Few days back, RIM had introduced the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in some parts of Asia and now the carrier moved northwards to launch the smartphone in Canada along with RIM.
The smartphone presents an intuitive interface and offers easy mobile access to email, messaging and popular social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace. The 8520 features built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and supports Rogers TalkSpot service that facilitates subscribers to make unlimited Canada-wide calls over Wi-Fi just for $15 per month.
“Rogers and RIM have a proud history, dating back over ten years, of bringing Canadians the best in smartphone hardware and technology. Rogers is thrilled to offer this latest BlackBerry Curve to our customers looking for a stylish and cutting edge smartphone at an attractive price,” mentioned John Boynton, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Rogers Communications.
The QWERTY device sports a 2 megapixel digital camera with zoom and video recording capabilities. It packages a 512Mhz processor and 256MB Flash memory. Further, instant messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger is also made possible.
Carlo Chiarello, Vice President, Product Management, Research In Motion, stated, “BlackBerry is already the top-selling smartphone brand in North America and this latest addition to our line-up is designed to expand its appeal even further. The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone with easy-to-use messaging, social networking and multimedia features that will undoubtedly help more Canadians decide to make the switch from a traditional cell phone to a BlackBerry smartphone.”
For music lovers, Rogers presents urMusic application that allows users to sideload music for free and also discover, browse and download songs from various artists. The BlackBerry smartphone features a full HTML browser and voice activated dialing.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is available in black from Rogers starting at $99.99 with activation on any combination of a three year voice and data plan with minimum combined monthly service fee of $45 per month from Rogers. The carrier is planning to bring the smartphone in violet shortly.