Airtel launches BlackBerry Curve 8520 Smartphone in India

Posted by admin on August 7, 2009 in category: Mobile Phones,

Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel and Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) have launched the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone in India.

This is the first BlackBerry handset to come to the market with dedicated media keys, so that users can easily control the music and videos played on the device. It also comes with BlackBerry Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes or Windows Media Player with the Smartphone and easy access to social networking services like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Windows Live Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger.

Features:

• 2.46-inch TFT Touchscreen with a 320 x 240 pixel resolution
• Touch-sensitive Touchpad
• Full-QWERTY Keypad
• 2 megapixel camera
• Photo snapper with video recording capabilities
• Advanced Media Player
• 3.5 mm stereo headset jack
• GPRS/EDGE
• Wi-Fi
• Dedicated media keys
• 256MB Flash memory
• microSD/SDHC memory card slot (up to 16GB)
• 512Mhz processor
• Bluetooth (2.0)
• DivX, XviD video support
• HTML web browser
• Voice activated dialing

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 comes at a price of Rs.15990, and will be available to both postpaid and prepaid customers across India on Airtel’s authorized outlets from August 7.

Airtel customers can sms ‘BB’ to 543210 to register to purchase the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and to get more information about the plans offered with the smartphone. Related handset in India – BlackBerry Storm

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