includes 8300 / 8310 / 8320.

Posted by 8320 Saturday, Jan 19, 2008 1484 days ago

so wheres this great upgrade? I guess we can't hold our breath. I'm thinking of getting the new hp phone.

Posted by Wednesday, Feb 06, 2008 1466 days ago

Does anyone know if the new upgrade will include FULL SCREEN picture ID instead of the ridiculous thumbnail image?

Posted by Anonymous Saturday, Feb 09, 2008 1463 days ago

when and where can we get the upgrade?

Posted by GlobalNet Sunday, Feb 10, 2008 1462 days ago

what is available for mac users. i see that the upgrades are for the pc machines. any thoughts?

Posted by sharrington553 Saturday, Feb 16, 2008 1456 days ago

I've just got a new 8310 Curve (AT&T) and saw the video and downloaded the 4.3 desk top software to my laptop.

How can I get it sync'd to my device? I went thru the syncing, etc. but in the "about" are of option it's still indicating that I have the 4.2.2 version of the OS.

Any help on this is appreciated!!

Posted by Shai Friday, Feb 22, 2008 1450 days ago

I'm having the same problem i downloaded the 4.3 version as well but it doesnt give me the video feature on my phone. please help !!

Posted by Anonymous Saturday, Feb 23, 2008 1449 days ago

Its's the OS that is being upgraded

Desktop manager has nothing to do wit the OS.

Posted by egruetz Saturday, Feb 23, 2008 1449 days ago

I want to get my hands on the Beta version, does anyone know where I can get it? Do i have to become a RIM partner? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Posted by Anonymous Sunday, Feb 24, 2008 1449 days ago

too bad att versions still won't have 3G...

Posted by Anonymous Friday, Feb 29, 2008 1444 days ago

Is it at all possible for a phone company to rollout upgrades to phones to support 3g? Its faster then edge right?

Posted by lalalalalala Friday, Feb 29, 2008 1443 days ago

Ok, it's now way past the end of 2007 (someone said this OS would be available before the end of the year). Where is this new OS??? And why doesn't T-Mobile yet have 3G as promised (in 2007, also late)....and why can't we stream any videos? Those of us with the new Curve can't even use the new "Videostreams for Blackberry" that was released because it's only for the Pearl. I can't even listen to audio books with Audible because they don't support the Curve. This Curve is nothing more than a glorified BLAH PDA.

Posted by Anonymous Monday, Mar 03, 2008 1440 days ago

Please tell me good news :) :), What about Pearl 8100. ALso where to get the beat for or latest OS for pearl 8100

Much appreciated

Posted by blackjack96_22 Thursday, Mar 06, 2008 1437 days ago

Will this new OS allow a Sirius subscriber to stream from the web site?
That would be a real bonus

Thanks

Posted by Qi Thursday, Mar 27, 2008 1416 days ago

When is this version going to be available for purchase. I just purchased my Blackberry Curve 8310 this week and would like to purchase the software so that I can record video asap. Please let me know when it is available or if it has become available as yet. Thank you.

Posted by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 01, 2008 1412 days ago

Here the link to download the os http://www.box.net/shared/s6ko7ntic0

Posted by Anonymous Sunday, Apr 13, 2008 1400 days ago

Did anyone try thelink that someone posted? Was it succesful????

Posted by Anonymous Monday, Jun 09, 2008 1342 days ago

yes IT WORKS!
im recording!

Posted by Anonymous Monday, Apr 14, 2008 1399 days ago

I have to second that one regardin what was said about the features the iphone lacks, one other feature the iphone lacks is the inability to use the song downloaded from (itunes only by the way) as ringtone where as the curve can be downloaded from any pc and the full song is able to play ur next rington. I am a retention specialist for T-Mobile and after pointing out features the bb curve has over the iphone then lettin them know how much the iphone is over the bb curve, they turn curvy on the iphone.

Posted by Feizal Friday, Apr 18, 2008 1395 days ago

It all depends on what the user is looking for. I have both the Iphone (unlocked) and the BB Curve and I would not use anymore the Iphone because the BB is ment for work, not for playing around. I you only need internet and play music then get the Iphone. But if you need it for hard work, get the BB. Trust me.

Posted by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008 1390 days ago

my blackberry cant record hopw come and i have a blackberry curve 8300