TIM and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the launch of the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones.

The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone and provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook, Window Live Messenger and many others). It features rich multimedia capabilities and easy access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone has a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing and introduces an innovative touch-sensitive trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. It is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, integrated along the top of the smartphone, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone includes the following features:

• Easy-to-use full-Qwerty keyboard and touch-sensitive 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), with support for hands-free 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, IM and social networking, news, weather, productivity and 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 up to 16 GB cards today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available (a 2GB card is included)

• Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)

• Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

Courtesy: Research In Motion

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Posted by Naresh Koshti on 21 September, 2009 3:47:14 PM IST #