T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, with availability expected on August 5. The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 comes in black and frost colors and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It has also got the traditional trackball removed and replaced with a touch-sensitive optical trackpad.

Other than the usual BlackBerry emailing features, the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 also comes with a 2 megapixel camera, built in bluetooth, WiFi, microSDHC card slot and 256MB built in memory. For those business users who love music, the 8520 curve’s 3.5 mm headphone jack and music player shortcut keys on top will let you enjoy the music listening easily.

BlackBerry Curve 8520 specifications:

• Size: 109 x 60 x 13.90 mm
• Weight: 106 g
• Memory: 256 MB internal flash memory
• Expandable Memory Hot swappable micro SD
• Battery: 1150 mAh removable/rechargeable cryptographic lithium cell
• Battery Life: 4.5 hours talk and 17 days standby time12
• Navigation Trackpad – Located on front face of device,
• Display: 320 x 240 pixel color display, transmissive TFT LCD, supports over 65,536 colors 2.46″
• Camera: 2 megapixel camera
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g enabled
• Bluetooth Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• Micro USB port
• Network Quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS networks
• Quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz EDGE networks

[via slashgear]

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