Basseterre, St. Kitts - September 7, 2009: – LIME, the Caribbean’s largest full service telecommunications provider, and Research In Motion (RIM) a global leader in wireless innovation, today announced the launch of the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone in St. Kitts and Nevis and other countries in the Caribbean.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520, the latest addition to the BlackBerry Curve series, is expected to increase the already broad appeal of BlackBerry smartphones among consumers in the Caribbean. With its optimized design and easy-to-use interface, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 offers consumers an easy and affordable way to transition from a traditional cell phone to a smartphone. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 offers more communication options, a richer communication experience, enhanced media capabilities and full HTML browsing as compared to traditional cell phones.
“The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone will make the many benefits of the BlackBerry solution available to an even wider market,” said LIME’s Executive Vice President Commercial, Mariano Doble. “It has a user-friendly design so it doesn’t look like complicated technology; it’s affordable and it comes from a trusted brand with a reputation for world class, reliable products. I think it will be a big hit.”
The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 features a slim and attractive design with a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also provides rich multimedia capabilities as well as easy access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS), popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace), music, games and other mobile applications for entertainment on the go.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a world phone and it is also Wi-Fi®-enabled, providing customers with fast Web browsing, Wi-Fi calling support and extended data coverage.
In addition to providing the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is designed to be efficient and convenient. It 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, smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.
The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is expected to be in LIME stores in mid-September.
Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:
• 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) 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, 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)
Customers can learn more about the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone at www.blackberry.com/curve8520.
(*) Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies.
(**) Not available in all countries.
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