T-Mobile, RIM Announces the BlackBerry Curve 8520
RIM and T-Mobile has just announced the release of the new BlackBerry Curve 8520, a slim smartphone which is scheduled to be released on August 5. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 like all other BlackBerry smartphones provides easy mobile access to email, IM, SMS, MMS and social networking features. It boasts of a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard and multimedia capabilities in addition to access to music, games and other mobile apps.The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is Wi-Fi enabled and provides users with unlimited Wi-Fi access through T-Mobile’s HotSpot Calling and T-Mobile myFaves service. It also features a touch-sensitive optical track-pad for menu scrolling and navigation, and dedicated media keys at the top of the handset.
Other notable features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 include responsive typing and navigation, 256MB flash memory, 512 MHz mobile processor, voice activated dialing, Bluetooth, 2MP digital camera with zoom and video capture, media player for music, pictures, videos, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, access to BlackBerry apps including games, entertainment, social networking and sharing, news, weather, productivity and more.
The BlackBerry Curve provides access to 10 suported email accounts including web email such as Yahoo, Windows live, Gmail and BlackBerry’s own Enterprise Server support. It also supports microSD/SDHC memory cards.
The BlackBerry Curve is an EDGE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 quad-bacd world phone.