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hey guys john r Ettinger here with an unboxing for you of the blackberry curve 8900 for AT&T this will run you $1.99 after hundred dollar mail-in rebate on a two-year contract now we've seen this device for t-mobile this is the 18 t variant this slots in right below the bold it lacks 3G but it does have the bold high-res display and a little different keyboard layout as you guys will see in addition to Wi-Fi and GPS let's go ahead and dig in and see what we got couldn't hack it open that's some suppressed material lift the box itself here you throw that off to the side alright so here is the blackberry curve 8900 it certainly looks relatively similar to t-mobile's offering but att's network and some of the bundle options in here make it a very different phone so it's got Wi-Fi I letting you know that as a quad-band edge phones you can use it anywhere in the world obviously since it's a blackberry it does email probably the best out there and it has a GPS tell you what's in the box we're gonna see those in a minute let's take a look at some of the specs quad band edge like I mentioned 4.2 nine by 2.3 six by 0.5 three inches weighs three point eight seven ounces it's got a relatively capable 512 megahertz processor talktime they're saying is up to five and a half hours and standby time up to 15 days if you get that high standby time when you're not connected to a 3G network which is certainly a battery suckle got a high resolution 480 by 360 pixel color display which is actually very nice 256 megabytes of flash memory external micro sd Wi-Fi with 802 11 B and G and built-in GPS and the rest of the BlackBerry features that people love blackberry messenger and the awesome email client let's go ahead and dig in and see what we got here and this was just released about a week and a half to two weeks ago the blackberry curve 8900 getting started guide Blackbird user tools this has the desktop management software on it important information about hearing aid compliance ratings here's the phone as usual will push that off to the side for just a second and see what's under them we've got a little slip case let's see if it's leather or what it's made out of it is not a leather case but it's a pseudo leather case and this has a built-in magnet so when you slide your device and automatically will turn off the screen which is very nice but it does not have the holster so it's not going on your belt we have a USB key looks like they are using micro USB with this device there's a standard here is a pair of stereo headphones with a 3.5 millimeter headset jack since the device has that and just your standard wall charger box let's take a look at the actual phone here we go initially is a it's a very nice looking phone it's got a very nice weight to it and have to it he's like the batteries already in there so here it is it's got your full front-facing qwerty keyboard with your typical array of blackberry keys your send button your BlackBerry button your scroll ball that you can push into select back button end button and you've got all of the rest of your hotkeys that you're used to on a blackberry then push the camera in just a little bit more on the left side of the device you've got a programmable excuse me a programmable hard button and on the right side you've got your volume rocker up and down another programmable button your micro USB port your 3.5 millimeter headset jack the back of the device has that pseudo metal feel that's actually plastic flanked by a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash but no self-portrait mirror so let's go ahead peel off the front plastic and we'll power this thing on and see what it looks like does only plastic that was on there let's go ahead and turn this on he turned on by using the and a button and one thing I like about black burgers they are very quick on I let's see there's a SIM card in here say the battery's about to die no there is a SIM card in the device and you get that bold esque interface sort of the new BlackBerry OS and the high-res screen does look very nice so as I do with most phones I'll use this for a week or so and give you guys a full review and see how it compares to the other phones and AT&T stable and compares to the other blackberry curve 8900 out there and I hope you enjoy for exclusive content be sure to follow me on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers I'll see you guys in the next one buh-bye