Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone for US and UK customers. In US the BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be available from T-Mobile with availability expected on August 5 in black and frost colors. While in UK, the handset is expected to be available from wireless carriers beginning in August and will be available in black, violet and frost colors. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing and will be the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, smoothy integrated along the top of the handset.
Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:
- Full-QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive optical trackpad for reliable, responsive typing and navigation
- 256MB Flash memory and a 512Mhz next generation processor for enhanced performance
- Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, and Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
- 2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording
- Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, with dedicated media keys and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry® Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media® Player with the smartphone
- Access to BlackBerry App World™, featuring a broad and growing catalog of third-party mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry smartphones. Categories include games, entertainment, social networking and sharing, news and weather, productivity and much more
- BlackBerry® Internet Service support for access to up to 10 supported email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!®, Windows Live™ Hotmail®, AOL® and Gmail™; and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features for corporate deployments
- Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting cards of up to 16 GB today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available; a 1GB card is included
- Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) with support for T-Mobile Unlimited Hotspot Calling service
- Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
T-Mobile customers can continue to get great mobile coverage and unlimited nationwide Wi-Fi calling with T-Mobile’s Unlimited HotSpot Calling service as well as unlimited nationwide calling to five people with T-Mobile myFaves® service.
August 11, 2010 at 10:33 pm
i own both Blackberry and iPhone, i would say that iPhone has great ergonomics`”`
September 30, 2010 at 11:30 am
blackberry phone is really the best, much better than iphone in my opinion*’;