Reliance Communications and Research in Motion (RIM) this week announced the launch of BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone in India.
Claimed to be the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry handset, BlackBerry Curve 8330 comes packed with RIM's intuitive trackball navigation system. The smartphone sports a 2 megapixel camera with flash and 5x zoom, advanced multimedia capabilities and premium phone features along with the sophisticated BlackBerry platform which supports access to email, messaging and other mobile applications.
The smartphone also features CDMA connectivity; access to email, phone, organizer, browser and other mobile business and leisure applications; Premium phone features including Voice Activated Dialing, speakerphone, and noise and echo cancellation technology for clearer calls; Bluetooth 2.0, with support for hands-free headsets, stereo headsets, car kits, and other Bluetooth accessories; Instant Messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk.
BlackBerry Curve 8330 offers support on BlackBerry Internet Service, which provides users with the ability to access up to 10 supported email accounts, including most ISP email accounts, from a single device. It also Supports BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which tightly integrates with IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise and works with existing enterprise systems to enable push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data together with advanced security and IT administration.
“Reliance Communications is delighted to extend the choice of BlackBerry smartphones to its customers,” said Mahesh Prasad, president, applications solutions group, RCOM. “We are pleased to introduce the feature-rich BlackBerry Curve 8330. This BlackBery smartphone is now available at more than 500 stores across the top 20 towns. With RIM’s latest innovation, our customers will be able to enhance their mobile communications and make the most of their business and leisure time with this feature-rich smartphone.”
Available in an elegant silver color across 500 stores in top 20 towns, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone is priced at Rs 25,990.