There is a lot of buzz in the phone world, when a new product especially a great brand releases a phone. RIM is working on the Storm 2, the follower of the Storm which was released a year back.  And its called Storm 9550. The phone is yet to release, may be end of 2009.

Check out the video, this time with a deep overview :

Blackberry 8520 is out in India with Airtel, as of now. Other careers will soon get this great device under their belts too.

Check out the teraple article below :

http://www.teraple.com/2009/08/blackberry-8520-is-unofficially-out-india-soon/

http://wavetelmobiles.com/wavetel-BLACKBERRY+CURVE+8520-mobile.html

The price of this machine is 15,000 INR ( approx ). Guys if you have waited long for a BlackBerry, then this is the one for you.. go ahead get one and mail me the review. We will post it in teraple.

Its always been a custom to rip apart anything that is launched newly in the market esp. in the gadget market . Its also sometimes called as reverse engineering , even though the main purpose of doing this is kinda hobby. Now the recently launched BlackBerry 8520 gets this treatment.

“TheBlackBerryGuy” removes the new optical trackpad from the BB 8520, for our viewing pleasure (displeasure). The good thing is he put the trackpad back in.. so no worries..

Hey folks, the T-Mobile BlackBerry  8520 is finally out in the market, but unofficially, from Walmart.  The phone is set to release with T-Mobile on the 5th of August, but someone out there like us really owns one now.

Crackberry says : Seems the good folks at WalMart have been letting a few of these go out the door prior to the official launch date of August 5th. If you are looking to grab one of these for the $48.88 WalMart is charging new customers, you better hop to it, just in case head office puts a stop to it.

This phone is known mainly for the optical trackpad and “out if the box” mac compatibility.

BTW people in India, if you feel this BlackBerry is yours soon, it might be the right decision. “Univercell – The Mobile Expert” has recently updated their website with BlackBerry 8520, with an approximate price of 20K INR.  We are not sure whether the release will happen soon. RIM, we know India is one of your main emerging target market. Recently RIM is selling officially unlocked devices in India (through Redington India).  Head on to univercell.in to check the mention of this BlackBerry Machine.

In the mean time you can take a look at the T-Mobile BB 8520 unboxing:

Here is the official news from BlackBerry USA website :

Approachable New Smartphone Offers Email, Messaging, Social Networking, Music and Entertainment for People on the Go

T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, with availability expected on August 5.

The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone that comes in two attractive colors from T-Mobile – black and frost. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a world phone, and is also Wi-Fi®-enabled to arm customers with fast Web browsing and Wi-Fi calling. T-Mobile customers can continue to get great mobile coverage and unlimited nationwide Wi-Fi calling with T-Mobile’s Unlimited HotSpot Calling service as well as unlimited nationwide calling to five people with T-Mobile myFaves® service.*

In addition to providing the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is designed to be efficient and convenient. It introduces an innovative touch-sensitive optical trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. It is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.

“People increasingly expect a rich, diverse experience with their phones because they’re using them in new and different ways,” said Travis Warren, director of product marketing, T-Mobile USA. “Adding the BlackBerry Curve 8520 to the T-Mobile line-up gives our customers a phone capable of helping bring balance to the chaotic demands of a busy professional and personal life.”

“More and more cell phone users are choosing to upgrade to a smartphone and the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 will undoubtedly convince many more people to make the switch. It delivers all the great messaging, social networking and multimedia features that have made BlackBerry the top-selling smartphone brand in the United States,” said Carlo Chiarello, vice president, product management, Research In Motion.  “T-Mobile customers are going to love how easy it is to keep in touch on Facebook and MySpace and the full-QWERTY keyboard is amazingly fast and comfortable for typing on the go.”

Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:

• Full-QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive optical trackpad for reliable, responsive typing and navigation
• 256MB Flash memory and a 512Mhz next generation processor for enhanced performance
• Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, and Bluetooth (2.0) support for hands-free use with headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
• 2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording
• Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, with dedicated media keys and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry® Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media® Player with the smartphone**
• Access to BlackBerry App World™, featuring a broad and growing catalog of third-party mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry smartphones. Categories include games, entertainment, social networking and sharing, news and weather, productivity and much more
• BlackBerry® Internet Service support for access to up to 10 supported email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!®, Windows Live™ Hotmail®, AOL® and Gmail™; and  BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features for corporate deployments
• Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting cards of up to 16 GB today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available; a 1GB card is included
• Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) with support for T-Mobile Unlimited Hotspot Calling service
• Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone from T-Mobile will be available on August 5 at T-Mobile retail stores, Walmart Stores, select authorized dealers, and online at http://www.T-Mobile.com.

Prior to retail availability, customers can learn more about the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone atwww.blackberry.com/curve8520.

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Vodafone, one of the leading global mobile network career, is set to release the BlackBerry Curve 8520. Unlike the other curve models, this one touts an “Optical Trackpad” instead of the traditional trackball. Its definitely a good move from RIM ( even though there are trackball lovers ),  when consumers want something to touch and do on the phone, instead of clicking the buttons.

Curve 8520 is kind of an entry model, which will cater to the mass market. It combines all the great features of email, internet and multimedia. The business features are intact. We are not sure which version OS the phone will carry out of the box. It can be the 5.0 OS or even the 4.6 OS.  Certain sources are predicting the phone release in August.

If you are planning to get a BlackBerry, you might wait and consider this one.  Many countries will soon enjoy this BlackBerry.

BlackBerry 8520 : ” A priceless business tool at an affordable price “