BlackBerry Curve: The Smallest and Lightest Full QWERTY BlackBerry Ever

May 3, 2007 --Today, Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the new BlackBerry Curve smartphone, the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry ever. With a stylish and friendly design the BlackBerry Curve strikes the perfect balance between performance and usability. It is packed with consumer-friendly features, including a 2.0 megapixel camera, enhanced media player and high-performance browser, making the BlackBerry Curve an exceptionally robust device.

The quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE enabled BlackBerry Curve delivers a powerful mobile performance for which BlackBerry handsets are renowned. The BlackBerry Curve provides all the signature BlackBerry email and messaging capabilities and even features a new integrated spell checker with a user-customizable dictionary to help maintain spelling accuracy. Equipped with an easy to use keyboard and RIM’s intuitive trackball navigation system, the BlackBerry Curve smartphone also includes Speaker Independent Voice Recognition (SIVR) for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD) and Bluetooth® 2.0 support for hands-free use.

The new BlackBerry Curve smartphone also features:

• A 2.0 megapixel camera with built-in flash and 5X zoom and photo editing effects (black&white/sepia).
  
• An enhanced Media Player which is even more intuitive and powerful – sort music by genre, artist or album name, even play videos in full screen mode.
  
• A BlackBerry desktop Media Manager, developed with Roxio, allowing you to locate, view, organize and transfer media files between your BlackBerry Curve and your computer. Edit and share files, build playlists, create albums and add audio tags, even rip CDs and edit pictures.
  
• An industry standard 3.5mm stereo headset jack and supports Bluetooth Stereo Audio.
  
• A slot for a microSD card allowing lots of storage space for pictures, music and video clips.
  

For more information on the BlackBerry Curve, visit www.BlackBerryCurve.com.

SOURCE RIM