The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a professional handset offering advanced features in every respect, for instance receiving, composing, and sending emails, SMS and PMs as easy as can be. Supporting GPRS, EDGE, Wifi 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, it is ready to support your connectivity requirements at home and on the go.
BlackBerry Curve 8520, 50 minutes to any network and 250 texts.
Tariff Name: 50 mins 250 texts (24m), Network T-Mobile, 24 Month Contract, 50 Anytime Minutes, 250 Free Text Messages, BlackBerry Curve 8520, Phone Price 114, Total Cost After Discounts £282
Thanks to its native-built applications designed specially for Facebook and Flickr, the integration capabilities of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 make it a versatile and social-media-ready mobile phone. The small keys cause no problem with ease of typing and the QUERTY keyboard that BlackBerry users have come to expect, is curved for ideal ergonomics as it sits in your hand.
BlackBerry Curve 8520 offers many media functions including the dedicated media keys found on the handset designed specially to make media playback and navigation a pleasure. Full support for MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA and MPEG4 ensure that you will never be without your favourite music or media and with polyphonic MP3 ringtone choices, this smartphone offers you fun as well as functionality. Vibrate alert is also available for those times when you need a non-sound alert for incoming calls or messaging, and when you are in a hurry you can utilise the quick and built-in voice recorder, ensuring you don’t forget anything even when short on typing time.
Because the BlackBerry Curve 8520 has a camera with support for UMA technology, this 2MP camera is able to take fantastic shots which you can seamlessly upload to Flickr or other web-based sharing. With 5x digital zoom this camera will help you capture every detail, which you can then view on the incredible screen delivering 65,000+ colours and displaying at the generous size of 2.46”, given the shape and style of the phone. Measuring 109mm in length and only 13.9mm in thickeness, it is comfortable both in the hand and in the pocket.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 has a standby battery life of 408 hours and actual talk time in the battery measures in at 4 hours, 30 minutes.
Even though the BlackBerry Curve 8520 does not support 3G, it is fast within the range of a connectable WiFi network when accessing the WWW and other smartphone communications functions, and when out of range of a WiFi network it runs at a slightly slower speed. However it delivers well for internet viewing.
If you are a smartphone user who also likes a bit of fun and games, there are several built-in games that come with the BlackBerry Curve 8520, and also many available in the BlackBerry App Store for viewing and downloading at your leisure. As the dedicated media keys on this handset run along the top and edge of the Curve 8520, this device can replace other music and video playback devices making more room in your pockets and saving you time.
The newer style trackpad replaces the older style trackball, and the trackpad wins hands (or fingertips should we say!) hands down – it allows a precision degree of navigation control and the BlackBerry Curve 8520 applications will be easy to move within and between with just a drag or a flick of the fingertips or thumbs.
BlackBerry Curve 8520 in the standard black is an attractive smartphone handset and with 256MB internal memory and a 512MHz processor it will keep you in touch with both your contacts and with modern style.