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That was my first thought as I started typing an e-mail message on the BlackBerry Curve 8900. I have been a rather heavy user of another of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices, the Pearl, for the better part of two years. The Pearl is my fifth BlackBerry device.
If you know BlackBerrys, you know the Pearl is smaller than other models and looks more like a traditional cell phone and less like the iconic BlackBerry handsets. Most of them have full Qwerty keyboards, but to save space the smaller Pearl combines two letters per key. This makes typing more awkward, with the result that I type much less than I used to.
Overall, I’m pretty impressed with the 8900 — once known by the code name Javelin — which I’ve been using for about a month now on T-Mobile’s EDGE network. It sports the same interface as the much bigger, and heavier, BlackBerry Bold and has a lot of the same features.
First, the size is about as optimal for a BlackBerry with a full keyboard as any I’ve ever used. It’s thinner and slightly taller than the original model. And while I struggled with many typos on the first Curve, I don’t on this one. The keys on the 8900 have morphed into a rhomboid shape that gives them a little more surface area while taking up only fractionally more space. It helps. With the 8900 I found I typed a lot more.
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