RIM finally put the official stamp on the much-talked-about Blackberry Curve 8520. While it's not yet officially released, the phone now has a dedicated page on the company's website, with plenty of photos and complete details, to boot.
As usual, it will fit in Blackberry's typical messaging and productivity talents, along with a few features more attuned to modern smartphone uses. Multimedia seems to have been given particular attention for the long-awaited handset, which comes with a robust onboard player and a set of dedicated media keys situated on top.
Details of the phone include a 2.64-inch TFT LCD with 320 x 240 resolution, a 2.0 megapixel camera module (with 5x digital zoom and video recording), 256MB default storage, microSDHC expansion (up to 32GB), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It fits in a 35-key backlit QWERTY keyboard and a unique optical trackpad.
RIM is promising "out of the box Mac compatibility" for this iteration of the Curve, with the BlackBerry Desktop Software to be fully-available on OS X machines. It also supports RIM's download storefront, Blackberry App World, for those who'd like to extend their handset's functionalities, apart from shipping with a number of social media and IM tools built-in.
The Blackberry Curve 8520 is listed for availability on August 5th. T-Mobile will be carrying it for $130 with a two-year contract.
A good idea by Blackberry to give this phone more multimedia features. However no 3G is a big letdown and would certainly put quite a few customers off from buying this phone.
Finally its here and as Mike said lack of 3G will put off a few customers. Even 8900 doesn’t has 3G and whats up with Blackberry people. They are known for their business phones with great internet connectivity.
8520 and 8900 has Wifi but no 3G where as 9630 has 3G but no wifi. They need to get things right and give 3G and wifi both.
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