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BlackBerry Style Design The BlackBerry Style is a fat little clamshell of a phone, but it's still ergonomically welcoming. Edges are rounded, construction is solid, and the phone flips up conveniently to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The keys are a bit on the microscopic side and would be best suited for elves, but after a few practice sessions, we were able to adapt to the miniature interface. The BlackBerry Style retains the old-school Call and End/Power buttons, as long as the Menu and Back buttons, and you can bet your boots the Style flaunts the trademarked embedded flashing LED notification light above the external LCD. Now the BlackBerry Style has two LCDs—the external LCD is QVGA (240x320 pixels) while the internal LCD screen is HVGA (360x400 pixels). We will say that while these screens are not the largest or most defined displays on the market, they are highly practical. The external screen displays notifications that can be scrolled through via the volume controls, and it displays the date, time, network statuses, battery life, and network signal strength. Most simple actions can be achieved without even opening up the phone. The BlackBerry Style also has a Camera button that can be assigned as a shortcut button, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a naked USB port. The good news is that the 32GB capacity MicroSD card slot can be accessed without even having to take the back of the phone off, and the phone comes equipped with an 8GB card out of the box. For a steering wheel, the BlackBerry Style utilizes an optical track pad button, which we just saw on the T-Mobile G2. We will say that the Style's optical track button was more responsive than the BlackBerry Curve 3G's, though we still longed for the optical track ball. One nifty thing about the BlackBerry Style is that it has fantastically loud speakers, so it was like carrying around a little boombox when we played Grandmaster Flash or Queen. BlackBerry Style Software and Interface Cue the drumroll and strike up the fanfare—it's time for BlackBerry 6! If you've ever used a BlackBerry before, you know that they are prone to browsing lag and utilize rather antiquated menu systems. We can safely say that our navigation experience throughout the BlackBerry Style was just as quick as decent high-end Android phones. On the home screen, there's even an Android-like popup menu that encompasses All (applications), Favorites, Media, Download, and Frequent. So we had the ability to select applications based on those particular columns. Up top, we could click on our Connections menu, which governed Mobile Network, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Alarm settings. Our home screen contained a notification bar that streamed our text messages, facebook and twitter updates, and call activity. There's also a universal search and call profile settings embedded in that same task bar. We will say that although the optical track pad rifles through options, sometimes it's a bit overzealous and tends to fly over an intended selection, so you'll have to throttle back its sensitivity or grow accustomed to its hyper behavior. This was particularly frustrating when we attempted to take a picture, as one minute thumb movement, and we'd shift over to Flash settings or GPS, forcing us to lose the shot.Read full review
Pros: This is a great little phone. I love the fact that it is a pda, but it is a flip phone. It makes it easier to carry and keeps the screen from being scratched.It is basically simple to navigate the apps and I love that. Cons: You can't close the the phone when you are on speakerphone or it will disconnect the call. The camera when using the flash, is too slow and the camera is located on the phone, not the flip, causing my fingers to get in the way everytime. It makes it too difficult to hold the phone and take a picture. The keys are too close and makes it difficult for texting. The purple color is pretty but not practical, in the chrome, too many smudges and fingermarks. All in all, I would rate it 4 stars.
I like this phone. It is some what buggy. It has room for improvement. I bought this product to replace my Rumor Touch. I have to say it is so much better than my old phone. What I don't like about this phone the most is probably the battery life. I can get though the day, but only barely. I've had an older version of the Blackberry before and it has about the same battery life, and I always wonder why haven't the creators of Blackberry created a better battery to go in their devices. I also don't like that it freezes sometimes. I don't have to take out the battery, but I have to wait a few seconds for it to catch up to what I want to do.
I absolutely love the Blackberry Style. This phone is sleek, functional, and fits in my pocket without pocket dialing. Phone is fast, messaging, calls, and all other functions are simple. The apps are great and easy to use. I would recommend this phone to anyone.
Love the phone, camera quality is great, easy to use, dont like that u have to keep open to talk, but speaker phone is good. Like flip style better than the reg version
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