The BlackBerry Style is a dual band CDMA phone that’s currently available on Sprint and has fast 3G EVDO Rev. A for data. The smartphone comes in two colors: Steel Grey and Royal Purple.
Design and Ergonomics
The aptly named BlackBerry Style indeed looks stylish and feels incredibly comfortable in hand. Measuring 3.78 x 2.36 x 0.73 inches with the flip closed, the BlackBerry Style is perfect for those who want to put their Berry in a back pocket or a shirt pocket. When the flip is open, the phone feels quite long measuring 6.91 inches in length, which might be too long for some users with small to average size faces. That’s the price you pay for a 2.8” 360 x 400 resolution display, a 240 x 320 resolution external display, a trackpad with four menu keys and a full QWERTY keyboard. Both displays look good. The external screen shows the time, incoming calls and alerts for messages, missed calls and updates from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. The main internal screen is sharp and bright with saturated colors. The new BlackBerry 6 UI looks great on the screen, so do videos, pictures and web pages. Neither of the displays is a touch screen.
As with all the latest BlackBerry smartphones, you get an optical trackpad for navigating menus and screens. The trackpad on the Style is very responsive and the usual four keys flank the trackpad: call send, BlackBerry menu, back and call end/power on/off. These menu keys aren’t discrete buttons but when you press them they click. The full QWERTY keyboard has “waterfall” style keys like those found on the BlackBerry Torch and Bold line of smartphones. The keys aren’t very big, but as with most BlackBerry keyboards, you won’t make many mistakes typing on the BlackBerry Style keyboard. A loud speakerphone sits just below the QWERTY keyboard that’s convenient for conference calls. The phone is a bit top-heavy due to the flip design, and it takes more effort to hold the phone securely when typing vs. standard candy bar BlackBerry smartphones. We noted the same problem with the BlackBerry Torch, whose vertical slider adds weight to the top end of the phone.
The BlackBerry Style has a shiny cover and top that give the phone a chic look, but the shiny surface also attracts hand grease and fingerprints like crazy. So if you want your phone to look presentable at all times, bring a cleaning cloth with you. Thankfully the back cover and the sides of the phone aren’t shiny or slippery, making the phone easy to handle. One nice thing about the BlackBerry Style is that you don’t need to take the battery door off to access the microSD card slot. The charging port and microSD card slot live on left side of the phone along with a standard 3.5mm audio out jack, and the volume buttons and the camera launcher button (programmable convenience key) live on the right. If you like to use Blackberry Charging cradles, the Style has cradle contacts. Artikel Menarik Lainnya
