Rogers and RIM Launch the New BlackBerry Curve 8520 Smartphone in Canada
Rogers Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) today launched the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone. It’s the latest addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones and it provides a highly intuitive and efficient mobile experience for users with easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace, as well as rich multimedia capabilities. Beginning today, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is available in black from Rogers from $99.99 with activation on any combination of a 3 year voice and data plan with minimum combined monthly service fee of $45 per month from Rogers. The BlackBerry Curve 8250 will be available in violet from Rogers in the coming weeks.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone will be available from Rogers Wireless in two colours – black and violet. In addition to providing the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the smartphone features a new touch-sensitive trackpad for navigation and dedicated media keys that are integrated into the top of the handset for quick and convenient control of music and videos. It also comes with built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and support for Rogers TalkSpot service, allowing customers to make unlimited Canada-wide calls over Wi-Fi for only $15 per month.
Other key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone from Rogers Wireless include:
- Highly tactile, full-QWERTY keyboard for fast, accurate typing
- 2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording*
- High-resolution, light sensing 320 x 240 display that automatically
adjusts backlighting
- 512 Mhz next generation processor and 256 MB Flash memory
- Instant messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Google Talk,
Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger
- Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, and a 3.5 mm
stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry MediaSync, which makes it easy
to sync iTunes and Windows Media Player playlists with the
smartphone
- The urMusic application provided by Rogers allows you to sideload your
music for FREE and discover, browse and download songs from all your
favourite artists. urMusic also gives you access to the best Live
Nation concerts with Wireless Box Office, a mobile ticketing
service where Rogers pays the service charges
- Enhanced web browser that displays full HTML for a desktop-style
browsing experience on the go
- 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
- Expandable memory via a microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up
to 16 GB cards today and expected to support next generation 32GB
cards when available
- Premium phone features including voice activated dialing and
Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free headsets, car kits, stereo
headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
- BlackBerry Internet Service support that allows access to up to 10
supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most
popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!, Windows Live
Hotmail, AOL and Gmail
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server support for enterprise deployments
with advanced security and IT controls
Filed Under: Rogers
About the Author: Faysal Chowdhury, a Civil Engineer at day and an intelligent tech blogger at night. Stationed in Dhaka, Bangladesh he is has been with HotCellularPhone.com since the beginning, dated back to 2008. After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in 2006, he started working as a Civil Engineer for Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) but his tech savvy mind always kept up with the mobile world and keeping everyone updated as well.
