The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is one of the latest additions to the BlackBerry Curve series but only has slight improvements from its predecessor. Like the earlier models it has a sleek, stylish, and lightweight design. It has a 4.29 in / 109 mm height, 2.36 in / 60 mm width, 0.43 in / 11 mm depth, and a weight of 3.49 oz / 99 g. It also has a 2.4-inch 480x360 pixel HVGA+ color display LCD screen which is still slightly small. It is powered by the BlackBerry OS 7.0 with pre-installed applications such as Social Feeds, Music Storefront, and BlackBerry Protect1. It also comes with an 800 MHz CPU for a powerful performance. The BlackBerry Curve 9360 is also quad-band, making it better than the dual-band offered by its predecessors.
The storage capacity of BlackBerry Curve 9360 is the same as the BlackBerry Curve 9350. It has a 512 MB RAM memory expandable up to 32 GB with Hot Swappable MicroSD. With this, you can keep more photos using the phone's 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and for better quality of taking photos; it also has face detection, image stabilization, 4x digital zoom, and scene modes. It also has a geo tagging feature. Several online reviews stated that it is still a little disappointing that it only records VGA videos.
There are some things that may not have been improved but are still good features nonetheless, like an internet connection. It is always a good plus. You can also browse your favorite websites with a Wi-Fi connection and enjoy the pre-installed application like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Other featured applications are The Weather Network, BlackBerry App World, Flixster, Vlingo, Backgammon King, Foursquare, Aces 3D Brick Breaker Classic, ScoreMobile, and BlackBerry Protect. You can also download applications using your phone from the BlackBerry App World. Enhanced by Liquid Graphics, the applications look better. BlackBerry 9360 also has Near Field Communication (NFC) built right in. Other features include Bluetooth, a 35 key backlit narrow QWERTY keypad, an optical trackpad, menu keys, camera button, and other keys and buttons to make navigation a whole lot easier.
With an expandable memory, the BlackBerry 9360 can hold a lot of different file types which are almost the same as what the BlackBerry Curve 9350 plays. The audio formats it supports are .3gp2, .m4v, .avi, .wmv, .wma, .mp3, .flac, .ogg, .aac, .amr, .wav, and .mid. The video formats it supports include .mp4, .m4a, .3gp, .avi, and .asf. Picture formats the smart phone supports are .bmp, .jpg, .gif, .png, .tif, .wbmp.
BBM and instant messaging (IM) applications are still present and of course, helpful. The BlackBerry Curve 9360s battery life is not as impressive as its predecessor, the BlackBerry Curve 9350. As compared to the latter that has a talk time capacity of up to 5.5 hours, standby time of 14.5 days, music playback up to 45 hours with headphones, and video playback of up to 9 hours, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 only has a 5-hour talk time, 14-day standby time, 25-hour music playback time, and a 6-hour video playback time.
With the BlackBerry Curve 9360s specification s and features, it only offers slight improvements from the earlier model.
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