I had a nokia e62 and I loved it. Using mobile exchange, it would sync with the exchange server and sync my calendar, contacts and email as they changed. It was small, and light and it had an awesome battery life (it lasted for over 30 hours, 26 of which were spent on a barge a mile out at sea…). But recently, I had the opportunity to upgrade to a Blackberry Curve and I did. Here’s how I feel about it.

The Curve is smaller and lighter than the e62, it has a camera on it and a trackball for navigating its interface. Its sleek, well designed and it has a ton of useful features (did you know that there was a version of google talk for the Blackberry??). The only issue I have with it is the lack of native exchange support. My email, contacts and calendar still sync, though i have to use the blackberry exchange services, which don’t exactly operate like MS Exchange Activesync. This and the lack of decent themes are the only down side to this phone so far.

The picture quality is quite good (I just need to stop shaking my hand…) and yea, it sends email ok. Battery life seems to be about normal, I get a little more if I log out of gtalk on it…. Its a nice, compact smart phone that works. Over all I’m happy with it, but I’ll give it another week or two before I decide if I’m going to stick with it or not.