The Best Traveler’s Mobile Phone: Blackberry Curve

For any traveler, it’s important to still be connected to your loved ones at home, especially if you’re one to travel many weeks or months at a time. That’s why it’s advisable to always have a mobile phone and a laptop with you and that you find a hotel or other accommodation with internet access. But then again, you won’t always find yourself just staying inside your hotel room, so the mobile phone route is always best.

Everyone seems to think that the best mobile phone to have when you travel is the iPhone. Well, I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong. I think that the best mobile phone when you travel is the Blackberry Curve.

The Blackberry Curve, as well as other Blackberry smart phones, comes equipped with Wi-Fi. You may think that the features not that special but the Wi-Fi in this particular mobile phone supports a mobile system called UMA. UMA is technically a method of connecting to the mobile network using Wi-Fi and the internet instead of cellular towers. That means, that as long as you can get the phone connected to the internet over Wi-Fi, you’ll be able to use it just like you do when you are back home. And yes, that means you won’t get insane roaming charges that would cost you an arm and a leg to pay.

If you don’t get it, here’s a quick example. Let’s say you’re in Denmark. The cost of a call from back home to your mobile phone in Denmark is $1 per minute. But if you have free Wi-Fi at your hotel, you simply let your Blackberry Curve connect to that and you can make calls as long as you want, using the minutes in your plan. You can also send and receive text messages, and go online without those high roaming charges.

If you are a US traveller, I say you are a lucky guy. Another reason why I think that the Blackberry Curve is the best mobile phone when you travel because of a feature that is unique to US mobile service T-Mobile that they offer along with the phone and that is the T-Mobile Blackberry international plan. For just $19.95 per month, you can send and receive as many emails as you want on any mobile network in the world. Other mobile services would charge $16 for just 1 megabyte of data sent.

The only tip I have when using the Blackberry Curve is to disable the mobile network option before making a call. The phone can switch between Wi-Fi and cellular seamlessly so you might find yourself in a world of trouble if the Wi-Fi connection drops and you wouldn’t even know it until you get your phone bill.

Of course, there are other alternatives to making internet calls back home but with the Blackberry Curve it’s a no-brainer, so why look for something else? This is why I believe that the Blackberry Curve is the best mobile phone to have and use when you travel.

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