T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 Unboxed on Video!

on 23 Jan 2009 01:16 AM

SWEET! Following up on our last Curve 8900 post and the Corporate Ordering is Legit forum thread, CrackBerry.com member trini_pirate got his hands on a BlackBerry Curve 8900 and did up the traditional unboxing video!! He's even worked in an iPhone 3G comparison into the vid. Check it out above and you can comment on the forum thread here.

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50 Comments

Posted by trife Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Nice. I'm hoping mine shows up tomorrow afternoon!

Posted by NHAIN Monday, Jan 26, 2009 1206 days ago

just one thing. did you get your 8900 yet or still waiting?

Posted by Zexel Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

He forgot to put his iPhone on silent before starting his video. I heard him get an SMS! :/

Posted by trini_pirate Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

yep. and i told myself to put it on silent because my gf was blowing up my inbox!

Posted by Tamarny87 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

U just got me more excited lol. I'm glad they gave u a case I thought they wouldn't.

Posted by joygasm310 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

So far the best case ive seen with a Blackberry came with my Bold. That case is really nice.

Posted by MissSnowFlake525 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

as far as size and thickness and the screen...oh and i do kinda like that sleeve...i wasn't a fan of the case that came with my att bold

Posted by Dark Cobra Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Come on Verizon . . .

Posted by JReel Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Nice unboxing, man i hope it comes out for AT&T later on

Posted by Anonymous20439324 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Why did you have a second battery door? It also looked darker in color?

Posted by KillingWthASmile Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

He probably got it ahead of time knowing that t-mobile's version would have the gray battery back and wanted his back to be all black.

Posted by Queen4111 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Great job! I can't wait to get mine!

I'm glad it came with a sleeve cover.
RIM left that out when I got my BB 8320.

They should include the charging cradle also!!!!

Posted by ej25sti Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

looks beautiful. congrats on the purchase.

Posted by westpalmcowboy Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

where can you get the black battery door? i don't like t-mobile's gray battery door, i don't understand why they would go with gray instead of black.

Posted by HofstraJet Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

eBay has them - that is where I got mine from.

cnn.cn also sells them, but they are out of stock.

Posted by Pam8888 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

The Rogers version is black

Posted by bgwavrder Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Looks like no holster. I figured it would include one like the Bold. I may have seen it wrong, but it looked like what was included was that worthless little sleeve that came with the 83xx. A premium device should come with a holster.

Posted by camperdown9 Monday, Jan 26, 2009 1206 days ago

Do Blackberry's in the States and Canada always come with a holster other than the 8900 on T-Mobile?

In the UK I have had

an 8900, 9000, 9500, 8310 on Vodafone

9000 & 8100 on T-Mobile UK

8120 on O2 UK

None of them came with a holster just as you say "that worthless little sleeve"

Alex

Posted by wezra Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

I was a bit surprised to see how thick looking the actual 8900 was against the iPhone. I have a new Bold, so I am not in the market for a Curve, but am still interested in what RIM is up to. I don't like the color choice that T-Mobile made with the grey back cover. I am wondering if they will be selling back covers in different colors. I do like the black colored track ball... the Bold should have had that instead of the frost white. Is the black one translucent and lights up when the backlight comes on? That is the one advantage of the frost white ball... it lights up very well. All-in-all, RIM has done a great job in upgrading and introducing the next generation Curve.

Their is no question that RIM has really elevated the BB to new heights with the introduction of the Bold (the mothership of BBs), the Storm (a consumer oriented model), the Flip Phone (for those who what a much smaller form factor) and now the 8900 Curve (for those who want a mix of consumer and business orientation with their BB). I think RIM now offers a model for just about everyone and they are all outstanding devises in their own right. Well done RIM!!!

Posted by Ron G Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Is this coming to verizon? If so, when?

Posted by JasonBourne Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Y does every phone have to be compared to the iPhone?

Posted by trini_pirate Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

in my case... it's all I had
simple

Posted by Anonymous1 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Why Compare to the iPhone?

Seriously.

Compare it to something more relevant.

Like the Old School Curve.

Gosh.

Posted by trini_pirate Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

apparently, you can't read

Posted by Anonymous2 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Apparently You Can't Read Timestamps.

Look At Your Reply, Look At Mine. I Couldn't See that You ONLY had an iPhone, Because You Replied Before I could see it.

So Calm Down Bud, and Keep your Snark Responses to yourself. If Your Going to Get These Videos Posted, You Should at least compose yourself Nicely, Grouch.

Posted by captcrackberry Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Just played with a t-mo curve 8900, pretty slick!
http://brightkite.com/objects/2f0d1de4e96c11dd9ce1003048c0801e

Posted by renzi555 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

You were never a Boy Scout, were you? CUT AWAY FROM YOURSELF!!! BlackBerry's are useless without your thumbs! I actually know someone that stabbed himself in the eye cutting cable ties towards him with a box cutter.

Posted by Jacob_R Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Does anyone know whether this 8900 will support the 16gb microsdhc cards? How about 32gb?

Posted by trini_pirate Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

I believe this OS is supposed to take up to 32GB

Posted by Track_40 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

kickass.

Posted by 21686 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

That was smart to cut towards his hand..haha

Posted by Radius Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Basic knife safety anyone? Lucky that thing was dull and no box cutters or razors were used in the making of this video.

Posted by Mr. Pres Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

It's about time President Obama upgraded!!!! glad to see he can keep his BB and get a new one too..... JUST KIDDING. nice phone.

Posted by foxpat220022 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

i had just upgraded like about an hour ago from t-mobile and no bussienes account i am on a regular account

Posted by mwasnidge Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 1208 days ago

How much for the upgrade? Been with TMO about five years and due an upgrade right now, but they wouldn't give me pricing or let me pre-order. We just signed up for another two years and i'm itching to get my hands on this...

Posted by devind Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

i havent heard anything about the new curve for verizon, but i have heard that verizon and sprint are getting a redisigned version of the bold that looks alot if not just like the curve 8900. it supposed to be a little bigger than the curve and it will have the same keyboard as the gsm bold. and i know its just a roomer but i watched a phonedog video where noah had a phone for verizon that was supposed to be awsome but he could not show it because verizon changed their mind and said that he could not show it yet but his exact words were if your thinking about getting the storm you might want to hold out and wait for this device. its rumored to be released some time in may or possibly june.

Posted by devind Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

sorry i know i spelt rumor wrong my bad.

Posted by oskaru Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

Does anyone know if the 8900 curve going to be exclusive only to Tmobile? Eventually will it be like the previous gen. models?

That is other than a redesign version.

Posted by Pam8888 Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1209 days ago

AT&T is coming out with it also

Posted by Anton Wahlman Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1208 days ago

I know this is more than a little bit off the subject, but I figured I should mention it as soon as possible: AT&T just made the official 4.5 handset release available for the 8800, so you can now upgrade fully legitimately. As you may recall, they made the 4.5 available for the 8820 (and 8320) some two months ago, but there are many of us out there with 8800s, and we now got the goods too and can upgrade as of today. Just go to www.blackberry.com/upgrades using Internet Explorer (only supported browser; yes I know that's lame) and it's pretty much automatic, albeit slow. Takes between 1 hour and 1.5 hours in my experience, especially if you have close to 40,000 address book and calendar records.

Posted by JagoMidnight Sunday, Jan 25, 2009 1207 days ago

I had stopped checking,..they also finally released it for the 8300 as well. I upgraded with Rogers's link before but i'll see if i can use AT&T's official one,..boy its late, Can I get an 8900 already?

Posted by livnrural Friday, Jan 23, 2009 1208 days ago

Looks really nice and fast with that new interface....I still like my 8320....

Posted by WoahShutItDown Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 1208 days ago

Not towards.

Safety first.

Posted by ZaNiaC Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 1208 days ago

Just one comment. Always cut AWAY from your hand, NEVER TOWARDS it. :)

Posted by NHAIN Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 1208 days ago

i have iphone 3g. have the curve and have the nokia n95 8g. i thinking should i get this one or shouldnt. either its curve or bold. which is better?

Posted by NHAIN Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 1208 days ago

i thought about it. then said to myself one more piece of technology wont hurt. so i just placed my ordered. it will be here next week. most important i didnt have to extend my contract. i bought it for 199.99 without any extension to the contract. i guess i got lucky. fellow blackberry users. HAPPY 8900

Posted by bigkev1469 Sunday, Jan 25, 2009 1207 days ago

man im tired on hearing and seeing the iphone had four of them there played out, okay there more hipe the anything its a good browser and has a good touch screen but no themes,no mms,no good..3g i mean verizon smokes atts 3g.. i mean all it does is call,email,text, on a good touch screen...and it looks good wow....but good unboxing video 8900 is a nice looking device should put it up with a storm same looking frame but no touch very nice

Posted by dvspunkskater Monday, Jan 26, 2009 1206 days ago

i know this question is on everyones mind WHAT IS KEEING VERIZON FROM PUTTING THIS OUT!!!!!!!!!!1

Posted by Brouhaha Monday, Jan 26, 2009 1206 days ago

Who cuts toward the hand? Sheesh!

Posted by dterio Friday, Feb 13, 2009 1188 days ago

cool video