Steve tipped us off that Verizon is now longer offering the BlackBerry Curve 8330 on their website for sale. This is an odd move since the 83XX Curve is still the most popular smartphone worldwide. The crazy part is that Verizon is still selling the BlackBerry 8703e.
Maybe the BlackBerry Curve 8530 truly was meant to replace the 8330. I thought Verizon would just keep both around…
Notice the lack of a BlackBerry Curve 8330 on Verizon’s Website at this link.
DavidB ( View Profile) - Posts: 1791
Posted: February 15, 2010 at 8:18 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9530
No surprise really. 3 year old design so might as well dump it.
Yeah…8703…well, it’s the last of the thumbwheelers, and there are still many fans of the “traditional” BlackBerry experience it represents.
jeffreyrr ( View Profile) - Posts: 20
Posted: February 15, 2010 at 12:42 PM EST
The image for this post should at least depict the correct Curve 8330. The current image is of the newer trackpad curve (8530), not the trackball curve (8330). It can leave some people confused.
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) - Posts: 3325
Posted: February 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM EST
Sorry Jefferyrr I just wanted to point out the device that Verizon is hoping users upgrade to instead…
ED Not Registered
Posted: February 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM EST
I still find my 8330 so useful as to find little reason to upgrade but it is becoming dated. It would be nice to dispense with the trackball but I have become an expert at cleaning them and replacements are cheap. The only things that have me thinking of upgrading are:
Better browser, although the dinky little builtin browser gets 85% of what I need. Opera and Bolt are not worth the bloaty hourglass time.
A good PC remote control solution. I tried VNC and RDM but they’re so cumbersome (is there a more cumbersomey word than “cumbersome”? if there is then that’s what they are.)
A faster/better PDF experience.
The fancy “Ipody” stuff with games and accelerometers are nice too but not enticing enough to spend money on yet. I still hear about too many headaches with the Storm 1 nd 2. I would also need a real keyboard.
It would also be nice to have a phone I didn’t need to pry open every month or so to clean out the dust and pocket
BTW, disregard if you see this same text elsewhere. I posted this under the wrong article earlier.
DavidB Not Registered
Posted: February 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
Sounds like the Tour2 9650 will be the phone for you…
Tim Not Registered
Posted: February 15, 2010 at 11:09 PM EST
I was in the store yesterday and the sales rep offered a customer “anoher one of those” (pink 8330) for $10