RIM Officially Announces BlackBerry Curve
I guess we were off a little. As we hinted earlier in the week, the BlackBerry Curve has now been officially announced by RIM, apparently heading to AT&T initially in the United States. The website is now live aswell at, http://www.blackberrycurve.com
The press release comes with details on the device, including new additions of a 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom, a currently available and supported A2DP Bluetooth audio profile, a newly designed media player, a revamped desktop media manager, based on the ever-popular Roxio Easy Media Creator, that now provides CD ripping and photo editing functionality. Photos taken from the device can be instantly uploaded to your Flickr account, by way of Yahoo! Go. Nice! In terms of value-added services, it appears Research In Motion has really stepped up their game in the attempts to make this device appeal to all walks of BlackBerry life.
W O W!! Way to go RIM!!
Now I know that the BB 8300 actually exists. Thanks for the info.
CarBob
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WOW, she is so beautiful bodycurve!!! I must get it soon when it release from tmobile in events!
thanks for input
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Man, why would I get the 8800 over this? I’ll have to play with one in person though because the BGR pics of the prototype looked a bit cheap.
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The website for the curve is highly erotic. Even the video section. Job well done RIM. Can’t wait until this device launches.
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Any word if it’ll sport 3G? I went to the site and it doesn’t specify what the data speeds are….
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Finally! The language in the press release is a little vague as to availability… according to BGR’s previous post, AT&T and T-Mobile would initially carry it in May. The press release says it will be available through carriers around the world “including AT&T” but doesn’t explicitly state that AT&T has exclusivity. I’m on T-Mobile, and I can’t wait for this to drop.
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cnet.com has a review of this. They give it and 8 out of 10.
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As great as it looks there is no 3G or Wifi. It does have the Verizon world phone beat by having a camera though. The choices the choices!
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I always knew that I have to wait for this device and skip the 8800
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does it run wm6
i mean the new wm6 phones run bb haha
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This seems like the BB we have all been waiting for if you can live w/o wifi. Coming to gsm and cdma within a week or two of each other is what I understand. RIM jumping out there before the Iphone. Gotta like it!
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Blaahhhhhhhhhh…why AT&T only? This drives me nuts! I was hoping TMO would have it at the same time.
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Won’t be AT&T only, not even close. All major carriers will have this unit right near each other.
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This is a great looking phone and i am sure many Black Berry fanatics will jump on the band wagon. Go ahead, browse the web and exchange files - and do it at the speed of broadband.
The key word here is broadband and this is straight from their web site. I don’t believe it is 3g and that is the only thing holding me back. I want a 3g Black Berry and I want it now. BG, can you confirm whether or not this phone is truly broadband capable? And thanks for the Joust hook up.
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If Verizon gets this phone and locks it down, I’ll drop Verizon quicker than they can say “can you hear me now?”
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what happened to all the reports of WiFi and GPS? Everyone was talking about those features and now they aren’t listed or even commented on…
What happened?
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I will be selling my unlocked pearl pretty soon once TMO gets this
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Why the great need for GPS. The camera is enough for me.
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TMO rep said there is no release date yet she didnt even know about it. She says there new device is the 8800 right now
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We will have to see what the non GSM carriers do on 5/14. If that is still the GA date for Verizon and announce for Sprint. We will then know if all carriers will have this one. I think it will be do or die for Verizon and Sprint. People will drop them like a hot potatoe if they do not get this phone quick fast and in hurry!
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I dunno about Verizon, but I agree with you about Sprint….
From equipment to customer service they are so very bad at everything they do…
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I wouldn’t go on what the TMO Reps say. I asked ours about the 8800 3 weeks before the release, and he had no clue either. He said, only AT&T carries that one. Kind of clueless.
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Well…I guess I’ll be returning my 8800 I just received yesterday. I had a feeling something better was coming out soon…
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I mus say that Sprints customer service is in the toilet at the moment. I have not been impressed with AT&Ts in-store customer service. I do not receive a discount for tmo so I have not really looked at them and the equipment line up for Verizon is not much better than sprint. Basically they all have some kind of issue :). But I think my days with Sprint are numbered just have to decide who I want to deal with next.
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One of the reasons I’m looking forward to the 8300 over the 8800 is the keypad. It just looks bigger and easier to type on the 8300. Since I write about 50% of my email on the blackberry, it is an important feature for me.
But I also really need gps. I don’t want to get a gps unit for my car if i can have it in my hand.
And I’m also glad i never got an ipod (yes i’m probably the only one in the world) the media player looks amazing.
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