Blackberry Curve 8900 User Manual

• Charge your device regularly.
• Keep your battery connections clean. Every few months, use a cotton swab or dry cloth to clean the metal contacts on the battery and the
device.
• Set backlighting to remain on for a shorter period of time and lower its brightness.
• Turn off the connection to a wireless network when you are not in a wireless coverage area.
• Switch your vibrating notifications to sound notifications or LED notifications, lower the volume of your sound notifications, or select a
shorter ring tone.
• Delete the original message when you send a reply.
• Send a message to multiple contacts using Add To, Add Cc, or Add Bcc.
• Turn off the flash in the camera.
• Close third-party applications from the application menu when you are finished with them.
• Change your browser options for animated graphics so that they repeat less often on web pages.
Related topics
Delete the original text from a reply message, 41
Blind carbon copy a contact, 35
Set the brightness of the backlighting, 169
Turn off a wireless connection, 213
Format the device memory or a media card
If you format the BlackBerry® device memory or a media card, all the files in the device memory or on the media card are deleted.
1. On the Home screen, click the Options icon.
2. Click Memory.
3. Press the Menu key.
4. Click Format.
5. Complete the instructions on the screen.
View the amount of available memory
1. On the Home screen, click the Options icon.
2. To view the amount of memory available for application data or for storing files in the BlackBerry® device memory or on a media card, click
Memory.
Best practice: Optimizing your device performance
Try to maintain at least 400 KB of application memory on your BlackBerry® device. To increase the amount of application memory, try deleting
items that you do not need from your device. Consider the following guidelines:
• Delete old email and MMS messages, especially messages with attachments.
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Blackberry Curve 8900 Specifications

General

Panel type	TFT
Display diagonal	2.44 \
Display resolution	480 x 360 pixels
Display number of colors	65536 colors
Ringer type	Polyphonic
Internal memory	0 MB
Rear camera type	Single camera
Rear camera resolution	2048 x 1536 pixels
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)	Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network
FM radio	No
Personal info management (PIM)	Alarm clock, Calculator, Calendar
Platform	BlackBerry
Operating system installed	BlackBerry OS
Talk time (2G)	5.5 h
Battery capacity	1400 mAh
Standby time (2G)	356 h
Form factor	Bar
Product color	Black
2G standards	EDGE, GPRS
Bluetooth version	2.0+EDR
Processor frequency	1.8 GHz
Keyboard layout	QWERTY

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	13.5 mm
Width	60 mm
Height	109 mm
Weight	109.9 g