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Stuff gets hands on with BlackBerry Curve
The crew over at Stuff Magazine was lucky enough to get their hands on the BlackBerry Curve earlier this month. Check out their video reviews and thoughts of the device.
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Category: Curve 8300 Series
BlackBerry Curve now available on O2
It appears that UK carrier O2 has officially launched the BlackBerry Curve. While no official launch has come from any other carriers, O2 is offering the BlackBerry Curve your first one free with contract/service then each other handset is only £51.06.
BlackBerry Curve video review
The team over at Shinny Shinny has got their hands on a pre-production BlackBerry Curve. Press play below to check out the video. Thanks to CrackBerry.com for pointing it out.
BlackBerry Curve Skins
Boy Genius got his hands on skins for the new BlackBerry Curve. So far he is showing them off in both clear and blue however we imagine RIM will have more colours than that. The skins appear to fit well and don’t cover the camera/flash, screen or keyboard.
Rogers Wireless and RIM bring BlackBerry Curve to Canada
With some help from friends we showed you it would be coming. Rogers Wireless has announced the launch of the all new BlackBerry 8300 “Curve”. Coming this June the BlackBerry Curve will move in place beside the Pearl and 8800 to offer the best in multimedia capabilities yet. While pricing hasn’t been announced you can you except it to be we guess at least $249-349 with three year contract.
“As the leading wireless carrier in Canada, Rogers is committed to bringing innovative products like the BlackBerry Curve to Canadians,” said John Boynton, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer. “Our customers are always looking for smart technology solutions and the new BlackBerry Curve, with its combined power and simplicity, will be attractive to businesses and consumers.”
“The BlackBerry Curve builds on what people already love about BlackBerry with a range of new features and a smooth new design,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. “Rogers’ customers will appreciate the flexibility and convenience offered by the new BlackBerry Curve in both their personal and professional lives.”
Click over to see the key features from the press release.
BlackBerrry 8830 on Telus set to cost $499 w/ 3YR term
More confirmed news about Telus Mobility launching the BlackBerry 8830 has struck us. News about the BlackBerry seems to be everywheres around Telus except the public viewable sites. A promo site which was sent to us confirms the actual price on the device on a three contract ($499) which will match Rogers’ 8800 pricing.
The flash presentation shown on the promo site allows users to see the key benefits of the BlackBerry 8830 including International GSM roaming, Bluetooth 2.0, high capicity battery, microSD memory card slot, ultra-bright colour screen, EV-DO high speed data (8x times faster than EDGE), full QWERTY keyboard and trackball.
UPDATE: It seems like Telus is getting closer with www.telus.com/8830
BlackBerry Curve to launch on Rogers Wireless soon…
Looks like Canada’s Rogers Wireless is about to get their hands on the BlackBerry Curve real soon. Photos taken over at BlackBerryCool show Rogers branding already on the newly announced BlackBerry 8300 “Curve”. In case you haven’t read about the Curve yet its the Pearl’s bigger brother offering newly enhanced multimedia features and full QWERTY keyboard design.Launch details haven’t been announced by either RIM or Rogers as of yet but we do expect it real soon.
Introducing the BlackBerry Curve (8300) officially
RIM has officially announced the BlackBerry Curve (8300) this morning. The BlackBerry Curve is their smallest and lightest device to date. It comes packed with a 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), a newly designed media player, a 3.5mm headphones jack and high resolution 320×240 colour display.
Key Features:
- Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900)
- 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom and flash1
- Flickr account picture uploading
- New media player with Roxio Photosuite® 9 LE
- 111g in weight / 107mm x 60 mm x 15.5 mm
- 64MB Flash memory, microSD memory card slo
The BlackBerry Curve will be available on AT&T starting this Spring. We should see it appear on other networks soon. Read more for the full press release. BlackBerryCurve.com is now live as well.
More information arises about BlackBerry 8300
Well Boy Genius is always good for the inside news. This time he has confirmed that the rumored BlackBerry 8300 (shown above) will fact be marketed as “BlackBerry Curve”. RIM is trying to aim the Curve at a consumer and business type market. RIM has registered both BlackBerry8300.com and BlackBerryCurve.com however the sites aren’t directed anywheres yet.It’s expected the BlackBerry Curve will be launched at WES (Wireless Enterprise Symposium) 2007, which starts May 8th in Orlando.
