AT&T has announced the launch of the industry’s smallest BlackBerry device with full QWERTY keyboard. This new mobile is called as “Blackberry Curve†and will be launched today on May 31.
Kent Mathy, President of AT&T’s Business Markets Group said, “The BlackBerry Curve has all of the qualities of a winner that will resonate with a broad segment of AT&T customers,” He further added, “Business professionals and consumers alike will gravitate to its iconic look, industry-leading coverage both here in the U.S. and abroad, robust e-mail and Web browsing capabilities, and powerful entertainment offerings.”
“We continue to make BlackBerry handsets smaller, thinner, lighter and more powerful while staying focused on delivering a quality user experience,” said Mike Lazaridis, president and Co-CEO of Research In Motion. “The BlackBerry Curve, with its full QWERTY keyboard and sleek new design, is a perfect choice for people who want enhanced multimedia features together with an uncompromising communications experience.”
The Blackberry Curve features a 2-megapixel camera and spell checker for e-mail and it is loaded with the new Roxio Media Manager desktop software for BlackBerry to transfer pictures, music and videos to the Curve for optimal playback. Supported audio formats are MP3, WAV, and the AAC family. Supported video codecs are MPEG-4, H.263, and WMV9. Curve also supports these audio and video formats, even the .avi and 3gp.
Moreover the Blackberry Curve is capable of accessing AT&T subscription services such as AT&T Music and TeleNav Maps, which provides turn-by-turn driving instructions when paired with a Bluetooth-equipped GPS receiver.
Besides the Curve features microSD memory-card slot, included stereo headset, large 320×240 display with 65,000 colors, noise-cancellation technology to offset background noise, speaker independent voice recognition (SIVR) for voice-activated dialing , stereo Bluetooth 2.0, and 3.5 mm stereo headset jack.
Blackberry Curve will exclusively be available in US and its cost will be $199.99.
