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Anyone who is in the market for a new Blackberry might be intimidated at first when looking through the selection of phones they have to offer. There are many phones in the Blackberry family. While each phone might not be better or as good as the last, the RIM Blackberry Curve 8300 is clearly geared towards people who would use the phone for business as opposed to casual phone users. With its lack of media streaming and video recording capabilities this is a great phone for anyone looking to use it solely for business with its amazing corporate applications.

As found on most Blackberry Curves this one features a full QWERTY keyboard. The design of this keypad has been upgraded from previous models. The 8300 offers keys that are spaced farther apart allowing for more comfortable typing. A useful feature found on the phone is an automatic spell check. The spell check function alerts you of any spelling errors in emails, messages, memos, etc. Anyone sending out important business information will find this feature very useful. The trackball found on the phone is also improved allowing for better web surfing and navigation.

The Blackberry Curve 8300 is also able to link up to any Blackberry Enterprise Server. Many large organizations have this installed on their network and anyone with the 8300 can receive corporate email. Additionally anyone one who is using the enterprise server has access to Microsoft Office. This amazing little feature allows you to view word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and even Power Point presentations on your phone.

The phone is lacking any video or audio streaming capabilities. The absence of any media streaming function is a big disappointment because of the expansive service found on V cast. The phone can still function as an MP4 player. By inserting files onto the phones 64MB flash card you can listen to music and even watch videos. Without the support of any 3G features the web browsing suffers. Load times can be quite annoying and take a while to load completely.

The camera feature found on the phone is quite adequate. It offers a couple of options for image capturing (but this feature is found on all camera phones). The phone cannot however record video. If you are a business person then this function would have seemed useless in the first place anyway.

The Blackberry Curve 8300 is a great phone for business people. With a strong focus on operating systems and business applications this phone will be extremely useful to anyone working for a large organization.